Intellectual Property Law Blog

JANUARY 11, 2023

The SCPA legally protects layouts of integrated circuits upon registration, making them illegal to copy without permission. The deposit can be either a physical copy of the mask work or a digital copy in a format specified by the Office. It is authorized by the federal Semiconductor Chip Protection Act of 1984 (SCPA).

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The TTABlog

JANUARY 8, 2024

108 USPQ2d 1134, 1145 (TTAB 2013). For what it's worth, Davidson tried but failed to prove a first use date in 2013. He sold copies of comic books featuring the character and displayed the comic books at a comic convention. In that year he also registered the domain name "captaincannabis.com."

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Plagiarism Today

AUGUST 17, 2021

Next up today, the BBC reports that Eurovision 2021 contestant James Newman has secured a major court victory against Kelly-Marie Smith, who claimed that a song Newman co-wrote in 2013 was an infringement of a 2006 track she wrote. According to the lawsuit, Smith penned a track named Can You Tell Me.

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Plagiarism Today

MAY 19, 2022

The case dates back to 2013 when Basil filed a notice of copyright termination on the album and her song. Atkinson sued Netflix and Dark Horse Comics, alleging that Umbrella Academy copies characters and elements from a 1996 comic book he created for Rogue Satellite Comics. However, a UK company named Stillwater Ltd.

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The TTABlog

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

108 USPQ2d 1134, 1145 (TTAB 2013). For what it's worth, Davidson tried but failed to prove a first use date in 2013. He sold copies of comic books featuring the character and displayed the comic books at a comic convention. In that year he also registered the domain name "captaincannabis.com."

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Plagiarism Today

SEPTEMBER 14, 2022

Earlier this week, the journal BMC Medicine announced that it will not retract a controversial 2013 paper authored by botanist Steven Newmaster. The paper, originally published in 2013, brought Newmaster to prominence in the field of botany and led to massive amounts of not just academic success, but also entrepreneurial success.

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Plagiarism Today

MAY 5, 2022

The thesis, which is titled, Gender equity and significant learning in the area of social personnel in students of the fourth cycle of the educational institution N° 10465 Puña, Tacabamba, Chota, contained a 26-page theoretical framework which, according to the report, was copied in its entirety. The answer is that it depends.

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The IPKat

MARCH 17, 2024

Kreglinger's first vintage of the wine promoted and sold as "New Certan" was the 2011 vintage, released in 2013. Additionally, the use of a pink capsule (albeit an unusual shade) was not unique to VCC products, as this was used in the packaging of other red wines. The redesigned packaging of New Certan The critical issue was damage.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

Over the course of a decade, Google copied large volumes of books and made them available online, both through excerpts, known as “snippets”, and as entire publications. Rather than focusing on the reproduction and dissemination of existing materials, the goal of AI is to rework them to create something new.

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43(B)log

DECEMBER 20, 2022

The 2001 Documentary “sold 50,000 copies in two weeks and revolutionized the Baltimore dirt-bike culture,” inspiring a sequel and plans to make a third film. Defendants' 2013 documentary Both parties’ works are “docu-fiction” set in Baltimore. Nathan, F.Supp.3d 3d -, 2022 WL 4591905, No. 18-CV-5930 (MKB) (E.D.N.Y.

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Plagiarism Today

JULY 29, 2021

Malone who has been with the school since 2013 and is the director of the clinic. ” This means that any help or assistance with other DMCA notices, including ones where the code itself or other content uploaded to GitHub is alleged to be unlawful copies, will be limited though it is unclear by how much.

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IP and Legal Filings

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

Marrakesh Treaty Marrakesh Treaty was adopted on June 27, 2013, to facilitate access to published works for people who are Blind Persons, Visually Impaired Persons, or Print Disabled (hereinafter beneficiary) who refrains from indulging in any printed form of copyrighted work. [iii]

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The IPKat

MAY 12, 2023

The defendant - Mr Aughton - had been developing software for over 50 years and was employed by PQ from 1989 as a software developer and was appointed a director in 2013. 2) was InSPC v1 copied from ProSPC, so as to infringe the copyright in ProSPC or misuse any confidential information in ProSPC? 296-297).

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Patently-O

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

25, 2013) stated: The fact that Lawyer B copies her own client… standing alone, does not permit Lawyer A to ‘reply all.’ In contrast, the ABA stated that by copying a client, a lawyer is “inviting” a reply-to-all. In Formal Ethics Opinion 503 (Nov. For example, North Carolina Legal Eth. 2012-7 (Oct. While Rule 4.2(a)

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Michael Geist

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

In the 1990s, a university would both purchase a book and pay for the right to copy a portion of it to distribute to students as course materials. increase from 2012/2013), and 158,274 new e-book titles in 2021/2022 (a 53.7% increase from 2018/2019.

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Plagiarism Today

AUGUST 9, 2021

After some digging, KokomRoilly found multiple lengthy passages of verbatim copying and posted highlighted passages on their Twitter account. There have been many cases where a story published in one fandom was copied and converted into a very similar story in a different one. I'm what you'd call a voracious reader.

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Indiana Intellectual Property Law

MARCH 30, 2023

Defendant, Lynn Boolman Auto Sales is a used car dealership located in Portland, Indiana created in 2013, per the Indiana Secretary of State. In order to prove copyright infringement, the Plaintiff must establish ownership of a valid copyright and demonstrate that the Defendant copied the copyrighted material without permission.

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SpicyIP

MARCH 27, 2023

One year later, in March 2013 the compulsory license order was upheld by the IPAB in a landmark ruling by the then Chairperson, Justice Prabha Sridevan. He specifically stated that he does not intend to publish more than 1000 paperback copies and considering that the prevailing rate of maximum royalty is 7.5% 36,000/- (8% X Rs.

