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What is a Trademark Registration “Presentation Copy”?

Erik K Pelton

The following is an edited transcript of my video What is a Presentation Copy of a Trademark Registration? If your application came along after that, you have to pay a small fee to get the presentation copy. My concern is that the presentation copy is not valuable.

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DeivanArt Expanding System for Detecting Copied Images

Plagiarism Today

The post DeivanArt Expanding System for Detecting Copied Images appeared first on Plagiarism Today. DeviantArt has announced that it is expanding its DeviantArt Protect service , making it available to all artists, not just those that use DeviantArt to share their work.

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What is a Presentation Copy of a Trademark Registration?

Erik K Pelton

What are the differences between a USPTO trademark registration certificate and a presentation copy? The post What is a Presentation Copy of a Trademark Registration? What are the differences between a USPTO trademark registration certificate and a presentation copy?

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Mojang Targets Repositories of Browser-Based Minecraft Copy ‘Eaglercraft’

TorrentFreak

With more than 238 million copies sold, it’s also the best-selling video game in history, a reign that looks set to continue. Mojang is totally fine with this, as long as people don’t charge money or distribute modded copies of the game.

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Software Downloads Netflix & Disney+ Videos to Make DRM-Free Copies

TorrentFreak

Long before the advent of legitimate online video streaming services, torrent sites and similar platforms allowed users to download and keep copies of movies and TV shows. Is it permissible to download and keep copies of movies and TV shows if you’ve paid for a legal subscription?

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‘Pirate’ App Developer Uses DMCA to Remove ‘Stolen’ Copy from GitHub

TorrentFreak

However, there are also instances where developers see copies of their own content elsewhere on Github, placed there by others without permission. However, the copyright infringement allegations are valid and warrant the removal of the copied repository.

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CJEU rules that private copying also applies in the cloud and warns against thinking that everything is communication to the public

The IPKat

Background This referral from Austria was made in the context of litigation between copyright collecting society Austro-Mechana and cloud storage service provider Strato concerning the remuneration for private copying allegedly due by the latter. Kat cloud.

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copying competitor's website & reviews creates (c), TM, false advertising problems

43(B)log

Boston Suburban allegedly continued to use the “Logan Car Service” mark in online keyword advertising and in metatags, and continued to copy customer reviews from Boston Carriage’s website and publish them on online review platforms. Boston Carriage, Inc. Boston Suburban Coach, Inc.,

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AG Hogan advises CJEU to rule that private copying exception also applies in the cloud but that an additional private copying levy might be unavailable

The IPKat

Kat cloud Does the private copying exception and, with it, the fair compensation requirement under Article 5(2)(b) of the InfoSoc Directive apply to reproductions carried out by using cloud-based recording services?

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Employers Unlikely To Copy Medieval Times Trademark Suit

IP Law 360

Medieval Times has launched an unusual lawsuit alleging its trademark is being infringed by a union that represents its workers at a New Jersey location, but trademark and labor law experts are skeptical that the effort will be successful or copied by other employers

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Avid Accused Of Copying 'DudeWithSign' Instagram Photo

IP Law 360

The creator of a popular meme account on Monday filed a new copyright lawsuit accusing software firm Avid Technology of using the "celebrity and influence" of the "DudeWithSign" Instagram account to boost its own business

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IPAB Orders – Where Art Thou? (And Here’s Our Backup Copy)

SpicyIP

From what I understand, currently, lawyers are having to rely on older copies of IPAB orders that they may have had, or have to use paid databases to access what should be publicly available case law. Copy of orders, etc as available on IPAB Website in April 2021.

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End Of An Era: USPTO Proposes To Phase Out Hard Copy Patent And Trademark Certificates

JD Supra Law

Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) plans to stop issuing patent and trademark certificates in hard copy format. As part of its plan to modernize the U.S. intellectual property registration system, the U.S.

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Cloud Services and private copying levy: further developments in the AG Opinion on the Austro-Mechana case

Kluwer Copyright Blog

The recent AG Opinion on the Austro-Mechana case ( C-433-20 ) discusses some interesting developments on how to treat Cloud Services from the perspective of the private copying levy. The Austro-Mechana case and the right to claim private copying levy.

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Rebrand the name, change the way we eat, and save (at least part of) the ecology: the story of copi

The IPKat

You may not love Asian carp, but you will hopefully love copi (and will give the fish a try at your favorite restaurant, thereby preventing ecological disaster). This recasting was done by a Chicago marketing company, Span Studio , which came up with a new name for the fish—"copi".

