Kluwer Copyright Blog

JULY 19, 2023

In 2016, a French company specialising in typography created a font called ‘Spectral’ for Google, who used it as part of its free service Google Fonts , used by website creators and users of word processing software. .: But the court ruled that the font had not been copied Article L.122-4 and some bottom serifs like a, d etc.)

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JIPEL Copyright Blog

APRIL 26, 2021

How does an influencer and fashion designer become so despised? However, an equally long list of controversies accompanies this list of accomplishments, the majority of which involve alleged copying. Nordstrom removed the pieces at issue, and everything seemed to be fine on the copying front—until 2020 hit.

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Plagiarism Today

APRIL 25, 2022

According to the lawsuit, the musicians and their songwriters copied elements from the earlier track, including the chorus, verse and hook from the song. Finally today, Jennifer Edwards Baker at Fox19 reports that, in Ohio, the Goshen Township police have been hit with a copyright infringement lawsuit over the design of their police badge.

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Patently-O

APRIL 17, 2024

This case began back in 2006 when Crocs sued Double Diamond and others for patent infringement of Crocs’s design patents. In 2016, Dawgs added new asserted counterclaims against Crocs, including a claim for false advertising under the Lanham Act. Crocs largely prevailed in those actions. ” Dawgs brief.

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LexBlog IP

JANUARY 11, 2023

Mask work is a type of intellectual property protection designed to protect layout designs (topographies) of integrated circuits. The SCPA legally protects layouts of integrated circuits upon registration, making them illegal to copy without permission. Compendium: Chapter 1200, sections 1201-1202. In particular, Section 1213.2

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IPilogue

DECEMBER 9, 2022

In the verdict form the jury stated that Defendants had not proven fair use, the Plaintiff (Alexander) should receive $3,750 USD for actual losses from the Defendant’s use of the tattoo designs, and did not answer as to profits can be attributed to the Plaintiff for use of the tattoos. Citing Muhammad-Ali v. Final Call, Inc.,

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

OCTOBER 2, 2022

The plaintiff, NOC, is a teenager who has copyrighted designs in hand-drawn dots that Target allegedly copied in the clothing line. However, Target’s allegedly infringing works apparently were designed no later than December 2017. The work was also posted to Facebook and Instagram in 2016. Case Citation : Cooley v.

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Plagiarism Today

OCTOBER 27, 2021

Also, many have design errors due to their age. Nearly all copies of the film were destroyed, but an American copy survived, as Dracula was already public domain in the United States. That’s exactly what this October 2016 article does. I’m working to fix those, but it will take time.

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TorrentFreak

JANUARY 6, 2022

The indictment, unsealed Wednesday in Manhattan federal court, alleges that beginning in August 2016, Bernardini – who was based in London and worked in publishing for Simon & Schuster – began impersonating agents, editors and other individuals in the industry to obtain pre-release literary manuscripts from his targets.

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Plagiarism Today

OCTOBER 26, 2021

Wtf is a juice demon pic.twitter.com/OxYMWEuoCq — Eli Matthewson (@EliMatthewson) October 1, 2016. First, design elements that are “physically or conceptually separate” from the article can be protected. Bringing us back to our Juice Demon, the elements that are copied include the striped suit and tie.

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Patently-O

AUGUST 24, 2023

In its recent Volva Penta decision, the Federal Circuit found that the PTAB had (1) created too high of a burden to prove nexus and (2) been unduly dismissive of the patentee’s evidence of commercial success and copying. The PTAB found evidence showing Brunswick copied the Forward Drive in developing its competing Bravo Four S product.

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The TTABlog

JANUARY 8, 2024

The TTAB has re-designated as precedential its September 2022 opinion in this cancellation proceeding. 92064830 (September 6, 2022) [re-designated as precedential, January 4, 2024] (Opinion by Judge Frances S. He sold copies of comic books featuring the character and displayed the comic books at a comic convention. Andrusiek v.

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LexBlog IP

DECEMBER 21, 2023

1] The Court reasoned that the defendant companies could not have possibly copied the script in question, as they did not have access to the script until after Ad Astra was written. Jones first brought his script to CAA in November 2015, with a subsequent submission of the script in September 2016. 1] Phillip Madison Jones v.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

AUGUST 1, 2023

By Guest Blogger Tyler Ochoa Recently, the Ninth Circuit reaffirmed what has become known as the “server test”: in order to be held directly liable for violating the public display right, the alleged infringer must have a fixed “copy” of the work stored on a server in its possession or control. Instagram, LLC , 2023 WL 4554649 (9th Cir.

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Corsearch

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

Trademark protection is granted to any word, phrase, symbol, or design that conveys a specific brand identity, and it prevents other companies from using similar marks that could cause confusion among consumers and dilute the original brand’s value. Keep in mind that copying is not considered flattery in the world of trademarks.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

In 2016, the defendant IJR published an article/listicle titled “15 Signs Your Daddy Was a Conservative.” Philpot sued in 2020 over the 2016 IJR publication, i.e., after the 3 year statute of limitations that no one seems to care about post-Petrella. (In Larry Philpot is a repeat copyright plaintiff. Amount Taken.

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SpicyIP

MARCH 29, 2024

Thus, the Controller further directed the Appellant to file a fresh translated copy of the PCT application. The Appellant was again directed to file the verified copy of the English translation of the international patent application. The Controller of Patents and Designs. Which is precisely what J.