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Patently-O

OCTOBER 21, 2022

25, 2013), the bar association was asked whether counsel consents to direct contact by cc-ing his client on an email to opposing counsel. Maybe: “The fact that Lawyer B copies her own client…, standing alone, does not permit Lawyer A to ‘reply all.’ In North Carolina Legal Eth. 2012-7 (Oct. The conclusion? While Rule 4.2(a)

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The IPKat

NOVEMBER 23, 2023

One of the disputed copies was exhibited in the gardens of the company Le potager des Princes, founded by Mr Bienaimé and located in Chantilly. The work depicts three horses in a circular half-shell, one of which is arched. The artist noticed that several reproductions of his work or parts of it had been made without his permission.

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Plagiarism Today

JANUARY 19, 2022

submitted the thesis before receiving his 2013 doctorate in military sciences from the National Defense University in Bucharest. She further alleges that, in addition to copy and paste plagiarism, that Ciuc? ercan (link in Romanian), some 42 pages of Ciuc?’s According to ?ercan’s also used other techniques to mask the plagiarism.

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TorrentFreak

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

The group offered hardware and software solutions that allowed people to install and play unofficial games and pirated copies on various consoles, including the popular Nintendo Switch. Bowser’s involvement started in June 2013 and continued until his arrest last year.

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TorrentFreak

APRIL 26, 2024

At this point, it’s worth highlighting something that all of these notices have in common: not a single one targets pirated copies of Nintendo games. When Apple worked with MarkMonitor back in 2013, records show the company operated the domain mm-apple.com. It’s a trend that runs through all similar notices.

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The IPKat

DECEMBER 19, 2022

These agreements were negotiated in parallel between 2007 and 2013, and entered into force in 2016-2017. The AAs’ IP enforcement norms (modelled on Directive 2004/48/EC , Regulation 608/2013 , and Directive 2000/31/EC ) did not only favour IP rightholders.

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The TTABlog

MAY 16, 2023

Comptime claimed substantially exclusive use since 2013, but in light of the highly descriptive nature of the mark, the Board exercised its discretion to deem that evidence insufficient. There was no evidence of intentional copying or of unsolicited media coverage.

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TorrentFreak

JANUARY 9, 2022

. “While there has been a steady increase in the number of law enforcement requests since our first transparency report in 2013, this is due in part to the exponential increase in the number of Cloudflare customer domains during that time period.” From: TF , for the latest news on copyright battles, piracy and more.

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The IP Law Blog

AUGUST 4, 2022

Embedding” means the process of copying unique HTML code assigned to the location of a digital copy of the photo or video published to the Internet, and the insertion of that code into a target webpage or social media post so that photo or video is linked for display within the target post. Alexis Hunley et al v. Amazon.com, Inc.

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SpicyIP

JANUARY 11, 2023

The United States and the United Kingdom that collaborated with private companies to develop COVID-19 vaccines have released copies of their research and collaboration agreements under their Freedom of Information (FOI) laws with redactions. In fact, public disclosure of COVID-19 vaccine agreements is the global norm.

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Patently-O

AUGUST 31, 2021

There apparently is no claim of copying of any lines of software, but instead it is copying of the functionality and use of the particular coding language. 1821 (2013). In addition, SAS argues that the formatting of the reports is also copyrighted. Landes & Richard A. Google Decision , 37 Eur. 702 (2015).

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LexBlog IP

DECEMBER 21, 2023

1] The Court reasoned that the defendant companies could not have possibly copied the script in question, as they did not have access to the script until after Ad Astra was written. The makers of Ad Astra , on the other hand, submitted their script to CAA in November 2013, with an additional script in May 2015. et al , Case No.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

DECEMBER 13, 2023

Platforms that copy online data and use it to create AI have a strong fair use argument under copyright laws. Copyright law forbids duplication, public performance, and so on, unless the person wishing to copy or perform the work gets permission; silence means a ban on copying. A copyright is a right against the world.

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SpicyIP

AUGUST 10, 2023

Against this opposition, the Appellant filed a counterstatement on 21 December 2011, which was then forwarded to the Respondent in July 2013. Note: The matter was listed before the DB on the 8 th , but the copy of the order is not available on the DHC website.

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LexBlog IP

JANUARY 11, 2023

The SCPA legally protects layouts of integrated circuits upon registration, making them illegal to copy without permission. The deposit can be either a physical copy of the mask work or a digital copy in a format specified by the Office. It is authorized by the federal Semiconductor Chip Protection Act of 1984 (SCPA).

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The IPKat

DECEMBER 29, 2021

Section 4 of the report refers to detentions at the EU border and is based on data uploaded into DG TAXUD’s COPIS (the EU-wide anti- Co unterfeit and anti- Pi racy information S ystem) by the customs authorities of all the Member States. As such, section 6 was produced based on a subset of COPIS data uploaded into the IPEP (i.e.,

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Plagiarism Today

JULY 8, 2021

In August 2013, the Second Circuit Court of Appeals found that Google could legally scan and enter books into a database for the purpose of creating a search engine. But what happens if one of those paragraphs turns out to be a verbatim or near-verbatim copy of an earlier work?

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TorrentFreak

DECEMBER 2, 2021

In pirate streaming, in part due to the way sites tend to copy each other’s branding, obvious long-standing players are less easy to identify. Back in 2013 we published an interview with a person who at the time supplied movie and TV shows to sites including PrimeWire. is taken into account. .

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43(B)log

JULY 3, 2023

Zuluaga claimed first use of Zenú in 2011; the predecessor company applied to register the mark in 2013, with specimens using actual images of Industria’s products (though Zuluaga claimed lack of knowledge either of Industria or the specimens filed on its behalf by a filing service). Did intentional copying show intent to confuse?

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