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Hollywood Used ‘Dynamic+ Injunction’ to Shut Down movie-web and Other Pirate Sites

TorrentFreak

This weekend, we reported that the open source movie search app movie-web lost control over the domain name of its demo site. In addition, any details relating to the registrants of the said domain names including KYC, credit card, mobile number, etc. “The respective Domain Name Registrars of Defendants No.

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Naming Trends Within a Crowded Trademark Landscape

Corsearch

Popular trends in fashion, pharmaceuticals and health, technology, entertainment, and society are often drivers in the words found in trademark registrations. Many of these registrations were from international classes 3, 5, and 10 from some of the top companies in these sectors. There are currently 3.1

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ALA Conference Draws 14K Attendance

Velocity of Content

According to Andrew Albanese , Publishers Weekly senior writer, ALA officials reported 13,990 total registrations, with 8,023 attendees, mostly librarians, and 5,133 exhibitors, including publishers and technology vendors. The show floor was quite busy, with long lines for book signings by authors, vendor demos, and galley pickups.”.

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Can You Register Realistic Images of Common Goods as Trademarks?

Corsearch

The trademark registration for black-and-white images of the fruit may give Apple wide-reaching protection over the shape, allowing the company to oppose third-party registrations in a broad selection of colors. What does this mean for the global IP rights industry?

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When Is a Song Published?

Dear Rich IP Blog

So, for example, sending out a handful of demos to record labels with the restriction, "For evaluation, Not for distribution" or posting the song to an invitation-only website, limiting the listeners, and preventing downloads would not be considered a publication.

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Monday Miscellany

The IPKat

The event will also feature a Quickfire Demo, where postgraduate IP students have the opportunity to win prizes based on their pre-recorded short video thesis (<5 minutes) on various aspects of the interface and relationship between AI, patents and the SDGs.

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Plaid must face jury on PNC's TM/advertising claims, but has good laches/acquiescence argument

43(B)log

However, a reasonable jury could also find that Plaid offers the same “financial services” as PNC, or at least that both offer “financial services” covered by PNC’s registrations, especially given statements Plaid made to the PTO that it offered financial services. Its customers are primarily fintech apps, not bank account holders.