JD Supra Law

JUNE 26, 2024

May 21, 2024) and its implications for design patents. The panel will discuss the new test for obviousness and what hurdles it will present for design patents. The panel will offer guidance addressing obviousness issues in design patents. GM Global Technology Operations L.L.C. By: Strafford

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Patently-O

MAY 24, 2024

GM decision, the USPTO issued a memorandum to its examiners providing updated guidance and examination instructions in light of the court’s overturning of the long-standing Rosen-Durling test for determining obviousness of design patents. ” And, like the primary reference, any secondary references must also be analogous art.

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SpicyIP

AUGUST 12, 2024

The Court in the present case relied on Merck Serono v. According to this principle, all the parties in a case are to be heard by an adjudicating authority and they should be allowed to present their case before the authority. Image from here Missed Hearings Do Not Equal Abandonment: Star Scientific Limited v.

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Plagiarism Today

AUGUST 9, 2022

The goal is not to provide any final judgment, but to present the user with enough data that they are able to quickly make a determination on their own. These faces combine the various data points that the tool found and presents them as a visual face. One of the more unique data points is the creation of Flury-Riedwyl faces.

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SpicyIP

MARCH 7, 2023

The issue of Computer Related Inventions (CRI) in India has popped up again, with Delhi High Court presently hearing an appeal against an order of the Patent Office rejecting an application filed by Microsoft, titled ‘Reversible 2-Dimensional Pre-/Post- Filtering For Lapped Biorthogonal Transform’, under Section 3(k). Microsoft v.

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Intellectual Property Law Blog

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

Such AI-assisted inventions present a new set of legal issues under patent law. A natural person who only presents a problem to an AI system may not be a proper inventor or joint inventor of an invention identified from the output of the AI system. On February 13, 2024, the U.S. 2 in the Guidance. Principle No. Principle No.

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Intepat

DECEMBER 12, 2024

Analysing the Riyadh Design Law Treaty in the Indian Context The Riyadh Design Law Treaty (DLT), finalized at the WIPO Diplomatic Conference in Riyadh in November 2022, marks a significant step towards harmonizing global industrial design registration processes. This consolidation saves both time and costs.

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Patently-O

DECEMBER 20, 2022

In 2020, Storus (AKA “Mosaic Brands”) sued Ridge Wallet for both patent infringement (US7334616) and product-design trade dress misappropriation. Summary Judgment : Mosaic lacked product design trade dress rights. Rather, it can be sufficient to simply present logical holes sufficient to create some reasonable doubt.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

OCTOBER 9, 2024

11413/2024) in a case concerning the protection by copyright of a lamp design. Part II will now turn to the compatibility of the approach adopted by the Italian courts to the cumulation of design and copyright protection for works of industrial design and applied art (WAA) with the existing case law of the CJEU in the area.

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SpicyIP

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

He gave a fantastic and very informative presentation on this area, which I’d highly recommend, explaining the larger role of the US and China in the global semiconductor market.The presentation ended with a slide from where my search began. The heading of the last slide said ‘Key to Success is Innovation and IP’.

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Intellectual Property Law Blog

JULY 25, 2023

Regarding Blue Gentian’s argument about the sufficiency of ties between contributed elements and claims, the Federal Circuit highlighted it was undisputed that each of the asserted patents includes one or more claims that require Ragner’s design elements that distinguished the claims from prior art.

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The IPKat

APRIL 9, 2024

Is it an infringement of a person’s own personality/image rights to say that a shoe was designed for that person (and that fact is true)? According to the Court, the key issue in the present case revolved around the requirement that the use is ‘undue’.

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IIPRD

JANUARY 7, 2025

When the present intellectual property system was developed, innovation was more sluggish and concentrated on human creativity. A human inventor serves as the central figure in the design of the patent system. The selection and evaluation of the previous art are aided further by the appropriately designated relevant art.

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Plagiarism Today

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

Graphic design is credited to award-winning graphic designer Jeremy Samples, so it's disappointing they would copy instead of producing original artwork. The graphic design credit for the show is Jeremy Samples, someone St. Onge identifies as an award-winning graphic designer.

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SpicyIP

MARCH 6, 2023

on 24 February, 2023 (Delhi High Court) In the present case, the plaintiff alleged infringement of its device “Royal” and passing off by the defendant’s adoption of “Zabreen Royal” device. The present order concerns the appeal filed against the order of the trial court in the infringement suit.

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Plagiarism Today

SEPTEMBER 2, 2022

The CCB was designed to give small creators and rightsholders a new tool to protect their copyright. Everything about the system, from the low costs, the lack of a need for lawyers and the streamlined presentation of evidence, was designed to make it more accessible to individuals and small businesses. Bottom Line.

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The IPKat

JULY 11, 2022

Case Background J 8/20 relates to appeals of the decisions to refuse two European patent applications ( EP3564144 and EP3563896 ) for failing to designate a natural person as an inventor. The Board of Appeal agreed with this assessment, noting that " under the EPC the designated inventor has to be a person with legal capacity.

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TorrentFreak

JANUARY 3, 2023

Private torrent sites, or private trackers as they’re commonly known, are designed to be difficult to access. This presents a challenge for people who want to give them valuable, urgent information but must pay to do so. And from there, more, and more, and more – revealing torrent passkeys for every single one on the way.

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The IPKat

OCTOBER 25, 2022

As part of the “Artificial Intelligence for Europe” strategy, the European Commission presented a Proposal for Regulation , setting out harmonised rules on artificial intelligence (“AI Act”). If a Member State chooses to establish several competent authorities, one of them will have to be designated as the national supervisory authority.

