IP Watchdog

MARCH 1, 2024

This week in Other Barks and Bites: a California district court rules a Chinese chipmaker was not guilty of stealing trade secrets; multiple news organizations sue OpenAI for using copyrighted material to train ChatGPT; and a writer accuses Amazon Studios of copyright infringement and using AI to work around the actor’s strike.

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TorrentFreak

MARCH 31, 2024

The report is part of research into public perceptions of IP matters by analyzing news coverage of the five years ending 2022. The initial findings cover copyright, design, patent, and trademark issues, but mindful of our niche, our coverage here is mostly limited to the former.

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IP and Legal Filings

AUGUST 14, 2023

SHOULD LEX LOCI PROTECTIONIS BE APPLIED BLANKETLY TO COPYRIGHT INFRINGEMENT? It has been established that lex loci protectionis is the rule that is applied to all the IPR infringement cases, barring a few exceptions. Today, most of the copyright infringement happen through the Internet. Garimella and S. Jolly (eds.)2017)

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IP Watchdog

SEPTEMBER 3, 2022

Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) extends the public comment period on the agency’s subject matter eligibility guidance; Novo Nordisk improves its sickle cell and rare blood disease treatment portfolio with a $1.1

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SpicyIP

DECEMBER 30, 2023

As 2023 comes to an end, in line with our annual tradition, we take stock of the top IP developments that occurred this year. We’ve tried to represent a diversity of subject matter also in this list, so it’s a mixed bag of cases dealing with patents, trademarks, copyright law etc. A special thanks to Mr. G. Nataraj, Ms.

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IP Watchdog

APRIL 19, 2024

This week in Other Barks & Bites: HP sues a Chinese competitor for infringing on cloud computing patents; three federal agencies launch portal to report anti-competitive practices in the healthcare sector; and a European court rejects Pablo Escobar’s family to register the drug lord’s name as a trademark.

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Olartemoure Blog

JANUARY 31, 2023

Registration in the IP owner directory submitted before the Colombian tax and customs authority is a common practice by IP owners who wish to apply for benefits found in Decree 1165 of 2019 and Decree 360 of 2021, current regulatory framework for said request. Requirements for said application are set forth in article 724 therein.

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IP Watchdog

JUNE 27, 2022

This week in Washington IP news, subcommittee hearings at the U.S. Elsewhere, the Hudson Institute takes a closer look at the background and potential impacts of small claims for copyright infringement filed at the recently established Copyright Claims Board, while the U.S.

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IP Watchdog

AUGUST 18, 2023

Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit (CAFC) upholds Patent Trial and Appeal Board’s (PTAB) invalidation of two cancer treatment patents; the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) announces plans to send welcome letters to newly filed patent and trademark applications; Record labels file copyright infringement against the Internet Archive, (..)

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LexBlog IP

AUGUST 25, 2022

District Court can exercise personal jurisdiction over a foreign defendant with regard to a copyright infringement suit. Lang Van is a California corporation that produces and distributes Vietnamese music and entertainment, owning the copyrights to thousands of songs and programs. content owners.” for a number of years.

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IPilogue

OCTOBER 3, 2022

Pankhuri Malik is an IPilogue Writer, IP Innovation Clinic Fellow, and an LLM Candidate at Osgoode Hall Law School. On August 31, 2022, IP Osgoode held its first in-person event in over 2 years and the first instalment of the IP Osgoode Speaks series since 2020. LV sued Plesner alleging trademark infringement.

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LexBlog IP

MARCH 2, 2023

Getty Images alleges that Stability’s actions constitute copyright infringement, false copyright management information, removal or alteration of copyright management information, trademark infringement, unfair competition, trademark dilution, and deceptive trade practices under Delaware law.

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SpicyIP

AUGUST 21, 2023

Read on for his take on what this means for future trademark litigations. Aditya is an attorney at Ira Law and represents Google in trademark litigation relating to keyword advertising. On the recently passed Jan Vishwas Bill 2023, Aparajita discusses the potential impact the legislation can have on the Indian IP Regime.

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IP Watchdog

AUGUST 6, 2021

Department of Commerce files trademark applications to protect USPTO branding and enforce against third parties sending malicious solicitations to registered trademark owners.

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The IPKat

DECEMBER 16, 2021

It’s December and time for what is now an annual ritual for this Africa Correspondent – The Africa IP Highlights! The Africa IP Highlights is an initiative of this Kat and is a series of posts put together to highlight some of the key developments in IP in Africa each year.

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Kashishipr

MARCH 16, 2022

The term ‘ Intellectual Property (IP) ‘ is like the term ‘Organic’ to some extent, i.e., people across the globe possess some knowledge as to what it means but aren’t crystal clear on its specific details. In the same way round, IP puts a virtual fence around the property or assets that it safeguards.

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Kashishipr

JULY 13, 2022

Undoubtedly, both technologies bring a complete set of novel Intellectual Property (IP) issues for business companies, brands, individuals, courts, and IP practitioners. Sometimes, AR and VR are used in overlapping ways; however, the two terms present unique and different issues in the IP world. Toyota Motor Sales USA, Inc.,

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SpicyIP

JANUARY 15, 2023

The need of the hour is for the law to be amended to differentiate between different acts of copyright infringement, limit criminalisation only to mass piracy and not routine infringement and require prior judicial cognisance as a pre-condition to criminal investigation. In Knit Pro International v.

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IPilogue

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

On November 7, 2018, Pest Control, Banksy’s authentication body, filed an EU trademark claim on behalf of the artist for Laugh Now. Typically, artists protect their artwork using only copyright law. However, artists are required to reveal their identity when claiming copyright infringement. street artist Banksy.

