IIPRD

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

Recent advances in the technical field of quantum technologies have not only experienced high amount of attention in information science and software engineering disciplines but also gained a wide interest of government due to its complexity and global significance. billion by 2027. billion by 2027. Image Source: IStock].

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IP and Legal Filings

JANUARY 29, 2024

Unveiling Merchant Privileges in the Shadows of Craftsmanship Developing nations like India require financial and technical support to market their products internationally and attain the sustainability of GI. It’s possible that India unintentionally made it harder for its Artisans to obtain GI protection for their agricultural goods.

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IP and Legal Filings

JUNE 27, 2022

PART 2: of the blog gives a detail about Copyrights, Industrial Designs, Geographical Indications, Layout Designs of Integrated Circuits, Plant Variety Protection and Trade Secrets. INDUSTRIAL DESIGNS. These are protected under the Designs Act, 2000, corresponding to Design (Amendment) Rules, 2014.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

DECEMBER 1, 2021

This is not the first time the UKIPO has engaged with a public call for views on the topic of AI and IP. In a 2020 consultation , the government sought to broadly understand the implications of AI for IP. That call concerned patents, copyright and related rights, designs, trade marks and trade secrets.

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The IPKat

JUNE 26, 2022

The event is designed to encourage interactive discussions among participants through panel debates, with each of them covering 4 or 5 key topics related to each specific sector. There will also be panels on CJEU and General Court case law, judicial approaches to parasitic competition, and international design protection strategies.

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IP and Legal Filings

MARCH 29, 2022

With evolution and development in recent trends and creations, every person got the right to protect their artistic creativity by acquiring intellectual property rights to save their invention from being violated by the competition present in the market. Dr. Cluadio De Simone & Anr. These are the first steps toward paperless trade.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

Therefore, such AI-generated works are said to compete directly with human-authored works and thus might be capable of disturbing the market for low creativity works, which is where apparently many artists nowadays make a living. It would not genuinely guarantee a level-playing field for all players in all Member States in a specific market.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

JUNE 8, 2022

In the field of AI, bias may be present at various stages of the development of an application including the design of the algorithms, the designers of the algorithm, the identification and sampling of the learning information and the curation, annotation , and verification of the input data (see, e.g., here and here ).

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LexBlog IP

DECEMBER 14, 2023

1] In light of criticism following the announcement of the political deal – and renewed warnings that the AI Act risks hampering innovation in the European market – there may still be room for debate over the final terms of the AI Act before ratification. [2] 5] The risk-based approach is maintained under the political agreement.

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Biswajit Sarkar Copyright Blog

MAY 7, 2021

In today’s era, where the whole world has turned to virtual means, blockchain as a technology is gathering everyone’s attention and showing accelerating growth in its market. It can comprise of when a trademark was applied for first, registered or used in trade, when was a design/patent first licensed or assigned and so on.

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Biswajit Sarkar Copyright Blog

MAY 7, 2021

In today’s era, where the whole world has turned to virtual means, blockchain as a technology is gathering everyone’s attention and showing accelerating growth in its market. It can comprise of when a trademark was applied for first, registered or used in trade, when was a design/patent first licensed or assigned and so on.

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Biswajit Sarkar Copyright Blog

MAY 7, 2021

In today’s era, where the whole world has turned to virtual means, blockchain as a technology is gathering everyone’s attention and showing accelerating growth in its market. It can comprise of when a trademark was applied for first, registered or used in trade, when was a design/patent first licensed or assigned and so on.

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IIPRD

FEBRUARY 19, 2021

Recently, the office of Controller General of Patents, Designs & Trade Marks granted a patent to a ragi walnut soup mix prepared by the 52-year old woman, Shubhangi Patil. A patent is a set of rights granted by the government to the inventor for his invention. Introduction. Conclusion.

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IP and Legal Filings

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

A patent is an intellectual property right granted by a government to the inventor, to protect their invention and allow the fullest commercial exploitation of the patented invention. Importantly, only those who have developed new technologies and created a product can file for a patent on the new technology. Picture Credit: gettyimage].

