Michael Geist

DECEMBER 6, 2022

Canadian Heritage Minister Pablo Rodriguez’s claim that Bill C-18, the Online News Act, was a hands-off approach was never really credible , but the clause-by-clause review of the bill has taken the government picking media winners and losers to another level.

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Patently-O

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

by Dennis Crouch The USPTO is officially establishing a separate design patent practitioner bar with its final rule published on November 16, 2023 and effective January 2, 2024. Currently, a single patent bar governs registration for anyone seeking to practice before the USPTO in utility, plant, and design patent matters.

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Patently-O

MAY 21, 2024

by Dennis Crouch In a highly anticipated en banc decision, the Federal Circuit has overruled the longstanding Rosen-Durling test for assessing obviousness of design patents. Rejecting the argument that KSR did not implicate design patent obviousness, the court reasoned that 35 U.S.C. § GM Global Tech. Operations LLC , No. at 15 (Fed.

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IP Watchdog

JANUARY 4, 2023

The United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) stayed active over the holiday period with several big announcements, and today Director Kathi Vidal continued that trend by designating as precedential the December 21 decision in Apple v. Zipit Wireless.

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Plagiarism Today

JANUARY 16, 2024

Film studios subpoena Reddit again, Gibraltar government turns down memorial design and Burnely co-owner hit with copyright takedowns. The post 3 Count: Third Try appeared first on Plagiarism Today.

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IP Watchdog

MARCH 23, 2022

The European Intellectual Property Office (EUIPO) recently published a deep dive report, titled Study on the Impact of Artificial Intelligence on the Infringement and Enforcement of Copyright and Designs. The report is a product of the Impact of Technology Expert Group, which was established in early 2019.

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IP Watchdog

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) today announced that a final rule will be published tomorrow, November 16, in the Federal Register implementing a design patent practitioner bar. The Office first published a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM) to the Federal Register in May 2023 contemplating a separate design patent practitioner bar.

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IP and Legal Filings

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

Introduction Corporate governance generally refers to how organisations are directed, managed, controlled, and held responsible to its shareholders. India is a popular location for investments, thus in order to attract the largest investment ever, we need to strengthen the governance standards.

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IP and Legal Filings

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

Introduction An artist’s ideas, be it for a renowned painting, sculpture, novel, technological design, jewelryor fashion are his own. However, many a times, we witness these designs being copied or recreated. A copyright protection is the ability of a designer to protect his original designs through the copyright laws.

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Intellectual Property Law Blog

JANUARY 11, 2023

Understanding Mask Work Mask work is a type of intellectual property protection designed to protect layout designs (topographies) of integrated circuits. Under the SCPA, a mask work is a series of related images that forms a design or part of a design used to produce an integrated circuit. government.

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Intellectual Property Law Blog

JANUARY 11, 2023

No hard and fast rule or percentage governs what constitutes “substantial similarity.” 1992) Takeaway It is always recommended for a mask work applicant to identify the “novel points” in the design during the registration step (e.g., 17 U.S.C.A. § Brooktree Corp. Advanced Micro Devices, Inc., 2d 1555, 1564 (C.A.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

OCTOBER 16, 2023

We’ve seen a flood of terrible Internet laws in the past few years, including the California Age-Appropriate Design Code (AADC). The court wraps up by criticizing how the AADC clearly targets businesses but not government or non-profit entities. Worry about government misuse of personal information?

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SpicyIP

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

underscored that there is a need to supervise or govern patent and trademark agents. This post discusses the case and argues that there already exists a mechanism under the Patent and trademark laws that govern and supervise such agents. Image from here The Delhi High Court recently in Saurav Chaudhary Vs Union Of India & Anr.

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Michael Geist

APRIL 20, 2023

With Bill C-11 in the final stretch – Senate approval could come this week – the government finally provided a more detailed explanation for rejecting the Senate’s user content regulation fix. It is sad that as the bill nears passage, the government doesn’t seem to understand or misleads on the impact of its own legislation.

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SpicyIP

NOVEMBER 30, 2024

Diplomatic Conference to Conclude and Adopt a Design Law Treaty – Plenary Sessions. It took nearly two decades of negotiation, but member states of the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) have finally adopted the landmark Design Law Treaty (DLT) during the Diplomatic Conference in Riyadh on November 22.

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Plagiarism Today

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

government is asking a court to award a 27-33 month sentence to George Bridi for his role int he SPARKS piracy scene group. government is request a sentence of between 27 and 33 months, which is still far lower than the 5-year maximum he could face. No additional details about the lawsuit have been revealed. However, the U.S.

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IP Watchdog

DECEMBER 8, 2024

In 2007, I began attending sessions of the World Intellectual Property Organizations (WIPOs) Standing Committee on Trademarks, Industrial Designs, and Geographical Indications (SCT) in Geneva, Switzerland, to discuss the development of the Design Law Treaty.

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IP Watchdog

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) Director Kathi Vidal today designated as precedential a Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) decision from March of this year that held a precedential U.S.

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Plagiarism Today

MARCH 31, 2022

Earlier this month, the Russian government began taking steps to broadly legalize the piracy of all content from countries that were sanctioning it. The move from the Russian government follows its invasion of Ukraine, which brought down significant international sanctions on the country.

