IP Tech Blog

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

While many see China’s AI policies as a cover to curb freedoms and control society, the reality is that China is an active AI developer in a thriving market for AI applications in both the trade and industrial sectors. China is at the forefront of the AI development race.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

AUGUST 30, 2023

Nursing CE Central” is a descriptive mark with “a weak secondary meaning… the plaintiff makes no meaningful showing that the public, or even those in the market in which it competes, readily recognizes its name.” ” Marketing channel. ” Relatedness of goods. The litigants directly compete. Mark similarity.

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Biswajit Sarkar Copyright Blog

JANUARY 16, 2024

IPRs are crucial for startups as they safeguard their unique ideas and creations, enabling them to establish a competitive edge in the market. Startups can secure copyrights to prevent unauthorized copying or distribution of their creative works. This means that no one else can copy or distribute their creations without permission.

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Michael Geist

JUNE 28, 2022

In fact, I have now obtained a copy of the Charter statement and posted it publicly here with an embed below. The Charter statement also provides a helpful list of the breadth of CRTC powers and market intervention that arises from the bill. It simply isn’t credible to argue that Bill C-18 involves minimal market intervention.

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LexBlog IP

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

An employee had an agreement with a company that placed restrictions on the employee’s ability to solicit or accept business from the company’s customers, to disclose confidential information, and to have competitive employment during the term of employment.

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TorrentFreak

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

. “This is an obvious trade barrier and real threat to the free market,” ACT writes in its letter to the USTR. This regulation says that any internet providers that allow these to exist, or function without being blocked, will lose their market access.” ” China Too.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

To many trademark owners, it’s a simple decision to sue when the advertiser includes the trademark in the ad copy. As I teach my students, Porta-Fab should have spent its enforcement budget on more marketing instead of more lawyers, which almost certainly would produce a higher ROI than this lawsuit did.

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TorrentFreak

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

After thriving in what was once a localized traditional market, Japanese comics known as ‘manga’ took the world by storm. Publishers and authors could only watch as their work fueled a huge but unlicensed black market. When users search for the term ‘海賊版’ (English: pirated version/pirate copy) Yahoo!

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The IPKat

AUGUST 2, 2023

Those who needed to know then had to sign a separate confidentiality agreement. UAC also claimed that Alcoa's efforts to maintain information as confidential were flawed, arguing that it had stamped 20-year old documents as proprietary weeks before suing.

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TorrentFreak

AUGUST 21, 2021

After the apparent demise of Area 51 but in advance of the settlement being finalized, it’s alleged that Tusa launched a close copy of Area 51 called SingularityMedia, which scooped up Area 51’s customers. In response, ACE contacted Tusa again and demanded that the new service was shut down. It later disappeared.

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LexBlog IP

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

While many see China’s AI policies as a cover to curb freedoms and control society, the reality is that China is an active AI developer in a thriving market for AI applications in both the trade and industrial sectors. China is at the forefront of the AI development race.

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43(B)log

FEBRUARY 15, 2022

Boost alleged that Woo engaged in a scheme to gain access to Boost’s confidential information and thereby replicate its beauty product. Plaintiff’s and defendant’s principals were roommates, which allegedly gave defendants the opportunity to copy despite an oral confidentiality agreement, on which the court denied summary judgment.

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Dragons' Den

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

We decided to have patents in as many markets as possible. For businesses like Manta Hair, securing design rights or patents can offer a quicker path to protection, ensuring the uniqueness of their product is safeguarded in the market. You can view the patent for the Binningtons' flexible brush through this link.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

Troia wasn’t offering any services at all, but also, note the ad copy–the headline says “horror story” and the text says “They abruptly fired me,” which were pretty good tipoffs to consumers of what they should expect at the link. Troia appeared first on Technology & Marketing Law Blog.

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SpicyIP

JULY 5, 2021

The appellant sought a copy of a PhD Thesis titled “Studies on some nitrogen fixing genes of Azotobacter vinelandi” from Jamia Millia Islamia, a central university and public authority for the purposes of RTI Act. What makes it more ‘non-confidential’ is the university is bound by clause 14(b) of the ordinance, as well as by Section 13.1

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Fish & Richardson Trademark & Copyright Thoughts

APRIL 28, 2022

Generally, trade secrets refer to confidential information that confers a competitive advantage on its holder by virtue of being unknown by others. Generally, reasonable measures should be “adequate under the circumstances,” but go further than those used for ordinary confidential information. What Are Trade Secrets?

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IIPRD

JANUARY 24, 2023

According to a report titled “$1Tn India Fintech Opportunity”, by Chiratae Ventures and Ernest and Young, Indian Fintech is expected to record a revenue of $200 Billion, it also emphasised that the market for digital lending, which is anticipated to expand to a book size of $515 billion by 2030.

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IIPRD

OCTOBER 14, 2022

Even though traditional banks continue to command the financial market by offering standard operations such as payments, deposits, and credit; they need to understand that now, they are not the only players. With the size of such a market, there is always a high possibility of intellectual stealing in order to maximize profit.

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IIPRD

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

The Confidential information, which may be sold or licensed, is a Trade Secret and forms a part of Intellectual Property Rights. This is generally ensured by signing confidentiality agreements such as (NDAs) by employees and partners. The other teams can hence copy McLaren, causing the team a disadvantage.

