SpicyIP

JULY 29, 2021

We’re happy to bring you a guest post by Shivam Kaushik on the copyrightability of fonts. Fonts & Typefaces: Are they Copyrightable? . Their function is so fundamental, and presence so ubiquitous that the thought that fonts and typefaces are eligible for copyright protection, seems inconceivable at first.

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SpicyIP

MARCH 13, 2023

Highlights of the Week Learning from India’s Disastrous Experience in Protecting Itself against Biopiracy In light of the upcoming WIPO Diplomatic Conference on Genetic Resources and Traditional Knowledge, Prashant Reddy brings us a post highlighting India’s sub-par experience with its own Biological Diversity Act, 2002. Microsoft v.

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IIPRD

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

Intellectual property regulations and technology security methods are used to provide protection. The traditional means of protecting IP rights are hardly sufficient in the effortless, technologically advanced world of today. Introduction Intellectual property rights (IPR) in e-commerce are a vital component of e-commerce.

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Patent Trademark Blog

MARCH 18, 2022

Let’s look into what those intangible assets might be, and how they can be protected. Names or logos used to sell a product may be protectable even if the product itself is nothing new. Names or logos used to sell a product may be protectable even if the product itself is nothing new. Yes, you certainly can.

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Larson & Larson

NOVEMBER 25, 2021

Product designers, inventors, and artists of all types need to understand the meaning of intellectual property and how to protect their creative contributions. . Products that derive from the human intellect that the law protects from unauthorized use are defined as intellectual property. Code covers patent law. .

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SpicyIP

DECEMBER 20, 2023

Kurian’s trail of transparency, Statements of Patent (Non-)Working, Corruption in IP Offices, Serial Crisis in India, the Indian “Bayh Dole” Bill, etc. Although India now has the Digital Personal Data Protection Act 2023 , it doesn’t provide IP protection to databases. Image from here November has passed. Missed anything?

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LexBlog IP

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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The IPKat

OCTOBER 3, 2022

If we get a critical mass of replies, IPKat will be delighted to report on them in a future post. If we get a critical mass of replies, IPKat will be delighted to report on them in a future post. October is here with more news, events and opportunities coming your way. Read more here (in Spanish).

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IP and Legal Filings

AUGUST 14, 2023

Introduction Private International Law governs the disputes between two individual parties rather than States. Unlike Public International Law that has a defined jurisdiction and law, Private International Law lacks in that area. This practice that has gained widespread acceptance over the years. [1]

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

MARCH 14, 2022

Running from 29 October 2021 to 7 January 2022, the “ Artificial Intelligence and IP: copyright and patents ” consultation formed the latest round in an ongoing national conversation between the UK Intellectual Property Office (UKIPO) and interested stakeholders (see here ). The existing UK protection for computer-generated works.

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The IPKat

JULY 22, 2021

Katfriend Dr Sabine Jacques , Associate Professor in IP, IT & Media law at the University of East Anglia and author of The Parody Exception in Copyright Law (OUP 2019), provides the follow review of The Copyright/Trademark Interface: How the Expansion of Trademark Protection is Stifling Cultural Creativity – by Martin Senftleben.

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LexBlog IP

DECEMBER 6, 2021

A comprehensive guide to intellectual property and legal protections for software technology. As a software developer, investor, visionary that has invested significant time and resources into software technology, it is crucial not to share the details of your innovation until you have taken steps to protect it properly.

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IIPRD

FEBRUARY 19, 2021

Recently, the office of Controller General of Patents, Designs & Trade Marks granted a patent to a ragi walnut soup mix prepared by the 52-year old woman, Shubhangi Patil. In her patent application, she claimed that her soup is free from preservatives and artificial additives. The answer is yes. The answer is yes.

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SpicyIP

JANUARY 20, 2024

Basheer raised in his 2018 post on the Politics of Patent Citation. research on the genealogy of copyright’s balance metaphor. Mr. Kadirgamar traces it back to 1970 when WIPO conducted two surveys: one, on the teaching of industrial property law and the second on the teaching of copyright law teaching.

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The IPKat

DECEMBER 29, 2022

Benjamin is a future trainee solicitor at a commercial law firm. He holds degrees from the University of Oxford and King's College London, where he studied IP subjects and realised that he would like to pursue this field of law. Your grounding in IP Law 2. He is based in London and hopes to specialise in trade marks and brands.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

JUNE 1, 2023

The members of the European Copyright Society (ECS ) have recently sent a letter to Mr. Thierry Breton ( Commissioner for Internal Market , European Commission ) outlining their view of what should be the priorities for a f uture agenda in the field of copyright law.

