IP and Legal Filings

OCTOBER 14, 2022

Electronic contracts, or “E-contracts,” in the present economy became ubiquitous due to the rapid development of the internet. Meaning Of An E-Contract. E-contracts are agreements made electronically instead of physical meetings between the parties involved in the transaction. Image Source: Shutterstock].

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

JUNE 2, 2024

This statement sets out OpenAI’s vison for a ‘social contract for content in AI’. However, OpenAI then states that it ‘[feels] that it’s important we contribute to the development of a broadly beneficial social contract for content in the AI age.’

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

JULY 16, 2021

To authenticate the logs, Plaintiff provides the Affidavit of Hisham Younis, Express Lien’s Chief Technology Officer, wherein Younis swears that the logs are gathered pursuant to the normal course of business and that the logs confirm “[t]hat a party affirmatively accepted Express Lien, Inc.’s . * Lona’s Lil Eats, LLC v.

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U.S. Department of Commerce

OCTOBER 7, 2021

Manufacturers Like Custom Contract Furnishings in High Point, North Carolina. Photo of a Custom Contract Furnishings (CCF) worker making upholstered seating for the hospitality, health care and senior living industries. . Custom Contract Furnishings (CCF) is one of the many furniture manufacturers located near High Point.

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The IPKat

APRIL 25, 2024

Here’s what they write: Generative AI, originality, and the potential role of contract in protecting unoriginal works by Adrian Aronsson-Storrier and Oliver Fairhurst Artificial Kat Over the past two years the IPKat has hosted debate on the question of whether the outputs of generative AI tools are protected under copyright law.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

JUNE 4, 2024

Thus, Lady Freethinker sued YouTube for breach of contract and related claims. (A Rather than engaging this contract law issue directly, the court rules for YouTube on Section 230 grounds: Lady Freethinker’s claims ultimately seek to treat Google as the publisher or speaker of content provided by another information content provider.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

MAY 17, 2024

If the issue lies in loopholes within the ToS, the solution seems straightforward: draft tighter contracts and perhaps incorporate a browsewrap on your platforms to catch those who don’t hold accounts. X’s breach of contract cases against CCDH for violating its ToS by scraping also didn’t fare well. In 2022, in ML Genius v.

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SpicyIP

OCTOBER 21, 2024

in Intellectual Property Law and Management which is being jointly offered by the National Law University Delhi (NLUD), the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO), and Office of Controller General of Patents, Designs and Trade Marks (CGPDTM – Indian IP Office). The National Law University has recently launched the Joint Masters/LL.M.

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LexBlog IP

JULY 14, 2022

The new 2022 SAG-AFTRA Commercials Contract (the 2022 Contract), which is retroactively effective to April 1, 2022, appears to offer certain benefits to advertiser and agency signatories of the Commercials Contract, particularly JPC authorizers, as well as Union member performers.

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Barry Sookman

MARCH 24, 2020

To consummate transactions and to otherwise engage in contractual activities, organizations have increasingly relied on electronic means of contracting using everything from webwraps and clickwraps (and hybrid variations of these forms of agreements) and electronic documents executed using electronic signatures. It has three parts.

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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. In recent times, globally more and more patent applications are being filed for blockchain technology. However, are the blockchain technologies really patentable?

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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. In recent times, globally more and more patent applications are being filed for blockchain technology. However, are the blockchain technologies really patentable?

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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. In recent times, globally more and more patent applications are being filed for blockchain technology. However, are the blockchain technologies really patentable?

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LexBlog IP

MAY 16, 2023

However, the new UPS also significantly affects existing European patents (EP) with designations in the 17 EU Member States participating in the UPS. Parties entering into patent transactions involving existing (or potential future) EPs should consider the impact of the UPS on their contracts and licences.

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IP Law 360

OCTOBER 14, 2021

A California federal jury on Wednesday cleared Oculus VR's founder and a Facebook subsidiary on allegations that the billionaire lied about his progress on virtual reality headset designs that Total Recall Technologies contracted him to create and then sold them to Facebook for $2 billion.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

OCTOBER 17, 2024

The problem of broad implied licenses and alternative routes The decisions give reason for criticism: The ruling creates legal uncertainty by broadening the scope of implied licenses – or one could argue by making it technology-neutral – even beyond the CJEU’s ruling in Soulier & Doke (see here ) and the BGH’s Vorschaubilder I and II decisions.

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IP Law 360

OCTOBER 4, 2021

Total Recall Technologies accused Oculus VR's founder during trial openings Monday of lying about his progress on virtual reality headset designs TRT had contracted him to create and selling them to Facebook in a $2 billion deal, while his counsel said he only received $798 from TRT and owed it nothing.

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IIPRD

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

Recent advances in the technical field of quantum technologies have not only experienced high amount of attention in information science and software engineering disciplines but also gained a wide interest of government due to its complexity and global significance. What kinds of IP related rights would apply to quantum computing technology?

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The IPKat

JANUARY 13, 2022

Interest in blockchain technology, tokens, and IP, continues apace. Tokenization of IP In a nutshell, "tokenization" means using a smart contract (i.e., The process of creating a digital asset with a smart contract is called "minting". Additional license conditions can be already included in the smart contract (e.g.,

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The TTABlog

JANUARY 12, 2024

[Section 2(d) refusal of STRUCTURE for "securities brokerage services, namely, trading tokenized securities utilizing block-chain technology, smart-contracts, and decentralized financial protocols; brokerage services for cryptocurrency trading, namely, trading tokenized assets utilizing block-chain technology, smart-contracts, and decentralized financial (..)