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Trading Secrets

JUNE 3, 2022

The district court reasoned that plaintiff needed to demonstrate that the corporate defendant copied plaintiff’s project in order to satisfy the “use” requirement under the DTSA. The district court also held below that plaintiff did not establish an “improper acquisition, disclosure, or use of a trade secret without consent.”

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Trading Secrets

DECEMBER 21, 2021

Anatomy of an M&A Transaction: How to Issue Spot for Non-Compete, Trade Secrets/Confidential Information, and Intellectual Capital Concerns. Academic panels evaluated the effects of non-compete clauses on labor market participants and their efficiency rationales. Overview of Non-Compete Legislation and Enforcement Issues from 2021.

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IIPRD

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

of the population of India having ingress to the world wide web and ever growing e-commerce market which is forecasted to reach about twenty billion euros by 2030, it becomes pertinent to analyse the interconnect between these two. [1] Signing confidentiality agreements also are one of the ways of protection. [8]

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

JANUARY 8, 2024

That’s certainly true for high-profile and well-advertised consumer items like fast food chains, mass-market phones, and major car labels, but is it true in this particular niche? the rival included ad copy telling consumers they were buying the trademark owner’s items when they weren’t.

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LexBlog IP

MARCH 30, 2022

This so-called “process knowledge” is akin to a developer rewriting code so that it can run on a different type of machine – a process that while technically replicable and perhaps patentable, is not susceptible to being copied without internal knowledge of the process. Protecting Trade Secrets.

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LexBlog IP

DECEMBER 21, 2021

Anatomy of an M&A Transaction: How to Issue Spot for Non-Compete, Trade Secrets/Confidential Information, and Intellectual Capital Concerns. Academic panels evaluated the effects of non-compete clauses on labor market participants and their efficiency rationales. Overview of Non-Compete Legislation and Enforcement Issues from 2021.

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LexBlog IP

APRIL 11, 2023

Third, there are potential confidentiality issues to consider. Allowing a third party such as OpenAI to have access to otherwise protected information without a confidentiality agreement in place could constitute a “public disclosure” and risk the loss of protection for the disclosed information. [5]

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TorrentFreak

MARCH 1, 2022

million was transferred from accounts in violation of the court’s asset freeze but after showing a copy of a contempt motion to the defendants’ council, the defendants plus Beaman engaged in settlement discussions. DISH claims that $3.4 DISH Obtains Evidence From Jailhouse Phone Recordings.

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JIPL Online

MARCH 15, 2021

3] The suit alleged that Sherlock Holmes’ character traits of warmth and empathy were copied and not yet in the public domain, as these traits only developed in later works that are still protected by copyright. [4] 18] Netflix admitted it had access to and copied the memoir. [19] 5] Netflix and the estate quickly settled. [6].

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LexBlog IP

MARCH 8, 2022

Further, this application was filed only two working days before the car was publicly revealed, demonstrating the effort teams like Ferrari’s implement in keeping big reveals like this confidential. This can be important for companies who want to ensure their products remain unique and do not fall victim to copied designs.

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LexBlog IP

DECEMBER 6, 2021

However, a trademark can be a protective and competitive measure for securing branding elements that identify, market, or sell your product. Oracle Supreme Court Decision , where the Court determined that Google’s copying of 11,500 lines of Oracle’s Java SE code was indeed fair use of that material as a matter of law.

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IIPRD

JANUARY 23, 2023

It further expanded its domain as a manufacturer by establishing a market for its self-made products such as kindle for e-book services, audiobook and ‘cloud computing’ web storage services. 15] It is a voluntary and confidential process and have essential elements similar to UPNEP Programme.

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LexBlog IP

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

Knowing this, a friend recently directed me to a podcast from a well-known marketing guru who was giving advice about intellectual property, and patents in particular, during one of his episodes. I’m a fan of podcasts. My friend was curious to know if I agreed with this podcast host.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

DECEMBER 15, 2021

The Lenz case got a lot of press, but it ended with a confidential settlement. This is the initial copying design (without of the background graphics in the precedent work): The copyright registrant alleged this copying design constituted copyright infringement. Prior Posts on Section 512(f). MGA Entertainment.

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Biswajit Sarkar Copyright Blog

MAY 7, 2021

In today’s era, where the whole world has turned to virtual means, blockchain as a technology is gathering everyone’s attention and showing accelerating growth in its market. The nodes authenticate transactions, add the data to their copy of the common ledger and transfer the ledger additions to all other nodes.

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Biswajit Sarkar Copyright Blog

MAY 7, 2021

In today’s era, where the whole world has turned to virtual means, blockchain as a technology is gathering everyone’s attention and showing accelerating growth in its market. The nodes authenticate transactions, add the data to their copy of the common ledger and transfer the ledger additions to all other nodes.

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Biswajit Sarkar Copyright Blog

MAY 7, 2021

In today’s era, where the whole world has turned to virtual means, blockchain as a technology is gathering everyone’s attention and showing accelerating growth in its market. The nodes authenticate transactions, add the data to their copy of the common ledger and transfer the ledger additions to all other nodes.

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IP and Legal Filings

JUNE 27, 2022

To reproduce, store, issue copies to public, perform, communicate, and make translation or adaptation of the work. Benefits of protecting industrial designs includes- monetary gains, unique selling propositions, positive image of a company in the market, in case the design so created is not profitable, same can eb sold to a third party.

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