Technology & Marketing Law Blog

AUGUST 5, 2022

This is a case focusing on ownership of social media accounts. See “ Social Media Ownership Disputes Part II: Bridal Wear Company Takes Back Control of Instagram Account from Ex-Employee ” and “ Another Confused Entry in the Social Media Account Ownership Jurisprudence–JLM v. (See We blogged this case twice before.

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Patently-O

MARCH 12, 2023

The IP Agency Practice apparently “does not practice law” and therefore is not controlled by the lawyer-ownership rule. Shelston IP was the first IP firm to list itself on the Australian Stock Exchange back in 2015. In 2019, IPH bought Shelston in a hostile takeover.

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Plagiarism Today

JANUARY 4, 2023

billion) fine over allegations that the company abused its ownership of the Android mobile operating system to unlawfully push its other products. In 2015, the German Federal Institute for Risk Assessment (BfR) released a re-evaluation report on the safety of glyphosate, more commonly known as the weed killer Roundup. billion-euro ($4.3

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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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IPilogue

APRIL 20, 2022

In 2015, Marvel and Sony made an unprecedented deal that the two companies would share joint-ownership in Spider-Man’s copyright. With solid financial support from Disney, Marvel has successfully promoted the “ Marvel Universe ” and earned a worldwide reputation.

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IIPRD

JANUARY 5, 2023

A precise elucidation about the ownership of cinematographic films has been provided by Section 17 of The Copyright Act, 1957 Act. According to the law, a scriptwriter who is engaged by a producer to write a good script has no ownership rights to the work he produces. [2] Who Owns What and Why. 1] [link]. [2] 7] CISAC v.

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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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Patently-O

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

In patent law, inventorship is tied directly to ownership. However, those inchoate rights are assignable in a way that decouples inventorship and ownership. There result here is that Sywula is not suffering an ownership injury (or any other payment injury flowing from his failure to be named as an inventor). 3d 659 (Fed.

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IPilogue

AUGUST 16, 2022

The Court was not satisfied that any of this evidence confirmed that Pugliese was a US citizen in April 2015, when photos were created. Federal Court Dismisses Copyright Claim Due to Plaintiff’s Failure to Establish Ownership: [link]. This was not admissible proof of a US citizenship. The Federal Court also dismissed this case.

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The IPKat

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

in 2015, which authorised Sattvica to undertake commercial exploitation of the Mark, and another undated agreement. The Application was largely based on a document signed by Maradona ( with his "Hand of God"? ) The European Union Intellectual Property Office (EUIPO) accordingly allowed the Application.

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Patently-O

DECEMBER 13, 2023

Additionally, courts are concerned that separated patents (especially if ownership is separated) could put defendants at risk of facing multiple lawsuits asserting what is essentially the same invention. Applicants who fail to file such a disclaimer can find their applications refused by the PTO or found unenforceable by the courts.

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Plagiarism Today

OCTOBER 4, 2022

Much of the uptick began after the March 2015 Blurred Lines ruling , where the estate of Marvin Gaye won a $7.3 However, the one thing that can be said about juries is that they are often the least bad solution we have in these situations. Songwriting and Litigation. There’s not much doubt that there is more litigation around songwriting.

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The IPKat

DECEMBER 16, 2021

While the High Court found Morison liable for trademark infringement as well as passing-off, the trial judge did not make a finding of copyright infringement, stating that as the designer of the device was not called to testify, copyright ownership was not sufficiently proven.

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JIPEL Copyright Blog

MARCH 23, 2022

This restitution effort has been ongoing for decades; however, the legal significance of these cases became more popular with the release of the film Woman in Gold in 2015. The legal battle ultimately entailed a United States Supreme Court ruling and Austrian arbitration panel, granting Altmann rightful ownership of the painting.

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TorrentFreak

APRIL 15, 2022

“Plaintiff, through its representative Carlos Vasallo, was offered YouTube’s copyright management tools in 2015, including Content ID, but Plaintiff refused them. These tools can also enable users to wrongfully claim ownership rights in others’ content or to take for themselves revenue that rightly belongs to others.”

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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. And a public proof of ownership for the NFT can be provided via blockchain technology. NFTs are viewed as the future of ownership by enthusiasts. Some groups have historically built towns around their NFT holdings.

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IPilogue

OCTOBER 7, 2022

In its October 2015 policy proposition , CARFAC also highlighted the reality that many artists living in isolated northern communities live in impoverished conditions, while their work dramatically appreciates in value. Exercising control of downstream purchaser actions for traditional or non-digital artistic mediums is more complicated.

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LexBlog IP

AUGUST 13, 2021

On July 12, 2021, Justice Andrew Borrok ruled that the rightful owners of two artworks by the Viennese Expressionist Egon Schiele (the “Artworks”) are entitled to prejudgment interest following an art dealer’s refusal to turn over the Artworks in 2015. [3] 161799/2015 (N.Y. 161799/2015 (N.Y. ” [10].

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IPilogue

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

In Canada, protection of plant varieties and plant breeders’ rights (“PBRs”) fall under the scope of the Plant Breeders’ Rights Act of 1990 , which was revised in 2015 to adopt the widely recognized International Union for the Protection of New Varieties of Plants (“UPOV”) standards.

