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

LexBlog IP

. (“JSC”) against Trendily Furniture, LLC, Trendily Home Collection, and Raul Malhotra (collectively, “Trendily”) finding Trendily liable for trade dress infringement for willfully copying, manufacturing, and selling identical JSC furniture pieces.

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What is right with EU trade agreements?

The IPKat

This Kat has recently defended her thesis, titled “Deconstructing EU IP norm-export to the Eastern European Neighbourhood”. In this post, I would like to summarise some of the take-aways from my thesis, which looked into how European Union’s (EU) trade agreements shape intellectual property (IP) legislation in third (non-EU) countries.

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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. It frustrates me that people turn to me when they’re copied, assuming this is the kind of work I’m engaged in doing, when they’ve never consulted me before about their IP.

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Revisiting Alberta v Access Copyright: Resources for K-12 Educators in Canada

IPilogue

Despite its benefits, copying materials can present consequences for the content’s owners, artists, and publishers. These agreements were slated for renewal in 2004, during which Access Copyright sought to restructure the royalty system to reflect the quantity and extent of photocopies made in schools. As Abella J.

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Growth of Virtual Youtubers and IP Complications

IIPRD

1] However, this growth also brought an onslaught of new Intellectual Property (IP) issues. In the recent instance of Projekt Melody and DigitrevX, [4] the VTuber Melody lost her account for a day and her twitch partnership after a DMCA takedown after DigitrevX accused her of IP infringement. [5]

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No IP, no right to information? CJEU to clarify scope of article 8 Enforcement Directive

The IPKat

Under article 8(1) of the Enforcement Directive (Directive 2004/48/EC) a claimant in infringement proceedings can request a court to order certain parties to disclose information. In other words, must a court, prior to ordering a party to disclose information on an alleged infringement, confirm the existence of said IP right?

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IP and TV series: Netflix's 'The Playlist' shows the rise of Spotify, which turned music piracy into licensed streaming

The IPKat

When he was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2004, Prince said, " When I first started out in the music industry, I was most concerned with freedom. There was a time when the biggest concern of artists struggling with the machinations of the music industry was " just " the impossibility of being creatively free.

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