The IPKat

DECEMBER 9, 2022

Joint ownership of IP rights is one of the areas that, in practice, may generate some of the biggest headaches, in particular when it comes to determining what each and every joint owner can do independently of the other owner(s). It is also an area in which historically different legal systems have had different rules in place.

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Intellectual Property Law Blog

JANUARY 11, 2023

During litigation, the unredacted version may be used as evidence to support the ownership of the redacted portions in the registered mask work. It is recommended for the applicant to keep an unredacted version of the design along with the redacted version used for registration. Inspection of a Registered Mask Work.

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TorrentFreak

JUNE 2, 2023

Know locally as the ‘Quebec Hugh Hefner’ due to his links with the adult industry, Grenier’s ownership of a strip club and appearances on a Canadian reality TV series sit alongside claims in the media, citing police sources, of alleged connections to a Hells Angels motorcycle club.

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TorrentFreak

APRIL 22, 2022

I falsely claimed legal ownership over them and began receiving royalty payments. When they found content that had not yet been monetized, they downloaded the songs in mp3 format and then reuploaded them to YouTube’s CMS to claim ownership and collect the royalties. The fraudulent scheme netted more than $23.4

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IPilogue

APRIL 20, 2022

In the meantime, Sony’s The Amazing Spider-Man 2 released in 2014 was met with criticism, ending the reboot series. In 2015, Marvel and Sony made an unprecedented deal that the two companies would share joint-ownership in Spider-Man’s copyright.

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The IPKat

APRIL 19, 2023

Ownership of every name periodically expires and, at that point, anyone may freely claim it on Namecoin by re-registering the expired name. When a name expires, the original token attached to that name cannot be traded any longer but technically still exists in the blockchain. This is generally considered to be the first ever created NFT.

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Intellectual Property Law Blog

JANUARY 11, 2023

During litigation, the unredacted version may be used as evidence to support the ownership of the redacted portions in the registered mask work. It is recommended for the applicant to keep an unredacted version of the design along with the redacted version used for registration. Here is the number of mask works registered with the U.S.

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The TTABlog

SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

Registrant Harwood International enjoyed a constructive first use date of October 6, 2014, the filing date of its underlying application. Opposer JNF had filed an application to register its mark, with a claimed first use date "at least as early as October 10/00/2014." TMEP Section 903.06 (2022). Emphasis by the Board). See Couture v.

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IP and Legal Filings

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

Employee stock ownership plans (ESOPs) benefit both the corporation and its employees. Issuance Of Esop ESOPs can be granted to the following employees, according to Rule 12(1) of the Companies (Share Capital and Debentures) Rules, 2014. Employees are given shares in the company where they work, which gives them a sense of ownership.

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IP and Legal Filings

JULY 28, 2022

Reduced market share ownership raises the number of shares possessed by investors. Companies (share capital and debentures) Rules, 2014 – Rule 17. Buyback of securities that were issued to employees as part of an employee stock ownership plan (ESOP) or sweat equity. Companies can invest in themselves through buybacks.

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TorrentFreak

APRIL 11, 2022

In 2014, a German anti-piracy outfit identified more than 18,000 pirated videos stored on Google’s servers, noting that more than a dozen pirate sites were using the library as fuel for their own sites. Afdah Was Originally Fueled By Content Stored on Google. MPA/ACE Get Results After Years of Legal Action.

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The TTABlog

JUNE 14, 2021

4 (2014)). The problem with the first argument was that, although AWP pleaded ownership of the application, it failed to submit the application into the record. Since AWP neither made the application of record nor provided testimony as to its ownership, the Board ruled that AWP could not base its "standing" on the refusal to register.

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SpicyIP

OCTOBER 6, 2023

HoB is a storytelling platform and claims operation since 2014 through its website, Instagram, and YouTube. This opens up multiple questions concerning the ownership of the work, its expression, and whether there is any actual infringement or not?

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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. Otherwise, Yuga Labs would be modifying the ownership of a Bored Ape because the art would no longer even exist. With an astounding $17.7

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Traverse Legal Blog

AUGUST 15, 2022

The first known NFT was minted in 2014 and since then has seen rapid growth. An NFT or “non-fungible token” is a digital asset that links ownership to unique digital items. Non-fungible tokens have been designed to give you ownership of something that cannot be replicated or copied. What are NFTs? What are NFTs? NFT Technology.

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More Than Your Mark

AUGUST 20, 2021

However, if your 3-D printed work relies on the files created by another, or is the result of scanning the sculpture of another, you may have to make proper attribution of ownership to the file owner. An example of this is a 2014 initiative by Hasbro, Inc. , the toy company that owns the My Little Pony intellectual property.

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IP and Legal Filings

JANUARY 29, 2023

Delving into the parallel creation model, proposed for machinima, it is proposed that it should be based on collaborative creation and no exclusionary ownership. Re-Examining The Copyright Ownership Of Player Created Content, GNLU L. Creations within the gaming framework can never be “independent” or “original”, to begin with.

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IP and Legal Filings

DECEMBER 6, 2022

Producers may claim exclusive ownership of an album or song in court owing to copyright protections. The Indonesian copyright regime is governed by its Copyright Act of 2014 (‘Act’). The music industry, in particular, has unique difficulties when attempting to resolve issues of Copyright ownership. LEGISLATION IN INDONESIA.

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IP and Legal Filings

AUGUST 19, 2022

In the past, CIRCA 2014, the ‘Creative Machine’, also known as DABUS (Device for the Autonomous Bootstrapping of Unified Sentience), was able to create artistic works made up of thousands of pictures using machine learning. Several Jurisdictions however, copyright ownership has already been granted to computer generated works.

