The IPKat

JANUARY 20, 2024

City, University of London will hold the seminar ‘From the Batmobile to Mickey Mouse via Pippi Longstocking’ on 14 February 2024. PermaKat Eleonora Rosati will address how IP rights protect fictional characters through several case law examples, aiming to “answer whether, in the end, the only fictional thing is the notion of public domain”.

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IPilogue

JANUARY 17, 2022

While many were observing the new year, intellectual property scholars and the artistic community were celebrating Public Domain Day. The previously copyrighted works enter the public domain, free to use and copy. public domain. January 1 st marks the expiration of most jurisdictions’ copyright terms.

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The IPKat

DECEMBER 31, 2023

This week’s big IP news is the New York Times suing OpenAI and Microsoft for copyright infringement, trademark dilution and other violations of existing laws. Votes must be made via email before 15 January 2024 as per the instructions in this post. Image: flickr.com Katfood The New York Times Company v. Microsoft Corp.,

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Patently-O

APRIL 20, 2024

21, 2024) (question paraphrased). I think of the design patent test as quite close to likelihood of confusion in trademark law, but design and trademark pedants yell whenever I make this comparison. Clearly, the relevance of the public domain images transcends the particular objects. Columbia Sportswear N.

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TorrentFreak

AUGUST 7, 2023

With no announcements from Sky or the Premier League, and the associated court orders not yet in the public domain, the scope of the Sky order remains unclear. The injunction allows the Premier League to block pirate IPTV services during the 2023/24 season and then the 2024/2025 season after that.

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SpicyIP

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

The author walks the reader through the standard IP tools of patents, copyrights and trademarks, noting the gaps in them in the Indian context, vis-a-vis dupes. Looking at the gaps and problems that this creates, the essay then answers its opening question in the negative, and instead suggests that such works are left to the public domain.

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LexBlog IP

APRIL 15, 2022

copyright protection in 2024. Since only the “Steamboat Willie” cartoon version of Mickey is going out of copyright protection, every other version of Mickey Mouse that Disney has created since 1928 will still be protected on January 1, 2024. While copyright protection expires, trademark protection does not.

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Patently-O

MAY 20, 2024

May 20, 2024), Cellect argues that the Federal Circuit erred in upholding the PTAB’s (PTAB) invalidation of Cellect’s four patents based on the judicially-created doctrine of obviousness-type double patenting (ODP). by Dennis Crouch In its new petition for certiorari in Cellect LLC v. Vidal , No. __ (U.S.

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SpicyIP

JANUARY 8, 2024

Wrapping up the first week of 2024, here is a brief recap of our hard-hitting post on TKDL, the detailed comments on the draft Calcutta High Court IPR Division Rules, and an informative take on scandalous and obscene trademark prosecution in India. student at National Law University, Delhi. Her previous posts can be accessed here.

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SpicyIP

JANUARY 15, 2024

Do read our summaries of the post about a party seeking help from gods in a trademark dispute and the post on Makemytrip ad words case. Blogposts Angering the Gods: A Relook at the VBM Trademark Infringement Case Image from here Holy Trinity of Hindu Gods against trademark infringement allegations? Novartis AG v.

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LexBlog IP

JANUARY 16, 2024

13] The consolidated text will then need to be formally approved by both the European Parliament and Council (which could happen as early as Q1 of 2024 if there is political consensus). 1] Directive (EU) 2019/790 of 17 April 2019 on copyright and related rights in the Digital Single Market, OJ 130/92, pp.

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