The IPKat

DECEMBER 27, 2023

The General Court recently dealt with the question if a license agreement can be recorded, although the licensed EU trade marks have been transferred after the conclusion of the license agreement and the new owner does not consent to the registration (case T-679/22 ). Shaman Spirits’) in 2016. The EUIPO revoked the recordal ( Art.

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IP and Legal Filings

OCTOBER 28, 2022

11 of 2008, dated April 21, 2008, regarding Electronic Information and Transactions, as amended by Law No 19 of 2016, dated November 25, 2016.• 20 of 2016, dated December 1, 2016, regarding the Protection of Personal Data in Electronic Systems. registration requirements. Government Regulation No. data retention.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

JANUARY 9, 2022

As you can see, emoticon references peaked in 2016, and the number has roughly stayed steady since then (but see the footnote above). Individual emoji symbols can obtain copyright registrations… sometimes. There are many other caveats to the emoji/emoticon breakdown and the dataset generally–ask me if you want more details.

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Indiana Intellectual Property Law

MARCH 30, 2023

Per the StrossStock website, Stross was nominated and accepted as a professional member of the American Society of Photographers in 2016. A Copyright Registration was issued on December 15, 2008 under Register Number VAu 989-644. He centers his expertise on complicated architectural and landscape photography. He received his B.S.

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Patently-O

JULY 19, 2023

Trademarks and trade secrets followed a different path – developing under state common law before later later gaining federal protections; with trade secrets moving federal most recently via the Defend Trade Secrets Act (DTSA) of 2016. It is common for litigation to assert both.

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TorrentFreak

MARCH 28, 2024

“Beginning in 2016 and continuing through 2019, Freemon sold illegally modified Fire TV Stick devices. At the time, these devices were sold through firesticksloaded.com and firesticksloaded.biz, and Freemon was listed as the registrant for the latter domain.

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43(B)log

JULY 3, 2023

Industria has never had a registration for Ranchera; its application was opposed by an unrelated third party and has been suspended; a prior registration for Zenú was cancelled and Industria never sold any Zenú or Ranchera products in the United States when it owned that registered trademark. .”; But it does not seem to require harm.

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The TTABlog

JANUARY 25, 2022

to “Thus, the issue for likelihood-of-confusion or descriptiveness purposes is typically whether the challenger and registrant compete in the same line of business and failure to cancel an existing mark, or to refuse registration of a new mark, would be likely to cause the opposer competitive injury.” Text Copyright John L.

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The IPKat

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

Visibility is, however, required in the application for registration: design protection is conferred only for those features of appearance of a registered design that are shown visibly in the application for registration (art. Codification had been suggested by the Legal Review from 2016 in order to achieve legal certainty.

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TorrentFreak

APRIL 5, 2024

Swedes and the New Piracy Boogeyman Starting around 2016, give or take depending on region, pirate IPTV services exploded globally. A resident of southern Sweden, the man was the alleged registrant of the service’s domain name. They weren’t alone. In this case, already four years. “According to the indictment, L.K.’s

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43(B)log

FEBRUARY 3, 2024

OMG Dollz that copied their looks. Q: 2016 Kenya law has a detailed framework for protection, bulldozing through all these issues. 150 Questions seems to have copied from an Army manual itself; the Anarchist Cookbook used redrawn versions and written narratives like recipes. Enabling more registration for tribes?

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IP and Legal Filings

AUGUST 14, 2023

The theory of Territoriality states that since disputes relating to the registration and validity of intellectual property rights are typically considered to fall under the exclusive jurisdiction of the State in which such registration was applied for, the choice of law should favour that State. Which law to choose then?

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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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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.” Background.

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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. So, for example, it has a registration showing its 3 stripes slanted on a shoe.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

DECEMBER 27, 2023

Moreover, contrary to The Satanic Temple’s novel argument, domain registration is not the same as registration for a social media website.” For more on the irrationality of this ethics opinion, see this 2016 paper. ” * Hoffmann Brothers Heating and Air Conditioning, LLC v. Bar associations, do better.

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IPilogue

JANUARY 14, 2022

of the Patent Act on June 24, 2016. Like most countries, Canada bars the registration of “clearly descriptive” trademarks to prevent applicants from monopolizing words that merely describe the goods or services at hand. Users can choose whether to accept licences or pursue alternative methods to lawfully copy works.

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The IPKat

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

Ltd [2022] EWHC 1895 (Ch) (July 2022) In our last volume , we reported on Samsung being held directly liable as a platform for copied watch faces for Samsung smartwatches. In 2013, Cadbury’s registration for Pantone 2685C was held invalid because its description rendered it void for lack of certainty.

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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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IP and Legal Filings

AUGUST 30, 2022

As of International Monetary Fund reports of 2016, Qatar has the fourth highest GDP per capita in the world where it relies heavily on foreign labour to grow its economy. The process of trademark registration in Qatar is governed by the Law no. Copy of the mark. Trademark in Qatar. Filing Requirements. Details of the mark.

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The TTABlog

JUNE 10, 2021

Ghiorse , 119 USPQ2d 1178, 1187 (TTAB 2016). There was no survey evidence, no evidence of intentional copying, and minimal media coverage. We are constrained to resolve that doubt in favor of Applicant. Royal Crown , 127 USPQ2d at 1047 (quoting Steelbuilding.com , 75 USPQ2d at 1424); see also Nazon v.

