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Court Rejects Law Firm’s Bid to Directly Obtain BitTorrent Users’ Identities

TorrentFreak

Law Firm Seeks Rightsholder-Like Rights In an application submitted to Finland’s Market Court on March 15, 2024, the law firm Hedman Partners Oy sought a court order to compel an unnamed internet service provider to provide the personal details of an unspecified number of subscribers.

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Central Role of IP and Marketing in Business Design

azrights

This is one of the many misconceptions about IP that I’ve noticed since starting my business in 2004. There was no real marketing or business guidance. Even if entrepreneurs did seek out a marketer and a graphic designer separately, IP strategy would be missing because neither of these professionals are trained in IP.

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CJEU: Damage claim for unlawful provisional measures may be based on strict liability

The IPKat

Gilead brought an infringement action and applied for provisional measures against Mylan before the Finnish Market Court in 2017. The Market Court granted provisional measures against the marketing and sale of Mylan’s generic medicine in 2017. Also in 2019, the Market Court declared Gilead’s SPC invalid.

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BitTorrent is No Longer the ‘King’ of Upstream Internet Traffic

TorrentFreak

Back in 2004, in the pre-Web 2.0 Most pirate sites today are streaming-based and BitTorrent lost pretty much all of its ‘market share’ there too. In the past two decades, Internet traffic has exploded with more bytes being transferred in each successive year. Even among pirates, file-sharing is no longer as relevant as it once was.

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Nutraceuticals in Colombia

Olartemoure Blog

It is to be mentioned that many products fall in different regulatory categories than those whereby they were registered in the country of origin, sometimes requiring additional technical documentation for its sanitary registration (Marketing Authorization-MA). Sentence 2004-00883 of June 7, 2018.

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Michelangelo’s David and cultural heritage images. The Italian pseudo-intellectual property and the end of public domain

Kluwer Copyright Blog

107-108 of the Legislative Decree 42/2004 , Cultural Heritage Code “Codice dei Beni Culturali” (the public law on the regulation of cultural heritage) and, by analogy, art. They merge and overlap pecuniary and non-pecuniary interests, such as public law (Legislative Decree 42/2004) and private law (Civil Code).

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Ninth Circuit Concludes Direct Copying Can Be Evidence of “Secondary Meaning” for Trade Dress Infringement 

LexBlog IP

The court concluded that JSC’s unique designs acquired secondary meaning in the eyes of consumers in the furniture market, particularly because of Trendily’s copying, and possessed protectable trade dress. It began selling its uniquely decorative “weathered-teak” furniture to exclusive retailers in 2004.

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