BYU Copyright Blog

JANUARY 18, 2022

273 (the "District"), claiming that the District violated the longstanding copyright permissions agreement that governed the District's use of a hornet logo designed by Otto (the "Logo"). Between 1981 and 2019, the District apparently sought and received Otto's permission for each new use of the Logo.

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Barry Sookman

MARCH 24, 2020

To consummate transactions and to otherwise engage in contractual activities, organizations have increasingly relied on electronic means of contracting using everything from webwraps and clickwraps (and hybrid variations of these forms of agreements) and electronic documents executed using electronic signatures. Durocher, 2019 SKCA 97; R.

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The IPKat

DECEMBER 26, 2023

As readers may be aware, Articles 18-22 of the Directive (EU) 2019/790 (DSM Directive) [IPKat coverage here ] establish protective measures for authors and performers that license or transfer the exclusive economic rights over their works and performances to third parties for the purpose of exploitation.

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Garrigues Blog

JUNE 28, 2021

China has taken a further step towards aligning its regulations with the international protection system for designs. On June 1, 2021, the most recent reform of the country’s Patent Act entered into force, which includes significant changes to how industrial designs are regulated. Key reforms.

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The IPKat

MARCH 14, 2024

Background The solicitors to Ini Edo and Minini Empire Productions Limited (MEP) stated in their petition to the Nigerian Copyright Commission (NCC) and Trademarks and Patent Design Registry that Chinenye Nworah sought to bypass their right as co-owners of the IPRs to the movie, Shanty Town.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

APRIL 8, 2023

California passed the California Age-Appropriate Design Code (AADC) nominally to protect children’s privacy, but at the same time, the AADC requires businesses to do an age “assurance” of all their users, children and adults alike. In all likelihood, BIPA consent would require, at minimum, a two-click process to proceed.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

FEBRUARY 27, 2022

TPG aggregates and collects information from the most prominent rewards programs and provides a series of rankings and recommendations designed to help maximize your rewards points. After the same court’s hiQ Labs decision from 2019, it wasn’t clear whether that was still good law. Breach of Contract 2. Thus, the Points Guy.

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The IPKat

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

In 2019, the Copyright Office rejected the application, holding that human authorship is necessary to support a copyright claim. First, held the Board, a machine cannot enter into any binding legal contract. The application stated that the Work had been autonomously created by a computer algorithm running on a machine.

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The IPKat

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

Designation of the inventor (A-III-7) A-III-7 now states that the EPO will check whether the designated inventor is a natural person. This update follows the decision in J 8/20 (DABUS) that an AI cannot be designated as an inventor ( IPKat ). 25 sequence listing filed in PDF format as part of a divisional application" (A-IV-5).

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LexBlog IP

JULY 13, 2022

On Thursday, July 7, 2022, California Governor Gavin Newsom announced that the most recent state budget, signed last week, includes a $100 million allotment for California to “contract to make [its] own insulin at a cheaper price, close to at cost.” ” The budget also includes “$700,000 ($2.8 ” The post CA Gov.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

JANUARY 23, 2024

by guest blogger Kieran McCarthy The intersection of the Federal Arbitration Act and the law of online contracts has become utterly corrosive to our legal system. The problem with the FAA and online contracts, of course, is that no one is agreeing to arbitrate anything. Kho (2019) 8 Cal.5th Consumer Contracts (Tent.

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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. Copyright contract law (Sections 31 et seqq. Right of remuneration (Sections 32 et seqq.

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IP and Legal Filings

OCTOBER 31, 2022

The Singapore Treaty is applicable to all types of marks registrable under the law of a given Contracting Party. Contracting Parties are free to choose the means of communication with their offices (including communications in electronic form or by electronic means of transmittal). Image Source: IStock].

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The IPKat

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

Article 118 EPC states that, where the applicants for a European patent are not the same for different contracting states of the EPO, they shall be regarded as joint applicants and that unity of the application will thus not be affected. The PCT application (P2) named A1, A2 and A3 as inventors and applicants for the US designation of P2.

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IIPRD

JANUARY 29, 2023

The issues pertaining to the rights of VTubers encompass rights to the design of the character, the privacy of the individual, licensing and taking inspiration from an existing character. 5] The content creator reached out to the artist for a commissioned artwork which is a unique character design. 6] Stuart D. Levi & Alex B.

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LexBlog IP

JANUARY 19, 2022

Foro anticipated that, at the conclusion of the feasibility study, Vita would provide a design of the deployment wheel that provided sufficient detail for manufacturing the equipment. Vita’s conceptual design was therefore readily ascertainable by proper means, and every feature was visually observable. June 7, 2019)).

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Trading Secrets

JANUARY 19, 2022

Foro anticipated that, at the conclusion of the feasibility study, Vita would provide a design of the deployment wheel that provided sufficient detail for manufacturing the equipment. Vita’s conceptual design was therefore readily ascertainable by proper means, and every feature was visually observable. June 7, 2019)).

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CopyrightsWorld

FEBRUARY 10, 2021

turned out to be almost identical, and Gassée believed this to be a breach of contract. Samsung: The Supreme Court presided over a few major technology cases in 2019, but in one of the most important ones, it reversed a ruling that found Samsung liable to pay its profit from the entire line of Galaxy phones in 2011. However, Windows 2.0

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43(B)log

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

It is a truth universally acknowledged – so universally as to be worthy of judicial notice – that designers long to have their work featured in Vogue , and that the models who make their living exhibiting designer clothes aspire to have their photographs appear in the magazine – or, today, on its website or social media account.”

