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Battle of the spiritual and holistic therapists over ‘Archangel Alchemy’ trade mark

The IPKat

The defendant, Alexandra Wenman, is also a spiritual author and holistic therapist, as well as a past editor of and writer for ‘Prediction Magazine’, one of the longest-running mind, spirit and body magazines available at the time.

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Prior Art: The Patent Pitfall

Larson & Larson

It’s the legal term for ‘thing that is exactly like my thing that was in the public before I made my thing.’ The term covers anything that was sold in public, used publicly, described in a magazine or similar publication, or already has a patent on file with the patent office.

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Best practices to avoid copyright infringement

Biswajit Sarkar Copyright Blog

There’s a significant probability that someone already owns the rights to the content even if you cannot locate an explicit declaration stating that it is intended for public use. It would be preferable to obtain written authorization from the copyright owners before using the original content.

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The Good Get: Interviews, The Predicates Of Copyright Ownership, & Divorcing Subjects From Owning Copyright Content

LexBlog IP

It is strange because that would mean that the unpublished portions would also be government works available for public use. Newsweek Magazine (split copyright) , and she therefore calls for greater specificity and uniformity of approach. Random House, Inc. common law copyright in oral statements), Quinto v.