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Who holds copyright in 3D copies of repatriated cultural heritage?

Kluwer Copyright Blog

It is a common practice to make copies of deteriorating or far away cultural heritage. As of 2022, it is not even a new idea to use digital methods to copy heritage, considering that the mass digitisation of cultural heritage, especially books, started more than two decades ago.

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DMCA-Circumventing Cheat Maker Uses DMCA to Take Down Cracked Copy

TorrentFreak

That the creators of a cheat that almost certainly violates the anti-circumvention provisions of the DMCA attempted to have a copy taken down based on the same law is both novel and pretty ironic, to say the least.

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Suit Claims Chinese Co. Copied Robot Toy's Source Code

IP Law 360

A Pittsburgh-based robot toy designer believes a Chinese competitor stole the source code for its interactive menu system by reverse engineering demonstration robots acquired from a predecessor company, according to a revised lawsuit filed in Pennsylvania federal court

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CJEU rules on private copying exception to storage in the cloud

JD Supra Law

The Court of Justice of the European Union (“CJEU”) has recently ruled that the private copying exception contained in the Information Society Directive (the “Directive”) applies to works stored in space made available to users by cloud computing service providers.

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false advertising as a workaround when municipal codes are copied?

43(B)log

It allegedly sold or gave away unauthorized copies of the I-Codes and Custom Codes to both customers and prospective customers. International Code Council, Inc. UpCodes, Inc., 2021 WL 1236106, Nos. 17 Civ. 6261 (VM) & 20 Civ. 4316 (VM) (S.D.N.Y.

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Private Copying Levy for Social Purposes – Draft Changes in Poland and Compatibility with EU Law – Part I

Kluwer Copyright Blog

The Polish Ministry of Culture has announced draft changes to the Polish copyright law on the collection and division of the private copying levy (also known as the blank media tax or levy). According to the new proposal, the private copying levy is to be collected in future by tax offices.

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Why Hard Copy Articles Are Holding Strong in the Pharmaceutical Industry

Velocity of Content

For these companies, their need is simple – get a hard copy of their research into the hands of physicians so they know it’s available if they ever need it. When ePrints first become readily available, the prevailing belief was hard copies would become obsolete.

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Empowering Creatives to Know Their (Copy)Rights

LexBlog IP

This right allows the authors of these works to decide who is allowed to copy their work, and how, amongst other things. For creative people, copyright is a powerful concept.

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A Leap of Good Faith: When Cries of “They Copied Us” Cannot Be Stopped

JD Supra Law

LINE-NETICS, LLC v. NU TSAI CAPITAL LLC - Before Lourie, Taranto, and Stark. Appeal from the U.S. District Court for the District of Nebraska.

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competitor's copying of photos doesn't inherently inflict competitive harm

43(B)log

He did allege sadness, distress, and “profound grief” from Natorp’s copying of images of a particular landscape job, but the Lanham Act doesn’t cover psychological, emotional harm. McCleese v. Natorp’s, Inc., 2021 WL 2270511, No. 1:20-cv-118 (S.D. Ohio Jun.

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Private Copying Levy for Social Purposes – Draft Changes in Poland and Compatibility with EU Law – Part II

Kluwer Copyright Blog

The Polish Ministry of Culture has announced draft changes to the Polish copyright law on the collection and division of the private copying levy. This important aspect of the functioning of the private copying levy as compensation for creators has disappeared from the draft law.

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“I recently had my whole IG page copied…”

CopyrightsWorld

Finally, she shares a recent experience she had when her WHOLE Instagram page was copied. Incredibly talented and motivating Marina Yanay (@marina.y.t)

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Fla. Trial Starts Over Bike Wheel Maker Copying Rival's Design

IP Law 360

of infringing its two bicycle wheel designs, alleging during opening statements before a Miami federal jury that its rival copied the company despite already knowing patents already existed Bicycle components manufacturer SRAM Corp. on Monday accused Princeton Carbon Works Inc.

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Text Written So Well That It Needs To Be Copied?

BYU Copyright Blog

Lehren”), claiming that Lehren copied “significant portions” of its website.Since then, Lehren has responded to these allegations. On June 13, 2021, Lehren filed its Answer wherein it admitted that it “copied a limited amount of text.”

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Getty Expands Fight With AI Co. Over 'Copied' Images To Del.

