Patently-O

SEPTEMBER 17, 2023

This post will focus on another key issue from the case – the relevance of logos in design patent infringement analysis. Still, ornamental logos found on the accused product can still be relevant as visual distractors in the process of evaluating similarities and differences between the claimed design and accused design.

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Garrigues Blog

JULY 27, 2021

The World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) has published its World Intellectual Property Indicators Report 2020 , which contains valuable information on changes in intellectual property indicators and trends worldwide, from 2018 to 2019, as we discussed in this post. Industrial designs. Trademarks.

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Plagiarism Today

JANUARY 4, 2023

According to Google, there were at least 50 instances of copying, some of which were “word-for-word”. However, Google is far from the first to make this argument, as we saw something similar happen in the European Union in 2019. Copy and Paste Roundup. What both of these cases have in common is the issue of impartiality.

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LexBlog IP

APRIL 12, 2022

the Federal Circuit reversed the PTAB’s finding that Gamon’s design patents on gravity-fed displays for soup were non-obvious. Campbell comparison of solid-lined portion of claimed design to primary (Linz) reference. In Campbell Soup Co. Gamon Plus, Inc. , 4th 1268 (Fed. 19, 2021) (“ Gamon II ”). ” 10 F.4

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Plagiarism Today

AUGUST 16, 2021

According to the lawsuit, Johnston made 15 copies of a master tape of his recording and sent it to various record labels, including Roadrunner. He claims that this granted Nickelback access to the song and that they copied various elements from it, including tempo, song form, melodic structure and more. Finally today, Michael S.

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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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Plagiarism Today

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

In July 2019, YouTuber James St. All this raises a simple question: Did the series copy St Onge’s work? Onge and others who spotted the similarities, someone who worked on the series closely copied or even traced St. This leaves little doubt that, somewhere along the way, copied images made it into the show.

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Plagiarism Today

OCTOBER 24, 2022

In 2019, it was due to road work on my street and both 2020 and 2021 due to the pandemic. This prompted Florence Stoker to sue, a case she won handily with an order that all copies of the film be destroyed. However, at least one copy made it to the United States, where the original book was already in public domain. Bottom Line.

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IP Tech Blog

JULY 27, 2021

On June 21, 2021, the Shenzhen Administration for Market Regulation (Shenzhen AMR) issued the first ever administrative injunction against the alleged infringement of a design patent. The problem therefore remains: Current remedies for design and copyright infringements pass mostly through civil courts and are neither cheap nor quick.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

Part 1 of this post (originally published in “Auteurs & Media”) summarising case law of the German Bundesgerichtshof from 2015 to 2019 is available here , and parts 3 and 4 will be published on the blog over the coming days. . The BGH arrived at the same ruling as in Cordoba II in another judgment in 2019 called Testversion.

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LexBlog IP

JULY 27, 2021

On June 21, 2021, the Shenzhen Administration for Market Regulation (Shenzhen AMR) issued the first ever administrative injunction against the alleged infringement of a design patent. The problem therefore remains: Current remedies for design and copyright infringements pass mostly through civil courts and are neither cheap nor quick.

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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

DECEMBER 29, 2021

Section 4 of the report refers to detentions at the EU border and is based on data uploaded into DG TAXUD’s COPIS (the EU-wide anti- Co unterfeit and anti- Pi racy information S ystem) by the customs authorities of all the Member States. In this regard, the most infringed right was trademarks , followed by designs , copyright and patents.

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TorrentFreak

FEBRUARY 11, 2024

The complaint states that Boomer is the author of the massively popular Roblox games Weight Lifting Simulator (released in 2017/18) and a game with a similar theme called Muscles Legends (2019). The same gameplay mechanics also appear in Get Muscles Simulator but the complaint alleges that copying goes well beyond that.

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IPilogue

OCTOBER 28, 2021

In Canada, under section 64(2) of the Copyright Act , it is not an infringement of copyright to reproduce the design of a “useful article”, so long as more than 50 copies are made. In Pyrrha Design Inc. where original jewellery designs are automatically protected under copyright law as sculptural or pictorial works.

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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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The IPKat

DECEMBER 4, 2023

Incidentally, both proceedings stemmed from a long-running dispute between Piaggio and a Chinese company accused by the former of parasitically copying the Vespa design. In 2019, the Court of Appeal of Turin upheld the decision at first instance. A final appeal to the Italian Supreme Court followed.

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BYU Copyright Blog

OCTOBER 17, 2022

The use of the Work on the College's graphic design department website was allegedly discovered in 2019.Bowers On page three, the Complaint shows a copy of the alleged original image which contains a copyright watermark on the bottom left corner.

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IPilogue

OCTOBER 19, 2021

Cookie Department”) for copying Hershey’s famous Kisses shape. The design of Hershey’s cone-shaped small chocolate “Kisses” has been a registered trademark with the United States Patent and Trademarks Office (USPTO) since 1996. When it comes to food designs, how far can a trademark go? On September 28, 2021 , The Hershey Co.