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

MARCH 25, 2024

In a highly technical ruling, the court rejects Twitter’s CFAA claim on a motion to dismiss and rejects Twitter’s other claims, including breach of contract, on an anti-SLAPP motion to strike. Breach of Contract Twitter’s TOS bans scraping. Twitter fails this burden. to lose significant advertising revenues.”

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

JULY 30, 2024

The user took the matter to court (pro se), where the lawsuit failed: Contract Breach. Microsoft Google isn’t liable for delivering CSAM results in response to a user’s queries designed to find CSAM A revenge website operator avoided CSAM liability Is There Any Way to Cure An “Accidental” Download of CSAM? ” Fraud.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

AUGUST 12, 2023

” Despite the contract, the defendants allegedly posted negative remarks about Hah’s work online. ” Despite the contract, the defendants allegedly posted negative remarks about Hah’s work online. Hah’s filings focused on breach of contract, so his other claims weren’t properly alleged.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

AUGUST 24, 2023

But as technology improved, this legal theory stopped making as much sense. Now, the primary vehicle to stop web scraping is with breach of contract claims. Now, in its case against Bright Data, Twitter’s lawyers filed three claims: breach of contract, tortious interference with a contract, and unjust enrichment.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

APRIL 8, 2023

California passed the California Age-Appropriate Design Code (AADC) nominally to protect children’s privacy, but at the same time, the AADC requires businesses to do an age “assurance” of all their users, children and adults alike. Binance appeared first on Technology & Marketing Law Blog. –Kuklinski v.

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The IPKat

APRIL 22, 2024

Summer Course on European Information Technology Law Online, 9-13 September 2024 This course will provide a thorough introduction to European information technology law and internet regulation in the European Union.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

Disapproval of these two apps on grounds ostensibly designed to protect consumers, absent factual allegations to believe that these disapprovals occurred for pretextual reasons, does not suffice to demonstrate anticompetitive conduct. Contract Breach. Apple appeared first on Technology & Marketing Law Blog. Implications.

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Garrigues Blog

JUNE 28, 2021

China has taken a further step towards aligning its regulations with the international protection system for designs. On June 1, 2021, the most recent reform of the country’s Patent Act entered into force, which includes significant changes to how industrial designs are regulated. Key reforms.

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The TTABlog

JULY 31, 2023

Kenneth Thomas , Opposition No. August 3, 2023 - 1 PM: Mealpass, Inc. Mealpal, Inc. Cancellation No. 92077915 [Petition for cancellation of a registration of the mark MEALPASS for "online marketplace that offers a membership plan to select and purchase lunch from participating restaurants," on the ground of abandonment.] Opposition No. Serial Nos.

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The IPKat

AUGUST 31, 2022

by Marianna Ryan Decentralised Autonomous Organisations (DAOs) are a new type of quasi-corporate entities, existing with the use of blockchain and smart contracts. The use of blockchain and smart contracts in the creation of DAOs has its pros and cons. Here's what Marianna writes: Ownership of IP rights by DAOs – the future is nigh?

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

APRIL 13, 2023

The copyright aspects of their position statement focus on the culumative protection of design and copyright. The copyright aspects of their position statement focus on the culumative protection of design and copyright. Stay tuned in the next weeks for a post looking at these issues in detail.

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The IPKat

JUNE 8, 2024

They are particularly interested in applicants with expertise in Foundations of Tort, Law of Contract, Land Law, or Law of Trusts, and/or in the areas of corporate/commercial law, consumer and marketing law, mental health law, law and technology, or – last but not least – intellectual property.

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IPilogue

OCTOBER 4, 2024

This move, Dagne argues, could respond to demands for the fair allocation of rights between digital workers, as authors or joint authors in some cases, and AI designers as exploiters of digital works. His chapter probes the future of copyright law, attempting to turn the focus of copyright to collaborative authorship. As described by C.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

JANUARY 28, 2022

This is the screen design at issue: This is the Maine Supreme Court’s first foray into online contract formation. The court does not like the “done” approach: to a reasonably prudent user, clicking “DONE” would not indicate assent to a contract or, in fact, anything beyond having completed the registration process.

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IIPRD

OCTOBER 16, 2024

There are various laws in India that govern IPR and gaming laws, but the primary law are Patents Act, of 1970 , Trademark Act, of 1999 and Indian Contract Act, of 1872. India’s Copyright Framework is governed by the Copyright Act of 1957 which was amended for tackling with the modern technologies which includes video games.

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U.S. Department of Commerce

JULY 21, 2023

Stepping into the Executive Director and CEO role here in March 2023, I immersed myself in our public safety engagement, contract oversight, and program management efforts to understand how these critical functions were managed here. One of my takeaways is the FirstNet network has an unparalleled level of oversight and governance.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

JUNE 12, 2024

Its main substantive terms: (1) A contract or proposed contract for the sale or lease of consumer goods or services may not include a provision waiving the consumer’s right to make any statement regarding the seller or lessor or its employees or agents, or concerning the goods or services. (2) Civil Code 1670.8.

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