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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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TorrentFreak

AUGUST 22, 2023

Auckland lawyer Phil Creagh, who according to his bio was involved in all Kim Dotcom-related litigation matters since 2014, was a Bitcache director until September 2020. I’m still investigating who has ultimate ownership,” Nellies said. . “There Are Fees Owed and Not Paid” The day before Megaupload 2.0/Bitcache

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

The applicant disclaimed any element of human authorship, but asserted ownership by reason of ownership of the “Creativity Machine.”) 663 (2014). [5] In the Board’s view “the work-for-hire doctrine only speaks to the identity of a work’s owner, not whether a work is protected by copyright.”. [1] 4 th 1034 (9 th Cir. 2] Taylor v.

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SpicyIP

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

The plaintiff in question is the managing partner and founder of a Delhi-based IP firm Sujata Chaudhri and Associates, which has been using its trade mark since 2014, 3 years prior to the defendant. Image from here And of course, who can forget the Delhi High Court’s 2014 order in Prathiba M. My heart will. the list goes on!

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BYU Copyright Blog

AUGUST 30, 2021

Teichert claims that the Church relocated these three paintings in 2020, having previously relocated the fourth in 2014.Based

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

MARCH 10, 2022

In a footnote, the court acknowledges the law is “evolving” with respect to employer ownership of social media accounts: The law on the ownership of a social media pages created by employees for employers is evolving rapidly and varies between jurisdictions. 1459 (2014); Zoe Argento, Whose Social Network Account? TELECOMM. &

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IP and Legal Filings

MAY 17, 2022

Request of mark ownership transfer and publishing the transfer. to continue with protection for several similar periods, a renewal application can be filed during the last year of each protection period. Request to renewal a mark within last year from protection expiry date and publishing the renewal.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

MARCH 15, 2022

663 (2014) (“It is hardly incumbent on copyright owners, however, to challenge each and every actionable infringement”). Universal. * Two 512(f) Rulings Where The Litigants Dispute Copyright Ownership. * It Takes a Default Judgment to Win a 17 USC 512(f) Case–Automattic v. See, e.g., Petrella v.

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IP and Legal Filings

OCTOBER 26, 2022

This declaration was however superseded by the Law on Geographical Indications, dated January 20, 2014. The first Declaration (Prakas) on the Procedures for Registration and Protection of Geographical Indications, dated May 18, 2009, served as the basis for the registration of Kampot Pepper and Kampong Speu Palm Sugar.

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SpicyIP

JULY 29, 2021

Historically, the exceptions for teaching, education and research have never been qualified by the nature of ownership of the institution where the use of the work is carried out. According to the AISHE Report 2019-20, 66.3% of all college students in India attend private institutions. Most worrying is the stand to weaken Section 52(1).

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IP and Legal Filings

JANUARY 2, 2023

The ownership position that the late Dinabandhu held in the partnership firm is the subject of another lawsuit currently before the court, C.S. 178 of 2022 (Fox & Mandal & Co. & Somabrata Mandal & Ors.). The bench agreed that the firm’s reputation cannot be ignored when a partner passes away. Respondent No.

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The TTABlog

JUNE 17, 2021

2014), and must maintain that entitlement throughout the proceeding, including at the time or trial. 118, 109 USPQ2d 2061, 2067-70 (2014)), cert. In every inter partes proceeding the plaintiff must establish its entitlement to a statutory cause of action, Empresa Cubana Del Tabaco v. 3d 1270, 111 USPQ2d 1058, 1062 (Fed.

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43(B)log

JULY 3, 2023

Industria became aware of Latinfood’s Zenú and Ranchera products sometime between October 2013 and September 2014. I don’t quite get how it could show ownership of the trade dress in the US but not ownership of the word marks.) Prior import plans in 2010-11 were paused. Summary judgment for Latinfood.

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LexBlog IP

AUGUST 22, 2022

572 US 118, 129, 132 (2014), a “cognizable ‘economic and reputational injury’ generally ‘occurs when deception of consumers causes them to withhold trade from the plaintiff,'” and Coca-Cola had alleged no lost US sales as a result of the claimed reputational injury. Under Lexmark International, Inc.

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LexBlog IP

JANUARY 11, 2023

During litigation, the unredacted version may be used as evidence to support the ownership of the redacted portions in the registered mask work. Year 2021 2020 2019 2018 2017 2016 2015 2014 2013 2012 # of MW 33 0 20 156 27 25 28 84 279 203. Inspection of a Registered Mask Work. Here is the number of mask works registered with the U.S.

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IP and Legal Filings

DECEMBER 23, 2023

It also held that when possessor of a trademark has prior and exclusive usage, they not only possess superior title but also absolute ownership. After examining the facts, the court held that the owner of trademark had the exclusive right to register the trademark as a domain name under the trademark law.

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The IPKat

DECEMBER 14, 2023

The company was found liable for copyright infringement and breach of contract for using the actor’s photographs picture for advertisements between December 2014 and April 2015 without getting his permission or authorization. The company was ordered to pay Ojo, ₦20 million (US$44 448) in damages.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

DECEMBER 27, 2023

512(f) case in the context of an ownership dispute is sent to a jury. The rarity of … evidence [of actual confusion] makes even a few incidents highly probative of the likelihood of confusion.” * In 2014, Defendants’ executive assistant sent a LinkedIn message seeking to arrange an introduction call to KeyBank, a client of Plaintiffs.

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