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43(B)log

APRIL 28, 2022

Plaintiff’s 1980s USFL registrations lapsed. Defendants own a registration for USFL for apparel (filed March 2011); USFL for entertainment (filed March 2011); and pending use-based and ITU applications for various team names. The 2011 registrations were acquired from an unrelated entity.

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SpicyIP

DECEMBER 20, 2023

He also discussed the ‘license of rights’ system for GM patents in light of “Licensing and Formats for GM Technology Agreements Guidelines, 2016” (see also ). To get an overall picture, see Prashant’s post “ The Rs. 400 crore war between Monsanto and Indian seed companies with threats of price control and compulsory licensing of patents.”

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Kashishipr

JUNE 9, 2021

The court agreed that the defense of fair use might be available in a given case to an individual user; however, the “activities of Wynk can never be termed as ‘private’ or ‘personal use’ or research,” and that it is selling/commercially renting the sound recordings.

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The IPKat

JUNE 23, 2022

The High Court revoked four EASYOFFICE registrations owned by easyGroup for non-use and held that the Defendant’s use of EASYOFFICE was not an infringement of those registrations anyway owing to, amongst other things, the availability of an honest concurrent use defence. Muzmatch has since rebranded as Muzz. IPKat here.

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43(B)log

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

Certain procedural requirements: must be able to see & save a copy of the disclosures/contract w/in 15 days, via email receipt for example. may require disclosures and charitable registration: Draper James teachers giveaway. NY, DC, WA are considering similar taxes so it’s a trend to watch. Loot boxes are on the horizon.

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43(B)log

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

16, 2024) WCT offers a mobile-fitness app called “Bike+” and owns a trademark registration for that name. But the app was not updated after 2016 and was removed from WCT’s website. Also, by the end of 2016, WCT hadn’t paid taxes since 2015 and its certificate of incorporation was therefore suspended. World Champ Tech LLC v.

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IP and Legal Filings

MAY 17, 2022

Trademarks are also governed by the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) Trademark Law, which Saudi Arabia adopted on 27 September 2016. The SAIP applies the ‘Nice Classification’ in accordance with the Agreement Concerning the International Classification of Goods and Services for the Purposes of the Registration of Marks of 1957.

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The IPKat

MARCH 25, 2024

Background On 8 September 2015, BIW Invest AG (‘BIW’) applied for registration of EU trade mark no. On 27 June 2016, BIW filed another application for EU trade mark no. The evidence submitted by New Yorker did not show that a significant part of the public knew Compton at the filing dates in 2015 and 2016.

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Biswajit Sarkar Copyright Blog

JULY 21, 2023

The word ‘copyright’ in its simplest sense is an amalgamation of the two words ‘copy’ and ‘right’ which leads to the meaning— ‘right to copy’. However, that is sometimes not enough to avoid infringement, which is where registration comes in. Understanding Copyright How would you define copyright?

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SpicyIP

MAY 6, 2024

vs Prerna Rajpal Trading As The Amaris Flagship Store on 29 April, 2024 (Delhi High Court) The dispute is over copying substantial elements like placement, pattern, color combination of plaintiff’s Serpenti Ocean Treasure Necklace by the defendant’s Shield-It Necklace. The plaintiff also holds trademark registration for “Serpenti ” etc.

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Biswajit Sarkar Copyright Blog

JULY 21, 2023

The word ‘ copyright ’ in its simplest sense is an amalgamation of the two words ‘copy’ and ‘right’ which leads to the meaning— ‘right to copy’. However, that is sometimes not enough to avoid infringement, which is where registration comes in. Understanding Copyright How would you define copyright?

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

DECEMBER 11, 2023

2016), aff’d , 674 F. 2016)) traded on the goodwill of Louis Vuitton; it is what made them attractive products. As the new threshold test for application of Rogers , courts can’t simply assume trademark use based on the close copying of the plaintiff’s goods. Haute Diggity Dog, LLC, 507 F.3d 3d 252 (4th Cir. My Other Bag, 156 F.

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IIPRD

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

Surveillance and analysis of IP-related activities on the internet, such as domain name registration, web crawling, social media monitoring, and online marketplace scanning which can help detect potential IP infringement cases, such as cybersquatting, phishing, counterfeiting, piracy, and plagiarism. link] (Accessed: 29 October 2023). [6]

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LexBlog IP

JULY 21, 2021

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. courts have denied registration to religious marks as being offensive to other believers or to non-believers. places the value of faith to U.S.

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LexBlog IP

JULY 5, 2022

” [1] The best part about a copyright is that its registration is typically inexpensive and straightforward. In the event that infringement occurs, a designer must show that the infringer copied the designers copyrighted work. [5] Peters , 488 F.3d 3d 277 (4th Cir. 2] See 17 U.S.C. §§ §§ 302. [3] GFI , 193 F.3d

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Above the Fold

JULY 5, 2022

1] The best part about a copyright is that its registration is typically inexpensive and straightforward. In the event that infringement occurs, a designer must show that the infringer copied the designers copyrighted work. [5] 102(a)(5); see also Darden v. Peters , 488 F.3d 3d 277 (4th Cir. 2] See 17 U.S.C. §§ 302. [3] GFI , 193 F.3d

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