IP and Legal Filings

SEPTEMBER 17, 2021

For the same reason, several famous designers in India such as Anju Modi, Rohit Bal, Anita Dongre, and Masaba Gupta have legally protected their designs to avoid the creation of counterfeit apparel, copies, or knock-offs of their designs by unauthorized parties. Patents and the fashion industry. Image Source: gettyimages].

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Biswajit Sarkar Copyright Blog

DECEMBER 4, 2023

Protecting software innovations, which include inventions, creative works, and commercial symbols, is essential through the umbrella of Intellectual Property. The Patents Act of 1970 focuses on patents, granting exclusive rights to inventors for new inventions or processes. It is given for 60 years. It is given for 20 years.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

JULY 20, 2022

The NFT may be encoded in one of two ways: either by the creation of an alpha-numeric signature , or ‘hash’, by passing the underlying work through an algorithm or by including an URL that contains the underlying work. The reproduction right includes the right to prevent the copying of the underlying work in any manner.

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The IPKat

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

While at this stage the particulars of Getty’s claim are unavailable, their press release states that Stability AI “unlawfully copied and processed millions of images protected by copyright and the associated metadata owned or represented by Getty Images”. temporary copy which is; 2. transient or incidental; 3.

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Art Law Journal

JUNE 30, 2022

Unfortunately, Intellectual Property law has gotten so complicated that many people aren’t even sure which type of Intellectual Property (copyright, trademarks, or patents) protects their creative work. Take these two commonly heard phrases: “I need to copyright my company name,” and “I want to patent my new idea.”.

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Biswajit Sarkar Copyright Blog

NOVEMBER 25, 2021

Human tissues, spaceship components, and, more controversially, working firearms are all possible applications of the technique. However, many of these early technologies’ patent protections have expired. The widespread availability of low-cost 3D printers will make it easier for anyone to copy even patented products.

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LexBlog IP

SEPTEMBER 27, 2021

Although the copyright protection afforded to this design is a thin one that will protect its owner from only “virtually identical” copying, such a right is still highly valuable to many companies in the furniture, housewares, and other industrial design spaces. Copyright law does not protect useful articles per se (i.e.,

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IIPRD

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

We will examine the fundamental ideas and rules of copyright, trademark, and patent laws as well as how they relate to various entertainment business sectors in this extensive book. Copy Right Law in the Entertainment Industry The cornerstone of intellectual property protection in the entertainment sector is copyright law.

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Art Law Journal

JUNE 30, 2022

Unfortunately, IP law has gotten so complicated that many people aren’t even sure which types of IP (copyright, trademarks, or patents) protects their creative work. Take these two commonly heard phrases: “I need to copyright my company name,” and “I want to patent my new idea.”. Your Copy-Rights.

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The IPKat

OCTOBER 27, 2021

The author argues that copyright holders would do well to heed this wisdom before entering into litigation, as exemplified by a recent decision from the Swedish Patent and Market Court in case PMT 2401-21.

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The IPKat

MAY 2, 2023

Copyright The Court also established that Lidl’s mark was protected by copyright as an original artistic work under Section 4 of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988. Therefore, the Court considered that Tesco had copied a substantial part of Lidl’s mark with text, and thus also infringed Lidl’s copyright in the logo.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

OCTOBER 30, 2023

Copyright infringement – Copyright subsists in the Lidl logo and this was copied by Tesco in creating their Clubcard Price(s) signs. On copyright subsistence, the judge held that the Mark with Text is an artistic work, failing within the sub-category of “graphic works”.

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IIPRD

OCTOBER 17, 2022

Patent and Trademark Office last year, which it has since checked by way of its Nikeland venture on Roblox and the acquisition of RTFKT. This right is given to literary and artistic work like music, etc. Patent Infringement. With the growing number of patent applications, the risk is also increasing.

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Kashishipr

AUGUST 31, 2022

Such creations may include literary and artistic works, designs, names, inventions, etc. Copyright’s relationship to IP is that it is just another form of IP, like trademarks, patents, and industrial designs. Do you think about the fight between musicians concerning stolen or copied song lyrics?

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SpicyIP

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

Last week we published 9 posts on topics such as our comments on the proposed Trademarks (1st Amendment) Rules, the Madras High Court’s decision with respect to patentability of business methods, and Union Minister of State for Commerce’s response on ability of the current IPR regime to cater concerns arising out of AI generated work.

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IP and Legal Filings

MAY 3, 2023

Originality is the quality that distinguishes produced or invented works from copies, clones, forgeries, or derivative works by being new or novel. The word “originality” is frequently used in conjunction with the creativity of writers, thinkers, and artists. It was written with a distinct style and message.

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SpicyIP

MAY 6, 2024

Controller of Patents. The MHC in Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC vs Assistant Controller of Patents and Designs clarified the role of the ‘person skilled in the art’ (PSITA) in determining non-obviousness. Case Summaries Rich Products Corporation vs The Controller Of Patents & Anr. Anything we are missing out on?

