Technology & Marketing Law Blog

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

Emojis are an excellent device for trolling campaigns because they inevitably look alike and copyright law provides many powerful tools to copyright owners. Personnel note: the law firm Patterson & Sheridan led this lawsuit, with EIGHT lawyers from the firm listed on the caption. Some Related Blog Posts. Marc Jacobs.

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The IPKat

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

For example, under ‘eliminating hunger’ the class would explore patented seeds, and medical drugs as part of the ‘good healthcare’ task, all of which get the students to think about power imbalance, private and public funding, and questions of where ownership of key commodities should lie.

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IIPRD

JUNE 13, 2024

Analyzing the convergence of AI and IPR laws, it elucidates the challenges and ambiguities in recognizing AI as inventors or creators. Ai doesn’t understand what it’s doing in the way that a person does but functionally what it is doing is the same thing that an author or an inventor may be doing.

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Larson & Larson

NOVEMBER 25, 2021

Product designers, inventors, and artists of all types need to understand the meaning of intellectual property and how to protect their creative contributions. . Products that derive from the human intellect that the law protects from unauthorized use are defined as intellectual property. Code covers patent law. .

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IIPRD

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

In this sector, intellectual property (IP) regulations are essential for defending the rights of inventors, artists, and producers. A thorough awareness of intellectual property laws is crucial, regardless of your career goals—be they that of a fashion designer, singer, filmmaker, or just someone curious about the legal side of entertainment.

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Barry Sookman

JANUARY 30, 2022

Copyright Ownership, Transfers, and NFTs [link] 2022-01-25. Is crypto code law? ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE NOT AN “INVENTOR” UNDER EUROPEAN PATENT LAW: Is Canada heading down the same path? Computer and Internet Weekly Updates for 2022-01-22 [link] 2022-01-23. 2021 ONSC 369 (CanLII) | Cicada 137 LLC v.

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LexBlog IP

APRIL 28, 2023

One of the primary legal concerns is related to copyright – both in terms of protecting the work generated and the concern of infringing someone else’s work. Copyright law protects original works of authorship, including literary works like blog articles. Vidal , 43 F.4th 4th 1207 (Fed.

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Velocity of Content

MARCH 16, 2023

As a person involved in copyright on a daily basis, I’ve observed a number of events and requests for comment over the last few years on the issue of whether artificial intelligence (AI) systems can be “authors” in the copyright sense (or inventors of patents). Below are my thoughts on what is interesting about these cases.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

In his application, he identified the author as the Creativity Machine, and explained the work had been “ autonomously created by a computer algorithm running on a machine ”, but Thaler sought to claim the copyright of the “ computer-generated work ” himself “ as a work-for-hire to the owner of the Creativity Machine. ” 102(a) ; U.S.

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The IPKat

MAY 29, 2023

The second edition offers revised, or wholly rewritten chapters to the overlaps discussed in the first edition so as to reflect recent developments, as well as to include new chapters (the overlap between privacy and copyright law; privacy and secrecy; trademarks certification marks and collective marks; and IP and traditional knowledge).

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The IPKat

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

For example, if we ask the Stable Diffusion generator for a “cat wearing a suit” it generates images of dapper cats at the press of a button: As an aside, as it has been discussed previously on the IPKat , there is some uncertainty whether these image outputs are protected under copyright law and, if protected, who owns the relevant copyright.

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IP and Legal Filings

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

The primary goal of copyright law is to safeguard the interests of creators of original, publishable works. The purpose of copyright protection is to make sure that the artist reaps the rewards of creating their original work and that no one else benefits unfairly from it. Ownership of Copyright.

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The IP Law Blog

MARCH 31, 2022

There the Court quoted Justice Traynor’s dissenting opinion in Stanley : The policy that precludes protection of an abstract idea by copyright does not prevent its protection by contract. Even though an idea is not property subject to exclusive ownership, its disclosure may be of substantial benefit to the person to whom it is disclosed.

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Biswajit Sarkar Copyright Blog

JANUARY 16, 2024

These rights provide exclusive ownership and control over intangible assets, allowing creators to protect their innovations from unauthorised use, reproduction, or distribution. Firstly, intellectual property rights grant startups exclusive ownership over their innovative ideas and inventions.

