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The SAD Scheme as an Institutional Failure

Technology & Marketing Law Blog

[These are my rough-draft talk notes from a recent workshop of trademark law professors.] The SAD Scheme involves a trademark owner suing dozens/hundreds of defendants using a sealed complaint, getting an ex parte TRO, and then having the online marketplaces freeze the defendants’ accounts and money. Alibaba N.D.

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IP Scholarship, Citations, and Knowledge Governance: Some Insights from the History of IP Teaching in India

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Mr. Kadirgamar traces it back to 1970 when WIPO conducted two surveys: one, on the teaching of industrial property law and the second on the teaching of copyright law teaching. Moreover, as the 1987 report notes, IP litigation was very limited at that time, except for trademark law. Ganesan and Jayashree Watal.

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Nintendo vs. Garry’s Mod: Dissecting the ‘Fake’ Domain Behind All the Chaos

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At the time of writing, Garry’s Mod workshop content uploaded by users over many years, is being systematically taken down in response to takedown notices filed by Nintendo. In other parts of the notice, takedowns were requested under trademark law. From: TF , for the latest news on copyright battles, piracy and more.

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Free Certificate Course in Application of Intellectual Property Rights for Startups and Entrepreneurship [November 22- 23]

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This liberty to benefit from one’s intellectual creation gives rise to a bundle of rights related to intellectual property, including, Patents, Copyrights, Trademarks, Geographical Indications, among others. The course is being supported by Texas A&M University School of Law.

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[Guest Post] Nigeria's quest for its own statute for the protection of Geographical Indications gains momentum

The IPKat

Okonkwo In April 2021, the Intellectual Property Rights and Innovation Project in Africa ( AfrIPI ) organised a high-level public sector workshop on geographical indications (GI) and following the workshop, the Nigerian Technical Working Group (TWG) on GI was established. How would this work in practice?]

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Monday Melange

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Events Workshop: The Human Right to a Healthy Environment: What Impact on Intellectual Property Laws? (4 4 December 2024) This IViR workshop event will include a series of sessions focussing on the impact on IP laws of the human right to a healthy environment, which was recently recognised as a self-standing right by the UN.