LexBlog IP

JANUARY 19, 2022

In April 2014 Foro contacted Vita through the generic contact form on Vita’s website to discuss building a deployment wheel for Foro’s laser, which it marketed as a multiconductor cutting tool. On July 29, 2014, the Parties executed a mutual Nondisclosure and Restricted Use Agreement (the “NDA”). Foro Energy, Inc. Code §§ 134A.001

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Trading Secrets

JANUARY 19, 2022

In April 2014 Foro contacted Vita through the generic contact form on Vita’s website to discuss building a deployment wheel for Foro’s laser, which it marketed as a multiconductor cutting tool. On July 29, 2014, the Parties executed a mutual Nondisclosure and Restricted Use Agreement (the “NDA”). Foro Energy, Inc. Code §§ 134A.001

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Patently-O

MARCH 26, 2024

Brady for an improved dredge boat design. It found that Brady’s claimed arrangement would have been obvious to any skilled engineer tasked with designing a dredge boat, given the existing knowledge in the field. 184, 201 (2014). The case addressed the validity of a patent granted to Edwin L. ” Daniel M.

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IP and Legal Filings

JUNE 27, 2022

PART 2: of the blog gives a detail about Copyrights, Industrial Designs, Geographical Indications, Layout Designs of Integrated Circuits, Plant Variety Protection and Trade Secrets. INDUSTRIAL DESIGNS. These are protected under the Designs Act, 2000, corresponding to Design (Amendment) Rules, 2014.

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LexBlog IP

DECEMBER 21, 2023

The court also found that Jones didn’t enter into any implied contract with the agency or studios, and thus could not allege breach of contract. Phillip Madison Jones, the screenwriter, sued Twentieth Century Studios, The Walt Disney Co., 1] Phillip Madison Jones v.

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CopyrightsWorld

FEBRUARY 10, 2021

turned out to be almost identical, and Gassée believed this to be a breach of contract. In 2014, Apple and Google released a joint statement saying that it had agreed to settle all patent litigation with Apple and would even “work together in some areas of patent reform.”. However, Windows 2.0

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The IPKat

DECEMBER 14, 2023

In Nigeria, Airtel Nigeria Limited neglected to renew their contract with actor and filmmaker Adewole Ojo to use his photographs for advertisements. The warning came as a result of complaints from various artists and designers who assert that their works are being distributed on various platforms without benefitting them.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

MARCH 10, 2022

Breach of Contract : Plaintiffs only alleged a contract claim, based on breach of a non-compete, against the one defendant who had signed the non-compete. 1459 (2014); Zoe Argento, Whose Social Network Account? SF Design Group. Fredman Design Group. Defendants did not contest that they were high level employees.

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LexBlog IP

FEBRUARY 21, 2022

Although NFTs have been around since 2014 , this asset class has only just experienced its first and quite remarkable outgrowth , thus staking its claim in the broader blockchain industry. On the Ethereum blockchain (where most NFTs exist) all NFTs must conform to the ERC721 smart contract standard. With an astounding $17.7

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Corsearch

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

With the challenges posed by name saturation and the reduced availability of work marks, industrial designs are increasingly important within intellectual property strategies. When people think about designs they typically think of patents, but the world of protecting designs is far more extensive than that.

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IP and Legal Filings

AUGUST 7, 2023

A formal definition of the term can be drawn out by reading Section 2(76) of the Companies Act with Rule 3 of the Companies (Specification of definitions details) Rules, 2014. The entity operates as a post-employment benefit plan, designed for the welfare of employees belonging to either the reporting entity or an entity linked to it.

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Patently-O

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

FRAND licensing commitments are designed to alleviate the risk that SEP holders will prevent broad adoption of a standard by asserting their patents against manufacturers of standardized products. Ericsson and HTC entered into three such licensing agreements in 2003, 2008 and 2014. 2014), Microsoft v. 2014) (slip op.

