Technology & Marketing Law Blog

DECEMBER 27, 2023

Another troubling ruling for an Internet access provider trying to shake a contributory copyright claim based on user-caused copyright infringement. 11, 2023): Time and again we have declared that “prevailing defendants in copyright cases are presumptively entitled (and strongly so) to recover attorney fees.”

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TorrentFreak

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

In an effort to shut the service down, DISH said it sent at least 134 copyright infringement notices to Chitram between July 2014 and November 2015. Corporation, Verisign, Canadian Internet Registration Authority and Radix FZC (and any future entities) are required to disable and then transfer to DISH any infringing domains.

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The IPKat

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

No registration is apparent on the database of the EUIPO. It should be remembered that copyright infringement is assessed on the basis of similarities, not differences. In the end, Saint Laurent might even try to argue that its handbag is eligible to copyright protection. No patent seems to concern this box.

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SpicyIP

DECEMBER 20, 2023

With further ado, here’s what I found in Novembers: Database Protection in India: Since Prof Basheer’s 2005 post about the inaccurate implication of the theft of data as copyright infringement, to 2023, not much seems to have changed. The Indian courts have further clarified this issue. see also Sourav Ganguly vs Tata Tea ).

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IP Tech Blog

MARCH 18, 2022

Intellectual property owners need to add the metaverse to places to watch for possible infringement, specifically, trademark or copyright infringement in the form of NFTs or non-fungible tokens. Although NFTs have been around since 2014, their far-reaching, multi-layered legal implications are just now being recognized.

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SpicyIP

DECEMBER 5, 2022

Setaret’ ,which though is registered, has not been used by the Plaintiff and ‘Sitared’ which is being used by the Plaintiff and is pending consideration for registration. The Plaintiff had filed the suit pending registration of its mark ‘Milaap’ seeking remedy against passing off. Now’ and “E!

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IPilogue

APRIL 14, 2022

They held that an inadvertent mistake of law in a copyright registration application does not automatically nullify the application. . a fabric and design company in Los Angeles, owns copyrights in various fabric designs. copyright registration processes. Unicolors, Inc., In a 6-3 decision, the U.S.

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LexBlog IP

MARCH 18, 2022

Intellectual property owners need to add the metaverse to places to watch for possible infringement, specifically, trademark or copyright infringement in the form of NFTs or non-fungible tokens. Although NFTs have been around since 2014, their far-reaching, multi-layered legal implications are just now being recognized.

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The IPKat

JUNE 23, 2022

The High Court revoked four EASYOFFICE registrations owned by easyGroup for non-use and held that the Defendant’s use of EASYOFFICE was not an infringement of those registrations anyway owing to, amongst other things, the availability of an honest concurrent use defence. Muzmatch has since rebranded as Muzz.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

MAY 15, 2024

If the Supreme Court upholds the discovery rule for copyright cases, or simply declines to address it, the decision will leave copyright defendants exposed to very large awards for years of infringing conduct (as they have been everywhere but the Second Circuit). 1962 (2014). 2014) (collecting cases). 663, 134 S.

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SpicyIP

DECEMBER 24, 2023

UK Supreme Court Confirms No Patent for “AI-invented” Inventions Image from here On December 20, the UK Supreme Court affirmed its previous decision to deny registration to inventions by Dr. Stephen Thaler’s AI DABUS, holding that an AI software cannot be listed as an inventor. SpicyIP intern Vedika discusses this development.

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TorrentFreak

OCTOBER 18, 2022

Paramount, Universal, Warner, Columbia, Disney, and Netflix teamed up to file the complaint in 2021, hoping to shut down a site that had endured blocking injunctions since 2014 while serving millions of users worldwide. All members of the MPA, the studios won a default judgment and injunction in April 2022.

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LexBlog IP

JANUARY 5, 2022

994 (2020) , a decision holding that the sovereign immunity of individual states prevented a copyright holder from recovering damages for infringement, I was a bit disheartened. 2862 ; Note, [Copyright Reform and the Takings Clause,] 128 Harv. 34,] 51-61[(2014) ]. Cooper, 140 S.Ct. ”); see also Ruckelshaus, 467 U.S.

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43(B)log

DECEMBER 20, 2022

The court found the claims of direct, contributory, and vicarious copyright infringement time-barred because plaintiffs didn’t submit evidence of continuing infringement by the moving defendants within 3 years of the filing of the complaint. Trademark etc. Lanham Act claims based on common-law rights were barred by laches.

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LexBlog IP

JULY 21, 2021

It can also mean as the proxy or substitute holder of rights here on earth because no spiritual being will receive a copyright certificate, trademark registrations, or letters patent. One can recognize the importance of God’s names spiritually, of course, as Dr. Tony Evans has in his 2014 book, The Power of God’s Names.

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LexBlog IP

JULY 5, 2022

Copyright protects “original works of authorship” fixed in any tangible medium of expression, such as “pictorial, graphic, and sculptural works.” ” [1] The best part about a copyright is that its registration is typically inexpensive and straightforward. Dental Products Co. , 2d 140, 152 (7th Cir.

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Above the Fold

JULY 5, 2022

Copyright protects “original works of authorship” fixed in any tangible medium of expression, such as “pictorial, graphic, and sculptural works.” [1] 1] The best part about a copyright is that its registration is typically inexpensive and straightforward. Dental Products Co. , 2d 140, 152 (7th Cir. 9] 35 U.S.C. §

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