IP and Legal Filings
JULY 8, 2022
FDI is dominated by the United Kingdom with an estimated value of US$11.56billion (48 percent), followed by the UAE USD 2.6billion (10.8 Industrial Design in Oman. The design must be original and, again, must conform to Oman’s standards of decency, in order to enjoy protection. percent), followed by Kuwait USD 1.1billion (4.6
Patently-O
AUGUST 13, 2021
The court relied upon additional facts not found in the question presented–noting that the document in question was distributed to hundreds of customers over a span of years and without any confidentiality restrictions; and that product advertisements were designed to attract persons of skill in the art. 102(a)(1). 869, 877 (Fed.
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Biswajit Sarkar Copyright Blog
JULY 19, 2022
A person authorises the use of the space for the transmission, sale, distribution, or display of an unauthorised work unless they know or have good reason to suspect that doing so will result in a copyright violation. With today’s technology, it is very simple to copy and share the original works of other people.
Patently-O
AUGUST 22, 2022
Bonito Boats centers on a Florida statute prohibiting copying of unpatented boat hulls via direct molding. And the Supreme Court affirmed — holding that the “carefully crafted bargain” embodied by the US patent system occupies the entire space and thus preempts any further state action offering patent-like rights.
Patently-O
APRIL 6, 2023
A key feature of the SAS product is that folks can write programs using SAS syntax in order to get certain results. WPL is a UK based software company who obtained several copies of SAS statistical software and made their own clone version by rewriting the code and by relying upon an early version of SAS that is not protected by copyright.
IP Whiteboard
AUGUST 30, 2020
From some general Google searching, it seems common for people to download pictures of works they like and bring them to their tattooist to copy. According to Dr Marie Hadley from University of Newcastle: My unpublished research among tattooists in New Zealand suggests there can be a lot of pressure from clients to copy existing images. “I
Garrigues Blog
JANUARY 12, 2022
This seems like the perfect time, then, to talk about one of the scenarios in which (IP wise) the past can prove to be extremely important when facing the future: the right of prior use to counter infringement of patents or utility models. What is the right of prior use or “pre-use”? Real intention to use.
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