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The following is an edited transcript of my video 5 Free Ways to Strengthen Your Brand. Use the proper symbol for your trademark. If you have a registration, use the ® prominently with your brand. If you don’t, you can use TM or SM. We have plenty more resources about which symbol to use and how and where available on our website. Be consistent in how you use your brand—your colors, your logo, your fonts—to help your brand stick in the minds of customers.
The copyright claim board has handed down two more final determinations. Though not decisions, they are still noteworthy. The post Two More Copyright Claims Board Cases Concluded appeared first on Plagiarism Today.
For millions of people around the world, subtitles are the only way to enjoy media in foreign languages. For the deaf and hard of hearing, they are absolutely essential. Nowadays, most large streaming platforms and broadcasters are aware of the importance of offering a range of subtitle options to their viewers. On pirate sites, the situation is no different.
[A special post for my Canadian friends as a belated celebration of Canada Day. ] This case involves a Canadian transaction for flax. The court summarizes: Mr. Mickleborough had a contract drafted for Achter to sell SWT 86 metric tonnes of flax to SWT at a price of $17.00 per bushel (which amounts to $669.26 per tonne) with a delivery period listed as “Nov”.
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?
Canadian Heritage Minister Pablo Rodriguez has scheduled a press conference for later today to answer questions on the legislative mess that is Bill C-18. With Meta and Google announcing that they will block news sharing and links on their platforms before the law takes effect, the Canadian media sector stands to lose millions of dollars with lost links, the cancellation of dozens of existing deals , and a bill that might not generate any new revenues.
Authors sue OpenAI over book ingestion, Jeff Koons and Michael Hayden claim recent SCOTUS ruling helps them, and Getty sued by photog. The post 3 Count: Sweet Little Lies appeared first on Plagiarism Today.
More than forty years ago in the early eighties, Texas Instruments home computers were all the rage. The world wide web didn’t exist yet and most people interested in these new devices saw themselves as tinkerers or hackers. These original ‘hackers’ tried to put the hardware to use in ways that others hadn’t envisaged. This was also the case for a Canadian teenager named Gary Bowser, who founded the company “Oasis Pensive Abacutors” (OPA) in March of 1985, a f
More than forty years ago in the early eighties, Texas Instruments home computers were all the rage. The world wide web didn’t exist yet and most people interested in these new devices saw themselves as tinkerers or hackers. These original ‘hackers’ tried to put the hardware to use in ways that others hadn’t envisaged. This was also the case for a Canadian teenager named Gary Bowser, who founded the company “Oasis Pensive Abacutors” (OPA) in March of 1985, a f
The following is an edited transcript of my video The Power of Brand Jingles. A jingles is a form of slogan, but with a tune or sometimes music that accompanies it. Some memorable jingles include: McDonald’s: I’m lovin’ it Rice Krispies: Snap, Crackle, Pop Toys R Us: I’d rather be a Toys R Us kid What would you do for a Klondike bar?
Evan Scrimshaw, who writes an engaging Substack primarily focused on Canadian politics, posted an interesting piece over the holiday weekend that linked the Toronto Raptors failure to resign guard Fred VanVleet and the reaction to Google and Facebook’s announcement that they plan to block news sharing or links as a result of Bill C-18. I liked the piece and it got me thinking about the parallels, leading to this post.
The UK government has issued new guidance on how the Windsor Framework will be applied to medicines. The UK has also released details of transitional measures that will operate until the Windsor Framework comes into effect. Whilst the guidance and transitional measures provide some clarity on the regulatory framework for medicines in Great Britain and Northern Ireland, questions remain on how the changes may affect UK Supplementary Protection Certificates (SPCs).
Over the past several years, adult entertainment company Strike 3 Holdings has filed thousands of cases in U.S. federal courts. The company, known for its Blacked, Tushy, and Vixen brands, targets people whose Internet connections were allegedly used to download and share copyright-infringing content via BitTorrent. Track, Sue and Settle These efforts, often referred to as so-called ‘copyright-trolling’, are pretty straightforward.