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Patently-O

OCTOBER 11, 2022

Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit, and other courts of appeals have held), or whether a court is forbidden from considering the meaning of the accused work where it “recognizably deriv[es] from” its source material (as the U.S. Although Andy Warhol is dead, his art, legacy, copyrights, and potential copy-wrongs live on.

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The IPKat

OCTOBER 15, 2023

Should the originality requirement focus on factors related to the creative process and the author’s account of the actual choices that they made, or rather factors concerning the work itself and the final result of the creative process?

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SpicyIP

MARCH 11, 2024

Highlights of the Week Hot-Tubbing in Indian IP Litigation: Delhi High Court Issues Directives in High-Stakes Patent Infringement Case Image from [link] here Recently, the DHC issued directives regarding expert evidence in the Perjeta patent litigation. The Patent Act: Catch 22 Does the Patent Act prevail over the Competition Act?

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The IPKat

JANUARY 28, 2023

For example, the UK passed the Trading with the Enemy Act in 1914, which effectively suspended German-owned patent and trade marks. However, they never formally withdrew from either of the conventions. One hundred years later, plus ça change, plus c'est la même chose.

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IP and Legal Filings

MARCH 1, 2023

[i] The very first accords to recognise why IPRs are important were the Paris Convention for the Protection of Industrial Property (1883) and the Berne Convention for the Protection of Literary and Artistic Works (1886). This indicates that the Indian Patent Act forbids the renewal of patents. [v]

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IIPRD

JUNE 14, 2021

However, there lies an unfilled gap between the existence of such rights and their application in the real world which has led to the development of the omnipresent problem of copying an individual’s work rather than using one’s own craftsmanship. Piracy and Fashion Design. In another case, that is Castrol India Limited &Ors.

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IP and Legal Filings

AUGUST 14, 2023

Person A makes a copy of the movie on his phone and shares it with his friends. Going back to the same example again, the first point of infringement would be where A illegally copied the film. From the perspective of other IPRs like Trademark, Patents, etc. The reason being a larger audience can watch the film for free.

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IP and Legal Filings

APRIL 24, 2023

Any member of public can take inspection of the records and obtain a certified copy of the entry. In the previous Act, there was a 2-year confidential period post registration, which prohibited taking inspection/certified copy of any entry in the records. Designs are registered in different classes as per the Locarno Agreement.

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Corsearch

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

Intellectual property rights are defined as legal rights that protect the ownership of artistic, literary, and other creative works. You should prepare links and screenshots as evidence for your claims of copyright, or trademark, patent, or design right infringement on Alibaba.

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IP and Legal Filings

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

In the conventional sense, copyright law requires that the concerned work must, in its entirety, be an outcome of the intellectual labor of a human being. However, at the dawn of the digital era, computer software is being used in abundance to help create literary and artistic works. systems to have such works generated.

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IP and Legal Filings

JUNE 27, 2022

PART 1: of the blog discussed about history, development, fundamentals of IPR and explained Patents and Trademarks. Broad classification of ‘works’ which are protected by copyright are-. Original literary, dramatic, musical, and artistic works. The blog is divided into two parts and this is part 2 of the blog.

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LexBlog IP

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

Freed from the shackles of copyright, Walt Disney’s iconic rodent was now in the public domain and, therefore, available for everyone to copy. The law gives copyright owners a monopoly to exploit and monetize creative works. The law gives copyright owners a monopoly to exploit and monetize creative works. But not so fast.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

JUNE 20, 2023

For obvious reasons, the copyright in a photograph does not include the right to publicly perform the copyrighted work. 103(a) (“protection for a work employing preexisting material in which copyright subsists does not extend to any part of the work in which such material has been used unlawfully.”).

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azrights

AUGUST 11, 2022

If each output is unique and another user gets a different output even if their query is identical to yours, it means someone else could only use the same visual images as you by copying yours. Most of these computer-generated works are protected by copyright in the UK. Would they be infringing your copyright though?

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LexBlog IP

SEPTEMBER 15, 2022

Indeed, the directors of the US Patent and Trademark Office and US Copyright Office are in the process of conducting a joint study to untangle the various interests at play, having promised Sens. In his motion, Rothschild argued that he used “MetaBirkins” as a title to an artistic work as opposed to a source-identifying trademark.

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Fish & Richardson Trademark & Copyright Thoughts

JANUARY 5, 2022

As the battery and electric vehicle (EV) industries continue to grow, in tandem the IP world is experiencing an increase in battery patenting activity. PDF copy available. Research and development in the battery industry have led to a notable increase in patent filings at the U.S. Battery Industry Growth and Trends.

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IP Whiteboard

JUNE 7, 2021

You then upload a copy of the digital work that you want to represent in NFT-form to the NFT marketplace, pay a transaction fee and click ‘create’. It’s hard to identify and verify the true owner of content when an identical copy of that content can be created with a few clicks of a mouse. What are the benefits of NFTs?

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