Velocity of Content

JANUARY 26, 2023

If you’ve ever authored content, you know that reference management software provides immense value and time savings by automatically formatting citations. Whether you come from a small, mid-sized, or large company, a reliable reference management system is extremely important. Is it easy to use? Is document delivery integrated?

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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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Patently-O

AUGUST 23, 2021

Obviousness of a design patent is governed by 35 U.S.C. Importantly, the Federal Circuit suggests that the obviousness inquiry should begin with a primary reference whose whose “design characteristics … are basically the same as the claimed design” and that creates “basically the same visual impression.” Samsung (Fed.

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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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SpicyIP

FEBRUARY 17, 2025

Thomson Reuters argued that Legal Ease’s questions, incorporated by Ross in machine-readable form, essentially copied its creative headnotes. The copying was purely instrumental, aimed at training an AI system to recognize and retrieve relevant legal information efficiently. The 9th Circuit in Sony Computer Entertainment v.

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The IPKat

FEBRUARY 4, 2025

Justice Moshinsky of the Federal Court of Australia found that Aldi had crossed the line from borrowing the "look and feel" of the Puffs packaging into taking the actual forms of expression in the design, layout, colours, fonts, and figures. In 2019, Aldi undertook a re-design of its MAMIA range of baby food products.

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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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BYU Copyright Blog

MARCH 24, 2025

The Court also discusses the actual instance of copying, which amounted to roughly 200 words on the JCU application that were taken from Weisblat's application. The Court responded in an Opinion that Copur had given a statement that at the time of creating the rug, his understanding and intention was that the design was a work made for hire.

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SpicyIP

JANUARY 20, 2025

The respondent invoked the arbitration clause present in the Deed of Assignment of Trade Marks leading to the Commercial Court referring the matter to arbitration. The High Court upheld this decision, stating that the arbitration clause is valid and enforceable.

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Michael Geist

DECEMBER 3, 2024

The claim is sprinkled with the most obvious reason: the Canadian media companies want a settlement that involves OpenAI paying licence fees for the inclusion of their content in its large language models and the lawsuit is designed to kickstart negotiations. This isn’t me speculating.

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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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IIPRD

OCTOBER 16, 2024

Copyright also helps in protecting the narrative contents and preventing it from being copied. Reference: The Law Tree. It also protects the graphics, visuals and soundtracks to ensure that game developers have control over these elements. Licensing of their games are also controlled under Copyright only.

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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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JIPEL Copyright Blog

APRIL 26, 2021

How does an influencer and fashion designer become so despised? However, an equally long list of controversies accompanies this list of accomplishments, the majority of which involve alleged copying. Nordstrom removed the pieces at issue, and everything seemed to be fine on the copying front—until 2020 hit.

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Copyright Lately

DECEMBER 29, 2024

In a January 2024 report and recommendation later adopted by the court , the magistrate judge found that the repost infringed the plaintiff’s display right simply because it shows a copy of the photo on Chicken Joes social media account. That Chicken Joes is owned by a guy named John. S ydney Nicole LLC v.

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LexBlog IP

APRIL 6, 2022

Design patents, sometimes referred to as industrial designs, protect the aesthetic appearance of a product. In other words, unless international or regional treaties are available, a grant of design rights has to be obtained individually in each country of interest.

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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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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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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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