Intellectual Property Law Blog

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

8, 2024) , the Federal Circuit reversed the Patent Trial and Appeal Board’s legal conclusion that Weber’s operating manuals were not prior art printed publications based on the public accessibility of the operating manuals. 10,639,812 and 10,625,436) relate to high-speed mechanical slicers for slicing and packaging food articles.

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The TTABlog

MAY 7, 2024

97291105 (May 1, 2024) [not precedential] [not precedential] (Opinion by Judge Thomas L. Trademark Rule 41(a)(1) provides that "In appropriate cases, ownership of one or more active prior registrations on the Principal Register. Welch 2024. In re Administrators of the Jean-Michel Basquiat Estate , Serial No. Casagrande).

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LexBlog IP

JANUARY 23, 2024

The following post was originally included as part of our recently published memorandum “ Selected Issues for Boards of Directors in 2024” Artificial intelligence (AI) was the biggest technology news of 2023. Observers have rightly focused on the plentiful value-creation opportunities this new technology affords.

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LexBlog IP

AUGUST 29, 2023

This is the first article in a new series about the CTA. To learn more about what information is required to be reported and who qualifies as a beneficial owner or company applicant, please read our other articles in this series: The Corporate Transparency Act (Parts 1-4). The CTA takes effect on January 1, 2024.

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LexBlog IP

JANUARY 17, 2024

This is the third article in a new series about the CTA. For more information related to which entities qualify as “reporting companies,” please read our other articles in this series: The Corporate Transparency Act (Parts 1-4). Deadlines for Filing: A reporting company itself is responsible for filing the BOI report.

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LexBlog IP

JANUARY 17, 2024

This is the first article in a new series about the CTA. To learn more about what information is required to be reported and who qualifies as a beneficial owner or company applicant, please read our other articles in this series: The Corporate Transparency Act (Parts 1-4). The CTA takes effect on January 1, 2024.

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The IPKat

MARCH 15, 2024

In such a fact situation, a patent arising from the PCT application does normally not enjoy priority under Article 87(1) EPC , as was confirmed in the previous case T 844/18 by the same Board in a different composition for exactly the same fact situation ( IPKat ). Rockefeller was even said to have had an interest in valid priority rights.

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The TTABlog

MARCH 5, 2024

90518181 (February 27, 2024) [not precedential] (Opinion by Judge Christopher C. Under the Inwood test, a product configuration is functional under Section 2(e)(5) if (1) it is "essential to the use or purpose of the article,” or (2) it "affects the cost or quality of the article." Welch 2024. Text Copyright John L.

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LexBlog IP

AUGUST 29, 2023

This is the third article in a new series about the CTA. For more information related to which entities qualify as “reporting companies,” please read our other articles in this series: The Corporate Transparency Act (Parts 1-4). Reports will not be accepted prior to January 1, 2024.

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LexBlog IP

OCTOBER 3, 2023

As of January 1, 2024, the CTA will be enforced for all new and existing entities. The CTA is set to fundamentally change corporate reporting requirements, impacting millions of businesses in 2024. Compliance Timeline: Companies established or registered before January 1, 2024, have until January 1, 2025, to file their initial report.

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LexBlog IP

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

8, 2024) , the Federal Circuit reversed the Patent Trial and Appeal Board’s legal conclusion that Weber’s operating manuals were not prior art printed publications based on the public accessibility of the operating manuals. 10,639,812 and 10,625,436) relate to high-speed mechanical slicers for slicing and packaging food articles.

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Plagiarism Today

JANUARY 3, 2023

Ownership of AI Works: Can work created by an artificial intelligence be protected by copyright? It’s unlikely that we’ll know the long-term impacts of AI in 2023 or even 2024. The Rights of Human Creators: What rights do human creators have when their work is ingested and used to train AI? If so, who has the rights in question?

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LexBlog IP

AUGUST 29, 2023

This is the second article in a new series about the CTA. The CTA takes effect on January 1, 2024, so it is crucial that you familiarize yourself with your company’s potential reporting obligations now. or abroad, including any ownership interests. Therefore, the information discussed in this article is subject to change.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

MARCH 13, 2024

More crucially, rightholders can instrumentalize their exclusive right to control initial access to their works, making the exercise of user rights increasingly difficult if not impossible ( Kretschmer & Margoni, 2024 ). While Member States can derogate from this right and establish and remunerated exception under art.

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Patently-O

MAY 1, 2024

May 1, 2024) offers some interesting insight into leveraged patent transactions, and the effect of a lender’s ability to license or assign a patent on the patent owner’s standing to sue for infringement, especially after default. by Dennis Crouch The Federal Circuit’s new decision in Intellectual Tech LLC v. Zebra Techs.

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LexBlog IP

JANUARY 25, 2024

.—an online party, greeting card, and event planning service—sued defendant AJ Press, LLC for trademark infringement and unfair competition arising from its offering of Punchbowl News, a subscription-based online news service that provides articles and podcasts about American politics. [3] 21-55881, 2024 WL 134696 (9th Cir.

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Copyright Lately

MARCH 13, 2024

It’s not a particularly good look for the Times, especially in light of the shaky foundation on which its claims of exclusive ownership rest and the iterative origins of its own game. An unsolicited Wordle of advice: In copyright law, as in life, just because you can doesn’t mean you should.

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TorrentFreak

APRIL 12, 2024

I found an account on Udio that is mostly generating songs about how his friend Seth s**t his pants at work pic.twitter.com/v3jJByMbtq — abcdent (@abcdentminded) April 11, 2024 Udio and other platforms dedicated to generative AI are the kind of magic that can’t be undermined by looking up a sleeve or spotting a twin in the audience.

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Trading Secrets

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

Specifically: AI Inventorship: The Executive Order mandates the USPTO Director to publish, by the end of February 2024, guidance to the USPTO’s patent examiners and applicants addressing inventorship and the utilization of AI, including generative AI, in the inventive process. See our prior post on issues raised by Thaler.

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LexBlog IP

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

Specifically: AI Inventorship: The Executive Order mandates the USPTO Director to publish, by the end of February 2024, guidance to the USPTO’s patent examiners and applicants addressing inventorship and the utilization of AI, including generative AI, in the inventive process. See our prior post on issues raised by Thaler. § 101.

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LexBlog IP

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

Specifically: AI Inventorship: The Executive Order mandates the USPTO Director to publish, by the end of February 2024, guidance to the USPTO’s patent examiners and applicants addressing inventorship and the utilization of AI, including generative AI, in the inventive process. See our prior post on issues raised by Thaler. § 101.

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SpicyIP

DECEMBER 30, 2023

[Delhi High Court] On May 23, the Delhi High Court passed an interesting jud gement on the issue of ownership of the copyright in a film screenplay and held that the copyright in the screenplay of the film ‘Nayak’, lay with Satyajit Ray and on his demise, with his son Sandip Ray and the Society for Preservation of Satyajit Ray Archives (SPSRA).

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