IP and Legal Filings

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

Introduction An artist’s ideas, be it for a renowned painting, sculpture, novel, technological design, jewelryor fashion are his own. However, many a times, we witness these designs being copied or recreated. A copyright protection is the ability of a designer to protect his original designs through the copyright laws.

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IP and Legal Filings

APRIL 24, 2023

The Designs Act, 2000 (“the Act”), is a complete code in itself and protection under it is totally statutory in nature. It protects the visual design of objects that are not purely utilitarian. Designs are registered in different classes as per the Locarno Agreement. These classes are mainly function oriented.

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Patent Trademark Blog

DECEMBER 12, 2022

What is the filing deadline for a US design patent based on a foreign priority application? A US design patent application must be filed within six months of your foreign priority date. What is the cost to file a US design patent application with a priority claim? any known prior art references material to patentability.

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IP and Legal Filings

JUNE 8, 2022

The Designs Act is an act that protects one of the most significant Intellectual Property Rights of a person. Therefore, many acts govern several IPRs one of which includes the Designs Act,2000. Therefore, many acts govern several IPRs one of which includes the Designs Act,2000. The Designs Act, 2000 is one such act.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

MAY 11, 2023

The most modern instalment of this long history comes in the form of another kind ‘copy’, less richly decorated, yet more relevant and politically sensitive for a country that has established a long-term foreign investment “partnership” with the tech and communication industry: the transposition of Directive 2019/790 into Irish law.

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IPilogue

AUGUST 5, 2022

IP, design, development, and engineering are cornerstones of this sport, with teams having to design, build, and race their cars. With large sums of prize money at stake and teams’ inability to patent the designs on which they spend millions in innovation , F1 is in a difficult position. New Name, Same Concerns?

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IP and Legal Filings

JULY 28, 2022

70% of the funds received from the allottees for the real estate project from time to time must be put in a separate account to be kept in a designated bank to pay the cost of construction and the cost of the land, and must only be used for that purpose. References: [1] The Real Estate (Regulation and Development) Act, 2016 Act no.

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Intepat

JUNE 13, 2024

Introduction Design piracy, particularly in the context of registered designs, poses significant challenges in today’s industrial landscape. According to the Indian Design Act of 2000, only those designs that are functional or used as artistic or property marks are not eligible for protection.

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TorrentFreak

NOVEMBER 8, 2024

The conclusion of that lawsuit declared that an emulator like Yuzu, that circumvents Nintendo’s technical measures, decrypts Switch games using unauthorized copies of Switch cryptographic keys, allowing games to be played on anything other than a Switch, violates copyright law. “In fact, Defendant has posted links to copies of [.]

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TorrentFreak

AUGUST 11, 2022

This meant that the matter was referred back to the Federal Claims court, to determine the appropriate damages amount. 600,000 ‘Infringing’ Copies. This is based on the installed copies and the price both parties would have reached in a ‘fictitious’ negotiation.

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43(B)log

AUGUST 26, 2021

5, 2021) The plaintiff benefits from very generous treatment of its false designation and copyright claims, in the process stripping false designation of anything other than a prohibition on copying/vitiating both Wal-Mart and Dastar. 2021 WL 1253803, No. 20-cv-06957-VKD (N.D. The court agreed!

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TorrentFreak

JULY 10, 2024

For good measure, copies of the Yuzu judgment and the injunction that restrains its developers are supplied for reference. The yuzu emulator is primarily designed to play Nintendo Switch games. A DMCA takedown notice sent to GitHub dated July 5, 2024, is a perfect example.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

OCTOBER 3, 2022

This is a preliminary reference from the Portuguese Supereme Court, which interprets the notion of “cable restransimission”. WIPO, Agreement on diplomatic conference on Design Law Treaty. In July, the WIPO Member States agreed to go ahead with a diplomatic conference on the protection of designs to ease cross-border trade.

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Intellectual Property Law Blog

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

Did the Board err in finding that a POSITA would have had a motivation to combine the cited prior art references to Robinson and Greim? 2) The Board did not err in finding that a POSITA would have had a motivation to combine the cited prior art references to Robinson and Greim.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

OCTOBER 16, 2023

We’ve seen a flood of terrible Internet laws in the past few years, including the California Age-Appropriate Design Code (AADC). The court says the impact assessments don’t require businesses to look at service design configurations or to mitigate any identified risks, so they aren’t likely to advance the state’s child welfare goals.

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TorrentFreak

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

” These messages were designed to instill fear and uncertainty but didn’t lead to any notable action against those who viewed them. A copy letter obtained by Iilsole24ore identifies the send as the Nucleo Speciale Tutela Privacy e Frodi Tecnologiche , a Guardia di Finanza unit specializing in IT-related crime.

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Selvam & Selvam Blog

DECEMBER 17, 2022

In a welcome move the Controller General of Patents, Designs & Trade Marks by public notice dated December 16, 2022 eliminated the mandatory requirement of filing physical copies of the forms for filing a design application in India. efiling #designs.

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43(B)log

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

Christine Farley, Authenticity and Design: Why sell a chair for 10x a visually identical chair? The claim is authenticity: authorized manufacturers and retailers; they call copies counterfeits. and design patents were hard to get/not as valuable at the time. The claim is that coming from certain retailers = authenticity.