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JD Supra Law

APRIL 22, 2022

This may include filing new trademark registrations or purchasing blockchain domains. In this alert, we discuss ways to identify and combat trademark and copyright infringement in the metaverse. But enforcing those rights poses a significant challenge. By: ArentFox Schiff

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The IPKat

MAY 31, 2022

The Kluwer Trademark Blog provides a summary of the background and outcome of the above decisions. As reported by The Fashion Law, a recent case in China involved copyright infringement of a series of illustrated works by Chinese artist Ma Qianli and the contributory liability of Chinese marketplace Bigverse.

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Corsearch

MARCH 13, 2023

Disney still own the copyright on more recent works featuring the character and, most importantly, have protected his name, likeness, and associated imagery by registering trademarks. Copyright infringement continues to plague global businesses, threatening the livelihoods of content creators and innovators.

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IPilogue

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

In this new billion dollar industry , game developers must be especially cautious of potential trademark infringements. court cases addressed the question of whether depictions of real vehicles in video games constitutes trademark infringement. Two recent U.S. Battle of the tractors: Saber Interactive Inc v.

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IPilogue

FEBRUARY 14, 2022

Companies that include other companies’ trademarks or products in their own advertisements are subject to various constraints from the Trademarks Act, Copyright Act, Competition Act, tort law, and the Canadian Code of Advertising Standards. In contrast, section 22 is more applicable to trademarks for services.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

MARCH 6, 2024

He sued a print-on-demand service (Sunfrog) over alleged IP violations of his illustrations. If that rings a bell, it’s because just yesterday I blogged on a DIFFERENT fish painter, DeYoung, who also brought an IP lawsuit against a print-on-demand service (Pixels). This plaintiff emphasized copyright law but got little traction.

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IP Watchdog

JANUARY 26, 2024

billion in damages; the International Trademark Association (INTA) publishes a report highlighting companies’ IP value; and the Pokemon Company releases a statement on potential copyright infringement by a rival game developer.

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SpicyIP

JANUARY 1, 2024

Highlights of the Week A Look Back at India’s Top IP Developments of 2023 Continuing with our annual tradition, we curated a list of the top IP developments in India. This was challenged by the petitioners, asserting that such action severely impairs the Trademark attorneys’ and other stakeholders’ functioning. Defendant no.

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IP Watchdog

AUGUST 13, 2023

Ryan Abbott, “AI and copyright law have finally burst into the public consciousness—from contributing to the writer’s strike to a wave of high-profile cases alleging copyright infringement from machine learning to global public hearings on the protectability of AI-generated works.” Copyright Office (USCO) and the U.S.

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IP Watchdog

JANUARY 13, 2023

This week in Other Barks & Bites: Dr. Dre issues a cease-and-desist letter to Marjorie Taylor Greene alleging copyright infringement; Apple loses a patent case that threatens the import of certain Apple Watches; a jury rules in favor of fashion designer Thom Browne over Adidas in a trademark case; and the USPTO extends the deadline to submit comments (..)

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The IP Law Blog

DECEMBER 29, 2023

Weintraub Tobin’s Intellectual Property podcast, The Briefing , published nearly 50 episodes this year covering a variety of IP issues relating to trademark, copyright, and entertainment law. As we look back, we want to share The Briefing’s most popular episodes in 2023. 3: What Now for Fair Use After Warhol v.

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IP and Legal Filings

JUNE 16, 2021

With IP forming a major role in the company wealth generation, the company must ensure that such IP issues are met perfectly so that the company can have maximum output and wealth generation. Enforcing your IP. The IP is recognized in different forms under each jurisdiction. Image Source: gettyimages].

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JIPL Online

APRIL 9, 2021

In particular, it explores why copyright of a meme’s underlying content does not matter in a normative sense. In this blog I argue that copyright protection of the content underlying memes does not matter because of the relative weakness of enforcement mechanisms for copyright infringement of this scale. 102(a) and (b).

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SpicyIP

JUNE 26, 2023

Swaraj announced the new initiative to discuss the history of IP law on the blog and kickstarted this with informative posts from Shivam Kaushik on Indian copyright history and its entanglement with Berne Convention. Her area of interest lies in IP and corporate law. Image from here Apologize for Copyright Infringement?

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IP Tech Blog

JANUARY 4, 2023

Securing the right IP protection for an NFT will be key to its successful commercialization and exploitation by the creator and its owner. In this blog post we examine how copyright is leveraged to protect NFTs, both in the US and China, with a comparative approach that elucidates both the challenges and potential solutions.

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SpicyIP

JANUARY 2, 2022

Continuing our annual tradition of recounting the significant developments that impacted the Indian IP landscape in the year that has been, we bring you a round-up of 2021’s developments. This year, we have divided these developments into three categories: a) Top 10 IP Judgments/Orders (Topicality/Impact).

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IP Law 360

JANUARY 24, 2023

Intellectual property owners who can't justify the cost of trademark, copyright or advertising litigation in the current uncertain economic climate should consider less expensive brand-protection options, such as the Digital Millennium Copyright Act's uniform takedown procedure for online copyright infringement, says Michael Justus at Katten.

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IIPRD

JANUARY 24, 2023

A robust and substantive IP portfolio does not only protect inventions but, also demonstrates the strength of the innovative business models of companies. Contrary to copyright laws, however, patent laws do not contain a comparable provision giving employers the right to inventions made by their employees while they were working for them.

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