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Even Trademark Lawyers Make Branding Mistakes

Erik K Pelton

The following is an edited transcript of my video Even Trademark Lawyers Make Branding Mistakes. It turned out to be a blessing in disguise about a year later when–believe it or not, a trademark lawyer–myself, received a cease and desist letter from someone else. But we rebranded to Erik M.

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Around the IP Blogs

The IPKat

The analysis also referred to a pending case before the CJEU dealing with Community design law ( EUIPO v The KaiKai Company Jaeger Wichmann | C-382/21-P) and other EU trade mark cases from 2021. The author presents a case pending before the Supreme Court Patent that addresses this question ( Olaf Sööt Design, LLC v. Daktronics, Inc.,

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Copyrighting The Uncopyrightable – The NSE Saga

SpicyIP

In the last week of October, NSE proceeded to issue cease and desist notices to stock gaming apps to prevent them from using its data in their gaming apps that mirror the real-time trading of shares. To build the forthcoming argument, an analogy is to be drawn between the NSE data and the copy-edited judgments in question in DB Modak.

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RightsClick Offers Simplified Copyright Management

Plagiarism Today

The reason for this is simple, the systems for organizing, registering and enforcing copyrights were, by in large, designed for large copyright holders. RightsClick also makes it easy to bulk edit a large number of works. The first is sending a cease and desist letter. However, one company is hoping to change that.

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Guest Book Review: The Copyright/Trademark Interface: How the Expansion of Trademark Protection is Stifling Cultural Creativity

The IPKat

Here, Senftleben flags an important corrosive effect on cultural innovation, especially having regard to the chilling effect of well-aimed cease-and-desist letters. Chapter 7 builds further on this bleak picture by looking at how trademark law facilitates perpetuation of protection of cultural expressions. 18-cv-3127-WJM-SKC, 2019 U.S.

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September Privacy and Security Roundup: Funding national cybersecurity, violating Safeguards Rule and fighting cyber threats

LexBlog IP

The SEC sanctions included both cease-and-desist orders and financial penalties against investment advisors and broker-dealers for violation of the Safeguards Rule. Additionally, while certain mandatory clauses cannot be changed, parties are free to edit and delete sections irrelevant to them.

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Copyright case law of the German Bundesgerichtshof 2015 – 2019 – Part 4 of 4: Copyright contract law and enforcement

Kluwer Copyright Blog

According to the BGH, the specific design of the cards and consoles manufactured by the plaintiff constituted effective technical measures within the meaning of Section 95a (2) and (3) No. Injunctive relief (Section 97(1) UrhG) and cease and desist agreements. Intellectual Property Law in China, 2nd edition.