IP and Legal Filings

MARCH 24, 2023

Introduction The Plaintiff is engaged in the construction business and is the proprietor of trademark BURJNOIDA in class 37 (for building and construction services) as of February 2, 2011, which it claims to have been using since December 24, 2010.

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The IPKat

SEPTEMBER 4, 2022

In sum: nothing in domestic law would shield the defendant NGO from liability for copyright infringement. This means that “the domestic courts failed to provide reasons establishing that the above-mentioned provisions of the Law on Copyright, relied on by them, could constitute legal grounds for the situation at hand”.

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CopyrightsWorld

FEBRUARY 10, 2021

This article is part of our series showcasing well-known copyright ownership cases from the music and film industries, technology, and more. This week’s post looks at three well-known copyright infringement cases involving tech giants battling each other over ownership rights. Apple vs. Microsoft.

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The IPKat

DECEMBER 5, 2021

The Ordinance came into effect back in 1997 and incorporates a substantial part of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988 of the UK. As with many other jurisdictions in the world, the existing copyright regime might not be well-placed to meet the rapid development in technology and the creative economy.

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The IPKat

JANUARY 24, 2022

Last week, the General Court (GC) answered this question in the affirmative in its decision in T-483/20 Tecnica Group , concerning trade mark protection of the shape of an icon of Italian fashion design and history: the Moon Boots. In any case, the requirements for trade mark registration and copyright are and remain obviously distinct.

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Intepat

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

To delve deeper into the question of ownership, we need to grasp the traditional concept of copyright. Copyright laws are designed to safeguard the rights of creators. Additionally, AI art can sometimes produce works that closely resemble existing copyrighted art, leading to allegations of copyright infringement.

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43(B)log

JULY 3, 2023

27, 2023) Industria sued Latinfood for trademark and copyright infringement; Latinfood counterclaimed for tortious interference against Industria and another counterdefendant Cordialsa. Copyright: The Third Circuit applies the discovery rule to the limitations period of three years. Industria De Alimentos Zenu S.A.S.

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The IP Law Blog

MARCH 3, 2022

Unicolors is the owner of copyrights in various fabric designs, including a 2011 copyright registration that consisted of 31 separate designs. If so, Justice Breyer continued, does that mistake even matter for purposes of determining whether Unicolor should prevail on its copyright infringement claim.

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BYU Copyright Blog

APRIL 22, 2024

The lawsuit centers on allegations of copyright infringement under chapters 1 and 12 of 17 U.S.C. Price argues that in 2009, he created an artistic graphic design to print on shorts for his two sons. He notified the District and requested the removal of MCLAW DESIGN from their products. Amended Complaint pg.

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JIPL Online

MARCH 19, 2021

ii] These events were sudden and came as a shock to the platform’s creators who were given no opportunity to submit counternotifications or edit their content to remove the allegedly infringing material per the provisions of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (the “DMCA”) and Twitch’s own DMCA Guidelines.

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Copyright Lately

DECEMBER 5, 2021

Pandora also cautioned that it could eventually be responsible for paying additional fees for its use of this content : “In May 2011, we started streaming spoken word comedy content, for which the underlying literary works are not currently entitled to eligibility for licensing by any performing rights organization for the United States.

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LexBlog IP

MARCH 3, 2022

Unicolors is the owner of copyrights in various fabric designs, including a 2011 copyright registration that consisted of 31 separate designs. If so, Justice Breyer continued, does that mistake even matter for purposes of determining whether Unicolor should prevail on its copyright infringement claim.

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Patently-O

OCTOBER 30, 2022

These appear to be the first—and certainly the first precedential—Federal Circuit cases dealing with the merits of one of the numerous “Schedule A” design patent cases that have been filed in recent years in the NDIL. It is clear, from reading the decision, that the design patent infringement claims lacked merit.

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Patently-O

MARCH 18, 2024

Specifically, the judge determined that the port boss slippage problem precluded the original prototype from being viable, and Mackay and Hewson’s design input, like the starburst grooves, helped solve that critical issue. Campbell filed a provisional application in 2011 and a non-provisional in 2012 that eventually issued in 2016.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

Such uses, they argue, constitute copyright infringement. style fair use: South Korea adopted it in 2011 , and it has been considered for adoption by Australia. Indeed, it has been called “the most troublesome in the whole law of copyright.” Fair Use Precedent?