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SpicyIP

AUGUST 22, 2024

And in fact, Mr. Harish Vaidyanathan Shankar is also the Central Government Standing Counsel for the Controller General of Patents, Designs and Trademarks in the Delhi High Court and over the past few years has been instrumental in presenting the CGPDTM’s case before the IPD in numerous matters.

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TorrentFreak

AUGUST 24, 2022

Most video gamers will be familiar with the concept of an end-of-level or end-of-game ‘boss’ They take many forms but tend to present as an escalated challenge designed to prevent gamers from progressing any further. Anti-piracy company Denuvo embraces the ‘boss’ concept and drops it on its head.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

APRIL 8, 2023

California passed the California Age-Appropriate Design Code (AADC) nominally to protect children’s privacy, but at the same time, the AADC requires businesses to do an age “assurance” of all their users, children and adults alike. will an online clickthrough agreement satisfy the “written release” requirement?

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Intellectual Property Law Blog

JANUARY 22, 2024

However, the Federal Circuit noted that this is an argument for claim construction, and when a claim phrase is not construed, a court may defer to the jury’s view of the claim phrase unless that view is contrary to the evidence presented.

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The IPKat

DECEMBER 4, 2023

Incidentally, both proceedings stemmed from a long-running dispute between Piaggio and a Chinese company accused by the former of parasitically copying the Vespa design. patents for technical functionality and copyright and design rights for substantial value) gets circumvented through trade mark law.

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TorrentFreak

OCTOBER 1, 2022

A presentation prepared for the recent Fifteenth Session of the World Intellectual Property Organization’s Advisory Committee on Enforcement begins with a brief explainer of the Domain Name System (DNS) and how it works. The presentation has some ideas but before we come to them, it might be worth looking at the slide again.

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The IPKat

JUNE 5, 2022

Meanwhile, Swatch sought to distinguish the present case from the above three cases on the basis that there was both active behaviour and control by Samsung, and use in its own commercial communication. The watch face apps were designed exclusively for, and operated only on, Samsung smartwatches.

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SpicyIP

MARCH 13, 2023

Controller of Patents and Designs: Revisting the CRI Guidelines and Ferid Allani Patentability of Computer Related Inventions (CRI) in India has popped up again! SpicyIP intern Tanvi Agarwal discusses this order and assesses the element of disparagement outside the lens of the existing jurisprudence. Microsoft v. Ranjan Gupta & Ors.

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SpicyIP

JANUARY 30, 2024

However, in the present case, Phonographic Performance Limited (PPL) and Novex, two entities that are not copyright societies, were assigned rights by some well-known producers such as Tips, Eros, T-Series, etc. , Presently, the application for re-registration is pending before the government for consideration.

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IP and Legal Filings

DECEMBER 16, 2024

However, proving that the design is distinctive enough to be protected and does not serve a functional purpose remains problematic. This protection allows the brand to safeguard its visual identity, as well as stop other businesses from using their designs’ look and feel, maintaining exclusivity and value of designs.

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SpicyIP

MAY 10, 2023

Recently, the Delhi High Court IPD released its Annual Report 2022-23 on the World IP Day 2023 (April 26, 2023) highlighting the experiences of the present and past judges of the IPD and the work done so far by the IPD. Deputy Controller of Patents and Designs , Auckland Uniservices Limited v. Controller of Patents and Designs.

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Plagiarism Today

JANUARY 4, 2023

It is unclear what, if any, impact that will have on the judgment of the appeals court, but it is difficult to argue that Google had the chance to fully respond to the allegations if evidence the decision was based upon wasn’t even presented. Unattributed use of outside content does not help that image.

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Patently-O

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

Example: A researcher who uses a protein-folding AI tool to help design a new enzyme can be listed as the inventor because they formulated prompts for the AI and then used their expertise to select the most promising enzyme outputs for further testing.

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Intellectual Property Law Blog

MAY 2, 2023

is to “offer a resource to the organizations designing, developing, deploying, or using AI systems to help manage the many risks of AI and promote trustworthy and responsible development and use of AI systems.” If a presentation would be helpful to you, or if you have any questions, please contact us. AI RMF 1.0

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Patently-O

APRIL 17, 2024

This case began back in 2006 when Crocs sued Double Diamond and others for patent infringement of Crocs’s design patents. Therefore, Dastar ‘s unaccredited copying did not constitute a false designation of origin actionable under § 43(a) of the Lanham Act. Crocs largely prevailed in those actions. ” Dawgs brief.

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Patently-O

MARCH 3, 2024

I can imagine expert testimony in the case, with Musk’s lawyers presenting key examples showing the wide applicability of GPT-4 and OpenAI’s own lawyers showing its own system repeatedly failing. AI systems are designed and built by humans and do not have the natural constraints dictated by evolution.

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Olartemoure Blog

DECEMBER 21, 2023

Today, we present 5 patents that breathe life into the comforting wonders of Christmas. This innovative patent introduces a fabric designed for eco-friendly and reusable gift presentation. ROTATING CHRISTMAS TREE STAND US1988343A Inventor: Claris F. Tacy Assignee: Individual Date of Patent: Jan.

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Velocity of Content

APRIL 3, 2024

The complimentary session provides an overview of U.S. copyright, international copyright treaties, the intersection of AI and copyright, and best practices for managing copyright compliance.

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