The IP Law Blog

JANUARY 18, 2024

Copyright Office explains, copyrights protect “original works of authorship including literary, dramatic, musical, and artistic works, such as poetry, novels, movies, songs, computer software, and architecture.” IP rights come in several forms: copyrights, trademarks, patents, and trade secrets. As the U.S.

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Biswajit Sarkar Copyright Blog

NOVEMBER 25, 2021

Computer-aided design (CAD) files are the most common type of digital file. A diagram, map, chart, or plan, an engraving, photograph, a work of architecture, or any other work of creative workmanship is defined as an artistic work under Section 2(c) of the Copyright Act.

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IP and Legal Filings

JUNE 27, 2022

PART 2: of the blog gives a detail about Copyrights, Industrial Designs, Geographical Indications, Layout Designs of Integrated Circuits, Plant Variety Protection and Trade Secrets. Broad classification of ‘works’ which are protected by copyright are-. Original literary, dramatic, musical, and artistic works.

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The IPKat

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

Roberto Pardolesi gave a talk that focused on the antithesis between the two possible visions of copyright, one more inclined to see the works of art as a tradeable good, the other that mainly sees the protection of authorship as the main purpose of copyright. 2) Tensions between the advanced and developing worlds. (3)

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SpicyIP

AUGUST 2, 2021

India’s Accession to the Locarno Agreement: Amendments to the Design Rules, 2001 & Other Impacts. In a guest post , Yashi Agrawal writes about India’s recent accession to the Locarno Agreement and its implications for India’s design laws. Fonts and Typefaces: Are they Copyrightable? Fonts and Typefaces: Are they Copyrightable?

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IP Tech Blog

JULY 12, 2023

The USCO rejected Kashtanova’s application to the extent it covered the images of the comic book (as opposed to the text) on the basis that AI-generated portions of the work lack the “human authorship” required to gain copyright protection in the USA.

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LexBlog IP

JANUARY 18, 2024

Copyright Office explains, copyrights protect “original works of authorship including literary, dramatic, musical, and artistic works, such as poetry, novels, movies, songs, computer software, and architecture.” IP rights come in several forms: copyrights, trademarks, patents, and trade secrets. As the U.S.

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LexBlog IP

JULY 12, 2023

The USCO rejected Kashtanova’s application to the extent it covered the images of the comic book (as opposed to the text) on the basis that AI-generated portions of the work lack the “human authorship” required to gain copyright protection in the USA.

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IP and Legal Filings

MARCH 29, 2022

The Paris Convention for the Protection of Industrial Property in 1883 and the Berne Convention for the Protection of Literary and Artistic Works in 1886 both acknowledged the significance of the intellectual property. The World Intellectual Property Organization administers both accords (WIPO).”. Image Source: gettyimage].

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Biswajit Sarkar Copyright Blog

DECEMBER 4, 2023

Introduction Software refers to a compilation of instructions, data, or programs designed to operate machinery and execute specific tasks. Article 27 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) establishes the entitlement to enjoy the protection of moral and material interests arising from scientific, literary, or artistic creations.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

This thesis is supported by the curious failure of the United Kingdom’s Copyrights, Designs and Patents Act of 1988 ( CDPA 1988 ) to protect “computer-generated works.” In the most minimalist English definition, originality designated something originating from the author, which he can claim as his own expression (see Rahmatian ).

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IP and Legal Filings

NOVEMBER 11, 2022

Copyright protects the producers of any original work, and is relevant to almost all businesses, not just those in the creative industry. Businesses regularly create articles, photographs, drawings, designs, models, websites, computer software, etc., Copyright is an automatic right that arises the moment a work is created.

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IP and Legal Filings

OCTOBER 30, 2022

government cannot enforce rights for private individuals in the Philippines. A logo or device (excluding word elements) may be considered an artistic work and subject to copyright protection. It is vital that companies understand that intellectual property is primarily a private right and that the U.S. Conclusion.

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IIPRD

JANUARY 29, 2023

The issues pertaining to the rights of VTubers encompass rights to the design of the character, the privacy of the individual, licensing and taking inspiration from an existing character. 5] The content creator reached out to the artist for a commissioned artwork which is a unique character design. 6] Stuart D. 2d 119 (2d Cir.

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Biswajit Sarkar Copyright Blog

OCTOBER 16, 2023

While copyright is concerned with the creative part of jewellery, design is concerned with the shape, configuration, pattern, and mix of lines or colours in two or three-dimensional forms. This signifies that it does not cover artistic work but rather the features of the product that make it more attractive to the consumer.

