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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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Another “brick” in Lego’s modular systems design protection

The IPKat

By decision of 24 January 2024 ( T-537/22 ), the General Court of the European Union (GC) confirmed the validity of the Registered Community Design (RCD) by Lego A/S (Lego) “Building blocks from a toy building set” by stating that an RCD is invalid only if all its features are excluded from protection. On 2 February 2010 Lego obtained RCD No.

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Designing a Metadata Fitness Program: CCC at NISO Plus 2023

Velocity of Content

The 2023 NISO Conference, a virtual event held on 14-16 February, will bring people together from across the global information community to share updates and participate in conversations about our shared challenges and opportunities.

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[Guest post] Works of applied art – the difference between design and copyright law

The IPKat

Here’s what Henning writes: Works of applied art – the difference between design and copyright law by Henning Hartwig I. If this qualifying criterion were to be relinquished, design law would ultimately become obsolete. This is the price for the fact that the author can and should create completely without purpose.

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Copyright/design-cumulation under the EU ‘Design Package’

Kluwer Copyright Blog

This post is based in part on the Position Statement of the Max Planck Institute for Innovation and Competition of 23 January 2023 on the ‘Design Package’, but expresses the authors’ own personal views. Third, the (now even more pronounced) detachment of design and product and what this means for a theoretical approach to cumulation.

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StreamSafely: Anti-Piracy Campaign or Multi-Million Dollar Marketing Machine?

TorrentFreak

In the unlikely event people haven’t noticed, the internet isn’t what it used to be. StreamSafely: How it All Began The people who came up with the StreamSafely campaign and still run it today are collectively known as Ctam Cable Marketing Association Inc. , or CTAM for short. million in revenue vs. $4.56

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How to satisfy the ‘novelty’ condition while registering a design?

Biswajit Sarkar Copyright Blog

What are designs? Designs are the visual features of objects, something that is solely perceived by the eye. In India, Designs are protected under the Designs Act, 2000. Why register a design? The cognitive efforts and the creativity involved in making a design have some value in the eyes of the law.

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