IP Law 360

DECEMBER 1, 2023

Department of Defense contractor made unauthorized copies of the company's software and the DOD tried to cover up that copying. A Court of Federal Claims judge has awarded a software developer $12.7 million for copyright infringement after finding that a U.S.

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The IPKat

OCTOBER 1, 2022

The IPKat is delighted to host the contribution below by Katfriend Felicia Caponigri (IMT Alti Studi Lucca and Fashion by Felicia) on the IP implications of the recent and seemingly already iconic Dolce&Gabbana fashion show at the recent Milan Fashion Week. Here’s what Felicia writes: Archival Authenticity or Iconic Copies?

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IP Law 360

OCTOBER 19, 2022

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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IP Law 360

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

The owner of the Naked Wolfe brand has accused two online footwear retailers of design and copyright infringement, alleging that they "slavishly copied" its chunky boot designs.

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IP Law 360

MAY 21, 2024

A top product security engineer at Bungie told a Seattle federal jury on Tuesday that a hacker accused of exploiting a popular game to make cheat software likely never had access to the game's source code and acknowledged the game company hasn't seen the cheat code that it claims amounts to copyright infringement.

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IP Law 360

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

A federal magistrate judge in Waco, Texas, says he doesn't think "some copy-and-paste errors" are enough to hook a prolific litigator of patent lawsuits to paying legal fees in a shell company's latest failed campaign against Salesforce.

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TorrentFreak

MAY 18, 2024

While Google already shared the Gmail addresses of the alleged abusers, CreativeCode now requests additional information including names, payment details, and IP-addresses. IP-addresses and More Specifically, the proposed order seeks the following information from Google, all related to Gmail addresses.

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Olartemoure Blog

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

In the digital world, and working with visuals and sometimes with external brands, you navigate a potential minefield of IP risks. Say No to Copycats: Letting others know your content is protected deters them from copying it. It’s very important for you to protect yourself and your creative gems!

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TorrentFreak

MARCH 3, 2024

In parallel, information on which domains and IP address have been blocked, aren’t being published according to the rules. It contains 1267 IP addresses but less than 10 domains names have been revealed to the public in official records. All other countries were were linked to five IP addresses or less.

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IP Law 360

JANUARY 3, 2024

A Boston boutique law firm has filed a copyright infringement complaint against Winston & Strawn LLP, accusing it and four of its attorneys of copying a motion-to-dismiss filing "nearly verbatim" in a patent dispute where both firms were representing co-defendants.

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IP Law 360

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

A founding member of the Romantics will likely have a tough time regaining control of the band's finances after a Michigan appellate judge said Wednesday he couldn't condone the "incompetence" of the musician's trial attorneys, who filed a brief that was a copy of the opposing side's argument.

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The IPKat

DECEMBER 15, 2022

This post is the third and final instalment in the “Africa IP Highlights 2022" series of posts highlighting some of the key developments in IP in Africa in 2022. As previously stated, the Africa IP Highlights 2022 is the result of collaboration between myself and and Doreen Adoma Agyei and Clarisse Mideva. Katfriend, Ifeanyi E.

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JD Supra Law

JANUARY 19, 2023

The Metaverse is a minefield for intellectual property (IP) owners. Many of the threats to IP will be familiar — such as unauthorized use of trademarks, copying of content, and misuse of name/image/likeness. However, the best ways to establish and enforce IP rights in the Metaverse may seem to be hidden underground.

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TorrentFreak

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

Reddit III: Targeting IP-addresses While the denial was another setback for the film companies and their attorney, they had no plans to abandon this route to evidence quite so easily. Contrary to the earlier requests, the film companies were no longer looking for any names or email addresses, only the applicable IP address logs.

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IP Law 360

DECEMBER 11, 2023

A Los Angeles furniture business infringed the copyrights of a late iconic French designer, a California federal judge has concluded, saying the estate that brought the suit established that the furniture designs at issue are original and not copied from other sources as the defendants argued.

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IP Law 360

MAY 1, 2024

A British game developer has hit back at its French rival in a copyright feud over the pair's mobile games, telling a London court that any similarities between the apps are nondistinctive features that don't merit protection.

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TorrentFreak

JANUARY 30, 2024

On several occasions, courts dismissed piracy claims after ruling that “an IP address is not a person” In 2014, for example, Florida federal court Judge Ursula Ungaro dismissed a lawsuit ruling that IP address evidence can’t identify the person who allegedly shared a pirated movie. Anonymous Speech at Stake?

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TorrentFreak

JANUARY 24, 2024

IP addresses & Anonymity In general terms, this case is comparable to the others. They are no longer looking for any names or email addresses, only the applicable IP address logs. Rather, the subpoena is limited to requesting the Reddit users’ IP address logs,” they write.

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IPilogue

MARCH 23, 2022

The IP Innovation Clinic, the first student-based clinic of its kind in Canada, is seeking law students from Osgoode Hall Law School to provide assistance to under-resourced inventors, entrepreneurs and start-up companies with their innovation and commercialization activities. IP Innovation Clinic Fellows (10 positions). 750 words).

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IP Law 360

APRIL 19, 2024

Royal Mail has accused a software developer of using its database of postcode information to set up its own address-finding company.

