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Elon Musk’s Gifts to Web Scrapers (Guest Blog Post)

Technology & Marketing Law Blog

In November 2023, X corp. And that, in turn, further restricts what should be in the public domain and gives companies power to create property rights where none are otherwise granted in the law. Facebook objected and sent a cease-and-desist letter.

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Should Copyright Preemption Moot Anti-Scraping TOS Terms? (Guest Blog Post)

Technology & Marketing Law Blog

2023 WL 6210901. And to characterize zero-click online terms of use that are imposed by cease-and-desist letter as enforceable contracts is horrible policy and bad law. Take, for example, the recent Thomson Reuters Enterprise Centre GmbH v. Ross Intelligence Inc. opinion out of the District Court of Delaware.

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2023 IP Resolutions Start with a Review of IP Assets

The IP Law Blog

As 2023 commences, it’s time for companies to review and take stock of their intellectual property assets. An inventor must secure a patent application within a very short period of time to prevent the work from falling into the public domain. Intellectual property is a company asset, just like inventory.

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2023 IP Resolutions Start with a Review of IP Assets

LexBlog IP

As 2023 commences, it’s time for companies to review and take stock of their intellectual property assets. An inventor must secure a patent application within a very short period of time to prevent the work from falling into the public domain. Intellectual property is a company asset, just like inventory.

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SpicyIP Weekly Review (March 20-March 25)

SpicyIP

Case: Biomoneta Research Vs Controller General of Patents Designs on 13 March 2023 (Delhi High Court) The matter pertained to an appeal against the order of the controller rejecting a patent application for ‘Air Decontamination Assembly’. on 6 March, 2023 (Delhi High Court) In this case, the plaintiff, Bennett Coleman & Co.

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SpicyIP Weekly Review (May 8- May 13)

SpicyIP

Deadline for the Applications: 11:59pm IST, 23rd June, 2023. Other Posts World of Possibilities: Single Judge Bench of Delhi High Court Allows Use of Celebrity Information Available in Public Domain Delhi High Court specifies some contours of publicity rights in India! on 1 May, 2023 (Delhi High Court Order No.

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Evaluating the Constitutionality of Viewpoint-Neutral Trademark Registration Laws That Do Not Restrict Speech—Vidal v. Elster (Guest Blog Post)

Technology & Marketing Law Blog

Elster and held oral argument on November 1, 2023, most commentators believe—like me —that the Court will reverse the Federal Circuit and hold that Section 2(c) is consistent with the Free Speech Clause of the First Amendment on its face and as applied to Elster’s trademark application. After the Supreme Court granted cert in Vidal v.