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Webinar: Trademark Transactions for the Generalist In-House Counsel

Trademark and Copyright Law Blog

Your company has invested in developing its goodwill and protecting its brands, and now seeks to bring in partners. Or perhaps your company seeks to grow by on-boarding third-party brands. Due diligence for mergers and acquisitions. Co-branding agreements. Bankruptcy. Nicole Kinsley , Counsel, Foley Hoag LLP.

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Synergy Between Ipr And E-Commerce Platforms

IIPRD

There are few e-commerce companies which explicitly make copies of brands such as Firstcopyclub, ShoesKartel etc. The scam can be at various levels and multi-facet forms including mimicking websites, selling cheaper copies of brands or even stealing ideas of originators [4]. In the case of Tiffany v.

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Fatal Mistakes Made By The ‘Bored Ape Yacht Club’ & ‘Crypto Punks’ NFT Projects

Traverse Legal Blog

These NFT drops offer valuable learning lessons which every NFT project, brand, and company must consider before launching their NFTs project. In this video, we will also examine the legal strategies each project got right on trademark registration and copyright licensing. The “Crypto Punk” brand name is a trademark.

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Getting over the fear of copyright in photoshoots

Intellectual Property Office Blog

Copyright is scary. As an interior stylist who produces photoshoots for some of the country’s biggest magazines and commercial brands, getting the shots right is a must. Apart from the copyright law that means every piece of 'designer' furniture, craftsmanship and art must be checked for copyright. Really scary.

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NFTs: New Frontiers for Trademarks

IP Tech Blog

Most NFTs are protected under US Copyright Law as creative works and/or may be derivative works based on pre-existing copyright-protected works. Brand owners have already begun to catch up. Other brand owners have been fighting back infringers, commentators and/or parodists as in the METABIRKINS saga.

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IP Protection For Fintech Companies

IIPRD

Contrary to copyright laws, however, patent laws do not contain a comparable provision giving employers the right to inventions made by their employees while they were working for them. While a trademark has a localised scope, branding is international. Author : Dabiru Bhagyashree, a 4 th year IP Hons.

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NFTs: New Frontiers for Trademarks

LexBlog IP

Most NFTs are protected under US Copyright Law as creative works and/or may be derivative works based on pre-existing copyright-protected works. Brand owners have already begun to catch up. Other brand owners have been fighting back infringers, commentators and/or parodists as in the METABIRKINS saga.