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The IPKat

DECEMBER 15, 2023

This post is the third and final instalment in the “Africa IP Highlights 2023" series of posts highlighting some of the key developments in IP in Africa in 2023. As previously stated, the Africa IP Highlights 2023 is the result of collaboration between myself and Clarisse Mideva ; Rita Chindah ; and Jessie Mgonga.

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IP Law 360

APRIL 8, 2024

Nvidia has been hit with a trademark infringement action in Texas federal court by competitor Modulus Financial Engineering accusing Nvidia of illegally using an identical "Modulus" mark in connection with Nvidia's open-source framework and artificial intelligence software, without Modulus Financial's permission.

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LexBlog IP

JUNE 26, 2023

. (“JSC”) against Trendily Furniture, LLC, Trendily Home Collection, and Raul Malhotra (collectively, “Trendily”) finding Trendily liable for trade dress infringement for willfully copying, manufacturing, and selling identical JSC furniture pieces.

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IIPRD

NOVEMBER 22, 2023

[Image Sources: Shutterstock] Why is IP Important for Influencers? There is a need to understand that the content published is available to anyone and everyone with internet and can be copied and used. As a result, it is crucial to learn how to safeguard IP. As a result, it is crucial to learn how to safeguard IP.

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SpicyIP

JULY 22, 2023

While there are a number of aspects covered by “Artificial Intelligence”, ranging from definitions to scope, from life-saving to life-threatening, there has been surprisingly limited public policy discussion on the intersection of AI and IP in India. Her area of interest lies in IP and corporate law. Arul Scaria).

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JD Supra Law

JANUARY 19, 2024

Crudo will present the webinar "Federal Circuit IP Appeals: Summaries of Key 2023 Decisions" on Tuesday, January 23, 2024, at 1:00 p.m. EST. Attendees will receive an advance copy of our report via email after the webinar concludes. Directors Michael Joffre, Ph.D., Milliken, Anna G. Phillips, and Richard A.

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IP Law 360

APRIL 29, 2024

A New Jersey federal judge on Monday tossed with prejudice a suit filed by former "Survivor" contestant Gervase Peterson alleging that Netflix's show "King of Collectibles: The Goldin Touch" infringes on a teaser video he produced, saying the alleged protectable ideas are generic reality show elements.

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TorrentFreak

MARCH 3, 2023

New Domains Switched For IP Addresses For years pirate sites have deployed new domains to defeat ISP blocking. A more recent trend in some regions has seen pirate sites dump domains entirely and rely on IP addresses instead. ” Using IP addresses instead of domain names has another potential upside too. .”

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LexBlog IP

DECEMBER 18, 2023

In this case, the Federal Circuit determined the sufficiency of evidence to rebut a nexus between objective evidence and non-obviousness; and to establish the objective indicia of copying. Direct evidence of copying is not necessary to establish copying. The Board’s finding of copying is supported by substantial evidence.

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IP Watchdog

JUNE 26, 2023

Supreme Court denied the petitions for certiorari in a number of IP cases today, including three the U.S. Solicitor General had recommended rejecting. In Genius v. Google, ML Genius Holdings (Genius) attempted to sue Google for posting song lyrics from its website in Google search results.

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TraskBritt Intellectual Property

APRIL 10, 2021

When developing Android, Google had copied the text and format of function calls from Oracle’s Java SE Application Programming Interface (API). LEXIS 1864 (2021), the Supreme Court held that Google’s copying was permissible fair use. Software and IP. In Google LLC v. 18-956, 2021 U.S.

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IPilogue

AUGUST 25, 2022

The IP Innovation Clinic, the first student-based clinic of its kind in Canada, is seeking law students from Osgoode Hall Law School to assist under-resourced inventors, entrepreneurs and start-up companies with their innovation and commercialization activities. IP Innovation Clinic Fellows (3-5 positions). Conducting legal research.

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LexBlog IP

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

This right allows the authors of these works to decide who is allowed to copy their work, and how, amongst other things. US law gives authors of fixed works with some element of creativity rights over their own creations, be they literary works, works of visual art, etc.

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Plagiarism Today

APRIL 11, 2022

For example, in Bowman’s case, are his hats genuine second-hand merchandise or unauthorized copies? The post Etsy Launches New IP Portal appeared first on Plagiarism Today. The nature of Etsy can often make it difficult to determine which listings are or are not infringing just by looking at the listing.

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LexBlog IP

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

But in this “exceptional” trademark case filled with admissions on key issues (like intentional copying), a lack of evidence opposing plaintiff’s undisputed facts, and “procedural mischief”—including evasion of process, default, failure to meet extended deadlines, and more—the U.S.

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SpicyIP

APRIL 24, 2022

IP Reveries: Class I – “IPR” – A Tantalising Term or Troubling Terminology? To start with, let’s think a little about what IP and IPR mean. You all have touched on different aspects of the question from what/what-not IP to why IP and what after IP. What meaning do these terms have in the context of IP?

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Dragons' Den

APRIL 4, 2024

Once your copyright has expired, anyone can use or copy your work. It’s great that Tori and Carrie already thought about overseas protection because IP rights are territorial. This means that if you only have UK protection, others may be allowed to use your IP abroad without infringing your rights.

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