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Patent Law Canons and Canards: Bonito Boats

Patently-O

For our patent law course today, the students read the Justice O’Connor unanimous opinion in Bonito Boats, Inc. Bonito Boats centers on a Florida statute prohibiting copying of unpatented boat hulls via direct molding. The Florida courts had refused to enforce the law because it conflicted with Federal Patent Law.

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Role of Intellectual Property in Entertainment Industry

IIPRD

A thorough awareness of intellectual property laws is crucial, regardless of your career goals—be they that of a fashion designer, singer, filmmaker, or just someone curious about the legal side of entertainment. Copyright law protects you as a musician by preventing unauthorized use of your creative works.

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Protecting Application Programming Interfaces (API) Through Intellectual Property Laws

Kashishipr

Therefore, most of the APIs are not patentable since they comprise the declaring code and the SSO, which is essentially a source code in a written format having no functionality as such unless implemented through the implementing code. Copyright and APIs. Accolade case, wherein Accolade had copied Sega’s API code.

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Protecting the Product™: Typefaces and Fonts

LexBlog IP

While copyright law is at the center of a few recent disputes over intellectual property protection for typefaces and fonts, design patents are an often-overlooked mechanism for protecting these designs. In recent years, House Industries, a font foundry, has made copyright infringement accusations against Michaels Stores, Inc.

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Protection of Nonfungible Tokens in Indonesia

IP and Legal Filings

Patent: Blockchain-related inventions can be protected as patents. Article 143 of the Patent Law provides patent holders recourse to file claims in the Commercial Court if the rights under their patent are infringed by another party. Trademark: NFTs may also be protected as a trademark.

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Warhol’s ‘Orange Prince’ Brought to Court: Part 2 (Arguments from Lynn Goldsmith)

IPilogue

However, though patent law has the “person of ordinary skill in the art” standard and trademark law has the “ordinary casual consumer somewhat in a hurry” standard, copyright law often relies on a judge’s evaluation of whether infringement has occurred.

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Artificial Intelligence and IP: A Literature Review

SpicyIP

It notes that despite the government initiatives to strengthen India’s IP regime, applying the ‘narrowly focused’ and ‘stringent’ patent laws toward AI applications remains challenging. The report states that there are no copyright laws right now that would provide protection to any wholly AI generated model or creation (Page no.

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