43(B)log

DECEMBER 18, 2023

The engineer of record must indicate on construction drawings the specific structural connectors that will be used on a given project, whether a custom connector designed by the engineer to join and transfer the load between members or a pre-engineered connector.

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SpicyIP

JULY 14, 2021

Olfactory marketing is not only employed by restaurants for their food, but is also often utilized in supplementing branding because just like a logo, it helps the consumer identify the experience associated with a service or product. Attars and Agarbattis: Protecting Traditional Cultural Expression through non-conventional Trademarks.

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IIPRD

JANUARY 23, 2023

It further expanded its domain as a manufacturer by establishing a market for its self-made products such as kindle for e-book services, audiobook and ‘cloud computing’ web storage services. Williams-Sonoma commented that Amazon’s own product line “Rivet” has infringed patents of furniture designs. [3] Amazon, 2015 U.S.

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IP and Legal Filings

OCTOBER 18, 2022

The National Information and Communication Technology Policy, 2015, has therefore been a key policy action. An NFT and the corresponding permission to use, copy, or display the asset can be bought and sold in digital markets. Artists lack the will to innovate and produce new designs unless they are not protected.

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The IPKat

MAY 12, 2023

They develop, market and sell statistical process control (SPC) software and gauge management software. He resigned in 2015. 2) was InSPC v1 copied from ProSPC, so as to infringe the copyright in ProSPC or misuse any confidential information in ProSPC? Background The claimants - PQ for short - are based in the US.

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SpicyIP

MARCH 11, 2024

Calm Water Therapeutics Llc vs The Assistant Controller Of Patents And Designs on 28 February, 2024 (Delhi High Court) The appeal challenged the rejection of a patent application for a “Bi-Functional Co-Polymer” by the Assistant Controller of Patents.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

NOVEMBER 24, 2021

Parts 1 to 3 of this post (originally published in “Auteurs & Media”) summarising case law of the German Bundesgerichtshof from 2015 to 2019 are available here , here and here. As far as the collective remuneration rules under Section 36 UrhG are concerned, there are two BGH decisions from 2015 that can be looked at ( here and here ).

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43(B)log

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

WCT’s app was first released in 2014 for the iPhone and Pebble watch as a metric-tracking cycling app that was designed to “track speed, distance, altitude, and grade.” Downloads declined after a 2015 peak. Also, by the end of 2016, WCT hadn’t paid taxes since 2015 and its certificate of incorporation was therefore suspended.

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The IPKat

DECEMBER 17, 2021

It had to be decided how the marks would be perceived by the average consumer, in the relevant market, who is reasonably well-informed and observant, taking account of the type of goods and how they are marketed. On this basis, the Court held that the defendant’s goods in (Kenyan) market would likely diminish the plaintiff’s goodwill.

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IIPRD

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

IP can be found in the chassis of cars, uniforms, merchandise, various engineering and designing equipment, television broadcasting, and most importantly, carefully hidden trade secrets. In this constantly developing arena, F1 teams must go to great lengths to protect their technology and design secrets,’ which cost them a large sum.

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LexBlog IP

AUGUST 30, 2023

He worked for large companies, active worldwide in the food industry, which specialised in the design and development of recipes and culinary products for industrial use. Copies of emails between the parties provided to the Court proved that opinions had been exchanged before the composition of the products was finalised.

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The IPKat

DECEMBER 16, 2021

CPL had a registered trademark in the word “Conphamol” and the design of the product packaging. The Plaintiff, an architect, produced architectural drawings and plans which were approved and registered by the County Government of Kajiado under application Number P/761/2015.

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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. At the same time, market uptake of biosimilars in the United States continued to increase, suggesting that there is room for expansion of biosimilars in the U.S. 2015; resubmitted Feb. Post-Grant Challenges at the PTAB.

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Fish & Richardson Trademark & Copyright Thoughts

JANUARY 11, 2022

PDF copy available. Early commercialization efforts were flops—such as the attempt to build a LISP machine designed to implement AI languages. These projects were designed for cloud-based infrastructure that could be leased and rapidly scaled from a prototype into a commercial offering. billion market in 2028.

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The IPKat

MARCH 25, 2024

If you knew how to complete this phrase in 2015, you are part of the few percent of consumers who heard of the city of Compton and knew about its connection with hip-hop and rap music. Background On 8 September 2015, BIW Invest AG (‘BIW’) applied for registration of EU trade mark no. Both trade marks were registered.

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Trading Secrets

JUNE 3, 2022

The district court reasoned that plaintiff needed to demonstrate that the corporate defendant copied plaintiff’s project in order to satisfy the “use” requirement under the DTSA. 16, 2021), the plaintiff alleged that the defendant used the plaintiff’s manufacturer drawings to unfairly compete in the airplane parts market.

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Fish & Richardson Trademark & Copyright Thoughts

MARCH 14, 2022

PDF copy available. 1 Thus, IPRs were designed to be a cost-effective alternative to litigation by guaranteeing that a patent challenger would have resolution on its petition within approximately 18 months, without the significant expenses routinely incurred during the fact and/or expert discovery phases of litigation.

