JD Supra Law

MAY 12, 2023

After years of uncertainty, the USPTO has finally provided insight on how it views applications for cannabis-related marks, suggesting that the use of such marks will be heavily scrutinized. In 2016, National Concession Group, Inc. NCG) filed an application to register the mark “BAKKED” (Serial No. By: Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP

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SpicyIP

MARCH 7, 2023

SpicyIP intern Sukarm Sharma discusses this ongoing dispute, in light of the CRI 2016 guidelines and the Ferid Allani order. These have subsequently undergone several revisions, a succinct timeline of these changes till 2016 is linked here. The 2016 guidelines were far more restrictive in granting software patents. Microsoft v.

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JD Supra Law

JULY 5, 2022

A widely used method of software protection is through trade secret law under the Economic Espionage Act (EEA) (18 U.S.C. §§ 1831-1839), which was enacted in 1996 and significantly amended on May 11, 2016, by the Defend Trade Secrets Act of 2016 (DTSA), Pub. 376 (2016) and at the state level by state trade secret statutes.

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IP Law 360

MARCH 30, 2023

An Illinois federal judge granted rapper French Montana a partial win on Thursday in a copyright lawsuit over his song "Ain't Worried About Nothin," ruling that the artist who brought the suit is limited to one potential award of statutory damages for any infringement occurring after 2016.

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Likelihood of Confusion

OCTOBER 25, 2022

On review in 2016, it became apparent that a great many of the links were dead. [stextbox id=”info”]Note: This was first posted on December 12, 2008. Considering the choice between. The post Hannukah with the Blawgers – Blawg Review #191, 2008 (Archive post) appeared first on LIKELIHOOD OF CONFUSION™.

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JD Supra Law

MAY 22, 2023

The Supreme Court ruled on May 18 that Andy Warhol’s “Orange Prince” work of pop art was not a fair use when licensed to Condé Nast in 2016. Dawn Jackson is a co-author of this post and is a Summer Associate at Bradley. By: Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP

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Likelihood of Confusion

MARCH 6, 2023

A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away… in a May 2016 blog post entitled “Design Patents at the Supreme Court: A Picture is Worth…” we promised to follow up. The post Rogue phOne: A Design Wars Story appeared first on LIKELIHOOD OF CONFUSION™.

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JD Supra Law

MAY 1, 2023

In 2016, Congress passed the Defend Trade Secrets Act (the “DTSA”). President Obama signed it on May 11, 2016. Episode 22 of Fairly Competing is out! The vote was unanimous in the Senate and 410:2 in the House. Codified at 18 U.S.C. 1836, et seq.,

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IP Watchdog

APRIL 5, 2023

for infringement in 2016, Salazar sued HTC’s customers, AT&T, Sprint, T-Mobile and Verizon, in 2019, alleging certain phones sold by the companies infringed his patent. 5,802,467 is titled, “Wireless and Wired Communications, Command, Control and Sensing System for Sound And/or Data Transmission and Reception.”

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Plagiarism Today

AUGUST 24, 2021

The two sides actually settled the case for $25 million back in 2016, but Sirius agreed to pay an additional $5 million for each Appeals Court win. According to Goldblatt, in 2016 he shot video of President Barack Obama visiting Flint and uploaded the footage to YouTube. So far, the plaintiffs have lost in every court.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

APRIL 26, 2023

At issue are two versions of the TOS from 2016 and 2019. The named plaintiff, Jackson, agreed to the 2016 TOS. The 2016 TOS provided an opt-out for the arbitration provision, but Jackson didn’t exercise it. She agrees the 2016 TOS applies. The Ninth Circuit disagrees. It required arbitration for any related claim.

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JD Supra Law

MAY 26, 2023

The Court held the AWFVA’s delivery to Condé Nast magazine in 2016 of an Andy Warhol silkscreen from 1984 based on a 1981 Goldsmith photograph of the musician Prince did not satisfy the first factor (of four) of the statutory fair use elements.

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Likelihood of Confusion

JANUARY 23, 2023

Originally posted 2016-03-24 10:38:04. Tonight begins Purim – the Jewish holiday that celebrates LIKELIHOOD OF CONFUSION! Republished by Blog Post Promoter The post Happy Purim! appeared first on LIKELIHOOD OF CONFUSION™.

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Plagiarism Today

JANUARY 18, 2022

” The lawsuit was filed in October Brandon Cooper and Timothy Valentine, who alleged that the duo took their 2016 song I Love Your Dress and used it to create No Guidance. Specifically, they allege that they took beats, lyrics, the hook and other elements when making their song. The record labels have not responded to the allegations.

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JD Supra Law

MAY 19, 2023

The first factor did not apply to Warhol’s image as published in Condé Nast in 2016, so that specific. In doing so the Court focused not solely on the “transformative use” aspect of the first factor of a four-part fair use analysis, but on the entire first factor regarding the “purpose and character” of the allegedly infringing use.

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JD Supra Law

MAY 23, 2023

The Court found that the Andy Warhol Foundation violated photographer Lynn Goldsmith's copyright in her 1981 photograph of Prince when the Foundation licensed its silkscreen variation of the photo (dubbed "Orange Prince") to Condé Nast in 2016 for use in the magazine's tribute. By: Neal, Gerber & Eisenberg LLP

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

MAY 15, 2023

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JD Supra Law

DECEMBER 12, 2022

The new Pilot replaces the Cancer Immunotherapy Pilot Program, which expedited examination for cancer immunotherapies and had been in place since mid-2016. More technologies will qualify for expedited examination under the new Pilot. By: Morgan Lewis

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Patently-O

JULY 14, 2022

Some takeaways: For patent infringement cases filed between 2011 and 2016, about 6% have at least one appeal, although this rate has been declining from 7.8% of cases filed in 2016. of cases filed in 2011 to 4.4%

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IP and Legal Filings

JANUARY 15, 2023

India has also enacted the Child Labour (Prohibition & Regulation) Amendment Act, 2016 which prohibits employment of children who have not attained the age of 14. Drawbacks of such exclusions under the 2016 Amendment Act. Image Sources : Shutterstock]. This work shall be after school hours or during vacations. Hazardous occupation.