Women and diverse employees have the technical skill and knowledge, yet their contributions are not patented at the same rate as those of their male counterparts.This toolkit can help organizations move the needle on achieving gender parity in innovation.
We all know the mantra that says it’s better to ask forgiveness than permission. According to Quote Investigator, the earliest published version of this sentiment appeared in 1846, but QI’s editors believe the notion is older than that and cannot be attributed to any one source. Whatever its derivation or contexts in which it has […] The post Get AI Wrong and There Will Be Nothing to Forgive appeared first on The Illusion of More.
On the evening of July 5, inventor advocacy group US Inventor hosted a webinar to discuss the Patent Eligibility Restoration Act (PERA) recently introduced into the U.S. Senate by Senators Thom Tillis (R-NC) and Chris Coons (D-DE). The featured guest speaker was Retired U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit Chief Judge Paul Michel, who has been involved in the development of PERA’s draft legislative text and has personally supported PERA as an important step in “reviv[ing] the faltering
NUISANCE Nuisance, derived from the French term “nuire,” which means to “annoy” or “cause harm,” is the foundation of the tort known as nuisance under common law. The term “nuisance” refers to any act or omission that results in hereditaments or tenements belonging to another person, or annoyance of the lands, or to the hurting of a person’s right to remain on his premises, but does not amount to trespassing on the property.
The most dependable things in life tend to be the things most easily taken for granted. In the piracy ecosystem, that certainly applied to torrent site RARBG. RARBG was never likely to win any prizes for being the best-looking site with bleeding-edge features. Nor would its operators hope to win any. What the site did was what any indexer of any content should strive for; plenty of well-organized and readily searchable content, all of it supported by ancillary sources of complementary data, with
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit (CAFC) today denied Apple’s June request that the court rehear a decision that effectively canceled the tech company’s application to register the trademark APPLE MUSIC. Apple had asked the court to rehear the case in order to direct the Trademark Trial and Appeal Board (TTAB) to narrow the services listed in the trademark application so that it could proceed to registration.
Image by rawpixel.com on Freepik The Office of Controller General of Patents, Designs and Trademarks released the results for the 2023 Patent and Trademark Agent examinations. Of 1496 candidates who appeared for the Trademark Agent Exam, 167 had earlier qualified for the viva voice. Of these, 103 applicants have passed the exam. With regard to the Patent Agent Exam, of 5695 candidates who appeared for the examination, 716 had earlier qualified for the viva voice.
Many pirate sites have attracted large volumes of traffic over the years but a relatively new breed of streaming portals have taken things to a whole new level. Excellent traffic levels a few years ago were measured in tens of millions of visits per month, but when Soap2Day suddenly threw in the towel around June 12/13, the site was receiving at least 108 million visits.
After opening up about his own criminal background and his unconventional path into the legal industry, intellectual property lawyer Keegan Caldwell is now helping incarcerated and formerly incarcerated people file patent applications.
The government escalated the battle over Bill C-18 yesterday, announcing that it was suspending advertising on Meta’s Facebook and Instagram platforms due the company’s decision to comply with the bill by blocking news sharing and its reluctance to engage in further negotiations on the issue. While the ad ban applies to federal government advertising, Liberal party officials confirmed they plan to continue political advertising on the social networks, suggesting that principled opposition ends w
June 2023 marked the one-year anniversary of the small copyright claims tribunal, the Copyright Claims Board (CCB). Meanwhile, Congress kept busy on AI issues and a major class-action lawsuit on […] The post June 2023 Roundup of Copyright News appeared first on Copyright Alliance.
