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The USPTO and USCO Delivered a Report to Congress on IP Issues with NFTs – Maintains Existing IP Regime

Intellectual Property Law Blog

The United States Patent and Trademark Office (“USPTO”) and the United States Copyright Office (“USCO”) delivered a report to Congress entitled Non-Fungible Tokens and Intellectual Property on March 12, 2024 (“Report”). While the Report is comprehensive, it does not recommend any new action to address IP issues with NFTs.

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Book review: Copyright in the Digital Single Market

The IPKat

Many readers will already be familiar with this title, since it won our IPKat book of the year award 2021 for best copyright book! But, for those who are yet to pick up a copy, here is what is in store: The EU legislature adopted Directive 2019/790 on Copyright in the Digital Single Market (DSM) in 2019.

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How Grey Is Your Market? Identifying Grey Market Issues and Strategies to Combat Them 

Corsearch

However, whilst international trade fosters economic growth and exchange, it also creates opportunities for grey market goods to emerge. Table of contents : • What is the grey market? • Supply chain inefficiencies: Misallocation of products or product returns can lead to grey market sales.

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EUIPO BoA IP Case Law Conference Report #5 : “Copyright in flux: What does the future have in store?”

The IPKat

Should the EU unify copyright laws? The session started with the highly disputed topic of copyright unification with Prof. The session started with the highly disputed topic of copyright unification with Prof. see Katpost here ) When finally addressing the question, "Should the EU unify copyright laws?"

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Basic IP fundamentals: a recent survey among the IP community

The IPKat

On 30 November 2023, the Center for Intellectual Property Understanding (CIPU) published the findings of a survey on “Intellectual Property Principle – What the IP Community regards as important” ( executive summary and slides ). The survey was conducted by response:AI, an independent market research firm.

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The Intersection of Artificial Intelligence and Copyright

Velocity of Content

Copyrighted material is fuel for AI systems. Voluntary collective licensing is an effective solution enabling the use of copyrighted material as society realizes the benefits promised by AI systems. I invite our Velocity of Content blog readers to check out CCC’s “ Intersection of AI & Copyright ” page.

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Print-on-Demand Service Defeats Fish Illustrator’s Copyright Claim–Tomelleri v. Sunfrog

Technology & Marketing Law Blog

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). The supervising judge agrees.