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Corsearch

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

With the challenges posed by name saturation and the reduced availability of work marks, industrial designs are increasingly important within intellectual property strategies. When people think about designs they typically think of patents, but the world of protecting designs is far more extensive than that.

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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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Patently-O

MARCH 26, 2024

Brady for an improved dredge boat design. It found that Brady’s claimed arrangement would have been obvious to any skilled engineer tasked with designing a dredge boat, given the existing knowledge in the field. .” As discussed below, I believe the case also provides some early insight into the new AI inventorship dilemma.

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The IPKat

OCTOBER 8, 2021

Background: A need for change The CIPA president announced the launch of the Mercer Review at the CIPA East of England regional conference back in 2019, following the debacle of the 2018 FD4/P6 examination ( IPKat ). The Review thus recommends that the exam should be limited to assessing the skill they are designed to assess (i.e.

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Indiana Intellectual Property Law

JULY 12, 2021

In February 2019, Watch claims Jarman approached the President and Chief Executive Officer, Ken Williams (“Williams”) with an opportunity to assist in a project in Tennessee. According to the Complaint, Mosby had been the Chief Operating Officer of a company acquired by Watch in 2019. Todd Mosby (“Mosby”).

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The IPKat

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

Giovanni Guglielmetti dealt with the subject of design protection under copyright law, starting from the well-known judgments Cofemel Case C-683/17 and Brompton Case C-833/18 [Katposts here and here ]. It is true, in fact, that the Court held that there is no requirement other than 'mere' originality (i.e.,

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

Photo by Christian Wiediger from Unsplash The implementation transposition of the Copyright Directive 2019/790 (DSMD) in the summer of 2021 represented probably the greatest reform in German copyright law since the German Copyright Act (UrhG) came into force. Germany’s implementation of Art. Scope of protection (copyrighted works) 1.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

MARCH 18, 2024

Part II will focus on copyright contract law and claims under copyright law. IV. Copyright contract law (Sections 31 et seqq. This aspect of copyright contract law has so far not been harmonised by EU law. In the course of the reform implementing Art. This is the so-called “purpose of the parties” doctrine or theory.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

MARCH 14, 2024

Part II will focus on copyright contract law and claims under copyright law. In a case which involves the question of copyright protection of the USM Haller furniture design the BGH referred several questions to the CJEU in December 2023 to clarify the requirements for protection of applied art under EU law.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

MAY 2, 2022

In 2019, the Ninth Circuit upheld the district court’s injunction ruling in favor of hiQ. They may look to state hacking laws, trespass to chattel claims, or other causes of action “such as copyright infringement, misappropriation, unjust enrichment, conversion, breach of contract, or breach of privacy.”. __.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

DECEMBER 15, 2021

The precedent work is “a set of replacement stickers for the dashboard climate controls for certain GM vehicles”: The Copyright Office registered this design. Defendant had not obtained the Deposit Design from the Copyright Office. 2019 WL 13109708 (S.D. Tierra Caliente Music Group SA v. Serca Discos, Inc.,

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43(B)log

MARCH 6, 2024

1, 2024) “Qoins is a financial technology company that collects funds from its customers and disburses payments to designated creditors in order to help its customers pay off their debts.” The court mostly denied Qoins’ motion to dismiss the resulting claims, including breach of contract and libel.

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Herbert Smith Freehills

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

Earlier this year, President Alvarado met with the President-Designate of COP26, Alok Sharma, to discuss the implementation of the Paris Agreement at COP26, particularly in relation to Article 6 on carbon markets and Article 13 on transparency frameworks. However, Colombia is also taking positive steps to mitigate climate change.

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Herbert Smith Freehills

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

Earlier this year, President Alvarado met with the President-Designate of COP26, Alok Sharma, to discuss the implementation of the Paris Agreement at COP26, particularly in relation to Article 6 on carbon markets and Article 13 on transparency frameworks. However, Colombia is also taking positive steps to mitigate climate change.

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Patently-O

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

Disclosure statement: in 2019, the author served as an expert for HTC in an unrelated, non-U.S. 2021), affirming the judgment of the District Court for the Eastern District of Texas, 2019 U.S. 2021), affirming the judgment of the District Court for the Eastern District of Texas, 2019 U.S. LEXIS 26250, __ F.4 4 th __ (Fed.

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LexBlog IP

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

It would also require that employers take affirmative steps to rescind existing non-compete clauses and explicitly inform workers that the contracts are no longer effective. If a post-employment covenant merely seeks to eliminate competition and is not designed to protect a legitimate business interest, it will not be enforced.

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The IP Law Blog

MARCH 2, 2021

The issue arose from a dispute between Romag, a manufacturer of magnetic snap fasteners for leather goods, and Fossil, a designer and distributor of a wide range of fashion accessories. company contracting with Chinese manufacturers, after insurance, 32 will be contracts. 31 Such improvements may give U.S.

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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 applied for an injunction against the defendant for copyright infringement and breach of contract.

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