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Can Intellectual Property Rights Safeguard Your Blog?

Kashishipr

Copyright is a legal protection afforded to an original, creative literary, musical, or artistic work. The protection under copyright is instantaneous and immediate to the works being created, and therefore, it is not necessary to have such rights registered. Copyright and Blogs.

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SpicyIP Weekly Review (December 18- December 24)

SpicyIP

In this month’s edition, he looks into topics including the Plant Variety Registry, different tales of/ takes on personality rights, and multiple leaks of key documents and their contribution in law-making. The court held that puffery in advertisements is allowed as long as the assertions made are reasonable. DRS Logistics (P.)

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USC IP year in review, TM/ROP

43(B)log

My former student Grace McLaughlin has written an excellent note about the fact that these putative trademarks don’t serve human trademark functions—it’s very hard to remember them or distinguish one random string from another random string in terms of knowing what you’ve seen before—and has proposed some possible responses from the PTO.

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