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Plagiarism Today

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

In 2009, the Associated Press filed a lawsuit against artist Shepherd Fairey over the famous Obama “Hope” poster that he designed. That court found that most of Prince’s work was non-infringing (though several works still were) and the two sides ultimately settled the case in March 2014. 1: The Shepard Fairey Dispute.

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TorrentFreak

MAY 17, 2022

Anyone who breaches their legal agreement with a platform is, at a minimum, in breach of relevant contract law. ” Given the clarity, there’s no real need to highlight why a tool designed to circumvent DRM and make unlicensed copies likely falls foul of the above, even given the existence of a lengthy disclaimer.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

APRIL 18, 2023

Even after the liberalization of collective management organizations established under Directive 2014/26/EU (see blog posts here and here ), SIAE still represented the vast majority of Italian songwriters (with approximately 90,000 members), except for a small percentage that moved to the UK-based company Soundreef. 19 of the Directive.

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LexBlog IP

JULY 5, 2023

In 2011, Hydronic began reverse-engineering Hetronic parts and contracted new suppliers to source them. When Abitron purchased Hydronic in 2014, they began selling products identical to Hetronic’s remote controls in foreign markets with the recognizable black-and-yellow coloring.

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LexBlog IP

AUGUST 31, 2021

The decision also found that HTC’s proposed FRAND jury instructions were not a substantially correct statement of the law, because Ericsson’s ETSI FRAND commitment was governed by French contract law, but HTC’s instructions were based on U.S. law without reference or comparison to French contract law.

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Patently-O

APRIL 12, 2024

By Dennis crouch The international IP community is moving toward further harmonizing legal protection for industrial designs. In the US, these are design patent rights. ” Several years ago, the US implemented the Hague Agreement Concerning the International Registration of Industrial Designs (Hague System).

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IP Tech Blog

MARCH 18, 2022

On January 14, 2022, Hermès filed a Complaint in the Southern District of New York alleging trademark and trade dress infringement, trademark dilution, false designation of origin, cybersquatting, injury to business reputation, and misappropriation, under the federal Lanham Act and New York state law.

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The IPKat

MARCH 27, 2022

A very popular design of one of these boots is based on a traditional Spanish riding boot - the Regina boot or Heeled Regina - which looks like the below (and for a closer look click here ). Although their products have the "country" look and feel about them, the products aren't designed for serious country wear.

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Indiana Intellectual Property Law

JULY 12, 2021

Defendant, Greg Jarman (“Jarman”), was allegedly an employee of Watch beginning in February 2014. Watch is suing for false designation of origin and unfair competition under the Lanham Act, 15 U.S.C. Indianapolis, Indiana – Apparently, W.A.T.C.H 1125(a) for the mark “Watch Communications.”

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Biswajit Sarkar Copyright Blog

MAY 7, 2021

In the case of Alice Corp v CLS Bank International, the US Supreme Court in 2014 held that claims to a computer-associated technique of mitigating “settlement risk” in various financial transactions were barred from patenting. For example- Zhong An, a Chinese Insurance Company functions on various innovative blockchain technologies.

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Biswajit Sarkar Copyright Blog

MAY 7, 2021

In the case of Alice Corp v CLS Bank International, the US Supreme Court in 2014 held that claims to a computer-associated technique of mitigating “settlement risk” in various financial transactions were barred from patenting. For example- Zhong An, a Chinese Insurance Company functions on various innovative blockchain technologies.

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Biswajit Sarkar Copyright Blog

MAY 7, 2021

In the case of Alice Corp v CLS Bank International, the US Supreme Court in 2014 held that claims to a computer-associated technique of mitigating “settlement risk” in various financial transactions were barred from patenting. For example- Zhong An, a Chinese Insurance Company functions on various innovative blockchain technologies.