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43(B)log

FEBRUARY 19, 2022

In general, the content of noncommercial speech may be regulated only to further a compelling government interest, and the regulation must be narrowly tailored and the least restrictive means of accomplishing that compelling interest. Under Employment Division v. We don’t want it to be based on intent—McDonald’s can intend art.

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IIPRD

MAY 4, 2023

To qualify as a patentable invention, the invention: must not be in the public domain or have been published or used previously; must not be obvious and must involve a technical advancement; and must be capable of being implemented commercially. More and more involve collecting data that is processed via algorithms “in the cloud”.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

JUNE 1, 2023

The members of the European Copyright Society (ECS ) have recently sent a letter to Mr. Thierry Breton ( Commissioner for Internal Market , European Commission ) outlining their view of what should be the priorities for a f uture agenda in the field of copyright law. The letter is available here and its contents are reproduced below.

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SpicyIP

JANUARY 2, 2022

The plaintiff was granted, through an agreement, an exclusive non-transferable, non-assignable license for selling, supplying, and distributing the defendant’s brands in domestic and international markets. However, later the defendant served a termination notice against which the plaintiff filed this suit.

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43(B)log

JUNE 24, 2022

Other IP rights: utility patent creates presumption of functionality; wonders about whether presence of non-TM IP protection for ornamental features—design patent, ©--might create a presumption of mere ornamentality w/o further evidence of source signification. Every figurative TM will be protected by ©/design, built into the system.

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SpicyIP

APRIL 17, 2023

To Be or Not To Be (Design): Calcutta HC Sways Against Trend of Denying Design Registrations Over GUIs Image from here Can a GUI be regarded as a Design? In what follows, Rahul Bajaj sets out the key arguments of the parties and the holding of the court, along with his analysis of the judgment.

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43(B)log

APRIL 26, 2022

The court of appeals kicked out nearly $42 million in penalties because there was no evidence of what Ethicon’s employees and agents actually said in oral marketing communications, which is a good incentive not to leave a record I guess, but affirmed the rest. So too with its marketing communications to doctors and patients.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

The USPTO has invoked Section 2(c) to refuse registration of phrases like “ Obama Pajama ” for pajamas, and not just marks that contain criticism of government officials or public figures. After the Supreme Court granted cert in Vidal v. The problem with Elster’s argument, however, is that Section 2(c) does not prohibit any expression.

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43(B)log

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

Although the government’s response was fine as far as it went—that © is a different regime with different traditions—it didn’t explain why copyright was different, presumably because that would have started to sound like an unconstitutional conditions analysis which the government didn’t want to risk. A: Agreed on point of sale.

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Copyright Lately

MAY 13, 2022

That’s why the 1925 novel “The Great Gatsby” didn’t enter the public domain until 2021. But Hawley’s bill has nothing to do with forcing that 1928 short film into the public domain. There’s no question that Hawley’s legislation is specifically designed to punish Disney.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

APRIL 28, 2022

Tuesday’s long-awaited ruling in Case C-401/19 finally brings some clarity to the almost three-year-long discussion about the implementation of Article 17 of the Copyright in the Digital Single Market Directive (DSM Directive). The judgment comes almost a year and a half after the Court heard the parties to the case in November 2020.

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Barry Sookman

MAY 4, 2020

A further contribution can lie in the abstraction of a specific solution provided by the 5 AI, e.g. a specific design of a mechanical part, to a general concept, e.g. a design principle for certain mechanical parts. ” See Design Data Corp, 847 F.3d Unigate Enter., 3d 1169, 1173 (9th Cir. 2017) (quoting Torah Soft Ltd.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

105 , as a “work of the United States Government”? If the work was published without proper copyright notice, the work entered the public domain. 105, as a “work of the United States Government”? 105 says: “Copyright protection under this title is not available for any work of the United States Government.”

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