IP Tech Blog

JANUARY 22, 2024

The Board also disagreed with Mr. Sahni’s comparison of RAGHAV to photo-editing software like Adobe’s Photoshop product. In contrast to photo-editing software which the user controls, RAGHAV operates by “ generating ” a whole new pictorial image based on features learned from user-provided images. Citations omitted.)

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43(B)log

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

Instead, proposes trust but verify: register to certify compliance with regulations, including limited government inspection, similar to source code review in litigation. Enforced w/penalties, including litigation/whistleblower protections. Want to be globally available so need to consider more than US, EU, UK guidance.

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SpicyIP

OCTOBER 7, 2023

We recently came across one such short paper on “ SEP Litigations & Issues in Determining the FRAND License ” published in the September 2023 issue of the Journal of Intellectual Property Rights (see here ) and extended a guest post invitation to its authors to discuss their key arguments.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

21, Copyright and Related Rights Act 2000 ), New Zealand ( section 5(2)(a), Copyright Act 1994 ), South Africa (section 2(h), Copyright Act 1978 ) and the UK ( Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988, section 9(3) ). More from our authors: Guide to EU and UK Pharmaceutical Regulatory Law, Eighth Edition by Sally Shorthose € 265

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Fish & Richardson Trademark & Copyright Thoughts

MAY 26, 2021

Fish & Richardson received top “Band 1” nationwide rankings for its Intellectual Property (IP) and International Trade: IP (Section 337 Proceedings) practices in the 2021 edition of Chambers USA. Clients also praised Fish’s client service, noting that the firm “works together seamlessly and is so client-friendly and responsive.”.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

JANUARY 19, 2023

Despite the rhetorical moves to position the lawsuit about the defendants’ design choices, this is actually an easy case. Internet Brands , 230 applies to the failure-to-warn claims because “Plaintiffs’ theory would require the editing of third-party content, thus treating Defendants as a publisher of content.”

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

APRIL 17, 2023

In 2000, D&D introduced the Open Game Licence (OGL) to permit the use of portions of the game’s third edition. In particular, the OGL was designed only to cover permissions to use ‘game mechanics’, specifically ‘methods, procedures, processes and routines’ detailed in an extensive System Reference Document.

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LexBlog IP

JANUARY 26, 2023

The trailer, however, was created before the final edits were made to the movie and so included de Armas’ character. .” In the movie, de Armas was a secondary love interest to the main character. Alas, three was a crowd when it came to love interests, and de Armas’ scenes were cut from the film.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

JANUARY 5, 2022

Even though constraints regarding shot selection are imposed by the rules and the purpose of the game itself, the director’s choices create a specific viewer experience which has been designed by the director. Intellectual Property Law in China, 2nd edition. More from our authors: Law of Raw Data. by Christopher Heath. €

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CopyrightsWorld

FEBRUARY 17, 2021

It can help you mitigate the risk of expensive and timely litigation, whether you are a claimant or a defendant, as you have proof of ownership. Watermarks can be removed with a series of photo editing software and apps. This method is based on constantly changing the watermarks’ shape and design before being applied on your photo.

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The IPKat

MAY 29, 2023

This Kat is pleased to review the “ Overlapping Intellectual Property rights ”, edited by Neil Wilkof [full disclosure: a member of the IPKat team], Shamnad Basheer, and Irene Calboli (OUP, 2023, 864 pp.). The volume is a beautiful testimony to the work of late Shamnad Basheer, who co-edited the first edition.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

APRIL 25, 2023

Emulators and ROM files Emulator programs enable players to run video games on hardware and/or software platforms other than those for which the games were originally designed. It is advisable, therefore, for rightholders to have a multi-layered strategy instead of relying on copyright litigation alone.

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Fish & Richardson Trademark & Copyright Thoughts

JANUARY 5, 2022

Vivian Cheng focuses her practice on trademark and copyright litigation and also counsels clients on a broad range of issues relating to trademark, trade dress, and copyright protection and enforcement, unfair competition, and false advertising. Will Freeman focuses his practice on patent litigation in U.S. He received his J.D.

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Patently-O

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

A Chinese company – Beijing Meishe Network Tech.Co. (“Meishe”) – sued TikTok for infringing its copyrights and misappropriating traded secrets associated with AV editing software. Although both companies are Chinese in origin, the plaintiffs sued in Judge Albright’s Waco Texas courtroom. 3d 304 (5th Cir.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

JANUARY 18, 2024

4) Social media “defective design” lawsuits go forward. Snap opinion , plaintiffs are–with some preliminary successes–arguing that social media services defectively design how they gather, organize, and disseminate third-party content. and the transition to a Web 3.0 Following the Lemmon v.

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LexBlog IP

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

Litigation challenging the enforceability of the rule is almost sure to ensue, and the U.S. If a post-employment covenant merely seeks to eliminate competition and is not designed to protect a legitimate business interest, it will not be enforced. and originally appeared in the February 1, 2023 edition of ACMS Insights.

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Patently-O

APRIL 11, 2024

Of course, Congress designed § 271(f) with extraterritorial effects in mind: in adopting the provision, Congress overruled the Supreme Court’s decision in Deepsouth Packing Co. Congress designed § 271(f) to reach extraterritorial conduct, unlike § 271(a). However, I was not involved in the writing or editing of this guest post.

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43(B)log

APRIL 17, 2023

The parties here had a clear financial arrangement designed to influence consumers to buy products from a third-party in which Defendants had a direct financial stake.” The precise details of the agreement weren’t required at this stage in the litigation. Citing, among others, Enigma Software Grp. USA, LLC v. Bleeping Comput.

