Corsearch

AUGUST 2, 2023

Intellectual property rights are defined as legal rights that protect the ownership of artistic, literary, and other creative works. Counterfeiting is one type of trademark infringement, where individuals or businesses use exact copies of registered trademarks to mislead customers and pass them off as your brand.

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43(B)log

AUGUST 3, 2023

Dustin Marlan, Trademark Disclosure TM registration requires disclosures just as patent does: undertheorized. Benefits: nationwide right of priority, evidence of validity/exclusive ownership, right to police imports, incontestability after 5 years, symbolic benefits like ®. Keep up with the culture by considering social media.

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Intepat

APRIL 4, 2022

Will it affect the patentability of the invention? It is time to think if our ideas are patentable if we share them in the public domain. The Intellectual Property Office grants patents to encourage new technology, development, and scientific research. Therefore, the patent was rejected because it lacked novelty.

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Intepat

JUNE 13, 2024

Owners of registered designs can pursue legal action against infringers; however, the ease of replicating designs and the difficulty in tracking widespread copying make enforcement problematic. Design piracy involves copying the visual elements of a product, such as patterns, shapes, and ornamentation.

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Fish & Richardson Trademark & Copyright Thoughts

JUNE 16, 2022

PDF copy available. NFTs are data units stored on a blockchain used to transfer ownership of physical items or digital media with smart contracts. The US Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) Trademark ID Manual offers some guidance as example provisions including NFTs were added in October 2021. To File or Not to File.

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SpicyIP

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

Last week we published 9 posts on topics such as our comments on the proposed Trademarks (1st Amendment) Rules, the Madras High Court’s decision with respect to patentability of business methods, and Union Minister of State for Commerce’s response on ability of the current IPR regime to cater concerns arising out of AI generated work.

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SpicyIP

MAY 20, 2024

The Controller on working examples is surely going to interest patent lawyers. Remanding the matter back to the Patent Office, the Court clarified that a working example does not define the patent’s scope. Other Posts Leaving Out the Working Examples? DHC’s recent ruling in Bayer v. Tosh Apartments.

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IIPRD

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

Moreover, IP rights are inherently territorial, creating problems for IP owners who use cloud computing, such as their patented inventions being used or infringed in multiple locations without their consent or knowledge. Thus, there are no well-established methodologies for detecting such infringements.

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SpicyIP

DECEMBER 30, 2023

The decisions in the first category, i.e., Top 10 IP Cases/Judgements (Topicality/Impact) reflect those that we thought were important from a topical point of view and were covered by the media in some way owing to the importance of parties litigating or the issue being considered or for impact on industry and innovation/creativity ecosystem etc.

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43(B)log

AUGUST 3, 2023

Are the outputs copies of the training data? Copying takes place prior to training; converted into tokens and training is a process of adjusting weights in the model, not copying tokens. Expand social media monitoring. Yoo, Common Carriage and Social Media Hating on social media is bipartisan.

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43(B)log

AUGUST 3, 2023

Musicologists in litigation: (1) identify formal similarities—instrumentation, chord progression; (2) opine on how aesthetically similar/significant those similarities are; (3) opine about the rarity of similar features; (4) opine that copying did or didn’t occur. Mistaken faith in musicology: let’s find an expert to talk about copying.

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