SpicyIP

OCTOBER 27, 2024

The Court held that the defendants had copied the plaintiff’s mark and passed off their products as those of the plaintiff. The plaintiff claimed that the defendant was not a subscriber to the plaintiff’s subscription agreement/license for receiving news content and copied its content verbatim, despite a cease-and-desist notice.

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IP and Legal Filings

DECEMBER 23, 2024

This principle means that as long as the copy of the copyrighted content is within its fair use, it is classified as an exception and meets legal standards. 1] This article aims to prove how the alleged copying fits within Fair Use by assessing these four factors to render OpenAIs challenge devoid of merit.

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Patently-O

AUGUST 17, 2021

Valve submitted a printout of Burns and argues that it was a printed copy of an online review of a Scuf controller from 2010. Authentication : Before relying upon a documented evidence, it must first be authenticated — a showing that the document “is what the proponent claims it is.” ” Fed. ” Fed.

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The IPKat

DECEMBER 29, 2021

The European Commission’s Directorate-General for Taxation and Customs Union ( DG TAXUD ) and the European Union Intellectual Property Office ( EUIPO ) recently released the first joint annual report on EU enforcement of intellectual property rights: results at the EU border and in the EU internal market 2020. billion in 2019.

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TorrentFreak

FEBRUARY 4, 2024

The idea was to take market share away from piracy sites, by offering a legal and more convenient streaming platform. In recent years piracy started to grow again , including in well-served markets such as the United States. ” (Un)authorized Copying? Initially, this seemed to work.

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TorrentFreak

DECEMBER 29, 2022

When movies are recorded directly from cinema screens, the resulting pirate copy is known as a ‘cam’, regardless of the device used – camcorder or otherwise. A screenshot from the cam copy of Minions: The Rise of Gru. Forensic investigators linked the copy to a cinema in Leeds, West Yorkshire.

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Patently-O

JANUARY 4, 2024

2024) A recent copyright infringement lawsuit filed by small Boston intellectual property boutique Hsuanyeh Law Group PC (HLG) against international giant Winston & Strawn LLP focuses a dividing line that can highlight when copying the work of another firm is permissible. Winston & Strawn , 23-cv-11193 (S.D.N.Y.

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SpicyIP

OCTOBER 14, 2024

” The Plaintiff undertook a market survey, which revealed that the defendant was secretly selling inferior quality apparel, under deceptively similar trademarks to those of the plaintiff. The Court sided with the plaintiff company, and directed the respondents to furnish all the documents sought by the petitioner.

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Indiana Intellectual Property Law

MARCH 11, 2024

In Cyprus, Texas , Valcrum, LLC (“Valcrum”), a company specializing in trailer and axle market products, is engaged in a legal dispute with Dexter Axle Company, LLC (“Dexter”) from Indiana over trademark and trade dress infringement regarding a hubcap design.

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TorrentFreak

SEPTEMBER 2, 2024

Parrish Publishes LifeWise’s Children’s Curriculum, LifeWise Sues In the belief that the curriculum contains information supportive of the opposition group’s cause, Parrish obtained a copy of the closely-guarded documents and, in the public interest, posted them publicly online.

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TorrentFreak

APRIL 30, 2022

This work includes submitting an annual report to the United States Trade Representative (USTR) where major ‘pirate’ platforms are nominated for ‘notorious market’ status. Indeed, court documents filed in the United States this month show that several pirate sites are still on the radar. and Rapidu.net.

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IP and Legal Filings

JANUARY 2, 2025

Both individuals and organisations may now share, communicate, and market their goods or themselves. The law of copyright regulates the activities of copying and disseminating the words of someone who has copyright over something online without that person’s consent.

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The IPKat

FEBRUARY 22, 2025

There are a number of drug products on the market for which the innovator has retained exclusively far longer than would have been possible with a patent, solely through the process of manufacturing trade secrets. One notable example is the hormonal replacement therapy (HRT) Premarin.

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IP and Legal Filings

JANUARY 31, 2022

Globalization has given Indian businesses a huge opportunity to access global markets to sell and buy goods and services not only in India but also abroad. Upon Filing the application form (ANF 2A format) along with required documents and paying the required fee, the IEC code will be generated by DGFT. INTRODUCTION. Easy processing.

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IPilogue

JULY 21, 2021

Kok, accessed more than 7,000 Motorola documents prior to joining Chinese rival company, Hytera Communications Corporation Limited (“Hytera Corp.”). assembled a digital two-way radio business largely deploying Motorola’s research and development, such as source code and confidential technical documents. Kok, and G.S Hytera Corp.

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Corsearch

JANUARY 9, 2025

For many small or local businesses, common law trademarks offer a practical way to establish ownership and prevent others from copying their brand within their area. Here are some tips: Use it everywhere : Display your brand name, logo, or slogan consistently on your website, marketing materials, and business signage.

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TorrentFreak

AUGUST 7, 2022

At the other end of the market, cutting costs to maximize slender advertising revenues appears to be more important than a glossy user experience. ACE informed the court that the sites offered infringing copies of the movies Suicide Squad and Salt, plus TV shows Gold Rush and Deadliest Catch. Court Filing Targets Streaming Sites.

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Traverse Legal Blog

MARCH 26, 2025

Understanding the Compliance Trifecta: Amazon Guidelines, FDA Rules, and FTC Marketing Regulations Publishing in the health space doesnt just demand compelling contentit requires navigating a complex and overlapping web of rules. FTC marketing guidelines are available to help. Each has its own mandate.

