IP and Legal Filings

AUGUST 4, 2022

The assets held by organisations like museums are also shielded by the copyright law. It is only through licensing and other similar methods, the images of the work that are displayed and stored at these institutions can be used. The dichotomy between branding and Intellectual Property (IP) Law has been a significant one.

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The IPKat

MARCH 31, 2025

Trier in summer As readers know, the Katfriends at the Academy of European Law (ERA) in Trier are always busy organizing programmes and courses on all aspects of European law, including IP and digital and IT law. For those looking to get a deep dive in either subject, ERA is organizing two distinct summer courses this year.

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JD Supra Law

JANUARY 19, 2024

Video games are the ultimate interactive experience in intellectual property (“IP”), combining overlapping layers of copyrights, trademarks, licenses, “work made for hire” contracts, and publicity rights, all of which require careful consideration by a game developer to avoid legal issues and prepare the game for distribution.

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Kashishipr

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

Businesses own valuable trademarks, which, once registered, can be licensed out. The rights that flow from a trademark can be licensed to others to receive royalties for commercialization. Licensing your trademark can be a beneficial business strategy that can not only strengthen the brand but also allow for expansion into new markets.

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SpicyIP

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

We are pleased to bring to you a guest post by Naman Keswani on the concept of naked licensing within trademarks law. Naman is a fourth-year student at the Hidayatullah National Law University, Raipur who has a keen interest in Intellectual Property Law, especially Trademark Law.

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IP Watchdog

MARCH 15, 2024

Leveque Intellectual Property Law, P.C., The ideal candidate will also have recent experience providing IP clients with trademark, trade secret and copyrights guidance as well as drafting transactional and licensing agreements. This is a hybrid position with flexible hours.

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IIPRD

AUGUST 29, 2024

Recent court decisions have clarified the scope of copyright in film screenplays, personality rights, and underlying works concerning content creation and licensing in broadcasting. and undoubtedly creating such content includes the distribution of any intellectual property rights to their respective authors.

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The IPKat

SEPTEMBER 16, 2024

This is a book review of “ Harmonizing Intellectual Property Law for a Trans-Atlantic Knowledge Economy ”, edited by Péter Mezei, Hannibal Travis, and Anett Pogácsás. Lucius Klobucnik calls for a harmonized approach to the categorization of rights in Europe to streamline online music licensing, comparing EU and US perspectives.

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Intellectual Property Law Blog

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

United States , [1] the Federal Circuit rejected a strict temporal limitation on when the Government’s license rights in patents stemming from federally funded research is triggered under the Bayh-Dole Act. The funding agency obtains a license to “subject inventions,” which is defined as “any invention. . . 35 U.S.C. §

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Intellectual Property Law Blog

MAY 17, 2023

These tools raise at least three types of potential legal issues: Does training AI models using open source code constitutes infringement or, even if the use is licensed, does doing so require compliance with conditions or restrictions of the open source licenses?

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JD Supra Law

MARCH 7, 2023

Attorney Steve® Photo Infringement News for Real Estate Professionals - My law firm is a boutique intellectual property law firm with a strong focus on copyright issues, including photographs and drone videos. We are seeing more and more disputes involving the use of unlicensed photographs. By: Vondran Legal

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Nelligan Law

JANUARY 24, 2024

Now, let’s delve into the legal galaxy of licensing. “Spaceballs” undertakes a delicate dance in the licensing arena, where the gravitational pull of intellectual property laws is a formidable force. The post The Legal Ballet of Parody and Licensing in Spaceballs appeared first on Nelligan Law.

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Intellectual Property Law Blog

MAY 17, 2023

These tools raise at least three types of potential legal issues: Does training AI models using open source code constitutes infringement or, even if the use is licensed, does doing so require compliance with conditions or restrictions of the open source licenses?

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Kashishipr

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

This is where the concept of compulsory licensing gains popular attention. What is Compulsory Licensing? Where it is known as compulsory licensing in reference to patents, it is known as statutory licenses in reference to copyright and related rights. Reasons for Granting Compulsory License.

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IIPRD

JANUARY 18, 2024

Introduction If we take a broader look at the Intellectual Property Laws, the primary objective of the legislation in framing these laws is to provide exclusive rights to the IP right holder as against the entire world. In contrast, the CCI has the authority to decide upon all the happenings in the market.

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The IPKat

DECEMBER 22, 2024

If you are looking for some last-minute Christmas gifts, we have some ideas for you: Call for papers The Indian Journal of Intellectual Property Law, a student-run journal of NALSAR University of Law in Hyderabad, calls for papers for its 15th volume. The submission deadline is 31 March 2025. Well, you are in luck.

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Kashishipr

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

Any form of Intellectual Property (IP) , be it a trademark, patent, or copyright, can be licensed to third parties. Through IP licensing, IP rights holders grant third parties the exclusive right to use their IP while retaining their ownership. Understanding the IP License. Creating the IP Licensing Agreement.

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IPilogue

JUNE 10, 2022

Additionally, under the agreement, the NIH will not collect royalties for products licensed in the United Nations’ list of Least Developed Countries. There will be a total of eleven COVID-19 licences shared, including technologies supporting vaccine development, drug and diagnostic development, and prospective vaccine candidates.

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JIPEL Copyright Blog

MARCH 21, 2022

After the #FreeMelee debacle, and as in-person tournaments resumed, Nintendo partnered with Panda Global to launch a licensed Smash Bros. Since there is very little chance of copyright law reform, this slow change of heart is seemingly the best option that the Smash community can hope for. tournament circuit beginning in 2022.