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The IPKat

DECEMBER 29, 2021

Section 4 of the report refers to detentions at the EU border and is based on data uploaded into DG TAXUD’s COPIS (the EU-wide anti- Co unterfeit and anti- Pi racy information S ystem) by the customs authorities of all the Member States. As such, section 6 was produced based on a subset of COPIS data uploaded into the IPEP (i.e.,

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Patently-O

SEPTEMBER 17, 2023

This post will focus on another key issue from the case – the relevance of logos in design patent infringement analysis. Still, ornamental logos found on the accused product can still be relevant as visual distractors in the process of evaluating similarities and differences between the claimed design and accused design.

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43(B)log

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

Design Gaps, Inc. 21, 2023) Design Gaps produces custom cabinetry for high-end homes; Hall is a former employee of Design Gaps who signed a nonsolicitation/noncompete clause but went to work for a design studio that was part of Design Gaps’ main competition, Peters. Hall, 2023 WL 8103156, No.

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Patently-O

JUNE 11, 2024

GM is perhaps as dramatic a change for the design patent arena as Alice was for utility patents. The old Rosen-Durling test made it almost impossible to reject a design patent as obvious except for extreme cases involving either direct copying or extremely broad claims. ” However, it does not appear that Dir.

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Intepat

OCTOBER 7, 2022

As a result, intellectual property refers to creations such as innovations, industrial product designs, literary and creative works, and symbols that are later used in business. As an artist or designer, one should be aware of two forms of intellectual property (IP) rights: copyright and Industrial design.

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Patently-O

FEBRUARY 4, 2024

GM Global Technology Operations LLC , the court will consider whether to apply a more stringent obviousness test to design patents. In a 2010 article, I concluded that “the current design patent examination system operates as a de facto registration system” with very little obviousness analysis except in cases of clear copying.

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43(B)log

AUGUST 11, 2021

It allegedly sold or gave away unauthorized copies of the I-Codes and Custom Codes to both customers and prospective customers. Although in the copyright decision, the court made reference to “rather surprising oversights,” UpCodes corrected issues when notified by ICC. International Code Council, Inc. UpCodes, Inc.,

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Copyright Lately

JANUARY 23, 2024

The TLDR is that Sedlik owns a valid copyright in the Miles Davis photo, and Kat Von D admits to using the photo as a reference image to create her tattoo. This is the first case I’m aware of in which the owner of a copyrighted reference image has sued a tattoo artist for copyright infringement. The Good, the Bad and the.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

JANUARY 16, 2024

LLaMA is a large language model in the form of an AI software program designed to emit convincingly naturalistic text outputs in response to user prompts. Rather than being programmed in the traditional way, a large language model is “trained” by copying massive amounts of text and extracting information from it.

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TorrentFreak

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

However, the focus of the conversation was on certain devices, referred to in the interview as “ISDs, Firesticks and Android apps” and their various abilities to facilitate piracy. It has the ability to record movies in cinemas, store copies for retrieval, and then distribute them on the internet.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

The Copyright Directive does not offer its own definition of an ISSP, referring instead to the one provided by Directive 2015/1535 : it is a service normally provided for remuneration, at a distance, by electronic means, and at the individual request of the recipient of the service. This change was to bring art. However, art.

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TorrentFreak

MAY 29, 2023

One of the key issues in this dispute is whether YouTube actually implemented technological measures designed to control access to copyrighted works. The Elephant-Sized Hole The stream-ripper points out that rightsholders haven’t implemented any copy protection measures themselves.

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TorrentFreak

SEPTEMBER 17, 2021

” The SAC attempts to draw a line in the sand between services that are designed to grant access to content protected and/or encrypted to prevent unauthorized access and those that simply enable access to content that is already available to anyone. Content owned by Yout’s law firm is used as an example. .

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TorrentFreak

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

It also references a currently anonymous ‘Person 1’ as a co-conspirator. In order to capture the providers’ content, the defendants allegedly imported devices from China designed to strip High-bandwidth Digital Content Protection ( HDCP ) including at least seven 16-port encoders. Code § 506 and 18 U.S.

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Biswajit Sarkar Copyright Blog

OCTOBER 16, 2023

While copyright is concerned with the creative part of jewellery, design is concerned with the shape, configuration, pattern, and mix of lines or colours in two or three-dimensional forms. After examining the above cases, it is difficult to predict whether a single piece of jewellery will be considered an artistic work or a design.

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The IPKat

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

On the occasion of the opening of a new store in NY, the well-known clothing brand created a collection of NFTs based on digital copies of works of famous artists such as Miró, Tàpies and Barceló, incorporating various outfits of the collection available at the store, to be displayed in the Decentraland Metaverse, at the coordinates 16.78

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TorrentFreak

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

Among other things, the coordinated Friday release scheme was designed to reduce piracy. However, at least one day before (and most likely two) at least one copy was being shared within piracy communities. The cease-and-desist notice also references 17 U.S.C. §

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Intepat

OCTOBER 7, 2022

As a result, intellectual property refers to creations such as innovations, industrial product designs, literary and creative works, and symbols that are later used in business. As an artist or designer, one should be aware of two forms of intellectual property (IP) rights: copyright and design rights. Design Rights.

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The IP Law Blog

MARCH 14, 2024

The plaintiffs alleged that OpenAI copied their published books, which are protected by copyright law, and used them in a training dataset for its LLM. To allege a valid copyright infringement claim, a plaintiff must show that: (1) that he or she owns a valid copyright; and (2) that the defendant “copied aspects of his [or her] work.”

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