IP Watchdog

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

District Judge James Selna granted a motion for sanctions after finding that ConsumerDirect fraudulently represented its ownership of unregistered trademarks while obtaining a preliminary injunction in U.S. On November 8, a Central California jury entered a verdict awarding $3.9 The verdict comes weeks after U.S.

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IP and Legal Filings

APRIL 1, 2024

the ownership disputes in India and the U.K. 2021] EWHC 293 (IPEC)[8] Facebook Twitter LinkedIn WhatsApp The post Copyright Ownership: Exploring Employer-Employee Relationship first appeared on IPLF. This is quite the picture of how the Indian copyright laws are treating the employees who try to become such exceptional creators.

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Legal Zoom

DECEMBER 11, 2023

Over 32 million small businesses will be affected by the latest beneficial ownership reporting rules from FinCEN. Yours could be one of them. Find out how the rules will affect you and how accurate reporting can help you comply.

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IP Law 360

APRIL 25, 2024

A company registered in New Jersey that sells nail polish has failed to persuade a federal appeals court to let it move ahead with its trade secrets case in a Chicago federal court against its former business partners in China until first resolving an ownership dispute "lurking just beneath the surface."

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Cogency Global

JULY 18, 2024

What this is : The implementing regulations for the Corporate Transparency Act require that reporting companies provide their IRS tax identification number (TIN) on Beneficial Ownership Information (BOI) reports filed with the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN).

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JD Supra Law

NOVEMBER 27, 2024

A litigation regarding patent ownership rights is heating up in the Delaware Court of Chancery, a court of equity that is an atypical forum for pharmaceutical company and intellectual property disputes. CyDex Pharmaceuticals, Inc. CyDex) filed a breach of contract action against Bexson Biomedical, Inc. By: DLA Piper

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JD Supra Law

SEPTEMBER 24, 2024

We have previously written an OnPoint about the law concerning ownership of social media accounts in light of the explosive growth in the use of such media for commercial advertising, product development and customer engagement. We presented on this and related topics at the Federal Bar Association and MyLawCLE webinar on September 6, 2023.

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JD Supra Law

JULY 16, 2024

Social media has revolutionized the ways in which brands target and market to consumers and the value of successful social media pages has become increasingly recognized, resulting in disputes over the ownership of these “assets.”. By: ArentFox Schiff

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The TTABlog

MAY 15, 2024

The Board ruled that the band was entitled to challenge the registration, had not abandoned the mark, and had proved its claim of ownership of the mark and likelihood of confusion based on its prior use of the same mark for the same services. The Plimsouls v. Edward David Munoz , Cancellation No.

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JD Supra Law

SEPTEMBER 23, 2024

As folks prepare their estate documents, they need to consider who they want to receive their assets, house(s), vehicle(s), or that Bob Ross painting they found at a garage sale 20 years ago. What many people don’t think about is what will happen to their trademark after they pass away, assuming they own a business in whole or in part.

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Creative Law Center

AUGUST 29, 2024

Understand the legal implications of ownership and how they can be changed with contracts. Copyright and tattoo. Plus a look at the historical roots of tattoo art. The post Copyright and Tattoo Art appeared first on Creative Law Center.

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Plagiarism Today

AUGUST 23, 2022

According to the study, only one in 25 even attempts to transfer copyright ownership with the purchase of the NFT and even that may be ineffective. The “vast majority” of NFT projects did not attempt to convey any ownership of intellectual property rights. The answer is, quite simply, not much.

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JD Supra Law

MAY 31, 2024

With the rise in the use of artificial intelligence (AI) in all forms, the question is becoming more present than ever – who owns the intellectual property in a work created with the use of AI? By: International Lawyers Network

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IP Watchdog

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

On November 23, the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) and the U.S. Copyright Office published a joint notice of inquiry in the Federal Register announcing that the two agencies would be collaborating on a study regarding intellectual property legal issues related to digital assets known as non-fungible tokens (NFTs).

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

JULY 24, 2024

Is it a proper copyright ownership or an assigned license? There was almost no reference to ownership of training data that had come from parties other than the contractual partners. There was almost no reference to ownership of training data that had come from parties other than the contractual partners. user, service)?

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JD Supra Law

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

Trademarks can be a business’s most valuable assets. Apple’s mark is estimated to be worth more than $355 billion. The Amazon mark lags behind by a hair at $350 billion. When the value of a company’s trademark can be so high, it makes good sense to carefully develop, grow and protect marks. Originally published in The Daily Record, October 2024.

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JD Supra Law

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

An important component of brand ownership is exercising vigilance against fraudulent practices, such as counterfeiting and trademark pirating. Trademark owners must now also be alert to fraudulent communications from seemingly legitimate trademark practitioners. By: Smart & Biggar

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

JANUARY 24, 2024

However, the appellate court seems to invalidate that six-factor test: “Determining he ownership of social-media accounts is indeed a relatively novel exercise, but that novelty does not warrant a new six-factor test.” The next step is to determine whether ownership ever transferred to another party.

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IP Watchdog

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

On February 20, 2024, a Brazilian congress member, Antônio Luiz Rodrigues Mano Júnior (known as Júnior Mano), introduced a bill to amend the national IP Statute (Law #9,279/96) and regulate the ownership of inventions generated by artificial intelligence systems.

