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Now in its seventh edition, the award allows the Kat community to choose their favourite books in the following six categories: Patents Copyright (including relatedrights and performers rights) Trade Marks (including Geographical Indications) Designs Best Foreign Language (Non English) Intellectual Property Book Intellectual Property (any book that (..)
For those of you still finishing up their IP book pile, The IPKat team is extending the deadline to vote for your favourite IP books of 2024 until 10 February 2025.
As always, readers can vote for books in five categories: Patents, Copyright (including relatedrights and performers’ rights), Trade Marks (including Geographical Indications), Designs and Intellectual Property (any book that covers more than one type of IP).
Vote here for your favourite books in the categories of patents, copyright (incl., relatedrights, performers rights), trade marks (incl., geographical indications), designs, best foreign language/non-English IP book and IP in general (books covering diverse IP rights). More information here.
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21, Copyright and RelatedRights Act 2000 ), New Zealand ( section 5(2)(a), Copyright Act 1994 ), South Africa (section 2(h), Copyright Act 1978 ) and the UK ( Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988, section 9(3) ). We were not aware that the image may have been created by AI” 2.
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” However, Wallshoppe does not allege Defendant knew of the specific acts of infringement at issue here—Sienna Lewis selling products featuring the Palm Design on Defendant’s website. Additionally, we note that this Study revealed little demand for additional copyright-relatedrights for press publishers.
As always, readers can vote for books in five categories: Patents, Copyright (including relatedrights and performers’ rights), Trade Marks (including Geographical Indications), Designs and Intellectual Property (any book that covers more than one type of IP).
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Such creations may include literary and artistic works, designs, names, inventions, etc. Copyright’s relationship to IP is that it is just another form of IP, like trademarks, patents, and industrial designs. In simple terms, IP is a category of property that includes the intangible (i.e., Copyright.
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This should at least elicit some envy (incidentally: its one of the seven deadly sins ) in the supporters of provisions like section 9(3) of the UK Copyright, Designs and Patents Act . CXCVII, Sept. 2) The contents referred to in the preceding paragraph shall be identified by the acronym "IA." (3)
Vote here for your favourite books in the categories of patents, copyright (incl., relatedrights, performers rights), trade marks (incl., geographical indications), designs, best foreign language/non-English IP book and IP in general (books covering diverse IP rights). Further details here.
3 In the latter case, although peer-to-peer file sharing was also a dual use technology, its “promotion” as an infringement tool led the court to find Grokster secondarily liable under a doctrine of inducement borrowed at least in part from patent law. 1858); Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988, c. 48 § 21 (UK).
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