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Velocity of Content

JANUARY 26, 2023

While there are a lot of great reference management tools on the market, there are some special considerations for those in corporate settings. As a medical writer, I have 5+ applications running, 10+ tabs open, and 15+ documents that I am actively working on. Is document delivery integrated?

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TorrentFreak

JULY 14, 2024

The organization’s religious instruction program, marketed as LifeWise Academy, has a curriculum which outlines the religious instruction children receive. “Defendant Zachary Parrish posed as a LifeWise volunteer to gain access to internal LifeWise documents. Parrish does not support LifeWise’s mission.”

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

JANUARY 12, 2024

In a framing case, the plaintiffs’ web servers aren’t the affected chattel because the plaintiffs’ web servers delivered the web pages directly to users’ devices, after which the framer (Google) superimposed its frame on the web pages once the copies were in users’ RAM. ” Even this correction is suboptimal.

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TorrentFreak

FEBRUARY 11, 2022

There’s a market for pretty much anything digital today and ‘collectables’ in particular sell like hot cakes. There are NFT projects ‘copying’ other NFTs, for example, and in some cases, people simply issue NFTs based on existing copyrighted works owned by others. Not seldomly these have raised precarious copyright issues.

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SpicyIP

JULY 5, 2021

application of Section 8(1)(d) by the CIC and argues that the thesis is a public document as per UGC guidelines which cannot be withheld from the public. But the CIC failed to notice/address the mandatory language used in the ordinance (emphasis added) : 14(b) “ …two hard-bound copies and two soft copies of the corrected Ph.D.

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SpicyIP

AUGUST 8, 2024

This is what was seen in the recent case of M/s KG Marketing of India v. KG Marketing India, through its proprietor, Mr. Karan Kumar, against Rashi Santosh Soni and Santosh Soni (the defendants) to seek an injunction to prevent the use of the trademark “SURYA”. Rashi Santosh Soni & Anr. Meenakshi case and the Ashok v.

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TorrentFreak

MAY 13, 2023

The major threat in today’s market has been growing for many years, mainly because it’s so quick and easy. Similar brands appear in legal documents relating to a High Court ruling in the UK. But does wordplay stop people from ripping billions of tracks from YouTube and copying them to their machines?

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TorrentFreak

AUGUST 21, 2021

After the apparent demise of Area 51 but in advance of the settlement being finalized, it’s alleged that Tusa launched a close copy of Area 51 called SingularityMedia, which scooped up Area 51’s customers. The injunction and associated documents can be found here 1 , 2 , 3 , (pdf). It later disappeared.

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TorrentFreak

MAY 29, 2023

” DoNotPay says its AI product provides affordable legal representation but according to Tewson, the supposed AI amounts to a document wizard dressed up in Theranos-style marketing. Being hounded by “ the world’s most tenacious paralegal ” is also reality for defendants in Bungie cheat lawsuits.

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TorrentFreak

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

Whether this trio of subpoenas will bear any fruit will remain to be seen but TONIC is already under scrutiny in the US after being called out by the MPA as a “notorious market” in a submission to the USTR. The site was also called out recently by the MPA in its ‘notorious markets’ submission to the USTR.

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Copyright Lately

NOVEMBER 21, 2021

Fundamentally, an NFT is just a transactional record and a link to a digital asset (often an image of artwork or a document) stored somewhere on the web. ” Based on his reserved screenplay publication rights, there’s no question that Tarantino is permitted to sell copies of the “Pulp Fiction” screenplay.

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IP Tech Blog

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

While many see China’s AI policies as a cover to curb freedoms and control society, the reality is that China is an active AI developer in a thriving market for AI applications in both the trade and industrial sectors. China is at the forefront of the AI development race.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

APRIL 15, 2024

documentation, software codes, copyrighted training data) that are under open source licenses (OSL), i.e. licenses that comply with the open source definition (in brief that allow software or data to be freely used, studied, modified, and shared, also known as the “four freedoms“).

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TorrentFreak

MAY 26, 2023

The lawsuit in question was filed by Applause Entertainment, the Indian company behind the TV-series “Scam 1992” The series covers the 1992 Indian stock market scam, adapted from Debashis Basu’s book The Scam. The TV production is licensed to Sony LIV and was a huge success.

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Velocity of Content

DECEMBER 14, 2023

Cross-functional groups within an organization — including research and development (R&D), clinical research, competitive intelligence, regulatory, marketing, and medical affairs — must work together and with external partners to advance drug compounds from discovery to approval for use in patients to physician education and promotion.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

OCTOBER 17, 2023

“Kiwi Farms users provided a Google Drive link to a full copy of Mr. Greer’s book.” Somebody,” he explained, “created a copy of [his] book and put it in a Google Drive that is accessible on Kiwi Farms.” Silbey and I have documented, copyright also allows for the widespread scrubbing of socially beneficial content.

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IP and Legal Filings

JUNE 8, 2022

The renown it gains helps ameliorate your competitive stride in the market. The information and documents necessary for registration: General Power of Attorney (POA) signed by the proprietor. Four copies of Representation of the design on A4 size. These elements are not limited to the aforementioned. Statement of novelty.

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The IPKat

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

While at this stage the particulars of Getty’s claim are unavailable, their press release states that Stability AI “unlawfully copied and processed millions of images protected by copyright and the associated metadata owned or represented by Getty Images”. temporary copy which is; 2. transient or incidental; 3.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

If age authentication isn’t done through a review of the user’s face, then typically users must present documents that authenticate their ages. As a practical matter, other states will copy California’s template, so businesses will face the same obligations across the nation unless the law is stopped.

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