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Olartemoure Blog

JANUARY 11, 2024

Tokenization refers to the process of creating digital tokens that represent ownership of an asset. The assets can be physical or digital, and tokenization allows for fractional ownership of assets, making it easier for investors to buy and sell them. Tokenization of IP assets has several benefits.

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JD Supra Law

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

On October 16, 2024, a Florida jury found in favor of renowned hip-hop group 2 Live Crew (2LC), restoring ownership of the copyrights to various of the group’s iconic albums. In a rare occurrence, a jury has rendered a verdict over termination rights under the U.S. Copyright Act. By: Manatt, Phelps & Phillips, LLP

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TorrentFreak

JANUARY 22, 2024

There’s also a growing trend of sites with common ownership operating from dozens of confusingly-similar domains by design. Similar behavior can be seen across dozens of similar domains, although not always under common ownership or even in direct response to enforcement measures. Now redirecting to ACE, kooora4.us Kooralive.io

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IP Watchdog

APRIL 15, 2024

Copyright Act preventing Thaler from claiming copyright in the AI-generated work, and that standard principles of property law enables ownership of the work to vest in Thaler, who created the AI system at issue in the case. The reply brief argues that there is no human authorship requirement under the U.S.

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IP Law 360

OCTOBER 16, 2024

A Florida federal jury ruled Wednesday that the Miami rap group 2 Live Crew is entitled to the copyrights on dozens of songs, finding the group made a valid claim under a law that allows them to claw back ownership of their music after more than three decades.

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IP Watchdog

MAY 6, 2023

Registering brands as federal trademarks also provides significant legal benefits, such as the presumption of ownership, validity, and nationwide priority in the mark. Brands — legally protected as trademarks — have value. We all understand that intuitively.

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IP Law 360

DECEMBER 17, 2024

A Florida bankruptcy judge on Tuesday dismissed the Chapter 11 case of an entity connected to the Miss America pageant, after the debtor noted it realized it owns none of the operations or debt associated with the competition, punting questions over who owns pageant-related assets to a state court.

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JD Supra Law

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

Even where an employee uses generative artificial intelligence (“GenAI”) to either generate an entire set of code or review their code for errors, the employer typically maintains ownership of the code. This edition. By: Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP

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Plagiarism Today

MAY 19, 2022

claimed that they held 50% ownership in the work, given to them by a producer named Greg Mathieson who worked on the album. The case dates back to 2013 when Basil filed a notice of copyright termination on the album and her song. However, a UK company named Stillwater Ltd.

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Plagiarism Today

AUGUST 2, 2022

The idea fairly simple, since an NFT is basically a contract signed in the blockchain, combine that with Safe Creative’s own database of works to enable the NFTs to convey copyright information including ownership and licensing. It’s a simple idea, but one that hasn’t taken off yet. One potential use is Safe Creative’s.

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IP Watchdog

MAY 15, 2023

Before 1980, federally funded inventions were strangled under laborious case by case reviews to determine whether ownership would be waived from government agencies to the inventing organization. And under the guise of increasing domestic manufacturing, they’re well on their way to reasserting control.

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Plagiarism Today

DECEMBER 6, 2021

Finally today, Garth Corfield at The Register reports that a UK developer has lost his appeal to try and claim ownership of software he created while employed for the company MD5. In total, the lawsuit is seeking both injunctive relief and damages for alleged copyright infringement and contributory copyright infringement.

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TorrentFreak

FEBRUARY 17, 2023

Based on the assertion that the assignment agreements relied upon by the publishers do not confer ownership of copyrights relating to the allegedly infringed works, Elbakyan declared them void. “ Section 25 of the Contract Act is relied upon to contend an agreement without consideration is void.” After suspending Sci-Hub’s.SE

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The IPKat

OCTOBER 10, 2022

The challenges presented by this state of affairs, including whether ‘artificial agents’ can be considered inventors, patent their inventions, and enjoy the benefit of patent ownership – and how their inventions would be evaluated against established human rules in the first place, are considered in this book.

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Greenspoon Marder LLP

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

His recent acquisition of full ownership rights to “The Rock” trademark serves […] The post Can You Smell What The Rock is Trademarking? Beyond his towering presence in the wrestling ring and his blockbuster performances on the silver screen, Johnson has demonstrated savvy business acumen.

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Cogency Global

MARCH 8, 2024

What this means : At present, the government is enjoined from enforcing the CTA’s beneficial ownership reporting requirements against the specific plaintiffs in the case.

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Intellectual Property Law Blog

MARCH 13, 2024

Unsophisticated consumers may conflate the purchase of an NFT associated with a digital good with ownership of IP rights in that good. Patents The Report discussed in section IV: (i) the use of NFTs to manage registration, ownership, and licensing of patents; and (ii) how current patent laws apply to NFT-related inventions.

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Cogency Global

APRIL 18, 2024

What this is : The Corporate Transparency Act (CTA) includes 23 exemptions to its beneficial ownership information (BOI) reporting requirements. In this article, we explore the details of the “Large Operating Company” exemption.

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