IP Law 360

Less than a month after filing a similar suit in London high court, media platform Getty Images has slapped artificial intelligence maker Stability AI with a copyright suit in Delaware federal court over millions of purportedly stolen photographs

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‘Valorant Mobile’ Leaks Excite Gamers But ‘Pirate’ Copies Are Bad News

TorrentFreak

As the takedown notice shows, Riot Games demanded not only the removal of the video, but also any additional copies that may be uploaded in the future.

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Supreme Court Finds Google’s Copying of Oracle’s APIs a Fair Use

JD Supra Law

A recent Supreme Court decision has finally put an end to the longstanding fight between Oracle and Google concerning Google’s use of Oracle’s copyrighted Java Application Programming Interfaces (APIs).

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Private copy levy for reproduction in cloud computing storage

JD Supra Law

The Court held that: the private copying exception applies to copies of works on a server in storage space made available to a user by the provider of a cloud computing service. Executive summary - On 24 March 2022 the Court of Justice of the European Union issued a judgment in Austro-Mechana v Strato AG case (C-433/20).

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Golf Tee Co. Says Gift Store Copied Its Martini Design

IP Law 360

A company that makes distinctive cocktail glass-shaped and branded golf tees filed a lawsuit against a golfing novelty store in Georgia federal court, alleging the retailer ripped off its patented design and trademarked packaging, after agreeing not to sell copies of the tees

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Copying of Unpatented Technology Permitted When Confidentiality Obligations Terminated

JD Supra Law

In BladeRoom Grp. Emerson Elec. the Ninth Circuit held under English law that a reasonable person would interpret a nondisclosure agreement (NDA) to end two years after signing because the NDA unambiguously terminated the confidentiality obligations after two years.

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Copy and Paste – Supreme Court Holds Copying Software Function Calls Was Fair Use

TraskBritt Intellectual Property

When developing Android, Google had copied the text and format of function calls from Oracle’s Java SE Application Programming Interface (API). This copying enabled programmers already familiar with the Java programming language to easily learn to program for Android, jumpstarting the library of applications available on Google’s platform. LEXIS 1864 (2021), the Supreme Court held that Google’s copying was permissible fair use. The U.S.

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Fla. Jury Clears Bike Wheel Maker Of Copying Rival

IP Law 360

A Florida jury on Friday found that a Connecticut-based bike wheel maker didn't infringe on two designs made by a rival, deciding the company did not have knowledge of an existing patent by the time they launched what was described at trial as a "better, faster" new product

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Mejuri Calls Yurman's Jewelry Copying Suit 'Bullying'

IP Law 360

Months after being accused of copying David Yurman's jewelry designs, Canadian retailer Mejuri has hit back with counterclaims that Yurman's suit is intended to "bully an emerging competitor" and that the designs have actually been used for centuries

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[Guest post] Archival Authenticity or Iconic Copies? Some IP Thoughts on Dolce & Gabbana’s SS23 Collection Curated by Kim

The IPKat

Here’s what Felicia writes: Archival Authenticity or Iconic Copies? It also suggests that copying might have some effect on our understanding of what is and is not iconic. Assuredly, Dolce & Gabbana may not be able to prevent copies on the U.S.

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Truncation and Providing Copies of Checks

GDB Firm Blog

Some banks go so far as to provide no paper statements and their Internet banking does not provide copies of paid checks unless the depositor asks for them. A recent decision of a New York appellate court suggests that complete truncation, without providing copies of paid checks, is a bad idea. The Bank had provided copies of the paid checks to the company. Many banks truncate checks.

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Should Copyrights, like Trademarks, Never Expire? – An Angry Author Offers a Convincing Argument

IP Close Up

Mark Helprin is a successful novelist. He is also on a mission to keep the content he and others create out of the public domain. Continue reading.

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Nike Accuses Bape Of Copying Its Sneaker Designs

IP Law 360

Sportswear giant Nike has slammed streetwear maker Bape with a trademark suit in New York federal court over purportedly similar shoe designs, arguing that Bape swiped the "iconic" look of Nike sneaker models like its Air Force 1s and Dunks

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Sheeran Denies Copying Idea For 'Shape of You' At UK Trial

IP Law 360

Ed Sheeran has denied borrowing ideas from less-well-known artists for his songs without acknowledgement, as a copyright dispute over hit single "Shape of You" continued at a London court on Monday

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