Intellectual Property Law Blog

JANUARY 11, 2023

Understanding Mask Work 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. government. Id, section 2407.1(D)(2).

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IP and Legal Filings

JANUARY 23, 2023

Introduction Intellectual property entails the protection of legal rights for inventions and creations made by individuals or businesses using their minds. Such works of art benefit the creator, and they are protected by the law of intellectual property. These advantages can be made profitable for the owner.

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LexBlog IP

JANUARY 5, 2022

So, believing that the state’s usurpation of his right to control use of the copyrighted work essentially took from the photographer a valuable property right, the photographer made a takings claim, seeking just compensation for the state’s alleged taking, essentially an assertion of eminent domain over the intellectual property.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

APRIL 5, 2022

Welcome to the first trimester of the 2022 round up of EU copyright law! On 24 March 2022, the CJEU issued its judgment in the Austro-Mechana case which tackles the private copying exception and the compensation for the reproduction and storage of copyright material in the cloud. Photo by Markus Spiske on Unsplash.

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Olartemoure Blog

SEPTEMBER 27, 2022

The virtual universe Decentraland hosted in March 2022, the first Metaverse Fashion Week which was a success, as it featured more than 70 brands, artists and designers. As a result, the brands are becoming more vulnerable of being copied and exploited by others. All industries are starting to grasp this and are getting involved in it.

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Intepat

DECEMBER 4, 2023

In recent years, India has witnessed a remarkable surge in the awareness and utilization of intellectual property rights (IPR) within its Micro, Small, and Medium Enterprises (MSMEs) sector. The surge in patent applications by MSMEs in the financial year 2022-23, marking a 28.4%

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Intepat

JUNE 15, 2023

Introduction With the rise of the mobile application industry, India emerges as a highly profitable market, witnessing over twenty-eight billion downloads in 2022, accounting for 5% of the total global downloads. It thus becomes crucial for them to safeguard their creations through effective intellectual property laws.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

OCTOBER 5, 2022

On 9 September 2022, Creative Commons issued their new FAQs on NFTs. The ownership of an NFT is recorded in the blockchain, and can be transferred by the owner, allowing NFTs to be sold and traded ”. Crucially, the ownership of an NFT does not equate to ownership of an underlying asset. Photo by Markus Winkler.

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BYU Copyright Blog

JULY 25, 2023

Code, signaling a conflict over intellectual property rights and the unauthorized use of creative works.According to Messerschmidt's Complaint, the Academy, an online school specializing in English as a Second Language courses for Vietnamese speakers, allegedly utilized his photographs without obtaining proper authorization.

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BYU Copyright Blog

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

In April 2022, Kev & Cooper LLC ("Kev & Cooper") filed a lawsuit against Gladwell LLC ("Gladwell") in the United States District Court for the District of New Jersey, alleging that Gladwell had created and sold educational rugs that were copies of Kev & Cooper's copyrighted designs.

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IPilogue

OCTOBER 31, 2022

In recent years, many technical mechanisms to protect intellectual property have given their helping hands to IP owners and technology developers to enhance IP management and protection. However, it can take a lot of resources to add watermarks to each copy of a file or printed product and then detect them once more.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

According to the complaint, when Apple learned of the app, it liked the idea—so much so, in fact, that it copied it. These screenshots (from the complaint) show the alleged copying: I trust the differences are immediately apparent. Copyright Owner Claims Ownership Over Depicting Emoji Symbols in Multiple Colors–Cub Club v.

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TorrentFreak

DECEMBER 4, 2023

According to his profile , Hierl has practiced exclusively in the area of intellectual property law since 1980; the lawsuit claims that Hierl and his law firm carried out work for the plaintiffs, including “filing infringement actions against and collecting monetary settlement payments from third-party infringers.”

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TorrentFreak

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

handles intellectual property matters for CP Productions and to date has registered 157 videos at the U.S. As laid out in David Graves’ declaration, the website DaftSex.com links to 1,734 pirated copies of CP Productions videos. That’s not unusual in itself but the case is far from ordinary. Fornix Holdings, Inc.

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JIPEL Copyright Blog

MARCH 22, 2022

However, NFTs associated with music are especially poised to challenge traditional intellectual property rights and the future of the music industry. This could pave the way to returning some control to artists who typically sign over ownership rights in their music.

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IP and Legal Filings

MARCH 12, 2024

Initially, this law applied only to copying books, but over time, its application expanded to include photographs, motion pictures, recordings, and more. The Court defined rogue websites as those that mainly share content that infringes on intellectual property rights. Indian Journal of Intellectual Property Law, 11, 179-204.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

AUGUST 24, 2022

As previously reported , between October 2021 and January 2022 the UK Intellectual Property Office held a public consultation on the intersection between artificial intelligence (AI) and intellectual property laws (more specifically, copyright and patents). The consultation closed in the beginning of January 2022.

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Trading Secrets

JANUARY 5, 2023

The FTC also states that the proposed rule will help employees bring “innovative ideas” to new employers—which ironically highlights the concern that a wholesale ban on non-competes (not to mention other covenants) could result in employees sharing their former employer’s intellectual property and trade secrets. Request a copy here.