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IP and Legal Filings

JANUARY 22, 2024

This section also lacks in taking intention of the user ruining the watermarks, because sometimes there can be a situation where any person might end up ruining digital watermarks without intending to (Chakraverty, 2015). Fair use is the defence to infringement of copyright, when such protected content is used for a fair purpose. Ngwenya, S.

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Plagiarism Today

OCTOBER 4, 2022

However, the important thing to know is that there was no doubt that Take-Two did copy the tattoos in question and there was no question of Alexander’s ownership of them. In March 2015, a jury awarded the estate of Marvin Gay $7.4 Last week, Moss summarized the history of the case in an article that is well worth reading.

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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. McCoy’s registration on the Namecoin blockchain expired In January 2015. This is generally considered to be the first ever created NFT.

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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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IPilogue

MARCH 28, 2022

After a brief overview of First Nations rights and sources, Wilson defined what First Nations Data is and how it is founded on the principles of ownership, control, access, and possession (“OCAP”). More promisingly, however, patent applications by women-owned businesses grew by 133% from 2001 to 2015. and data from First Nations (e.g.,

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The TTABlog

JANUARY 4, 2022

Neither he nor Great Concepts notified the USPTO about the false statement, although they were aware of it since 2015. The Board found that Shen knew he was not the owner of the mark, that his false statement of ownership was material to the registration, and that he intended to deceive the USPTO.

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Velocity of Content

OCTOBER 7, 2021

Aaron joined CCC in 2015, initially working on CCC’s Republication Licensing Service (RLS) prior to taking ownership of and launching the new Marketplace. He manages the prioritization of development efforts, customer outreach and usability testing, and the roadmap definition for Marketplace.

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Plagiarism Today

OCTOBER 27, 2021

At the time, it was facing accusations that it was as plagiarism of a 2015 short student film. As Halloween grows both more popular and more lucrative, battles over authorship and ownership are only going to become more common. The first comes from January, which looks at the movie The Shape of Water.

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IP and Legal Filings

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

CV 10-03738 AB, 2015 WL 5311085 (C.D. Chik, Lord of Your Domain, But Master of None: The Need to Harmonize and Recalibrate the Domain Name Regime of Ownership and Control, 16 I.J.L.T Satyam Infoway Ltd v Siffynet Solutions, 6 SCC 145 (2004). Akash Arora & Anr, 78 DLT 285 (1999). Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences v.

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43(B)log

OCTOBER 4, 2021

In 2013, things began to go bad as Restellini began attempting to purchase certain Modigliani material from WI, and in 2015, Restellini and WI discontinued their collaboration before the catalogue was completed. It will be enhanced by the drawings, which had been set aside with the Wildenstein Institute.

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The TTABlog

MAY 25, 2023

JBL pointed to its ownership of seven design patents for rocking chairs of the same or a very similar configuration. See Sarah Burstein, Faux Amis in Design Law , 105 TMR 1455 (2015). There were no utility patents of record, nor any evidence showing that JBL touted any utilitarian advantages of this product design. pdf here ].

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IPilogue

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

On June 24, 2015, Ms. Dorland will need to show: (1) ownership of a valid copyright, and (2) copying of constituent elements of the work that are original. Dawn Dorland and Sonya Larson , both authors, first crossed paths sometime between 2005 and 2007 at GrubStreet—a creative writing centre in Boston.

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The TTABlog

DECEMBER 5, 2022

was formed in 2015 for the specific purpose of selling backpacks and tents under the (allegedly abandoned) DANA DESIGN word mark. Opposer Mystery Ranch, co-owned by Dana Gleason. has been making and selling backpacks since 2000, but apparently not under the DANA DESIGN mark. Applicant Terminal Moraine Inc. 32 USPQ2d 1192, 1195 (TTAB 1994).

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The IPKat

JANUARY 27, 2023

In 2015, Mr. Jing co-founded Oxford Nanoimaging Ltd (ONI). Claiming ownership of all intellectual property devised made or created by student members “in the course of or incidentally to their studies” would be considered an overbroad term. As well, he contributed to the further development of the Nanoimager.

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LexBlog IP

OCTOBER 20, 2023

There has been no final decision adverse to the owner’s claim of ownership of such mark, or to the owner’s right to register the same or to keep the same on the register; and there is no proceeding involving said rights pending and not disposed of either in the U.S. In 2015, Chutter, Inc.

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The TTABlog

AUGUST 2, 2021

The Board found that Shen knew he was not the owner of the mark, that his false statement of ownership was material to the registration, and that he intended to deceive the USPTO. The false statement of ownership was a material misrepresentation because an application filed by someone who is not the owner is void. Cancellation No.

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CopyrightsWorld

APRIL 29, 2022

On November 3rd, 2018, Thaler filed a copyright application for A Recent Entrance to Paradise, designating himself as the claimant and the work’s author as “Creativity Machine,” saying that the copyright should be transferred from the AI to him due to his “ownership of the machine.”

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CopyrightsWorld

APRIL 29, 2022

On November 3rd, 2018, Thaler filed a copyright application for A Recent Entrance to Paradise, designating himself as the claimant and the work’s author as “Creativity Machine,” saying that the copyright should be transferred from the AI to him due to his “ownership of the machine.”

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