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IIPRD

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

Copyright laws, for instance, vary from jurisdiction to jurisdiction. What constitutes copyright infringement in one country may not be in another. 1] , t he cloud service provider was not made liable even after abetting the infringement. It is designed as an Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) platform. eBay Inc.

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Biswajit Sarkar Copyright Blog

JULY 21, 2023

They are as follows: Literary Works Artistic Works Dramatic Works Cinematographic Films Musical Works Sound Recordings The copyright law decrees that copyright protection exists from the moment a creative work is finished. However, that is sometimes not enough to avoid infringement, which is where registration comes in.

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Biswajit Sarkar Copyright Blog

JULY 21, 2023

They are as follows: Literary Works Artistic Works Dramatic Works Cinematographic Films Musical Works Sound Recordings The copyright law decrees that copyright protection exists from the moment a creative work is finished. However, that is sometimes not enough to avoid infringement, which is where registration comes in.

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LexBlog IP

JUNE 28, 2023

This prevents the possible infringement of the exclusive right to reproduce a computer program provided for in article 42(2) of the Copyright Law, which belongs to the creator or author of the relevant program. 382/2011; Court of Appeals of Athens decision No. Endnotes (1) Decision No. 2916/2022. (2) 2) L 2121/93. (3)

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IP Intelligence

JUNE 3, 2021

Unicolors, a designer of artwork for fabric, brought suit against fast-fashion retailer H&M for copyright infringement of one of its designs. 2011)) or the fraud standard for cancelling trademark registrations under the Lanham Act ( In re Bose Corp., Unicolors, Inc. H&M Hennes & Mauritz, L.P. ,

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Copyright Lately

OCTOBER 25, 2021

But Lewis thought the song was a rip-off of “I Want a New Drug” and asserted a copyright infringement claim against Columbia Pictures. The humanized skeleton figure on the left is Skully, which artist and entrepreneur Gregory Spiers first conceived while designing a T-shirt for the Lithuanian Olympic basketball team.

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Michael Geist

AUGUST 3, 2021

” The decision removes any doubt that the Supreme Court remains strongly supportive of user’s rights in copyright and vindicates years of educational policy in shifting away from Access Copyright toward alternative means of ensuring compliance with copyright law. .”

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Michael Geist

AUGUST 5, 2021

York University has unsurprisingly been applauded by the education community, which having faced years of litigation launched by the copyright collective, now finds its position vindicated. The same was true after the Access Copyright v.

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LexBlog IP

FEBRUARY 24, 2022

The Supreme Court held today that lack of knowledge of either fact or law can excuse inaccuracies in a copyright registration under Section 411(b)’s safe harbor provision of the Copyright Act. Unicolors created fabric designs but did not publish them at the same time. H&M moved for judgment as a matter of law.

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IP and Legal Filings

MAY 3, 2023

The Copyright , Designs and Patents Act of 1988 in the United Kingdom specifies in Section (1)(1)(a) that copyright exists in “original literary, dramatic, musical, or artistic works.” University Tutorial Press was sued by the plaintiff, University of London Press, for copyright infringement. 1] [1916] 2 Ch 601. [2]

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Copyright Lately

JULY 19, 2021

Based on this error, Warner Music filed a motion to dismiss Yoakam’s complaint for copyright infringement. While the termination statutes may have been designed in order to give authors and their heirs a second chance to profit from their works, Congress certainly didn’t make it easy.

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TorrentFreak

JULY 23, 2023

That includes copyright infringement. Primarily, we stress that our service is not intended to be used for illegal activities and copyright infringements and we request our users to comply with this when accepting our Terms of Use. Some links in this article are affiliate links. We use Zendesk for our support team.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

There is no defined segregation, either by design or by implication of any of plaintiff’s expressions of his thoughts and opinions on the subjects discussed which would aid in identifying plaintiff’s purported copyrighted material. 2011), aff’d , 283 F.3d In Random House, Inc. Rosetta Books, LLC , 150 F.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

JANUARY 27, 2022

Apple claimed it designed the system to reduce the privacy invasion, but Apple could not guarantee that (1) governments wouldn’t compel Apple to do client-side scanning for the government’s benefit, or (2) the compelled scanning would only target CSAM. The COVID Pandemic. ” The embedding cases (e.g., 10, 2021, at A12. * * *.

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