The IPKat

APRIL 11, 2023

In fact, in 2012 Book Depository was a finalist for the Fast Growth Business Awards' Retail/Leisure Business of the Year award, and it won two UK Startup Awards , Online Business of the Year and Retailer of the Year. Picture on upper right by Anomie, who has released it into the publkic domain. Business is business.

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IP and Legal Filings

JUNE 15, 2023

Perpetual ownership: Patent and copyright both have a limited period of protection, after which the traditional knowledge falls into the public domain. Collective ownership: In case TK is protected under trade secrets there is no requirement of specific right holder and the community is deemed to have collective personality.

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Ownership Privacy Public Domain Copyright 82

IIPRD

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

After the term of protection expires, the copyrighted work is out there in the public domain and the rights of the author terminate. COPYRIGHT (AMENDMENT) ACT, 2012 : The Copyright (Amendment) Act, 2012 inserted Section 65A within the Copyright Act, 1957, wherein protection of technological measures has been provided.

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Copyright Intellectual Property Copying Music 52

IP and Legal Filings

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

Evolation Yoga, LLC (2012). The Plaintiffs claimed that they hold intellectual property rights in the Pranic Healing Techniques. The Case of Bikram Yoga Any discussion on the copyrightability of Yoga Asanas is incomplete without talking about the case of Bikram’s Yoga Coll. of India, L.P.

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Copyright Copyright Law Invention Public Domain 87

SpicyIP

JANUARY 18, 2023

Such oppositions also result in IPO refusing applications (on patentability grounds) even when the Opponent has not appeared, e.g. the IPO’s Jan 2023 decision for 3596/CHE/2012 where Ms. Also, not all ‘fronted oppositions’ are “fake”. Sonal had filed a pre-grant opposition. 114 months ’.

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SpicyIP

JULY 3, 2022

Aditya Pandey (2012) , has held that sound recording is an integrated whole in which are interwoven varied individual underlying works like the lyrics and music. The communication to the public of the sound recording does not infringe the copyright in underlying works after the expiry of the term of the sound recording.

Copyright 130

Copyright Music Public Domain Law 130

Kluwer Copyright Blog

JUNE 1, 2023

Our society was founded in January 2012 with the aim of creating a platform for independent and critical scholarly thinking on European copyright law [1]. In this regard, a clear reflection on the preservation and legal protection of the public domain against undue appropriations seems necessary.

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The IPKat

DECEMBER 22, 2021

Since Laos joined the Berne Convention in March 2012, Cambodia remained the sole country party to the UCC that was not at the same time also party to the Berne Convention. Both Conventions contain provisions that regulate their relation to each other.

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Copyright Moral Rights Copying Publishing 133

IP and Legal Filings

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

Assistant Controller of Patents and Designs [2012 SCC OnLine IPAB 192 : [2012] IPAB 191] is a great example of avoidance of Section 3(k) of the Patents Act of 1970. Hence, the software has to be a new invention to be patentable. However, the above-mentioned judgments broaden the scope of such application.

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IP and Legal Filings

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

In the year 2012, the IPAB adjudicated that if a company takes elaborate measures to police the incorrect usage of their trademarks (which includes sending legal notices and cease and desist notices), the trademark in question will not be considered as a generic term. Cases related to trademark genericide. V Ilango v. Rank Xerox Ltd.

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Trademark Cease and Desist Branding Brands 83

IP and Legal Filings

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

Moreover, in 2012, the USPTO received several patent applications that contained the terms “cryptocurrency” and “blockchain”. Several individuals have been held for falsifying copyright ownership over a work that exists in the public domain. Several reports have suggested that there exist over 500 blockchain patents worldwide.

Intellectual Property 66

Intellectual Property Non-Fungible Tokens Copyfraud Contracts 66

IP and Legal Filings

JANUARY 23, 2023

Following the 2012 revision to the copyrights Act, it was made clear that Internet activities were also covered by the copyright law. When someone mints an NFT on a public domain, they could falsely claim to be the owner of the original artwork’s copyrights.

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Non-Fungible Tokens Copyright Intellectual Property Ownership 77

IP and Legal Filings

JANUARY 22, 2024

Later, in 1914, Copyright Act was amended which was highly influenced with the Copyright Act, 1911 of Britain, such as both the legislation shared resemblance in the duration of copyright protection, focused on the protection of literary works, and had similar provisions regarding the concept of public domain and exceptions.

Ownership 52

Ownership Copyright Fair Use Intellectual Property 52

43(B)log

AUGUST 12, 2022

In 2012, Equinox released unauthorized biopic of Winnie Mandela and she said it was garbage and nobody went to see it. (4) Skepticism: good for parties, but systemic effect has third party costs to the public—extralegally erodes spaces that law preserves for public use, like facts being in the public domain.

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IP Public Domain Music Copyright 72

LexBlog IP

FEBRUARY 12, 2022

” [xvii] In an undignified blow, the industry also complained that “Europe continues its aggressive and predatory efforts to confiscate names that entered the public domain decades ago.” ” The CCFN has been pushing the dubious argument that there is a public domain of all food names that applies worldwide.

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SpicyIP

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

The Defendant had earlier rejected Appellant’s mark ‘Brazzers’ on the ground that the latter could not justify its proposed use since 2012 and that similar marks are registered for similar goods. On basis of the above, the Defendant argued that the interim injunction deserves to be vacated.

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Trademark Patent Copyright Designs 105

43(B)log

APRIL 26, 2022

Nor was there any conflict with the injunctive relief ruling: there were many rational reasons to find that Ethicon’s marketing was likely to deceive doctors during the statutory liability period that ended in 2018, but that there was sufficient current information in the public domain to warrant the denial of injunctive relief in June 2020.

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SpicyIP

JANUARY 2, 2022

Both suits were filed before the 2012 amendment to the Copyright Act. Further, given that the 2012 amendment does not have a retrospective effect, the Court held that the amendment has no effect on the legal position. Top 10 Judgments/Orders [Jurisprudence/Legal Lucidity]. Hero Electric Vehicles Private Ltd v.

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IP Intellectual Property Copyright Trademark 143

Technology & Marketing Law Blog

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

If the work was published without proper copyright notice, the work entered the public domain. Effective January 1, 1978, the date of federal copyright protection was moved back from the date of first publication to the date the work was “fixed in a tangible medium of expression,” or permanently recorded in some form.

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