Intepat

OCTOBER 7, 2022

As a result, intellectual property refers to creations such as innovations, industrial product designs, literary and creative works, and symbols that are later used in business. As an artist or designer, one should be aware of two forms of intellectual property (IP) rights: copyright and design rights. Design Rights.

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Patently-O

APRIL 17, 2024

This case began back in 2006 when Crocs sued Double Diamond and others for patent infringement of Crocs’s design patents. Therefore, Dastar ‘s unaccredited copying did not constitute a false designation of origin actionable under § 43(a) of the Lanham Act. Crocs largely prevailed in those actions.

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Patent Trademark Blog

OCTOBER 26, 2022

If you have a simple product that others can easily copy, you wouldn’t be thinking about keeping anything confidential. Keep it secret or file a patent ? In order to gain certain exclusive rights from the government, inventors must disclose detailed information on how to make and use their invention. Let’s face it.

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SpicyIP

OCTOBER 27, 2023

Though the deadline for sharing these comments passed on October 5 and the government is presently working on finalizing the Rules, we received a guest post underlining the need to regulate the menace caused by dark patterns and its interaction with intellectual property rights.

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More Than Your Mark

SEPTEMBER 3, 2021

Patents are meant to cover new, useful, and non-obvious inventions (utility patents) and new and non-obvious designs (design patents). Additionally, all patents have a limited life span: twenty years from the earliest effective filing date of a utility patent and fifteen years from the issuance of a design patent.

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Biswajit Sarkar Copyright Blog

JANUARY 16, 2024

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. Additionally, copyrights can also extend to website content, graphic designs, logos, videos, and other digital assets.

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Biswajit Sarkar Copyright Blog

JULY 13, 2022

Thus, it becomes essential to protect IPR in fashion to accord increased protection and economic benefits to designers and brands. In light of this, each industrial design asset and the brand that markets it must be secured by intellectual property rights in the fashion sector. Role of IPR in Fashion. TRADEMARK.

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IP Tech Blog

JANUARY 4, 2023

In turn, this attracts interest from businesses ranging from fashion and sports brands, sport teams, designers, game developers, and other content owners. It covers architectural design, software, graphic arts, motions pictures, sound recordings, and more, and it is adaptive to new technological advances that would likely apply to NFTs.

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SpicyIP

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

Delhi High Court clarifies that for “lack of novelty” to be used as a defence against a Design infringement claim, the lack of novelty is to be seen as on the date of registration of design and not thereafter. Check out the post for more details. KTTADI and KHADI are prima facie similar, rules Delhi High Court.

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43(B)log

AUGUST 12, 2021

Several modern-day remedies were enacted to reduce the risk that IP owners would otherwise be able to recover only nominal damages—reasonable royalties for patents; statutory damages for © infringement; disgorgement of total profits for infringement of design patents. Repatriation of any copies for violation.

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LexBlog IP

JANUARY 4, 2023

In turn, this attracts interest from businesses ranging from fashion and sports brands, sport teams, designers, game developers, and other content owners. It has been debated whether NFTs/DC could be protected in China by design patents.

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Biswajit Sarkar Copyright Blog

MAY 7, 2021

The nodes authenticate transactions, add the data to their copy of the common ledger and transfer the ledger additions to all other nodes. It is basically a distributed database that can achieve independent verification of the ownership chain of any or every cryptocurrency (amount) as each node stores its own copy of the blockchain.

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Biswajit Sarkar Copyright Blog

MAY 7, 2021

The nodes authenticate transactions, add the data to their copy of the common ledger and transfer the ledger additions to all other nodes. It is basically a distributed database that can achieve independent verification of the ownership chain of any or every cryptocurrency (amount) as each node stores its own copy of the blockchain.

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Biswajit Sarkar Copyright Blog

MAY 7, 2021

The nodes authenticate transactions, add the data to their copy of the common ledger and transfer the ledger additions to all other nodes. It is basically a distributed database that can achieve independent verification of the ownership chain of any or every cryptocurrency (amount) as each node stores its own copy of the blockchain.

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Patent Trademark Blog

JANUARY 18, 2024

If your product has unique aesthetic features that are nonfunctional, file a design patent application. When the novelty of your concept includes a combination of functional and nonfunctional features, it may make sense to file both utility and design patents. See utility patent costs here and design patent costs here.

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43(B)log

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

That can have problems, but a whole bunch of marks that are extraordinarily narrow/cast no shadow and are only going to be applied against identical copying doesn’t necessarily create a terrible system, especially under conditions of congestion. Others have noted a shift of the costs of private enforcement to public/government.

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SpicyIP

DECEMBER 30, 2023

CCI , the Delhi High Court held that Chapter XVI of the Patents Act is a complete code in itself and overrides the Competition Act, 2002. Controller of Patents & Designs Patent Office Mumbai. Controller of Patents and Designs and Raytheon Company v. Microsoft Technology Licensing v. In Microsoft v.

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43(B)log

JUNE 24, 2022

RT: I would say lots of courts in © also try to reduce merger to meaning that you can do anything but copy verbatim, which is a narrowing that many courts in TM don’t bother with, though some variants of Rogers v. Every figurative TM will be protected by ©/design, built into the system. Grimaldi are trending in that direction.]

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Fish & Richardson Trademark & Copyright Thoughts

JANUARY 5, 2022

PDF copy available. But as more players enter the market and obtain patent protection for their innovations, IP disputes among competitors are heating up. Figure 1: Battery Patent Filings: CPC Class H01M 1. 20 although such technologies may face additional hurdles related to the prohibition on patenting abstract ideas.

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