Likelihood of Confusion

JANUARY 11, 2025

Originally posted 2011-12-05 10:40:49. Republished by Blog Post PromoterSomehowdespite that I always have one eye open for decisions involving copyright in fictional characters, because almost always I disagree with the ruling and I enjoy then getting to rail about itI didnt learn about a new case extending the abstract protection extended to fictional characters,the July […] The post Over the rainbow and beyond the pale?

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JANUARY 11, 2025

With limited choice mostly a thing of the past, domain names today are available in many flavors. Above all others, however, the gTLD (generic top-level domain).com is the most enduring. Domain Tools data shows that of all TLDs,com is the stand-out leader with 153,999,258 domains registered at the time of writing. In distant second place, with 17,195,162 registered domains, is the German ccTLD (country code top-level domain).de, with.net taking third spot with 12,477,708.

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IP and Legal Filings

JANUARY 11, 2025

PREFACE On 2 nd January 2025 a senior BJP leader, Mr.Vijay Goel had an interview with the Hindu in which he stated Online gaming is synonymous with online gambling and people are being financially ruined. This creates concern and also brings real money gaming and its conflict with the law into the limelight. Gambling has a long history in India. In the 4 th century, people used to play games with dice.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

JANUARY 11, 2025

As the maxim goes, all politics are local. A corollary is that few political disputes are as nasty or vitrolic as local politics. When local disputes devolve into total warfare, the parties grasp for any legal leverage against their sworn enemy. In those circusmtances, copyright law is an especially attractive tool to the pugilists, with its strict liability standards, amorphous fair use boundaries, high defense costs, and effectiveness of takedown notices.

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Software is complex, which makes threats to the software supply chain more real every day. 64% of organizations have been impacted by a software supply chain attack and 60% of data breaches are due to unpatched software vulnerabilities. In the U.S. alone, cyber losses totaled $10.3 billion in 2022. All of these stats beg the question, “Do you know what’s in your software?

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