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The TTABlog

APRIL 28, 2022

The Board dismissed Kate Spade LLC's opposition to registration of the mark WOLV & Design (shown below left) for watches, finding the mark to be too dissimilar to the KATE SPADE word mark and the "spade logo" mark (below right) to support opposer's Section 2(d) likelihood-of-confusion and its Section 43(c) dilution-by-blurring claims.

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TorrentFreak

JANUARY 15, 2024

In 2016, it added support for torrents and, five years later, it completely dropped its Gnutella base in favor of BitTorrent. IMI’s actions make sense as far as they apply to sites that host or link to pirated copies of the track. The application began life as a LimeWire fork but underwent several changes over the years.

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Patently-O

AUGUST 3, 2023

The lawsuit centers around two key components of Moderna’s mRNA platform that it claims Pfizer copied – the use of modified nucleosides like 1-methylpseudouridine and the encoding of a full-length coronavirus spike protein. We might see a different strategy if a non-profit or consumer-focused group had filed.

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TorrentFreak

DECEMBER 21, 2021

In a decision handed down by Mr Justice Adam Johnson, the High Court found that all of the sites infringe copyright by communicating copyright works to the public, contrary to the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act (CDPA) 1988. ISPs BT, EE, Plusnet, Sky UK, TalkTalk and Virgin Media are now required to block the domains.

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LexBlog IP

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

.” This is exactly what happened to Jaguar Land Rover in its claim against Land Wind (Jiangling Motors) in China for copying of Jaguar Land Rover’s car design. After their patent battle from 2014 to [2019], the design patents of Jaguar Land Rover and Land Wind for their off-road vehicles were invalidated by each other.

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43(B)log

JULY 3, 2023

Zuluaga told a designer to look at Industria’s website when creating Latinfood’s packaging designs for Zenú and Ranchera and brought one of Industria’s Ranchera labels to the designer’s office. And the copying here could also lead to an inference of deception. Did intentional copying show intent to confuse?

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The IPKat

DECEMBER 19, 2022

These agreements were negotiated in parallel between 2007 and 2013, and entered into force in 2016-2017. I also reached similar conclusions with regards to design law in a parallel study. AA norms, themselves based on deliberately vague provisions from Directive 2004/48/EC, were not written to be copied into a foreign legal order.

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The IPKat

AUGUST 31, 2022

The idea of DAO is not that new with the most well-known DAO (uninventively called “ The DAO ” ) dating back to 2016. Ownership of IP In a recent curious example, Spice DAO paid $3 million for an original 1975 copy of the Dune bible by Alejandro Jodorowsky. So what are the IP-specific issues that are relevant to DAOs?

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azrights

MARCH 15, 2021

A distinctive asset such as the Nike Swoosh would have been capable of registration as a trademark as soon as the design was created. Securing legal protection gives you scope to build associations to your brand name without fear of competitor copying. This means such symbols have a wider scope of protection.

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The IPKat

MARCH 27, 2022

A very popular design of one of these boots is based on a traditional Spanish riding boot - the Regina boot or Heeled Regina - which looks like the below (and for a closer look click here ). Although their products have the "country" look and feel about them, the products aren't designed for serious country wear.

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Copyright Lately

MAY 22, 2023

For the majority, what was important was that “[b]oth Goldsmith and AWF sold images of Prince (AWF’s copying Goldsmith’s) to magazines to illustrate stories about the celebrity, which is the typical use made of Goldsmith’s photographs.” “[T]he first fair use factor. “[T]he first fair use factor.

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Copyright Lately

MAY 1, 2023

Within just over a month, a raft of barely-underground Discord servers like AI Hub have popped up to provide users with access to software—and step-by-step instructions—for creating new songs using hundreds of community-made AI models designed to mimic specific artists’ voices. Most voice model files are actually quite small.)

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LexBlog IP

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

the UGG mark or designation, or any reproduction, counterfeit, copy, or colorable imitation thereof, in any manner and in any format, case or spelling, on or in connection with the sale, offering for sale, distribution, or advertising of any product in the United States or its territories.”

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

FEBRUARY 13, 2022

For instance, the category for libraries includes the question of whether the exception allowed unauthorized reproduction to provide copies for other libraries. Temporary Copies for Technological Processes. Temporary Copies For Technological Processes. The complete survey is included in the working paper as Appendix 1.

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IIPRD

JANUARY 5, 2023

However, to a lesser extent, other IP laws like the Trademark Act and the Designs Act will also be important. Copy right and Indian cinema. Aditya Pandey [2016] SCC Online SC 967. [8] In contrast to book authoring, the process of making a movie involves a lot of collaboration. 1] [link]. [2] 7] CISAC v. 3d 247 (2d Cir.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

MAY 11, 2023

The most modern instalment of this long history comes in the form of another kind ‘copy’, less richly decorated, yet more relevant and politically sensitive for a country that has established a long-term foreign investment “partnership” with the tech and communication industry: the transposition of Directive 2019/790 into Irish law.

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SpicyIP

JANUARY 4, 2024

Furthermore, the proposed Rules should include a mechanism empowering the court to issue directions to provide reasonable accommodation to a person with a disability recognized under the Rights of Persons with Disabilities Act, 2016. Clarificatory/ Procedural Suggestions 6. Clarification regarding Additional Subject Matter for Proceedings.

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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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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. Korea Corp.

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IIPRD

JANUARY 23, 2023

Firstly, Direct infringement wherein a patented product can be literally copied element to element (Literal direct infringement) and equivalently copied with little to minimal changes not essentially affecting the effect of the product (Equivalent direct infringement). LEXIS 111933 & 2016 U.S. 4] Adaptix, Inc. LEXIS 33521.

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