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Plagiarism Today

JANUARY 5, 2022

Winnie-the-Pooh is likely the most culturally relevant character to enter the public domain since 2019, when works started entering the public domain again in the United States due to the Sonny Bono Copyright Term Extension Act. It uses the art style and the meter of the original work, as well as the designs of characters from that book.

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IP and Legal Filings

SEPTEMBER 17, 2021

Fashion designers and artists showcase their creative genius through conceptual fashion shows and apparel collections. As of 2019, the apparel market was valued at about 368 billion U.S Designs or patterns that are created to stitch or print into textiles are protected with the help of design acts in several countries.

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Patently-O

AUGUST 31, 2021

There apparently is no claim of copying of any lines of software, but instead it is copying of the functionality and use of the particular coding language. My understanding is that WPL designed its software so that its software would execute the same input-procedure used on SAS and produce an equivalent output. 621 (2019).

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IIPRD

MARCH 4, 2024

This right can be related to music, a book, a logo, any art work, work related to science, designs of the industries. It was decided by the Supreme Court in the case that the cinematographic films do have the copy right it was on of the issue in the case of Yash Raj Films vs Sri Sri Ganesh Productions. [1] 2] Novartis v. Cipla, I.A.

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The IPKat

JUNE 17, 2023

Would you say that Cattelan’s work (realized for an exhibition in Miami in 2019) is an unauthorized reproduction of the 2001 work below, titled Banana and Orange , and thus an infringement of the copyright vesting in it? Of course, that is not all: Comedian has in fact also sparked litigation in the USA.

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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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SpicyIP

OCTOBER 27, 2023

Challenges Under IP Law Dark patterns are deceptive or manipulative design elements or techniques used in user interfaces to trick users into taking actions they may not want to take. For instance, when a person copies the unique packaging design of a popular energy drink, it confuses consumers and potentially infringes the trade dress.

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Indiana Intellectual Property Law

AUGUST 4, 2021

Introduced in 2019, founder Peggy Johns claims to have invented egglife egg white wraps, using a now patented method ( U.S. Since 2019, Egglife has allegedly invested $5 million dollars in the Egglife brand and is on pace to reach $30 million in retail sales in 2021. 10,194,669 ). Per the Complaint, Crepini owns U.S.

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The IPKat

MARCH 10, 2022

The IPKat's favourite Le Pliage When you have a handbag design bestseller with over 54 million copies sold around the world since its creation in 1993, the question concerning the IP rights vesting in it is not just an academic one. The case concerned Longchamp’s Le Pliage “cult” bag.

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Dragons' Den

APRIL 4, 2024

Once your copyright has expired, anyone can use or copy your work. Tori and Carrie have intellectual property nailed The pair came up with the idea, design and prototype 10 years ago and have been trading since October 2019. Copyright protects your work and stops others from using it without your permission.

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Kashishipr

JULY 20, 2022

” In one of the articles published by Fortune Magazine in 1999, journalist Paul Lukas wrote that it is a familiar story when a small fledging company comes up with a brilliant new product – so good that a more powerful and bigger company copies its unique idea. and the so-called rival RealMe. Tencent Holdings Ltd.,

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IPilogue

APRIL 22, 2022

ViiV Healthcare (“ViiV”), majority-owned by GlaxoSmithKline (“GSK”), claims that Gilead’s bictegravir (sold under the brand name “Biktarvy”) directly copied its dolutegravir’s formulation under U.S. Under this doctrine, the inventor could not then sue another for using the three-wheeled or four-wheeled design.

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SpicyIP

DECEMBER 29, 2023

Through various prompts, the plaintiff designed the character, the composition and layout of the image. It is also worth noting that some negative prompts were copied and pasted by the plaintiff from anonymous user’s shared content in an online forum. Baidu (Beijing Internet Court, 2019) and Shenzhen Tencent v. Liu case.

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TorrentFreak

JANUARY 6, 2022

A notable example includes members of the MiLLENiUM Release Group who were sentenced in 2019. The domain names were designed to be confusingly similar to real entities by including subtle typographical errors (such as replacing ‘m’ with the letters ‘rn’) that were difficult to spot. Statutory Allegations.

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IPilogue

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

Then, a company called UNFT News copied those articles and published them on their website but post-dated them. Lumen is a project launched by the Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University that was specifically designed to examine this problem. So, it appeared that Bursgerburg had plagiarised their work.

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IPilogue

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

Larson first commenced legal action at the start of 2019 following a number of attempts by Ms. Dorland will need to show: (1) ownership of a valid copyright, and (2) copying of constituent elements of the work that are original. Dorland originally posted on Facebook.? . On June 10, 2018, Ms. Copyright Office. 19-cv-10203-IT), Ms.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

OCTOBER 3, 2023

2019); Worldwide Church of God vs Phila. 2000) (“ copying an entire work militates against a finding of fair use. ”). The defendants to be required to implement, maintain, regularly review and revise as necessary a threat management program designed to appropriately monitor the defendants’ information networks for threats.

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