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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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False Patent Marking as False Advertising: Overcoming Dastar

Patently-O

This case began back in 2006 when Crocs sued Double Diamond and others for patent infringement of Crocs’s design patents. 23 (2003), false claims about the inventorship or authorship of a product are not actionable under the Lanham Act. Crocs largely prevailed in those actions. Twentieth Century Fox Film Corp. ,

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Competition Law: The Patent Pendulum

Intepat

While one aims to regulate and ensure that markets operate efficiently in a fair and competitive manner, the other aims to grant a certain level of protection which may be considered to have monopolistic tendencies. Interface of Competition Law and Patents Patent law particularly bears more relevance to antitrust jurisprudence.

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IP as a political instrument in Russia

The IPKat

One of the first enacted changes concerned the rules for calculation of the compensation paid to the patent owner in the event that an invention, utility model, or industrial design is being used without the patent owner’s authorization. These rules were introduced in the 2021 amendment to Article 1360 of the Civil Code.

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Within The Scope of This Concise Analysis, the Case of Bajaj Auto Ltd. v. T.V.S. Motor Company Ltd. Is Investigated

IP and Legal Filings

Since the tentative specification date in 2002, the Respondent has refrained from expressing any objections, even subsequent to the launch of the product (Bajaj Pulsar motorbike) onto the market. The idea of presuming the validity of a patent. Furthermore, the Court designated a receiver to supervise and manage this procedure.

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Guest Post by Prof. Contreras: HTC v. Ericsson – Ladies and Gentlemen, The Fifth Circuit Doesn’t Know What FRAND Means Either

Patently-O

FRAND licensing commitments are designed to alleviate the risk that SEP holders will prevent broad adoption of a standard by asserting their patents against manufacturers of standardized products. Ericsson and HTC entered into three such licensing agreements in 2003, 2008 and 2014. and French law, Judge Elrod refers to Apple v.

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WHAT, IN THE NAME OF GOD, …?: Intellectual Property Rights In Holy Names, Sacred Words, & Other Aspects of Creation

LexBlog IP

provid[es] an estimate of the fair market value of goods and services provided by religious organizations, and. The report notes on page 11 that “In 2003, research estimates put the [U.S.] market for religious publishing and products at $6.8 ” Ginsburg (2003) at 1086-87. society at over $1 trillion annually.