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SpicyIP

JULY 23, 2023

of the PCT Regulations, the designated office is required to reinstate rights in respect of the International Application. million in damages to Constellation Designs LLC for infringing its patents in NextGenTV. Autostore to pay 200 million pounds to Ocado to settle all outstanding patent litigation claims.

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Copyright Lately

APRIL 30, 2021

Nineties grunge-rock band Nirvana, already embroiled in a long-running legal battle against fashion company Marc Jacobs over its “happy face” t-shirt designs , now finds itself on the less happy end of a new copyright infringement lawsuit worthy of Dante’s trip through the underworld. Welcome to the Seventh Circle of Hell.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

AUGUST 7, 2023

I’m pleased to announce the 2023 edition (14th edition) of my Internet Law casebook, Internet Law: Cases & Materials. Meanwhile, product design is the real Section 230 battlefront today, and the Lemmon case is the flagship case for that line of litigation. All printed versions come with a free PDF on request.]

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43(B)log

FEBRUARY 22, 2021

for women: a swimsuit with decorations attached; can get more elaborate with feathers and design elements. © attaches without registration and endures for much longer than design rights. A: it’s all decentralized, independent designers and creators. Every year there are disputes, but never any litigation.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

Maybe this explanatory material was designed to encourage the Ninth Circuit take the appeal? Providing social casino developers with big data is like an editor providing edits or suggestions to a writer.” Case citation : In re Apple App Store Simulated Casino-Style Games Litigation , 2022 WL 4009918 (N.D. ” Just no.

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Patently-O

DECEMBER 28, 2022

The company also owns a design patent covering the product. Later, during litigation, Dryson submitted a request to Amaxon seeking discovery of documents held by Amaxon that relate to Dryson’s intellectual property. The following comes from my 2022 Civil Procedure I Exam. – Dennis. Should the court certify the class?

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The IPKat

APRIL 30, 2024

EUIPO Boards of Appeal’s perspective Gordon Humphreys, interim president of the EUIPO BoA, opened the session with a presentation titled “Contributing to Trade Mark and Design Harmonization in the European Union: Trailblazing at the Boards of Appeal”.

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The IPKat

JUNE 25, 2021

Here is what he has to say about Research Handbook on Intellectual Property and Technology Transfer , edited by Jacob H. The issue of patent litigation is explored in Chapter 14 ‘Currents and crosscurrents in litigation of university and non-profit related patents: is there a coming wave of patent litigation involving those patents?’

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JIPL Online

MARCH 19, 2021

ii] These events were sudden and came as a shock to the platform’s creators who were given no opportunity to submit counternotifications or edit their content to remove the allegedly infringing material per the provisions of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (the “DMCA”) and Twitch’s own DMCA Guidelines.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

While 46 studies available on the Copyright Evidence Portal explicitly take gender into consideration as a potentially relevant variable when answering other research questions, only 5 of these are specifically designed to assess the implications of gender. Intellectual Property Law in China, 2nd edition. by Christopher Heath. €

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The IPKat

JANUARY 17, 2023

Tritton on Intellectual Property in Europe is now in its Sixth Edition. This weighty tome from Sweet & Maxwell is edited by Richard Davis, Thomas St Quintin and Guy Tritton from Hogarth Chambers , London. Find out more about Rosie here. It asks why this right is necessary and how protection has evolved in a European context.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

MAY 15, 2024

Copyright Office and the explosion of litigation (see here ) in the U.S., It is arguably a matter of “law by design” (see here , here and here ). More from our authors: International Cybersecurity and Privacy Law in Practice, Second Edition by Charlotte A. The statements by authors that were consulted by the U.S.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

JUNE 27, 2023

Generally speaking, the approved transposition follows the text of the Directive rather closely, similarly to other delayed implementations such as the Irish one , without embracing a more “creative” legislative design, as has been the case for instance in Germany and Greece.

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Nelligan Law

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

In rarer cases, the process can end in litigation. “A While our goal is to resolve matters quickly and amicably, outside of court if possible, our team has tremendous experience with litigation and will push to get the best outcome for our clients.” But simply drafting the document is not enough. appeared first on Nelligan Law.

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Trading Secrets

DECEMBER 19, 2023

The Protecting American Intellectual Property Act signed on January 5, 2023, is designed to help American businesses from trade secret theft by foreign actors. Commercial Litigation Outlook: Insights and Predictions for Litigation Trends in 2023 View the Recording – CLE for this recording expires on February 6, 2024.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

MAY 9, 2023

Some of these input and output questions are already being litigated in the US and the UK, most notably in a class action litigation against providers of Stable Diffusion (see complaint and motion to dismiss ), as well as in lawsuits brought by Getty Images (reported here ; see also this early analysis by Guadamuz). [1]

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SpicyIP

AUGUST 8, 2021

She agrees with the observation that a broader principle of RTBF was undesirable here, in the interest of judicial transparency that would likely invite litigation from those with influence and means, regardless of the circumstances of the acquittal and what evidence or perceptions it was based on.

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LexBlog IP

DECEMBER 19, 2023

The Protecting American Intellectual Property Act signed on January 5, 2023, is designed to help American businesses from trade secret theft by foreign actors. Commercial Litigation Outlook: Insights and Predictions for Litigation Trends in 2023 View the Recording – CLE for this recording expires on February 6, 2024.

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LexBlog IP

MARCH 27, 2023

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. ” OpenAI, ChatGPT General FAQ.

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