The IPKat

OCTOBER 31, 2021

Let’s see what happening in the IP blogosphere this week:- Trade Marks Online trade channels have become a substantial aspect of many brand owners’ business. One Katnews leads to another, especially if IP-related. including the ownership of IP thus created.

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Dragons' Den

JANUARY 25, 2024

Find out more about what automatic copyright covers via this link: How copyright protects your work. Despite the Dragons all saying how much the stone age concept rocks, the family left the Den without investment, but with a promise of help from Peter Jones: The biggest gift I can give you is support from my team, but I’m happy to help.

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Dragons' Den

JANUARY 11, 2024

Alex described how he’d suffered from acute, confidence-knocking acne when he was young. Nicole told us how they protect their IP: We work closely with a lab to create some of our products, who we have an NDA with. Patents that float ‘Above Below’ is the brainchild of businessman and inventor, Will Watt.

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Dragons' Den

APRIL 4, 2024

They have turned over £7,000 to date and have a UK, US and EU patent and they have registered their design and also have a UK trade mark. You can protect your invention in many countries using the Patent Cooperation Treaty (PCT). You can read more about these procedures in our protecting your patent abroad guidance.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

AUGUST 24, 2023

All the world’s knowledge is available for the taking on the Internet, and web scraping is how companies acquire it at scale. Many web scrapers were clumsy and didn’t realize the impact of their additional requests on servers. When we talk about web scraping, what we’re really talking about is data access.

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Patently-O

APRIL 26, 2023

Though the patent system exists to promote innovation, it also serves to promote inventors and innovators. I still remember how happy I was when I filed my first patent back which was a moment of great joy and pride. And as time went by, I filed multiple patents and I felt more confident and more accomplished.”

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

AUGUST 22, 2023

Eric previously blogged about the Copyright Review Board’s affirmance of the Office’s repeated refusal to register the work back in March 2022. There aren’t many people trying to register works “autonomously created by a computer algorithm running on a machine” and disclaiming any human authorship at the outset. California , 412 U.S.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

APRIL 28, 2024

299 limits joinder in patent cases to defendants who infringe using “the same accused product or process.” ” Congress enacted this requirement to restrict patent trolls who were filing lawsuits against defendants who had nothing in common but the allegation that they were infringing the same patent.

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Patent Trademark Blog

DECEMBER 13, 2022

What does patent prosecution mean? Patent prosecution refers to the writing, filing and handling of patent applications. It encompasses the patent examination process from initial filing to the grant, including all the back-and-forth responses with the USPTO. Who can be patent prosecutors? paying the issue fee.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

MAY 15, 2024

Supreme Court explained how the period is calculated: It is widely recognized that the separate-accrual rule attends the copyright statute of limitations. In my blog post on the case , I praised the decision and predicted “that the Supreme Court will eventually grant a petition … and render a definitive decision regarding the discovery rule.”

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Intellectual Property Law Blog

MARCH 13, 2024

The United States Patent and Trademark Office (“USPTO”) and the United States Copyright Office (“USCO”) delivered a report to Congress entitled Non-Fungible Tokens and Intellectual Property on March 12, 2024 (“Report”). While the Report is comprehensive, it does not recommend any new action to address IP issues with NFTs.

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Patently-O

APRIL 14, 2024

by Dennis Crouch As many of you know, I have done machine learning work for many years — starting in the 1990s while in college. On the Patently-O side, I have been honing my approach somewhat. In my patent prosecution class, the students are busy drafting a patent application. hallucinate).

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Intellectual Property Law Blog

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

It addresses many of the risks and problems that can arise with AI. One of the topics which raises many legal issues, particularly with generative AI (“genAI”), is intellectual property. The White House Executive Order on AI (“EO”) is comprehensive and covers a wide range of topics. We provided a summary here.

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Erik K Pelton

MARCH 11, 2022

Because there are many types of fraud and government impersonation, only a handful of other commenters mentioned trademark issues. Patent and Trademark Office as a trademark examiner, EMP&A has registered more than thirty-five hundred U.S. ” More than 100 comments were submitted. They can all be found at [link].

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SpicyIP

MAY 16, 2024

Image by freepik The recent decision of the Indian Patent Office in Suman Das v. IN 201717013441) emphasizes the need to pay attention to the content of the opposition itself instead of focusing on the identity and qualifications of the opponent – a point often repeated in previous posts on the blog (see here , here , and here ).

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Patent Trademark Blog

MARCH 28, 2022

What if we adjust our initial filing patent cost to match your budget? Nearly every patent firm sets their own attorney’s fees and service rates. So we asked ourselves the following question: What can we do to make utility patents more affordable? What would make patents more accessible to potential clients?

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IP Tech Blog

APRIL 25, 2023

Every year, on April 26, intellectual property organizations around the world observe “ World IP Day ” – an event established by the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) to raise awareness of patents, copyrights, designs, and trademarks, and to celebrate the creativity and contributions of inventors, authors, artists and entrepreneurs.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

By guest blogger Lisa Ramsey , Professor of Law, University of San Diego School of Law The Supreme Court will likely hold in Elster that Section 2(c) is consistent with the First Amendment, but will it clarify how to balance trademark and free speech rights? Tam (2017) and Iancu v.

