JD Supra Law

JUNE 9, 2025

Ninth Circuit holds that custom Ford Mustang called “Eleanor,” which appeared in four films from 1974 to 2000, is not entitled to character copyright protection under Towle test and that licensor of custom car design did not breach settlement agreement relating to rights in certain Eleanor-like designs. By: Loeb & Loeb LLP

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SpicyIP

JANUARY 27, 2025

This move, reported earlier on January 9 by Aditi Agrawal in Hindustan Times , was made under the powers conferred by the Information Technology (Intermediary Guidelines and Digital Media Ethics Code) Rules, 2021, and Section 79 of the Information Technology Act, 2000.

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SpicyIP

NOVEMBER 30, 2024

It will also mention one of the key issues with the current Designs Act, 2000 , as it may be a good opportunity to strengthen the legal framework around industrial designs in the country. Indian Design Law and Compliance with the Locarno Classification India’s design law is governed by the Designs Act, 2000.

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Plagiarism Today

MAY 10, 2022

However, it was the member Turk who actually sent the letter, alleging that two lines of French Montana’s song were lifted from the 2000 Hot Boys track I Need a Hot Girl. The threat comes from the New Orleans-based rap group the Hot Boys, which featured the rappers Lil Way and Juvenile among others.

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Plagiarism Today

OCTOBER 5, 2022

Paramount argued that What Men Want was actually a sequel to their 2000 film What Women Want and that Carlini’s script wasn’t registered until fifteen years after the first film. The lawsuit was filed by screenwriter Joe Carlini, who claimed that the film was an infringement of his 2014 script entitled What the F is He Thinking.

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IP and Legal Filings

DECEMBER 6, 2024

THE INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY ACT, 2000 AND AMENDMENT The Information Technology Act of 2000 in India regulates laws pertaining to cybercrimes, data manipulation, and a wide range of information technology, including digital lockers and digital signatures.

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IP Law 360

MAY 27, 2025

A Ninth Circuit panel held Tuesday that the customized Ford Mustangs called "Eleanor" that were featured in four films most recently in the 2000 Nicolas Cage film "Gone in 60 Seconds" is not a copyrightable character.

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Intepat

APRIL 30, 2025

This overlap has posed practical challenges for courts, especially when determining whether a work initially protected as an “artistic work” under the Copyright Act, 1957, loses that protection once it is adapted for commercial manufacturing and becomes capable of design registration under the Designs Act, 2000. & Anr.

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IP and Legal Filings

JUNE 12, 2025

In India, the IP framework provides multiple methods to protect the works of fashion designers – through the Designs Act, 2000; for textures, materials, shapes, detailing in garments, etc. It further cannot be protected under the Designs Act, 2000, as it has been disclosed to the public [10]. The Designs Act, 2000, § 4.

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The IPKat

APRIL 26, 2025

Millions of people worldwide celebrate the essential role of IP rights in fostering creativity and innovation to drive human progress.The date was designated in 2000 by the World Intellectual Property Organizations member states, coinciding with the day the WIPO Convention came into force (April 26, 1970), to increase awareness and

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Plagiarism Today

AUGUST 17, 2022

The European Union, for example, has a notice-and-takedown system as part of its Electronic Commerce Directive , which was adopted in 2000. India has their own process, implemented through the Information Technology Act of 2000. But while these laws are similar in intent, they are often different in the details of how they work.

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Plagiarism Today

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

As a company, Turnitin was founded in 1998 , a year before Bettel’s thesis, and launched its product in 2000, a year after. Students could easily copy and paste significant amounts of text, as Bettel apparently did, and instructors had almost no means of spotting it.

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IP and Legal Filings

MAY 14, 2025

CYBERSECURITY LAWS IN INDIA Information Technology Act, 2000 In 2000, the Information Technology Act became India’s first cybersecurity law. Cyber Regulation Appellate Tribunal- The Cyber Regulation Appellate Tribunal was formed under the Information Technology Act of 2000.

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Plagiarism Today

MARCH 3, 2022

However, according to Haake, he immediately recognized the first lines from the letter being from one that he published in Physics World in the year 2000. The retraction was of a letter written by Paul McCrory and published by the British Journal of Sports Medicine (BJSM) in 2005.

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IP Watchdog

OCTOBER 5, 2021

In July of 2000, Acceleration Bay filed four patents: U.S. On October 4, the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit (CAFC) affirmed-in-part the claim construction and summary judgment of non-infringement ruling made by the U.S. Patent Nos.

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Plagiarism Today

APRIL 19, 2022

While this was in 2000 (and still is today) a very impressive technological feat, users often find they can get similar results using regular search engines and a bit of patience. For much of the history of plagiarism detection tools, they’ve been fairly straightforward.

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Patently-O

SEPTEMBER 19, 2021

Thus, for example, the top-10 list shown for 2000 is actually the top-10 based upon the period 1987-2000. This time, I was able to go back to the 1840s and show the most-common design patent titles from each era. To make the chart, I used a 14 year rolling average.

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TorrentFreak

JANUARY 15, 2025

After appearing on the USTR’s Priority Watch List in 2000 and 2001, Malaysia quickly showed “significant improvement” and was moved to the less oppressive Watch List a year later.

