TorrentFreak

JANUARY 5, 2024

On January 1, 2024, TorrentFreak published a review of the wrongful DMCA notices filed against us in 2023, either directly via email or at Google demanding deindexing of our articles. Our small request for 2024 was not unreasonable: stop sending us bogus copyright notices.

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Publishing Copyright Infringement Reporting Copyright 95

Dear Rich IP Blog

SEPTEMBER 16, 2020

The application seemed doomed in February 2019, when the USPTO trademark examiner issued a final office action (FOA) denying registration. The rejection was based on Section 1502(a) of the trademark law -- registration is denied to marks that falsely suggest a connection with a person or an institution (and includes a four-part test ).

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Public Domain Graphic Design Art Trademark 52

SpicyIP

JANUARY 2, 2022

Google argued that even when the keyword is a trademark, it is never used in a ‘trademark sense’, thereby the invisible use of trademarks, as keyword, failing to meet the threshold to constitute infringement. Newslaundry-Aaj Tak dispute and the fair-dealing exception.

IP 143

IP Intellectual Property Copyright Trademark 143

Technology & Marketing Law Blog

MARCH 7, 2022

Before the 1909 Act, the author was required to register the title of the work before publication, as a condition of receiving copyright protection. Under the 1909 Act, an author received a federal statutory copyright merely by publishing the work with proper copyright notice. 110-617 , at 23 (2008) (emphasis added).

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Registration Blogging Copyright Designs 77