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The IP Law Blog

NOVEMBER 18, 2022

Cardi B was cleared of liability in an action alleging that she misappropriated a man’s likeness by using his unique back tattoo on the cover of her 2016 mixtape. Scott Hervey and Josh Escovedo discuss this in this installment of The Briefing by the IP Law Blog. Listen to this podcast episode here. Watch this episode here:

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IP Law 360

OCTOBER 19, 2022

A California federal judge overseeing a trial over claims Cardi B misappropriated a man's likeness for the cover of her 2016 mixtape raised prospects of declaring a mistrial after the rapper and the plaintiff's attorney repeatedly exchanged heated words, telling the lawyer that he had "totally crossed the line."

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Velocity of Content

MAY 9, 2023

The FAIR Data Principles (Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, and Reusable), published in Scientific Data in 2016, are guiding principles set forth by a consortium of scientists and organizations to support the reusability of digital assets.

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Plagiarism Today

OCTOBER 27, 2021

HAuNTcon 2016 – Copyright and Trademark for Haunters : Skipping ahead to January 2016, at that year’s HAuNTcon, a convention for haunted attraction owners and operators, I gave a talk on copyright and trademark for haunters. That’s exactly what this October 2016 article does.

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JD Supra Law

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

When we published our first XR survey report in 2016, major media outlets were still skeptical about whether XR, or Extended Reality, would live up to the hype, and industry respondents cited a lack of compelling content, user experience issues, and high costs as the biggest barriers to widespread adoption.

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IP Watchdog

AUGUST 31, 2021

The case stems from HTC’s refusal of a 2016 licensing deal in which Ericsson proposed a rate of $2.50 per device for the patents under a 2014 licensing agreement, in 2016 the company independently assessed the value of Ericsson’s patents and ultimately proposed a rate of $0.10 Although HTC had previously paid Ericsson about $2.50

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

OCTOBER 2, 2022

Work #2: This work was published in 2016 in a video that “had over 100,000 views within the first 7-10 days and currently has about 125,000 views.” The work was also posted to Facebook and Instagram in 2016. Work #7: posted to Facebook in 2016 and got 59 likes and 16 comments.

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43(B)log

JANUARY 4, 2023

A gift given to my daughter (the cat kindly agreed to stop sitting on it for 10 seconds to allow this picture to be taken): Some other vacation TM T-shirts: 2012 , 2014 , 2016.

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TorrentFreak

APRIL 6, 2023

For those who care to remember it, November 2016 was a dark month for communities with a penchant for sharing files. Then in November 2016, as French authorities swooped, What.cd One local report notes that between 2014 and 2016, the pair from Toulouse earned 600,000 euros each for their work on the site.

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IP Watchdog

JULY 10, 2022

However, the dark green and purple colorway – which has been associated with the Wimbledon tennis tournament for over a Century – has only been protected as a registered trademark in the UK since 2016.

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JD Supra Law

APRIL 25, 2023

Pleading and injunction standards are beginning to take shape in the Third Circuit courts- The case law pursuant to the 2016 enactment of the Defend Trade Secrets Act (DTSA) is developing in many Circuits across the country.

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IP and Legal Filings

APRIL 10, 2023

Justice Hima Kohli who dealt with the pertinent matter arising out of the conflict between the Customs Act, 1962 and the “Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code, 2016”. Section 33(5) of the IBC, 2016 The above section of the IBC says that moratorium continues even if the company goes into liquidation. Maheshwari, Hon’ble Ms.

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Patently-O

JUNE 29, 2022

Coca-Cola stepped-in in 2016 seeking to cancel Meenaxi’s mark registrations. McKenna & Shelby Niemann, 2016 Trademark Year in Review, 92 Notre Dame L. Online 112, 122 (2016) (stating the Belmora decision “is especially notable. In 2008 Meenaxi began filling the US demand with its own version version of the drinks.

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JD Supra Law

AUGUST 24, 2022

Lee (2016)"; and "Teva. For most of the past decade, the Supreme Court has been marking out the metes and bounds of the Patent Trial and Appeal Board's execution of the post-grant review provisions of the Leahy-Smith America Invents Act, particularly with regard to inter partes reviews (see "Oil States Energy Services, LLC.

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Plagiarism Today

DECEMBER 7, 2022

He adds that the song is well known in the rap industry, having been licensed by Def Jam in 2008 and by Epic Records in 2016. Specifically, he cites similarities in the beat, lyrics, hook, rhythmic structure and more. In addition to Ricch, the lawsuit targets Atlantic records and other co-defendants involved in the release of The Box.

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Patently-O

MARCH 13, 2022

The district court noted two problems with OK Foods’ evidence thus far presented: (1) OK Foods did not present the “exact materials” as they appeared on here screen during the 2016 application process; and (2) the download link provided does not show the arbitration package.

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The Illusion of More

DECEMBER 12, 2022

United States Department of Justice was filed in July of 2016, and […]. The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) was dealt a significant (possibly fatal) blow in its longstanding endeavor to have the courts abolish the entirety of DMCA Section 1201 as an unconstitutional violation of the First Amendment. The case Matthew D.

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