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Trading Secrets

JANUARY 5, 2023

The FTC also states that the proposed rule will help employees bring “innovative ideas” to new employers—which ironically highlights the concern that a wholesale ban on non-competes (not to mention other covenants) could result in employees sharing their former employer’s intellectual property and trade secrets. Request a copy here.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

In a judgement of 1 September 2022 , the ECtHR scrutinized the text of exceptions in national copyright legislation and unanimously considered that the Azerbaijani judiciary failed to provide sufficient reasons to apply either statutory exceptions or the exhaustion doctrine to the unconsented online publication.

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The IPKat

JUNE 13, 2022

NFTs are legal property… A recent case in the High Court recognised NFTs as property under the law of England and Wales. But, of course, they are not intellectual property… Don't worry, I'm exhausted too. The terms of ownership and remuneration vary between platforms.

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IP and Legal Filings

MARCH 15, 2023

Advertisements are for public display and therefore, claiming the ownership is a debatable question in the domain of intellectual property. The court observes that it is not the idea which is protected under intellectual property rather the expression of the idea which can be claimed for infringement under copyright.

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IPilogue

OCTOBER 1, 2022

On May 31, 2022, Judge Dale S. In comparison, previous copyright infringement cases over tattoo art focus on an existing tattoo being reproduced in another work rather than the copying of a reference image. Fischer found triable issues on substantial similarity and fair use. Background. For example, in Alexander v. Further Reading.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

DECEMBER 8, 2022

In August 2022, the European Commission’s Directorate-General for Research and Innovation published a study on EU copyright and related rights and access to and reuse of scientific publications, including open access. Such rules could grant copyright ownership in scientific publications to the scientific author or to universities.

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IIPRD

OCTOBER 17, 2022

In the present case too there will be many legal issues related to Intellectual Property. There is an urgent need to shed some light on intellectual property infringement in this virtual world which will be dealt with further in the article. Intellectual Property and Metaverse. Trademark Infringement.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

DECEMBER 5, 2022

When the said sensor recognizes it is in front of the Ara Pacis, it gives the order to copy the colored reproductions of some parts of the Ara Pacis, stored in a cloud-based database, and display them on the screen of the goggles. Thus, ownership of such rights is crucial for exploitation purposes. 2022, 618ff. by Edward J.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

© Simon Geiregat 2022. In relation to objects subject to ownership, like tangible items, such an entitlement to revindicate ( rei vindicatio ) is commonly guaranteed as one of the prerogatives of the owner. By contrast, digital data are, as such, not undisputedly considered to be subjectable to ownership rights. by Edward J.

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IIPRD

JANUARY 18, 2022

Recently, a new trend of merging of blockchain technology with creative intellectual property via non-fungible tokens (“NFTs”) had taken place. NFTs are created using “smart contracts,” which are software codes that govern actions such as validating ownership and regulating their transferability.

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LexBlog IP

DECEMBER 26, 2023

used in those generated logos retain the ownership to that original art and do not give you a license to use it exclusively. usually you won’t be given the rights needed to have ownership or apply for registration, but even if you are, your logo could still be refused copyright and trademark registration for other reasons.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

MAY 30, 2022

The court lists among its conclusions of fact: “the pop-up is not a parody or caricature of SpongeBob, the Krusty Krab, or the SpongeBob SquarePants universe”; “the pop-up does not mimic Viacom’s intellectual property for purposes of commenting upon, or criticizing, the SpongeBob SquarePants universe (in whole or in part)”; and.

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IIPRD

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

When considering Intellectual Property (IP), embracing the cloud is like a double-edged sword. 2022) [2] , the High Court of Delhi held that because the respondent chose to put its service in Singapore, the Plaintiff cannot be rendered helpless against actual infringers. 2015) Protecting intellectual property in the cloud, WIPO.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

In a 2022 Copyright Review Board decision [10] the US Copyright Office rejected a second request for reconsideration of a refusal to register a two-dimensional work of art described by the applicant as “autonomously created by a computer algorithm running on a machine.” 1412 (2022)(cert. Copyright for AI Products? 4 th 1034 (9 th Cir.

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IP Tech Blog

JANUARY 4, 2023

What is the intellectual property right that most suits NFTs? Ownership and Enforcement. Ownership and scope of protection against infringers are among the key challenges to copyright protection of NFTs. Ownership and scope of protection against infringers are among the key challenges to copyright protection of NFTs.

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LexBlog IP

SEPTEMBER 15, 2022

NFTs are units of data stored on a blockchain that signify ownership of (supposedly) unique digital media items. But NFTs are separate and distinct from the digital items they are meant to authenticate, making it extremely difficult to assign title to the various intellectual property rights stemming from the sale of each NFT.

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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. Between 2010-2022, there are 646 mask works registered in the U.S.

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LexBlog IP

DECEMBER 2, 2022

9126391, 2022 TTAB LEXIS 383, 2022 WL 16646840 (TTAB Oct. The Opposer pled ownership of eleven federal trademark registrations related to various SMOK marks as well as a family of marks “around the wording SMOK.” For the same reason, plain copies of registrations generally are not sufficient to make a registration of record.

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LexBlog IP

JANUARY 5, 2023

The FTC also states that the proposed rule will help employees bring “innovative ideas” to new employers—which ironically highlights the concern that a wholesale ban on non-competes (not to mention other covenants) could result in employees sharing their former employer’s intellectual property and trade secrets.

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