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LexBlog IP

MARCH 18, 2022

On January 14, 2022, Hermès filed a Complaint in the Southern District of New York alleging trademark and trade dress infringement, trademark dilution, false designation of origin, cybersquatting, injury to business reputation, and misappropriation, under the federal Lanham Act and New York state law.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

NOVEMBER 24, 2021

Copyright contract law (Sections 31 et seqq. In another decision , from 2016, the BGH found that remuneration claims under Section 32 UrhG arise when the agreed remuneration at the time of the respective contract being concluded is not appropriate when viewed from the perspective of the time of conclusion of the contract (ex-ante view).

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Plagiarism Today

JUNE 8, 2022

According to The Mercury News , In 2009, she was awarded a no-bid contract to be the sole grant writer for the county. In 2014 she was offered a five-year extension on that deal. However, it was in 2018 that she was offered an additional contract. million she has been awarded since 2009 in no-bid contracts. Bottom Line.

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TorrentFreak

NOVEMBER 12, 2022

“You must ensure that you do not place digital advertisements on websites providing unauthorized access to copyrighted content and must take all reasonable steps to ensure that third parties with whom you contract do similar,” the regulator warns. By extension, the operator of the domain is a suspected criminal.

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IP Intelligence

APRIL 24, 2023

Computer-generated” is defined as “generated by computer in circumstances such that there is no human author of the work” (Section 178, Copyright, Designs and Patents Act (CDPA)). 2018) (citing Design Data Corp. Rearden and Design Data , together with Torah Soft Ltd. 16 Casa Duse, LLC v. Merkin , 791 F.3d 3d 247 (2d Cir.

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TorrentFreak

OCTOBER 25, 2022

Launched in 2014 and controlled by the Police Intellectual Property Crime Unit (PIPCU), the ‘Infringing Website List’ (IWL) carries details of pirate sites nominated by rightsholders and provides the basis for future enforcement via escalating actions. ” Welcome to the Blacklist.

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LexBlog IP

APRIL 24, 2023

” U.S. “Computer-generated” is defined as “generated by computer in circumstances such that there is no human author of the work” (Section 178, Copyright, Designs and Patents Act (CDPA)). 2018) (citing Design Data Corp. Rearden and Design Data , together with Torah Soft Ltd. Merkin , 791 F.3d

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

Judge Wood’s opinion concluded that the ad objectively did not communicate an offer due to its humor, so no contract ever formed and Leonard didn’t get his Harrier jet. Wood’s opinion is relatively dry, but it’s become a staple of the contracts law canon because of its fun facts and its precise analysis.

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Trading Secrets

JUNE 3, 2022

“Accordingly, the concept was readily ascertainable by proper means, and Vita cannot establish that its conceptual design was a trade secret.” The court also found that a patent filed by another company in November 2014, contained features depicted in plaintiff’s conceptual drawings. in a trade secret and contract suit.

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Trading Secrets

MARCH 22, 2022

But for famed wedding dress designer, Hayley Paige Gutman, she certainly is ruing the Second Circuit’s recent decision to revive its 1999 holding of Ticor Title Ins. Included within the JLM contract were certain restrictive covenants, including a non-competition agreement, as well as various intellectual property assignment provisions.

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LexBlog IP

JUNE 28, 2023

6) Any previous contracts with third parties that granted a licence to exploit the intangible asset and that the beneficiary may have concluded in the past – before the act of infringement – are crucial for this calculation. 626/2014. (8) Endnotes (1) Decision No. 2916/2022. (2) 2) L 2121/93. (3) 438/2018. (6) 766/2021; No.

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Fish & Richardson Trademark & Copyright Thoughts

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

The biosimilar pathway was designed to increase competition for biologics and reduce healthcare costs. Note that FDA still has not designated any biosimilar as interchangeable to its reference product. 2014; resubmitted Oct. As noted above, companies are already taking advantage of these new designations. Introduction.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

JUNE 1, 2023

The EU copyright framework needs to be ameliorated in this regard and the articles 18 sq of the CSDM directive (the so-called “copyright contract law” rules) cannot be the final word on this issue. Another principle that the ECS would like to stress is to better secure the author’s participation to the exploitation of his work.

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