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How about personalized medicine? Is the IP and Regulatory legal framework ready for this?

The IPKat

Furthermore: how does the legal system of marketing authorization and other regulatory rights apply to personalized medicines? He is the author of over 60 publications on intellectual property law and is co-editor of the Research Handbook on Intellectual Property and the Life Sciences.

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Intellectual Property Rights And Competition Laws : A Study Of Interface

IP and Legal Filings

Markets all around the world has been specially targeted the most under the globalization. Thus, brought many effects on all the markets globally; some have been reengineered, some have been revamped and the rest have been in a state of flux. The IPR and competition law relationship is dominated by two primary issues.

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Can Celebrity Catchphrases be Intellectually Protected?

IIPRD

Some classic examples of catchphrases in the commercial market include Nike’s “Just Do It,” KFC’s “Finger Lickin’ Good,” Thums Up’s “Taste the Thunder,” Redbull’s “Give you Wings,” among others. She trademarked the term in February 2007, and since then, it has become her “signature catchphrase.” v] 2007 (34) PTC 164 (Karnataka). [vi]

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Paying for the News

Velocity of Content

In 2020, digital advertising spending worldwide amounted to US$378 billion — with online platforms Google and Facebook together owning half the market or about $190 billion. This figure has slumped markedly since 2007, when it was US$110 billion dollars or more than three times the current number. How might payments be managed?

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Third Circuit Says Section 230 Doesn’t Apply to Publicity Rights Claims–Hepp v. Facebook

Technology & Marketing Law Blog

Section 230(e)(2) says “Nothing in this section shall be construed to limit or expand any law pertaining to intellectual property,” so IP lawsuits over third-party content are not preempted by Section 230. In 2007, the Ninth Circuit in Perfect 10 v. I even agree with the latter point!) The Minority Opinion.

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Can Braille Be Registered As a Trademark?

IP and Legal Filings

23] observed that a trader acquires a right of property in a distinctive mark merely by using it upon or in connection with his goods…the trader who adopts such a mark is entitled to protection directly as soon as the article having assumed a vendible character is launched in the market… common law rights are left wholly unaffected. [24]

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[Guest post] Could your beliefs about copyright be protected under the Equality Act?

The IPKat

While earlier employment law protection for belief was limited to those philosophical beliefs which were similar to religious beliefs, the similarity requirement was removed from the legislation in 2007. Ms Gray was a writer and filmmaker, who had studied aspects of intellectual property law through a master’s degree in film.