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MYTH VS. REALITY: CAN YOU PATENT AN IDEA?

Intepat

A patent gives the owner exclusive right over their invention for 20 years to commercially exploit it in a manner that prevents others from using, selling, making, or distributing the invention without permission. A patent can be granted when the invention meets certain criteria: Novelty: it must be new and not available in the public domain.

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My Word! Design Patents on a Typeface

LexBlog IP

Because of this, a popular use of design patents is to protect the outside of common consumer products. A typeface is sometimes referred to as a “font,” although these two concepts are slightly different (technically, a font is a typeface having a specific size). What’s more common than the written word?

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Best practices to avoid copyright infringement

Biswajit Sarkar Copyright Blog

Unauthorized use of a work protected by copyright is referred to as copyright infringement. Thus, it is the unauthorised use of someone else’s copyrighted work that violates the owner’s rights, such as the right to reproduce, distribute, exhibit, or perform the protected work. What is copyright infringement?

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Key Points from the USPTO’s New Guidance on AI Use

IP Intelligence

Therefore, while AI tools can be used to assist with forms (e.g., information disclosure statements), AI cannot be used to apply signatures or avoid the tedious task of reviewing a form and the external content to which it refers in detail. AI also cannot hold a USPTO account or independently access a practitioner’s account.

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Implementing Article 15 of the CDSMD into the Greek legal order: “creative” or further confirmation of the EU press market’s fragmentation?

Kluwer Copyright Blog

This holds true regarding the exclusion of “individual words or very short extracts of a press publication” from the scope of the PPR, in relation to which the Greek implementation has adopted a rather innovative approach. Unsurprisingly, the restriction of Art. Regulating the “appropriate share” of the authors: lobbying v.

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WIPIP 2022, Session 6 (TM)

43(B)log

Summary of current treatment: Although courts have often referred to “expressive” or “artistic” works as shorthand for the scope of Rogers, they have applied it to speech that quali?es If a church adopted a distinctive name for G-d, then general trademark law would, in theory, allow it to prohibit other churches from using that name.

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IPSC Breakout Session 5: IP Theory & History/Creation and Morality

43(B)log

Relatedly, how does that give us any insight into situations that didn’t go well, like Al-muhammad, where there was no agreement to give credit in the beginning?] Payoffs: Facts as part of larger public domain that needs to grow and not shrink. Think about how facts can support the public interest.

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