SpicyIP

JANUARY 2, 2024

Initiated in 2001, the TKDL aims to serve as a vital link between traditional knowledge books and patent examiners, safeguarding Indian traditional medicinal knowledge and thwarting its misappropriation at international patent offices. This post seeks to analyze and answer these dilemmas. Is TKDL Failing Us?

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LexBlog IP

JANUARY 31, 2023

This article looks at laws of jurisdictions in Southeast Asia, comparing the status of enforcement and protection of software and CII in various Southeast Asia countries. Desmond Tan is a patent attorney registered to practice in Singapore and has a background in engineering. patent attorney and moderator of this Blog, PatentNext.

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azrights

AUGUST 11, 2022

One common trait these AI platforms share is that they first need to learn how to simulate human thinking. The AI platform then puts some rules in place by which to decide how to generate an image of a cat when a user prompts the word ‘cat’. Most of these computer-generated works are protected by copyright in the UK.

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SpicyIP

JULY 29, 2021

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. The legal position in India is that fonts do not enjoy copyright protection under its copyright law, i.e. under the Copyright Act, 1957 (page 5). Image from here.

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SpicyIP

APRIL 24, 2022

Mindy: I think it is just copyright, patent, trademark, and stuff like that, right? Slato: I think … Essentially, IPR is more than copyright, patents, etc, I see it as a way we produce knowledge and regulate information, as a society. IP Reveries: Class I – “IPR” – A Tantalising Term or Troubling Terminology? Akira: Yes.

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SpicyIP

MAY 8, 2022

The IP Reveries series is an experimental ‘fun’ series set in an imaginary classroom where we are using a dialogue format to raise questions and discussions around IP that traditionally don’t find a place to get voiced either due to long standing assumptions, or due to being seen as ‘too trivial’ to discuss in more formal settings.

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LexBlog IP

DECEMBER 6, 2022

The first legal alternative at hand is to get a patent for the innovation. However, patents are not the only mechanism to obtain legal protection; other instruments may provide effective legal protection, as long as the innovator plans and implement measures and proceedings, from an early stage, to secure protection.

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43(B)log

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

But to deal with different holidays in different states, emergency legislation was passed within weeks so the Office would know how to count deadlines. But to deal with different holidays in different states, emergency legislation was passed within weeks so the Office would know how to count deadlines.

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Erik K Pelton

MARCH 11, 2022

As a trademark law firm, we represent a wide array of clients but predominantly focus on helping small business owners protect their intellectual property. In our continuing effort to combat trademark scams and raise awareness of this important issue, we have recently submitted comments to the FTC. They can all be found at [link].

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43(B)log

FEBRUARY 24, 2024

When things are happening en masse at a business, just as in the TM system, w/o individualized attention and with a different agenda than the law’s, you can see the law’s protective features be minimized. We like how they sort us/how we get to identify with them? How much of that is cultural? Human desire for TMs?

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IP and Legal Filings

MARCH 4, 2022

TRIPS’ is an acronym for the international legal agreement on Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights between all the member countries of the World Trade Organization (WTO) which states minimum standards to regulate the various types of IP by national governments. which were then not even protected. Introduction.

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LexBlog IP

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

It’s definitely among the coziest. ” 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. .”

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LexBlog IP

AUGUST 2, 2022

Is manipulating documents produced in discovery enough to get you sanctioned? If you’re a trade secret owner trying to fend off a motion for summary judgment and get your case to a jury, take a look at U.S. Last month, U.S. Stay tuned for the Seventh Circuit’s eventual ruling. A recent ruling by the U.S. al , Case No.

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The IPKat

DECEMBER 29, 2022

The last miscellany post of 2022 contains some announcements for the blog's contributors as well as some IP news and four professional opportunities - which you should definitely look out for in January! NEW INTERNKAT The IPKat welcomes a new InternKat for the next six months! His name is Benjamin Goh. You can read more about Benjamin here.

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43(B)log

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

Patents for cannabis related products, including lubricant, explained as medical and instrumental—to avoid divorce, mix cannabis with Viagra. Consequences of excluding pleasure from patent discourse: effects on what is considered patentable? Queer theory: pleasure as a way of knowing things. Q: drugs v. But should you do that?

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43(B)log

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

JDPI amicus brief was describing how LOC factors were not developed for these kinds of cases. How tightly are they connected and do they reflect same doctrine/different circumstances or something else? Not just for likely confusion, but also use as a mark. Is merchandising really the outlier or is it now really the model of TM law.

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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. In H Lundbeck A/S v.

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43(B)log

AUGUST 12, 2021

Several modern-day remedies were enacted to reduce the risk that IP owners would otherwise be able to recover only nominal damages—reasonable royalties for patents; statutory damages for © infringement; disgorgement of total profits for infringement of design patents. These Ps didn’t suffer concrete harm and lacked standing to sue.

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LexBlog IP

JANUARY 5, 2022

I have to give it to creative, resilient lawyers (and in fact, I have lauded them in the past here and there ). When the United States Supreme Court issued its decision in Allen v. Cooper, 140 S.Ct. Cooper, 140 S.Ct. ” Flynn, Queen Anne’s Revenge, Indeed! Copyright Conundrums, Sovereign States, and IP Piracy (2020).

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43(B)log

OCTOBER 4, 2021

As harm showings become less important, both trademark use and the First Amendment become relatively more important as the remaining limits on liability once a theory of how consumers might possibly be confused has been introduced. Professor Alexandra Roberts has written an excellent recent article on this, Trademark Failure to Function.

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LexBlog IP

APRIL 4, 2023

I have to confess this decision seems extreme, given that a standard confidentiality order would achieve the narrow purpose sought–protection of confidential information involving a pending litigation–and the breadth of this ruling may unfairly impinge on the ability of counsel to engage in joint defense communications.

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IIPRD

AUGUST 31, 2022

This Article aims to empower & educate investors and other business personnel about the Significance of IP Due-Diligence in an M&A Transaction, how to minimize future legal risk and some examples of goods and bad IP due diligence. of such businesses. of such businesses. freedom to operate, validity and enforceability of IP).

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LexBlog IP

DECEMBER 28, 2022

In the not-too-distant past, the vast majority of trade secret owners focused primarily on getting an injunction–generally in the form of a TRO or preliminary injunction–against a former employee. Employee misappropriation and restrictive covenants.

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Fish & Richardson Trademark & Copyright Thoughts

NOVEMBER 13, 2020

Last Thursday, a Federal Circuit panel issued a decision applying a narrow reading of the patent venue statute, 28 U.S.C. Getting venue right carries great weight in Hatch-Waxman suits. If a branded company gets venue wrong, it risks a motion to dismiss for improper venue. How did we get here?

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LexBlog IP

MAY 12, 2023

Other federal courts are requiring greater the identification of trade secrets with greater particularity at different junctures of litigation, as they grapple with whether the information before them deserves protection. Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co. In Dental Services v. ” And in United Source One, Inc. Frank , the U.S.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

MARCH 7, 2022

In this case, Unicolors alleged that international retailer H&M was selling skirts and jackets bearing a design (Xue Xu) that was substantially similar to one of its fabric designs (EH101), albeit in black-and-white (and shades of gray) instead of in color. (A By Guest Blogger Tyler Ochoa. On February 24, the U.S. b)(4)(i)(A) (2011).

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