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Plagiarism Today

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

Have a Designated Agent to Receive Notices of Copyright Infringement. Unfortunately, designating a DMCA agent is not as simple as posting an email address on your site. If you don’t want your personal information in the database, you can use a third party designated agent, such as myself at CopyByte , to handle the process for you.

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SpicyIP

MARCH 7, 2023

Controller of Patents and Designs: Revisting the CRI Guidelines and Ferid Allani Sukarm Sharma Software patenting remains one of the most contentious issues in patent law jurisprudence, with an ever ping-ponging legal position. Sukarm is an undergraduate law student at NLSIU, Bangalore. Microsoft v. In fact, paragraph 1.5

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Plagiarism Today

JUNE 8, 2022

Between 2009 and 2019, she held a very lucrative position at the Santa Clara County government. This was to write a book about the history of the county and its government. Those sources included, among others, Wikipedia, the History Channel, The Mercury News itself, official government websites and more.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

AUGUST 10, 2022

Monday, I covered AB 2273, the Age-Appropriate Design Code. The affirmative defense (which partially negates liability if a government-designated censor approves the service offering) is miscalibrated. Yesterday, I covered AB587, an editorial transparency law. This creates a bizarre and counterproductive race to the bottom.

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IP Watchdog

MAY 3, 2023

Whereas Part 1 focused on the designated UPC judges, and Part 2 on the timelines that govern the proceedings before the UPC, Part III will illustrate the remedies (and the potential enforcement of such remedies) that are available at the UPC in a main action.

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IP Watchdog

APRIL 12, 2023

Whereas Part 1 focused on the designated UPC judges, this Part 2 will deal with the timelines that govern the proceedings before the UPC. In order to faciliate such preparation, we will be providing a series of five articles that will deal with the most important aspects of the UPC.

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Michael Geist

OCTOBER 4, 2023

Rather, it is how the government crafted the law with a “regulate everything” default and the expectation that the CRTC would establish some exemptions. I described it as a “ready, fire, aim” approach with less than a month to respond to the registration issue and no final government policy direction in sight. This is the result.

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Michael Geist

APRIL 7, 2022

This is certainly designed to cover linking but the broad language almost surely extends beyond linking to a specific article. The Australian code treats three activities as making content available: reproduction of the content, providing an extract of the content (designed to target short blurbs of the stories), or links to the content.

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Plagiarism Today

OCTOBER 25, 2021

The lawsuit was filed by Jocelyn Susan Bundy, who claims that her grandfather created the design based on Dante’s Inferno. The new rate, when decided, would be applied retroactively and would also govern royalties owed between 2023 and 2027. Let me know via Twitter @plagiarismtoday.

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Intellectual Property Law Blog

JANUARY 24, 2022

According to condition (d), the DSMER Program is only open to applications governed by the SME requirements (the requirements of 35 U.S.C. Plant applications and design applications are excluded as they are not governed by the SME requirements. At this time, participation in the DSMER Program is by invitation only.

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Plagiarism Today

APRIL 7, 2022

government passed the Copyright Alternative in Small-Claims Enforcement Act of 2020 (CASE Act). The website features information about the CCB, updates on the process, and users can register a CCB Designated Service Agent to receive notices and communication from the CCB. First off today, a release by the U.S.

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Erik K Pelton

MARCH 26, 2024

A recent r eport from the United States Government Accountability Office detailed the need for better handling of the fraudulent trademark filings at the USPTO. Some key findings from the report: The USPTO has not conducted a comprehensive fraud risk assessment of the trademark register or designed a fraud risk strategy.

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SpicyIP

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

Semiconductors & Integrated Circuits Designs Looking at the list of IP legislations in India, perhaps the most under-discussed one is the Semiconductor Integrated Circuits Layout Design Act, 2000 (SICLDA) (in line with TRIPS obligations). Although India is a signatory to the treaty, this Treaty never came into force.

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Michael Geist

DECEMBER 14, 2023

But given a bill that envisions government-backed censorship, mandates age verification to use search engines or social media sites, and creates a framework for court-ordered website blocking, there is a need to pay attention. The bill, which is the brainchild of Senator Julie Miville-Duchêne , is not a government bill.

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TorrentFreak

AUGUST 11, 2022

Government regularly goes after copyright-infringing companies and individuals, both domestically and abroad. Last year, the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit sided with the software company, concluding that the US Government is indeed liable. That doesn’t mean that there are no copyright issues within its own ranks.

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TorrentFreak

DECEMBER 30, 2022

Over the past five years the Australian Government has committed significant resources to several copyright-related initiatives , not least the Copyright Amendment (Online Infringement) Act 2018. Copyright in Australia is governed by the Copyright Act 1968 which is administered by the Attorney-General’s Department.

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The IPKat

JULY 17, 2024

The IPKat has received and is pleased to host the following guest contribution by Katfriend Seun Lari-Williams , PhD researcher in the fields of copyright and dispute system design at the University of Antwerp, regarding copyright ownership of Nigeria’s re-adopted national anthem. Is the national anthem in the public domain? I don’t think so.

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Plagiarism Today

JANUARY 11, 2023

The campaign is just one part of the larger collaboration between the government and FACT, which has already resulted in multiple arrests and site closures. Zara, known as a “fast fashion” brand, is often in the defendant’s chair in such cases, accused of ripping off designs from pricier competitors.

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