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Africa IP Highlights #2: The trademarks arena

The IPKat

The Plaintiffs also contended that the logos used by the Defendants infringed on their marks and get up since their registered trademark incorporated the words ‘ACAL’ and an image with the map of Africa which the Defendants had copied. This Katpost discussed the case in fuller detail.

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2023 IP Resolutions Start with a Review of IP Assets

The IP Law Blog

Even companies that regularly take steps to protect intellectual property through, for example, registering trademarks or registering copyrights, can benefit from a yearly review. Likewise, it makes no sense for a company not to have a firm understanding of its potential intellectual property assets.

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Artistic Expression or Crass Commercialism? Drawing the lines in Right of Publicity, Lanham Act, and Commercial Speech Cases

43(B)log

I’m going to talk briefly about last term’s Jack Daniels case—a trademark infringement and dilution case—as well as Elster, argued last week, in which the Justices appeared inclined to reject a First Amendment challenge to the refusal to register the claimed mark “TRUMP TOO SMALL” for t-shirts. Trademark: In Jack Daniel’s v.

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New Tools, Old Rules: Is The Music Industry Ready To Take On AI?

Copyright Lately

Within just over a month, a raft of barely-underground Discord servers like AI Hub have popped up to provide users with access to software—and step-by-step instructions—for creating new songs using hundreds of community-made AI models designed to mimic specific artists’ voices.

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2023 IP Resolutions Start with a Review of IP Assets

LexBlog IP

Even companies that regularly take steps to protect intellectual property through, for example, registering trademarks or registering copyrights, can benefit from a yearly review. Likewise, it makes no sense for a company not to have a firm understanding of its potential intellectual property assets.

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Intellectual Property Rights for Social Media Influencers

IIPRD

For modern designers, this may be both a blessing and a curse. Whether NFT is their unique work or they prefer to mix copyrighted material with another artist, content producers are still protected by copyright law. False advertising should be avoided when defaming a product. Conclusion.

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Dealing with Counterfeits on E-Commerce Websites

Kashishipr

The problem of counterfeiting not only puts brands at risk of their trademarks, brand value, and goodwill getting damaged but also puts consumers at the risk of receiving sub-standard quality products, which may ultimately affect their health and wellbeing. Counterfeit Products Online. Educating the consumers is imperative.

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