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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? For any trademark that now becomes registered, the recipient automatically receives an electronic version of the registration certificate, and the USPTO no longer mails out a physical copy. This concerns me.

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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? Erik explains the differences between electronic, presentation, and paper registration certificates. The post What is a Presentation Copy of a Trademark Registration?

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Of Bass Notes and Base Rates: Avoiding Mistaken Inferences about Copying

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61, 2023 Abstract To prove copyright infringement, a plaintiff must convince a jury that the defendant copied from the plaintiff’s work rather than independently creating it. Until that knowledge is available, testimony about the probability of copying should be deemed inadmissible under Federal Rule of Evidence 702.

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Journey Through “Novembers” on SpicyIP (2005 – Present)

SpicyIP

So, before 2023 turns into yesteryear, let’s see what the past Novembers on SpicyIP (2005 to present) have offered. Transparent (IP) law Making via Leaked Documents: In 2013, Swaraj penned a post about Wikileaks leaked copy of the consolidated IP negotiating chapter for the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement (TPP) (see also ).

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Prof. David Vaver Presents “Mr. Justice Laddie and his Intellectual Property Cases: Of Millefeuilles and a Fish Called Elvis”

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David Vaver presenting the 14th Annual Sir Hugh Laddie Lecture ( Screenshot from UCL Recording on YouTube channel ). Moreover, in an effort to determine what was actually copied in a work, he considered whether the work as a whole or its individual components should have their own copyrights.

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France: Le Monde’s font is original (but has not been copied by Google)

Kluwer Copyright Blog

Recently, a draft bill to change the burden of proof of originality was presented to the French Senate to try to deal with the problem created by the lower courts. But the court ruled that the font had not been copied Article L.122-4 The court found that the characteristics of Le Monde’s font were not copied by Google.

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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). LEXIS 1864 (2021), the Supreme Court held that Google’s copying was permissible fair use. Protecting software through intellectual property rights presents particular challenges.