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LexBlog IP

DECEMBER 6, 2021

Copyright Protection for Source Code. Non-disclosure Agreements (NDAs) for Ownership. Copyright Protection for Source Code. In 1979, Congress decided that software source code would qualify for a similar scope of protection as literature under copyright law due to its typographical nature.

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IP and Legal Filings

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

More and more loans are being supported by certain intellectual property assets, such as copyrights, designs, and patents, or revenue streams connected to these assets. Ownership of intellectual property (IP) used as collateral often belongs to the borrower.

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LexBlog IP

MARCH 27, 2023

Kashtanova’s selection and arrangement of the images could be copyrighted (given that Ms. copyright law), that the images of the comic book itself could not be copyrighted as it was produced by a non-human. Instead, OpenAI treats the matter as one of ownership via contract law. For example, under U.S.

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Intepat

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

Lakshmikumaran Described the full IP ecosystem, which includes inventors, the administrative body, and a strong judicial system for IP enforcement. He expressed concerns about copyright protection for such works, citing legal cases like Thomson Reuters vs. Ross Intelligence Inc.,

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IPilogue

JANUARY 14, 2022

This article summarizes the top developments reported on our blog and in patents, trademarks, and copyright law in 2021. Copyright Ownership of Movies and Films in Canada: Who’s on First? Continued Debates over AI as an Inventor. Trademark Law. Copyright Law. Giuseppina D’Agostino. David Vaver.

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LexBlog IP

JANUARY 5, 2022

In this case, the Supreme Court of Texas held that a government entity may reproduce, display, and utilize a copyrighted work for its own benefit without paying any compensation to the copyright owner. 2d 588 (1985) (“Section 106 of the Copyright Act confers a bundle of exclusive rights to the owner of the copyright.”);

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Copyright Lately

MARCH 13, 2024

version even features the same color scheme as Wordle: Lingo / ITV Of course, no game is created in a vacuum, and Lingo was itself influenced by earlier puzzle games like Mastermind , a codebreaking game that Wordle’s inventor, Josh Wardle, also credited as an early influence on his own creation. Inbounds or overreach?

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SpicyIP

JANUARY 2, 2022

Recognition of non-human inventors, AI and its implications for India. Stephen Thaler’s ‘Device for Autonomous Bootstrapping of Unified Sentience’ (DABUS) as an inventor for an improvised beverage container and a neural flame for search and rescue operations. Revocation of Pepsico’s PVP certificate by the PPV & FR Authority.

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Trading Secrets

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

This comes amidst a backdrop where AI models currently cannot be recognized as inventors, a stance reaffirmed in the Federal Circuit decision Thaler v. This might conflict with copyright laws if the data shared includes copyrighted material. See our prior post on issues raised by Thaler.

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IP and Legal Filings

APRIL 21, 2025

A subset of law known as intellectual property law protects investments and promotes innovation by giving creators, inventors, and companies legal ownership rights over their works. The main components of IP law are trade secrets, patents, trademarks, and copyrights. The question of ownership also comes up.

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LexBlog IP

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

This comes amidst a backdrop where AI models currently cannot be recognized as inventors, a stance reaffirmed in the Federal Circuit decision Thaler v. This might conflict with copyright laws if the data shared includes copyrighted material. See our prior post on issues raised by Thaler. § 101.

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LexBlog IP

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

This comes amidst a backdrop where AI models currently cannot be recognized as inventors, a stance reaffirmed in the Federal Circuit decision Thaler v. This might conflict with copyright laws if the data shared includes copyrighted material. See our prior post on issues raised by Thaler. § 101.

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SpicyIP

APRIL 17, 2025

Starting on April 22, 2025 (Tuesday) , the event kicks off with an inaugural ceremony followed by an expert session on Artificial Intelligence & Copyright in the Digital Era: Navigating Creativity and Ownership. Analyse challenges of piracy, data ownership, and digital trademarks. This session will be led by Prof.

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Barry Sookman

MAY 4, 2020

patent law, 35 USC §§ 1 et seq. an inventor must be a natural person. The decision was based on an application listing a single inventor with the given name “[DABUS]” and the family name “(Invention generated by artificial intelligence).” It also referred to other provisions including 35 U.S.C. §

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SpicyIP

DECEMBER 31, 2024

Weve tried to represent a diversity of subject matter also in this list, so its a mixed bag of cases dealing with patents, trademarks, copyright law etc. The judgment said that Copyright law is not intended to curtail access to information. On April 15, the Delhi High Court in Hershey’s v.

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