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JD Supra Law

MARCH 7, 2023

Austrian-born actress Hedy Lamarr (1914-2000) is known for her beauty and acting abilities, A Golden Era leading lady who starred in such films as Cecille B. DeMille’s Oscar-winning Samson and Delilah (1949). By: Miller Nash LLP

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IP and Legal Filings

JUNE 8, 2022

Designs are advantageous assets that can be protected only if registered under the Designs Act, 2000. Therefore, the Designs Act, of 2000 protects against such violations as well as safeguards the rights of a design proprietor. Picture Credit: Shutterstock]. The renown it gains helps ameliorate your competitive stride in the market.

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JD Supra Law

OCTOBER 21, 2021

As illustrated in the graph below and further highlighted in this animated graph, in the 30 year period between the years 1971 and 2000 a total of nearly 219,000 design patents were issued by the…. Over the last 20 years, the total number of design patents issued per year in the United States has erupted. By: Quarles & Brady LLP

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McKinsey Operations

DECEMBER 7, 2022

billion people, close to half of the world’s population, lived in microregions with living standards equivalent to the top 21 percent in 2000.

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Patently-O

JANUARY 6, 2025

Morford claimed this work infringed his earlier piece “Banana and Orange” (2000), arguing that Cattelan’s work copied his original expression. However, both the district court and the Eleventh Circuit, rejected the arguments — siding with Cattelan.

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Plagiarism Today

OCTOBER 25, 2021

Turnitin launched in the year 2000 , Between search engines and ready-made copy detection tools, spotting plagiarism became much faster and easier than ever before. When you combine the ease of plagiarism with the increased opportunities, it’s almost a guarantee that plagiarism has greatly increased due to the internet.

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TorrentFreak

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

Does the spirit and purpose of Directive 2000/31/EC (1) preclude Article 14(1) thereof from being interpreted as meaning that the liability of a provider of an information gathering (hosting) service for the contents of such service includes liability for the manner in which such service is provided?

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JD Supra Law

OCTOBER 4, 2022

Similar treaties already exist in the area of Patents (Patent Law Treaty of 2000) and Trademarks (Trademark Law Treaty of 1994 and Singapore Treaty on the Law of Trademarks of 2006). The goal of the treaty would be to harmonize different national legal systems for protecting industrial designs. By: AEON Law

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U.S. Department of Commerce

OCTOBER 6, 2022

manufacturing experienced a substantial decline in employment from 2000 to 2010 due largely to the 2008 Great Recession but rebounded – until the Covid-19 pandemic hit in 2020. Louis, the number of manufacturing jobs in the United States dropped from over 17 million in 2000 to just above 12 million in 2015. KCPullen@doc.gov.

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IP and Legal Filings

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

In the UK, the Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act 2000 [13] does not prohibit the recording of calls per se without making another party aware of it as long as it is kept for the personal use of the participant who has recorded it. 13] The Regulation of Investigatory Powers (UK) Act, 2000. [14] Sunil Mehta., [16] Pratap Singh v.

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Plagiarism Today

MAY 23, 2022

Turnitin launched in 2000, Audible Magic began providing a similar service for audio files in 2002 and YouTube’s Content ID System debuted in 2007. The Challenge of Cross-Media Plagiarism Detection. There’s not much doubt that plagiarism and copyright infringement detection has improved by leaps and bounds over the past 20 years or so.

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Patently-O

MAY 19, 2025

May 19, 2025) Two key canons of claim construction are that of claim differentiation and claim term differentiation - each patent claim is presumed to have its own scope and coverage, as is each element of each claim. The use of different terms in different claims "connotes different meanings." CAE Screenplates Inc. Heinrich Fiedler GmbH & Co.

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IP Watchdog

APRIL 26, 2022

World IP Day was first observed in 2000 in an effort by WIPO to raise awareness of the importance IP plays in fostering innovation and creativity. This year, WIPO has chosen to focus on the theme of “IP and Youth: Innovating for a Better Future,” spotlighting young entrepreneurs and innovators across the globe.

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McKinsey Operations

DECEMBER 7, 2022

In microregions that had high living standards in 2000, the vast majority of people increased GDP per capita and extended their life expectancy. Living standards declined rarely and in places often only identifiable through a microregional lens.

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SpicyIP

JUNE 26, 2022

The enactment of the Designs Act, 2000 saw this law change overnight to recognise prior publications from anywhere in the world. The Designs Act, 2000 not only resolved this issue in favour of Defendants but also executed a clean conceptual separation between cancellation and infringement.

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SpicyIP

JULY 28, 2021

Before the adoption of the 2000 Act, applicants were compelled to reclassify their applications according to the classification standards which were followed in India. Hence, similar to patents, after the introduction of the 2000 Act, an international design search became essential.

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Michael Geist

JUNE 23, 2025

While Bill C-4 is framed as implementing affordability measures, it also exempts political parties from the application of privacy protections on a retroactive basis dating back to 2000.

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IP and Legal Filings

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

The Design Act 2000 -The Designs Act of 2000 was enacted with the intention of safeguarding non-functional parts of a product that have aesthetic appeal, such as the arrangement of shapes, patterns, decorations, or lines or colours applied to any two-, three-, or both-dimensional form. Case Studies Rajesh Masrani v.

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The IPKat

DECEMBER 17, 2022

Hasco asserted a likelihood of confusion with its earlier national Polish trade mark ‘NATURKAPS’, filed on 9 November 2000 and registered on 10 September 2004 for ‘pharmaceutical products’ in class 5. Hasco’s argument, based on the classification of ‘food supplements’ under Polish law in 2000, was considered irrelevant.

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