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The IPKat

OCTOBER 7, 2021

Indeed, Motorola did not even have access to the infringing source code contained on the Qualcomm chips, which militates against a finding that Motorola deliberately copied SLC’s technology.” They would bring the same unique insights to SEP negotiations as the parties that designed the components that provide standardized functionality.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

JUNE 27, 2023

Generally speaking, the approved transposition follows the text of the Directive rather closely, similarly to other delayed implementations such as the Irish one , without embracing a more “creative” legislative design, as has been the case for instance in Germany and Greece. Worth noting is that the implementation of Art. Articles 36.º-A

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The TTABlog

JUNE 1, 2023

The Board upheld the USPTO's refusals to register the two proposed marks shown below, for "hotel services; provision of conference, exhibition, and meeting facilities," finding that the building designs are not inherently distinctive and lack secondary meaning. In re Palacio Del Rio, Inc. Serial Nos. See In re Frankish Enters.

Designs 52

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LexBlog IP

JULY 5, 2022

The next time you would like to protect the design on a T-shirt, the pattern of design on fabric, or a jewelry design, you should consider whether your work can be copyrighted. In the event that infringement occurs, a designer must show that the infringer copied the designers copyrighted work. [5]

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LexBlog IP

OCTOBER 25, 2023

That is the difference between the court of public opinion in one’s industry and a court of law in a governmental building—”In writing, plagiarismis a straight-up cardinal sin: If you copy, you’re wrong. ’ Piccone v. Bartels , 785 F.3d 3d 766, 771 (1st Cir.

Copyright 52

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Above the Fold

JULY 5, 2022

The next time you would like to protect the design on a T-shirt, the pattern of design on fabric, or a jewelry design, you should consider whether your work can be copyrighted. In the event that infringement occurs, a designer must show that the infringer copied the designers copyrighted work. [5]

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

The Copyright Directive does not offer its own definition of an ISSP, referring instead to the one provided by Directive 2015/1535 : it is a service normally provided for remuneration, at a distance, by electronic means, and at the individual request of the recipient of the service. This change was to bring art.

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43(B)log

AUGUST 4, 2021

Conventional wisdom: Incoherent mess; regimes generally unrelated to each other, primarily products of industry lobbying, little meaningful institutional design, anachronistic like jukebox compulsory licensing fees. Not claiming it’s fully coherent, but it’s not just a sui generis response to a single industry’s market failure.

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TorrentFreak

DECEMBER 22, 2022

Since 2015, TIR has made its specialist content available via the website mistressharley.com (NSFW) and through authorized third parties under licensing agreements. In parallel, websites that sell pirated copies of TIR’s copyrighted videos compete in the same market by targeting TIR’s customers.

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LexBlog IP

JULY 21, 2021

provid[es] an estimate of the fair market value of goods and services provided by religious organizations, and. market for religious publishing and products at $6.8 ” Jarrod Welsh, Copyrighting God: New Copyright Guidelines Do Not Protect Divine Beings, 17 Rutgers Journal Of Law & Religion 121 (2015). ” Id.

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43(B)log

MARCH 21, 2022

tagline throughout those states regardless of where the products were baked, as well as in California and Wyoming, before moving away from the tagline in mid-2015.” Definitions of ‘local’ and views about whether something is “local” vary wildly, so the word’s usage in marketing can only communicate U.S.

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43(B)log

FEBRUARY 3, 2024

Sex toys don’t seem to have been added until 2015. Christine Haight Farley: connecting to Katyal’s paper: “Indian man” design code. There is a design code for marijuana leaves; you just can’t get a cannabis ID. Christine Haight Farley, Design Authenticity Book project, still shaping up. but helpful to research.

Designs 59

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Fish & Richardson Trademark & Copyright Thoughts

JANUARY 5, 2022

PDF copy available. But as more players enter the market and obtain patent protection for their innovations, IP disputes among competitors are heating up. In fact, although most battery patents relate to technical features of a battery, a recent lawsuit related to design patents addresses a specific visual battery pack housing.

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43(B)log

APRIL 26, 2022

The court of appeals kicked out nearly $42 million in penalties because there was no evidence of what Ethicon’s employees and agents actually said in oral marketing communications, which is a good incentive not to leave a record I guess, but affirmed the rest. So too with its marketing communications to doctors and patients.

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The IPKat

MAY 25, 2022

In 2015 she commenced work at Mulberry as a Market Support Assistant. If copyright beliefs are protected under the Equality Act, then Universities may be subject to the public sector equality duty and be required to take those protected beliefs into account in the design of their organisational lecture recording policies.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

A work is fixed in either a “copy” or a “phonorecord.” “Phonorecords” are defined as material objects in which only sounds are fixed, while “copies” are defined as material objects in which any other kind of work is fixed. [ 17 U.S.C. . §202(a) ] “Fixed” means that the work is embodied in a material object in some permanent form.

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LexBlog IP

APRIL 20, 2022

It concerned the campaign practice of Prabhu Datta Goud, a candidate for local village chief, who each day on the campaign trail would buy a live fish in the market and then cradle the flopping fish in his bare hands as he visited voters door-to-door. (He

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