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Is Your Website Published or Unpublished?

Plagiarism Today

It’s a confusing question with no easy answer, but it’s an issue that puts the copyright registration of every website at risk. However, in 2014 CCN began working with Amazon and Amazon was dissatisfied with the quality of descriptions that CCA created for themselves. The Registration Wrinkle.

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TM laches where a band broke up "for now" but its music remained on Spotify etc.

43(B)log

It has a 2014 registration for “Darkside NYC” for live musical performances by a band; the production of musical sound recordings; and websites with information about music or entertainment. SWS argued that “plaintiffs may legitimately put off filing suit when pursuing settlement negotiations with the alleged infringer.”

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The Design Law Treaty and the Struggle for International Harmonization of Industrial Design Protection

Patently-O

” Several years ago, the US implemented the Hague Agreement Concerning the International Registration of Industrial Designs (Hague System). The DLT would set a maximum set of requirements that contracting parties can impose on design applicants, reducing differences in national and regional design registration procedures.

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SpicyIP Weekly Review (February 05- February 11)

SpicyIP

The plaintiff submitted that though their “Sufiyana” mark has not been registered, they have been using the same since 2014/ 2018 and thus have gathered a substantive goodwill in the market. It was submitted that the Defendant’s mark has not been registered yet, and application has been filed in 2023 on a proposed-to-be-used basis.

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WHAT, IN THE NAME OF GOD, …?: Intellectual Property Rights In Holy Names, Sacred Words, & Other Aspects of Creation

LexBlog IP

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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What is Blockchain Technology and has it been Patented?

Biswajit Sarkar Copyright Blog

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. However, are the blockchain technologies really patentable?

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What is Blockchain Technology and has it been Patented?

Biswajit Sarkar Copyright Blog

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. However, are the blockchain technologies really patentable?