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IIPRD

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

The Intellectual Property Rights that TRIPS covers are Trademark, Patent, Geographical Indication, Industrial Design, Copyright, Undisclosed information including trade secrets. If manufacturing companies get discouraged by waivers then they can be provided with some incentive by the government.

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The IPKat

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

The current generation of AI image generation tools such as Stable Diffusion , Midjourney and DALL·E 2 are designed to take a text description or prompt from a user and generate an image that matches the prompt. What is AI image generation software?

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LexBlog IP

JUNE 8, 2023

Grimaldi , weighs two factors: (1) artistic relevance of the work at issue; and (2) whether use of the other party’s mark nonetheless “explicitly misleads as to the source or the content of the work.” 2” where JACK DANIEL’S and “Old No. 7” would appear.

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IP and Legal Filings

MAY 29, 2022

Copyright safeguards works made by a genuine creator in a variety of genres, including literary, musical, theatrical, and artistic works. There is, however, a procedure that must be followed in order to register the copyright for all such works. It does not continue in perpetuity. ELIGIBILITY CRITERIA OF COPYRIGHT HOLDER.

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43(B)log

FEBRUARY 19, 2022

Summary of current treatment: Although courts have often referred to “expressive” or “artistic” works as shorthand for the scope of Rogers, they have applied it to speech that quali?es The key here is that when I say fraud, I do not mean fraudulent intent, but materially deceptive effect. Under Employment Division v.

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azrights

AUGUST 11, 2022

Most of these computer-generated works are protected by copyright in the UK. Unlike other countries, the UK gives copyright to computer generated works which do not have a human creator. Section 178 Copyright Designs and Patents Act 1988 (CDPA) introduced this law in 1980s.

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SpicyIP

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

Two options were presented by the court : issuing a Letters Rogatory through the government of India or directing Google Ireland to seek orders from Irish Courts. The court noted the absence of a Mutual Legal Assistance Treaty (MLAT) between India and Ireland as a barrier to obtaining the data. Frankfinn Aviation Services (Pvt.)

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

Better Regulation The EU has committed itself to designing policies and laws with a greater level of transparency and evidence , backed up with the views of citizens and stakeholders. The limits of the Union competences in that respect are governed by the principles of subsidiarity and proportionality.

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Selvam & Selvam Blog

JULY 19, 2021

Types of protection available to Intellectual property are Copyright, Trademark, Patent, Design, and Geographical Indication. At the intersection: Copyright protection subsists in any work the moment it is expressed in a tangible form. Copyright protection is for the expression of the idea and not the idea itself.

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IP and Legal Filings

JANUARY 22, 2024

Introduction The Intellectual property laws are designed in such a way that not only reward the creator of his intellectual creation thereby incentivising other creators for further innovation, while balancing the rights of the creator with the right of the society to access information or knowledge. Zafar Mahfooz Nomani, 2023).

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SpicyIP

DECEMBER 24, 2023

The Court observed that there is a need to balance the necessity of granting the interim relief with the principles governing non-compete clauses. The petitioner also argued that the Respondent was employed by them and was a job worker packing salt for them and used their art work.

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LexBlog IP

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

” This appeal presents a conflict between Rogers’ right to protect her celebrated name and the right of others to express themselves freely in their own artistic work. Did the effort at architectural minimalism “[k]eep the design simple, [and] remove the gratuitous or unwanted details” ? Rogers , 875 F.2d

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LexBlog IP

MARCH 24, 2023

The Line Between Artistic and Commercial: Jack Daniel’s Properties Inc. 22-148 At issue is whether VIP Products should be allowed to market and sell a dog toy obviously designed to mimic the look and feel of one of Jack Daniels’ whiskey bottles with the mark BAD SPANIELS and “The Old No. VIP Products, Inc.

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Fish & Richardson Trademark & Copyright Thoughts

JANUARY 5, 2022

Global patent wars, safety concerns among the public, and scrutiny from government regulators are challenges that the battery industry must face head-on as it heads toward powering the future. But as more players enter the market and obtain patent protection for their innovations, IP disputes among competitors are heating up.

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43(B)log

OCTOBER 4, 2021

In this recent case, Epic sought to register this design for "downloadable video game software"—the Loot Llama in Fortnite, which serves as a resource cache for players. Question: is a political newsletter really artistic? Of course, there are lots of expressive works that are purely commercial, like standard advertising.

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Barry Sookman

MAY 4, 2020

A further contribution can lie in the abstraction of a specific solution provided by the 5 AI, e.g. a specific design of a mechanical part, to a general concept, e.g. a design principle for certain mechanical parts. ” See Design Data Corp, 847 F.3d Unigate Enter., 3d 1169, 1173 (9th Cir. 2017) (quoting Torah Soft Ltd.

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