In recent years, pirate streaming platforms have surpassed torrent sites and direct download portals in terms of popularity. These portals offer the ‘on-demand’ convenience many people have grown accustomed to. For site operators, the streaming business also has its advantages. Piracy as a Service The streaming boom has created a new branch of pirate entrepreneurs that offer “piracy as a service” This includes platforms that provide access to a library of pirated content,
What this is : When you’re managing the closing of a complex financing transaction like that of a commercial mortgage-backed security, a detail-oriented checklist is your best friend. What this means : We’ll provide you a sample checklist, and walk through some of the steps needed to create a useful and organized process for closings.
As autonomous vehicles and associated software become more commonplace in the automotive industry, it is important to recognize which forms of intellectual property grant protection within quickly evolving areas of technology and to understand how to obtain registration and enjoy the advantages within an increasingly competitive landscape.
Apple failed to convince appellate judges on Tuesday to invalidate two crucial wireless communications patents that Optis has accused it of infringing, as the iPhone maker gears up to take the dispute to the U.K.'s top court.
In a lawsuit, filed in the U.S. early January 2022, videogame giant Activision targeted German companies EngineOwning UG and CMN Holdings S.A, plus various individuals connected with their operation. Running along similar lines as several other lawsuits filed by competitor Bungie, Activision claimed that the defendants trafficked in circumvention devices, in violation of the DMCA.
Image generated used Dall E [This post is a part of the IP History series and is authored by Shivam Kaushik. Shivam is a 2020 law graduate from Benaras Hindu University and is presently working as a law researcher at the Delhi High Court. The first post of the series on India and the Berne Convention can be accessed here and his previous posts can be accessed here.
Continuously moving assembly lines are commonly found in industry, especially high-volume production. Most final assembly lines in automotive are continuously moving lines, but there are also many more examples in industry. Such lines have many of the same requirements of pulsed or untimed lines, but in a few specific circumstances continuously moving lines can have.
The IPKat is pleased to host the following guest post by Katfriend Alessandro Cerri (Warner Bros Discovery) regarding the most recent instalment in the Lidl v Tesco IP dispute. Here’s what Alessandro writes: Lidl on price, big on copyright by Alessandro Cerri In a judgment issued a few days ago, the High Court of England and Wales (the Court) granted a final injunction in respect of Tesco’s infringement of Lidl’s copyright in its blue-and-yellow logo.
Here’s a curious conundrum: given its extraordinary traffic and likely position as the world’s largest pirate site, why does Zoro.to feature so rarely in rightsholders’ public complaints over piracy? One explanation could be the site’s age; at just over two years old, it’s possible that established sites are considered more of a priority.
For brand owners seeking to leverage their physical-world brands to expand into the virtual world and vice versa, understanding the current, uncertain trademark landscape and implementing practical licensing considerations is crucial, despite some recent big-name pullbacks from the metaverse, say attorneys at Sullivan & Cromwell.
The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has issued a Proposed Rule which, if implemented, would prohibit employers from entering into or attempting to enter into, “a non-compete clause with a worker; maintain with a worker a non-compete clause; or represent to a worker that the worker is subject to a non-compete clause where the employer has no good faith basis to believe that the worker is subject to an enforceable non-compete clause.”.
In April, this Kat, taking advantage of her status QMUL Alumna, had the opportunity to attend the flagship event of the More Than Just a Game (MTJG) conference series. The conference series was created by Dr Gaetano Dimita and the Centre for Commercial Law Studies, Queen Mary University of London in 2015 to bring together creators, legal practitioners and researchers in the field of Interactive Entertainment.
For a country that regularly claims to be at war with the United States, Russian lawmakers appear to have plenty of time to discuss how its citizens will continue to be entertained by mostly U.S. content. Over the last 18 months, various ideas and proposals have leaned toward limiting or even nullifying Western entertainment companies’ intellectual property rights in response to their withdrawal from the Russian market.
The Patent Trial and Appeal Board's decision in Unified Patents v. MemoryWeb was recently vacated in part by U.S. Patent and Trademark Office Director Kathi Vidal, which likely has implications for the disclosure of real parties in interest in future proceedings for both patent challengers and patent owners, says Derrick Carman at Robins Kaplan.
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