Trademark and Copyright Law Blog

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

While Brexit created many questions and dilemmas that took years to sort out, for trademark attorneys the primary question was always: “What will become of UK protection for EU trademark registrations?” In 2019, that extension ran out, and 95-year-old works from the 1920s began to enter the public domain every January.

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The IPKat

JANUARY 25, 2022

Background On 27th September 2019, European Flipper / Pinball Factory GmbH applied to register the following logo as an EU trade mark: The application covered the following goods and services and was published for opposition on 3rd October 2019: Class 11: Camping stoves. Its EUTM Registration No. International license.

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The IPKat

MAY 13, 2022

7 June 2022 marks one year from the day when all EU Member States were due to have implemented the DSM Directive 2019/790. Registration for the event can be made here. The full programme is accessible on their website , where registration can be also made. The DSM Directive 1 year on, online.

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IP and Legal Filings

JANUARY 29, 2024

An indication becomes generic when it returns to the public domain and is no longer protected in its country of origin or has ceased to be used there. This is stated in Section 9 of the Act, which forbids the registration of GIs that are determined to be generic names or indications of goods.

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CopyrightsWorld

APRIL 29, 2022

A three-person board was entrusted with reviewing a 2019 verdict against a man called Steven Thaler, who had applied for the copyright of an art piece titled A Recent Entrance to Paradise, created by an AI system he called Creativity Machine. .” ” An Exchange of Letters with the Copyright Office.

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CopyrightsWorld

APRIL 29, 2022

A three-person board was entrusted with reviewing a 2019 verdict against a man called Steven Thaler, who had applied for the copyright of an art piece titled A Recent Entrance to Paradise, created by an AI system he called Creativity Machine. .” ” An Exchange of Letters with the Copyright Office.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

OCTOBER 17, 2023

In 2019, the U.S. On 21 February 2023, the USCO reviewed the registration of the comic book “Zarya of the Dawn” (Registration No. As a software-implemented creation, it was not in the public domain and the company willing to exploit the work had to clear the right to reproduction.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

DECEMBER 15, 2021

This is the initial copying design (without of the background graphics in the precedent work): The copyright registrant alleged this copying design constituted copyright infringement. ” Nevertheless, the successor licensee sent DMCA takedown notices to Amazon targeting the registrant’s stripped-down sticker. .”

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Velocity of Content

JULY 8, 2021

In March, 2019, the US Supreme Court released its decision in Fourth Estate Public Benefit Corp. Public Domain work. Part I: Bloggers and the DMCA. Image Attribution: John Tenniel (1865). Imagine yourself just sitting down to building your own little media empire. The DMCA is Your First Line of Defense.

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Plagiarism Today

JANUARY 3, 2022

Though the infringement isn’t in question, the copyright registration is. In the United States, a copyright registration is required before a lawsuit can begin. However, H&M alleges that the registration contained an error, namely that it was included in a collective registration when it should have been separate.

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IP and Legal Filings

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

Union of India and Others [2019 SCC OnLine Del 11867 : (2020) 81 PTC 489] its was rightfully observed in para 10 that : “In today’s digital world, when most inventions are based on computer programs, it would be retrograde to take a view that all such inventions would not be patentable. In the case of Ferid Allani v.

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IIPRD

JANUARY 23, 2023

Patent are valid for the duration of 20 years before coming into public domain) Patent infringement can occur in two ways. 9] For utility Patents, Amazon launched Utility Patent Neutral Evaluation Procedure (UPNEP) in 2019. This assist if a situation of litigation arises. [9]

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SpicyIP

JANUARY 2, 2022

The Vidya Drolia case laid down certain conditions for non-arbitrability of disputes and stated that grant and issue of patents and registration of trademarks were exclusive sovereign or government functions, thus making them non-arbitrable. Durga Trading Corporation was clarified in this case. Hero Electric Vehicles Private Ltd v.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

The United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) refused registration of “Trump Too Small” under Section 2(c) of the Lanham Act ( 15 USC 1052(c) ) because the phrase includes a living individual’s name without his written consent. Tam (2017) and Iancu v. The text of Section 2(c) is viewpoint-neutral.

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Michael Geist

APRIL 11, 2022

Having fought to maintain that flexibility, it is now essential to establish a registration requirement, which would allow rights holders that want the extension to get it, while ensuring that many other works enter the public domain at the international standard of life plus 50 years.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

The lawsuit involves sound recordings of 19 interviews that then-President Trump voluntarily gave to Woodward between December 2019 and August 2020, plus one interview from 2016 (when Trump was still a candidate). If the work was published without proper copyright notice, the work entered the public domain. 3:23-cv-02333 (N.D.

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LexBlog IP

JANUARY 10, 2024

Before the second amendment, President Trump received a copyright registration covering the work, despite an early registration being recorded in Woodward’s favor. Government by its officers and employees should not be subject to copyright” and fall “in the public domain.” ” H.R.

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