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Logos Remain Relevant: Source Confusion and Design Patent Infringement

Patently-O

This post will focus on another key issue from the case – the relevance of logos in design patent infringement analysis. Still, ornamental logos found on the accused product can still be relevant as visual distractors in the process of evaluating similarities and differences between the claimed design and accused design.

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EUIPO Fifth Board of Appeal rules out that sale of spare parts for Ferrari’s Testarossa is genuine use of the trade mark

The IPKat

In 2015, the Cancellation Applicant filed a request for revocation of Ferrari’s International trade mark ‘Testarossa’, designating (amongst others) the European Union, initially registered by Ferrari in connection with the premier of its sports car series from the 80’s and 90’s.

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If “Trespass to Chattels” Isn’t Limited to “Chattels,” Anarchy Ensues–Best Carpet Values v. Google

Technology & Marketing Law Blog

Citing a 2003 Ninth Circuit case, Kremen v. Nor could Google place ads in Plaintiffs’ marketing brochures or superimpose ads on top of Plaintiffs’ print advertisements without Plaintiffs’ permission and without paying Plaintiffs’ price. It didn’t. ” This abstract statement requires more clarification. First Amendment.

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New Tools, Old Rules: Is The Music Industry Ready To Take On AI?

Copyright Lately

Within just over a month, a raft of barely-underground Discord servers like AI Hub have popped up to provide users with access to software—and step-by-step instructions—for creating new songs using hundreds of community-made AI models designed to mimic specific artists’ voices. No wonder I’m getting flashbacks to 2003.

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WIPIP SESSION 9.B. — Copyrights

43(B)log

Actors are disintegrated from the Hollywood system they used to live under but have basically no © power—so how do they fit in? Composers may have broadened composition styles in response to ©/market participation. [In US may apply unclean hands: Villa v. A: it’s all decentralized, independent designers and creators.

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Time for the 12 O'Clock Boyz to go: court shuts down (c)/TM lawsuit against documentary & feature film about Baltimore bikers

43(B)log

Nathan directed the allegedly infringing 2013 Documentary, which “tells the story of Pug, a thirteen-year-old child who wants to be a ‘12 O’Clock Boy,’ just like [he] has repeatedly watched in [the 2001 and 2003 Documentaries].” So too with plaintiffs’ 2003 Documentary. The similarities in setting, theme, etc.

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Announcing the 2023 Edition of My Internet Law Casebook

Technology & Marketing Law Blog

Meanwhile, product design is the real Section 230 battlefront today, and the Lemmon case is the flagship case for that line of litigation. Copyright Copyright Basics (Copyright Office Circular 1) Note About Fair Use Cartoon Network v. Spam Review: CAN-SPAM Act of 2003 [[link] and 16 C.F.R. Hamidi (Cal. Register.com v.

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