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azrights

AUGUST 11, 2022

As AI platforms like Midjourney , or Dall-E2 are widely adopted the question that is increasingly being asked is about the copyright position. One common trait these AI platforms share is that they first need to learn how to simulate human thinking. Would they be infringing your copyright though?

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SpicyIP

APRIL 30, 2023

[ This weekly review is co-authored with SpicyIP intern Devanshu Agrawal. from the National Law School of India University, Bengaluru. The author questions this order, looking at prior case laws, and discusses how it inadvertently also limits the importance of the documents in rectification matters. Other posts Rochem v.

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LexBlog IP

JULY 21, 2021

That question is “how have various countries’ intellectual property laws addressed efforts to copyright, trademark, or patent holy names, sacred words, or outputs of creation? The title of this piece tracks a common “ phrase of exasperation used to emphasize a question or statement.” society at $4.8

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LexBlog IP

JANUARY 5, 2022

994 (2020) , a decision holding that the sovereign immunity of individual states prevented a copyright holder from recovering damages for infringement, I was a bit disheartened. Copyright Conundrums, Sovereign States, and IP Piracy (2020). When the United States Supreme Court issued its decision in Allen v. Cooper, 140 S.Ct.

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LexBlog IP

MARCH 27, 2023

How was ChatGPT trained? In particular, ChatGPT is a type of “language” model designed to respond with a natural language reply when prompted with a text-based question. The “Chat” in ChatGPT refers to this question-and-answer design, where ChatGPT behaves like a ChatBot.

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SpicyIP

JANUARY 8, 2024

This weekly review is co-authored with SpicyIP intern Vedika Chawla. student at National Law University, Delhi. Tejaswini in this hard-hitting post recounts TKDL’s history with oppositions, raising questions regarding how the database is used. Vedika is a third-year B.A.LL.B. Her previous posts can be accessed here.

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SpicyIP

JANUARY 2, 2022

We’ve tried to represent a diversity of subject matter also in this list, so we have a fair sprinkling of cases dealing with copyright, patents, trademarks, competition law etc. Also, a huge thanks to our readers for continuing to engage with our posts and constantly encouraging us, which keeps us going! H Lundbeck A/S v.

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LexBlog IP

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

” But, despite such fondness for keeping the leftovers around so seconds can, a day or two later, maybe move past fourths, one needs the space, things get stale or spoil, and it is time to clean out that fridge or pantry because more holiday parties and a new year is right around the corner. .” Either way, let’s jump in: A.

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IPilogue

SEPTEMBER 3, 2021

Our IPilogue is one of Canada’s leading IP Blogs with an enthusiastic international following. If you are interested in joining the IPilogue Team, please send your cover letter, CV, law school transcripts, and a writing sample to iposgoode@osgoode.yorku.ca To date, we have published over 2,600 original posts and 1,400 comments.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

MARCH 7, 2022

Supreme Court held 6-3 that the Ninth Circuit erred in invalidating a copyright registration for failure to comply with the Copyright Office’s “single unit of publication” regulation, where the copyright owner had knowledge of the facts but arguably misunderstood the legal standard. By Guest Blogger Tyler Ochoa. 3d at 1196.

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SpicyIP

JANUARY 27, 2024

We have traversed through Junes , Julys , Augusts , Septembers , Octobers , and Novembers and shared some stories like 10 years of the Google Books Library Project, the Presumption of validity of patents, Corruption in IP Offices, the Serial Crisis in India, Law Making via Leaked Documents, etc. Did you miss anything? Don’t worry.

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43(B)log

AUGUST 3, 2023

Substantive equality is in many international instruments, and can be found in the exceptions for the blind/print-impaired. Courts make errors about the law of infringement, leading them to think that certain things are relevant when they are not. Same concept of similarity governs both elements of the copyright claim!

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LexBlog IP

APRIL 20, 2022

Melatonin levels are bound to the amount and frequency of sunlight exposure we get. Melatonin levels are bound to the amount and frequency of sunlight exposure we get. There’s a duty to readers to do that so they can see how some of these stories have continued, or how new items connect to old ones.

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