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Velocity of Content

JANUARY 9, 2024

On a practical level, these emerging companies are running very lean, with little or no budget for expenses outside of discovering and patenting their compounds.  One area that often gets overlooked in the outsourcing and collaboration process is how to manage copyright compliance and the associated risks of non-compliance.

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Patently-O

JUNE 28, 2023

(Guest Post by Kevin Ahlstrom, Associate General Counsel, Patents, Meta. The first blog in the series is here and resources from the first conference of the initiative are available here. Women submit ideas for patenting at a lower rate than men In 2021, I noticed that most of the ideas I received for patenting came from men.

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Patent Trademark Blog

JANUARY 5, 2023

How you do you show no likelihood of confusion? How to determine if you should argue crowded field. To determine whether you should argue crowded field, therefore, you first need to see how many registrations and pending applications exist for marks that are arguably similar to yours.

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Garrigues Blog

JUNE 1, 2021

It’s the first anniversary of the Garrigues IP Blog. We take a look at our Top10 most-read posts in this first year of the IP Blog: The Influencers’ Code of conduct comes into force on January 1, 2021: are you aware of your obligations? How do you protect a website? If you don’t appear on the Internet, you don’t exist.

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Patent Trademark Blog

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

Will arguments be necessary in your utility patent application? Nine out of ten utility patent applications will get rejected at least once. Many will get rejected multiple times. So, yes, arguments will be required in the vast majority of utility patent applications. How well does that kind of argument work in real life?

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Patent Trademark Blog

DECEMBER 19, 2023

Why should you care about patents for your Amazon business? How can innovative product creators use patents to protect their Amazon business? Need to get Amazon business patents? Which patents make the most sense for your Amazon products? Not every product will deserve patent protection. All is not lost.

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Patent Trademark Blog

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

Nowadays, there are so many options for filing a trademark application with the USPTO. Time Is More Valuable Than Money: How A Good Trademark Attorney Will Save You Time (and money!) An experienced trademark attorney knows how to do a knockout search for similar live trademarks in the USPTO trademark database.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

SEPTEMBER 17, 2021

In 2016, the Federal Patent Court rejected a requested trademark registration of the term “EMOJIS” for chocolate because this expression was already an established designation for figurative symbols in electronic communication (in the German language, the plural of emoji is “Emojis”). Emoji as marginal notes.

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Patent Trademark Blog

JANUARY 9, 2023

With so many options for trademark filing services, how do you compare one trademark service to another? How do we calculate this approval rating? How does my trademark track record compare to others? Winning Formula for Trademark Registration: How can you increase your trademark probability of success?

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Patent Trademark Blog

DECEMBER 11, 2023

How is a patent attorney different than Amazon seller attorneys? Patent violations are becoming increasingly prevalent among Amazon sellers. Whether you are a patent owner or an Amazon seller, you need the right kind of legal expertise when it comes to patent infringement. Is a patent attorney specially licensed?

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

JUNE 20, 2023

Many copyright scholars and most in the world of fine art have loudly condemned the ruling as a travesty of justice. Harper & Row was seen by many as a course correction or balance to Sony , reinforcing the idea that, in general, reproduction for the same purpose as the original was not a fair use. at 580-81 & n.14,

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

JULY 17, 2023

In doing so, it left questions open for the lower courts, including (oddly) a specific identification of the step two Congressional focus underlying the relevant statutory provisions and how marked goods that had been sold initially in Europe but then re-sold in the US should be treated. I write separately to address those points.”

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The IPKat

APRIL 14, 2024

This short blog post cannot do justice to all of the chapters in this collection, so the review will instead highlight five chapters that cut across different SDGs and areas of intellectual property to illustrate the breadth and richness of this volume. Contreras evaluates "Genetic patents and the Sustainable Development Goals."

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

JANUARY 4, 2024

” Invoking the doctrine of equivalents is usually a red flag that a plaintiff is overclaiming its patent. 6 at 8 (“Many defendants, if not all, have obfuscated their physical location on their respective Amazon storefronts.”); see ECF No. In practice, however, contact information for many of the parties was readily available.

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Patent Trademark Blog

MAY 15, 2023

Email vlin@icaplaw.com or call (949) 223-9623 to see how we can help you register your trademark to take full advantage of Brand Registry benefits. So if you care about blocking competitors from selling products that infringe your patent rights, you need to enroll in Amazon Brand Registry as quickly as possible.

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Intellectual Property Law Blog

MAY 2, 2023

Many employees are experimenting with AI in connection with their work. As a result, many companies are developing corporate policies on employee use of AI. Patent and Trademark Office have developed initiatives to focus on IP issues with AI. If you have not done so yet, now is a good time to get started. AI RMF 1.0

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Patently-O

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

The first blog in the series is here and resources from the first conference of the initiative are available here. – Jason) Virtual reality, AI chatbots, and other emerging technologies are fueling a drive to innovate, improve, and patent new products and services that are inclusive from the beginning. billion by 2030.

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Patent Trademark Blog

DECEMBER 13, 2023

How do you get patents that will stop Amazon sellers from taking your sales? Do you need a design or utility patent , or both ? How do you know if your patent claims are any good ? What matters most in getting patents to stop Amazon sellers from copying your product? So you’ve created a new product.

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Patent Trademark Blog

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

Focus on what matters most So much can be said, and has been said, about the patent application process. To avoid information overload, let’s get back to the most basic things you need to know to file a patent application. For those who say you can’t patent an idea, I’m using the term idea loosely.

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