Plagiarism Today

AUGUST 11, 2021

Earlier this week, independent fashion designer Bailey Prado took to Instagram to call attention to a different fashion label that, according to her, copied her “whole life.” But, as popular as the app is, it has also been highly divisive with many fashion designers accusing it of selling inferior rip-offs of their work.

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IP and Legal Filings

SEPTEMBER 17, 2021

Fashion designers and artists showcase their creative genius through conceptual fashion shows and apparel collections. Since fashion designers, textile manufactures, apparel companies and artists produce creations of the human intellect, Intellectual Property Rights play a significant role in the fashion industry. dollars in the USA.

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Plagiarism Today

SEPTEMBER 2, 2022

When you factor in that the damages are capped at $30,000 and there are issues involved in this case that the CCB can’t even hear, in particular potential questions of trademark, the decision to file with the CCB is an interesting one. The CCB was designed to give small creators and rightsholders a new tool to protect their copyright.

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Plagiarism Today

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

This case stems from a dispute between a company that was launching a mobile app (Hiro) and a company that was briefly hired to help design that app, Dragvertising. According to this claim, Hiro originally hired Dragvertising to design their mobile app. This is, to my knowledge, the only such case before the CCB right now.

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Plagiarism Today

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

This is designed to solve the issue of NFT sellers either not addressing copyright or using bespoke licenses that are confusing, incomplete or otherwise may be problematic. For example, if an NFT contains trademarked media, that trademark would not be covered. The idea is fairly simple.

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The IPKat

FEBRUARY 19, 2023

International Trademark Association – ‘The Business of Data’ Conference On the 22nd and 23rd March , the International Trademark Association is hosting its 2023 New York Conference. The Trilateral Meeting, organised by the AIPPI Italian, French and Spanish Groups, will consider IP issues in relation to sport, fashion, and design.

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IIPRD

JUNE 14, 2021

Piracy and Fashion Design. Piracy may be defined as the unauthorized and illegal reproduction or distribution of materials protected by copyright, patent, or trademark law which is capable of eating up the whole industry slowly and steadily. Protection under the Designs Act, 2000. That is their main asset, their main product.”

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The TTABlog

APRIL 17, 2024

Citing Wal-Mart , the court observed that trademark law does not protect "product designs that lack distinctive meaning as a source identifier." That same principle applies to trademark registration. Timberland did not challenge the district court's rejection of its survey evidence.

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IP and Legal Filings

MARCH 1, 2022

Corporate giants like Louis Vuitton, Calvin Klein and Ralph Lauren, on the other hand, blatantly and unfairly used in their clothing collection the exact patterns and designs that are unique to the Maasai community. Neither are the Maasai against the idea of providing an international platform to their designs and culture.

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LexBlog IP

OCTOBER 25, 2023

Dorland alerted publishers, writing conferences, and journalists to what she considered Larson’s plagiarism and ethical betrayal. But this holding left the Court to consider whether Dorland’s efforts to publicize Larson’s “plagiarism” amounted to defamation or tortious interference. ’ Piccone v.

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SpicyIP

JANUARY 16, 2023

Communication of conceptual design to the public will not mean prior publication of the design, clarifies Delhi High Court. The court further held that mere communication of the concept of a design does not constitute prior publication. Case: Novateur Electrical & Digital Systems Pvt.

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43(B)log

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

Designed to be freely available licensed or public domain; we occasionally use fair use images where no free image is available, such as when a famous work has been destroyed. One of the most requested tool from volunteers is a better tool to detect plagiarism. Wikimedia Foundation, Jacob Rogers: DMCA compliance lead for 7 years.

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SpicyIP

JANUARY 9, 2023

Wheels of Trademark Go Round-and-Round: Analyzing the ‘Yezdi’ Order of Karnataka High Court. Registrar of Trademarks and Ors., SpicyIP Tidbit: CGPDTM notifies Trademark and Patent Agent Examinations. In this tidbit , Praharsh informed our readers about the re-notification of the Trademark and Patent Agent Examination 2023.

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43(B)log

OCTOBER 4, 2021

Defendants' letter allegedly copied text from LStar Trademark infringement: LStar never specified what its trademarks or service marks were. It argued that defendants copied, but didn’t identify a particular word, name, or symbol, or combination thereof, within the highlighted paragraphs, as the alleged trademark(s).

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LexBlog IP

MAY 19, 2023

While copyright law is designed to protect the rights of creators, it must also allow for new and transformative uses of copyrighted material. Infringement: Infringement, theft, or plagiarism involves directly copying someone else’s work and presenting it as one’s own.

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Biswajit Sarkar Copyright Blog

DECEMBER 15, 2021

.” The urge for the protection of Traditional Cultural Expressions (‘TCEs’) has become stronger in the wake of incidents such as swimsuits featuring Goddess Lakshmi, Louis Vuitton making Basotho design blankets among others. Disney filed a trademark application for this term in 1994, and it was registered in 2003.

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IIPRD

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

3] held that the plaintiff’s trademark and trade dress was infringed by defendants. IP owners can restrict unauthorised access or exposure of sensitive information, such as product designs, by encrypting data at the file level i.e., it is invariably encrypted from prior to reaching the cloud to after leaving it.

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IIPRD

JUNE 8, 2024

Abstract In the dynamic realm of the fashion industry, the saying ‘following in someone’s footsteps’ takes on a new dimension, where the replication of designs is not a mere stride but a strategic dance. At this stage, it is pertinent to mention the difference between a knockoff [1] and a counterfeit [2].

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43(B)log

AUGUST 3, 2023

Non expressive uses: reverse engineering, anti-plagiarism, search plus text data mining, snippets. Thus, nonexpressive uses don’t interfere w/the kind of interest © is designed to protect, which is why they are such strong candidates for fair use. Sonia Katyal, A Trademark Theory of Rebranding Lots of rebranding out there.

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