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Intellectual Property Law Blog

MARCH 25, 2021

This boom is creating great opportunities for IP owners who want to license their IP for use in NFTs. When IP licensing rights for use in digital art and other NFTs, it is important to be clear what is and what is not being licensed. The scope of the license should be limited to particular purposes.

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JD Supra Law

MARCH 25, 2022

Earlier today, the American Intellectual Property Law Association (AIPLA), Intellectual Property Owners Association (IPO), Licensing Executives Society (LES) International, LES USA & Canada, and New York Intellectual Property Association (NYIPLA) issued a joint statement expressing their concern regarding reports that the European Union, India, (..)

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Velocity of Content

JANUARY 7, 2025

1 Where does the law come down on the creation of LLMs, both in the input and output of existing copyrighted materials? The answer to this conundrum may simply lie in the time-tested solution that has proven successful during earlier periods of technological advancement: licensing.

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Intellectual Property Law Blog

JUNE 5, 2023

3] The Court found that the Warhol Foundation’s licensing of the Orange Prince to Conde Nast did not have a sufficiently different purpose as the Goldsmith photograph because both were “portraits of Prince used in magazines to illustrate stories about Prince.” [4] 13] AWF’s use was commercial because AWF licensed the artwork for a fee. [14]

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Biswajit Sarkar Copyright Blog

FEBRUARY 5, 2025

They argue that AI models trained on their catalog without permission amount to copyright infringement, much like streaming services before licensing agreements were established. Governments and intellectual property offices worldwide are grappling with how to regulate AI-generated content. Under the U.S.

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Intellectual Property Law Blog

MARCH 13, 2024

The Report looked at: i) current and future applications of non-fungible tokens (“NFTs”); ii) how intellectual property laws apply to NFTs and assets associated with NFTs; iii) intellectual property-related challenges arising from the use of NFTs; and iv) potential ways to use NFTs to secure and manage intellectual property rights.

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Kashishipr

JUNE 9, 2021

With the onset of the trend wherein users are gradually switching to online streaming to meet their music needs and discarding traditional methods such as radio, television, and music CDs, compulsory licensing for the internet was recognized as a key policy issue by the music industry last year. Background. The Plaintiff, Tips Industries Ltd.,

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Chicago IP

JANUARY 13, 2023

CT, the Intellectual Property Law Association of Chicago (IPLAC) is hosting a discussion on navigating common sticking points in technology and licensing transactions. On Wednesday, January 18, 2023 from 12:00 p.m. to 1:00 p.m.

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IIPRD

OCTOBER 16, 2024

Licensing of their games are also controlled under Copyright only. IPR gives more enjoyable gaming experiences to the developers and players by enforcing strict Intellectual Property laws which encourages fairer competition. Copyright also helps in protecting the narrative contents and preventing it from being copied.

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LexBlog IP

JANUARY 13, 2023

CT, the Intellectual Property Law Association of Chicago (IPLAC) is hosting a discussion on navigating common sticking points in technology and licensing transactions. On Wednesday, January 18, 2023 from 12:00 p.m. to 1:00 p.m.

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The IPKat

APRIL 7, 2025

The German-based defendant used to hold a licensee to these photographs but terminated the license agreement. The picture is by Henrique Feiten and used under the licensing terms of Pexels.com. Background The plaintiff produces clothing and owns the copyright to photographs of such clothing.

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SpicyIP

APRIL 8, 2025

in Intellectual Property and Competition Law at Munich Intellectual Property Law Center (MIPLC) are now open! From Law to Leadership: How the MIPLC LL.M. Admissions for LL.M. Take a look below at their sponsored post to know more about the benefits of the programme. program with a strong curriculum.

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Intellectual Property Law Blog

MAY 2, 2023

New creations implicate IP issues, including the protection of what is created, potential infringement of preexisting IP, and ownership and licensing issues of the output. How must the compliance obligations of open source licenses be met in this context and by whom (developer or user)? Both the U.S. Copyright Office and the U.S.

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IPilogue

JULY 19, 2021

Professor David Vaver is a Member of IP Osgoode’s Advisory Board and a Professor of Intellectual Property Law at Osgoode Hall Law School. . Professor D’Agostino is the Founder and Director of IP Osgoode and a Professor of Intellectual Property Law at Osgoode Hall Law School. .

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IP Watchdog

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

A group of 25 experts in intellectual property law sent a letter to Assistant Attorney General (AAG) Jonathan Kanter today in support of a business review letter that the group said, “represented a legally sound and evidence-based approach in applying antitrust law to innovative commercial institutions.”

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TorrentFreak

MARCH 25, 2024

Publishers vs. Internet Archive The self-scanning service offered by the Internet Archive (IA) differs from the licensing agreements entered into by other libraries. ” Copyright Experts, Professors, and Lawmakers A second amicus brief is submitted by more than a dozen professors and scholars of copyright and intellectual property law.

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Indiana Intellectual Property Law

MARCH 31, 2025

The complaint states that ASCAP has attempted to contact the Defendants more than 70 times through phone, mail, and email, offering them licenses to play the music. Despite these efforts, the Defendants allegedly refused to agree to the terms, and the Plaintiffs argue that the performances at Buds without a license are copyright violations.

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Intellectual Property Law Blog

JANUARY 22, 2024

Prior to trial, Intel sought to amend its answer to assert a licensing defense. Intel was covered under Finjan’s license with VSLI because both Intel and Finjan were under the control of Fortress Investment Group LLC. Whether the district court abused its discretion by denying Intel’s late-addition of a licensing defense?

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