IPilogue

OCTOBER 26, 2022

Following this designation , objects require authorization and a licence fee to be used commercially by third parties regardless of whether the work is in the public domain. The public domain refers to works not protected by copyright, which means the works can be used without acquiring permission or paying a fee.

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LexBlog IP

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

Freed from the shackles of copyright, Walt Disney’s iconic rodent was now in the public domain and, therefore, available for everyone to copy. It is no surprise that the legalities of the public domain are more complicated than the headlines suggest. But not so fast.

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Patently-O

APRIL 17, 2024

This case began back in 2006 when Crocs sued Double Diamond and others for patent infringement of Crocs’s design patents. The Court held that “origin” in the Lanham Act refers only to the source of the physical products sold in the marketplace, not to the creator of the underlying creative content.

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Biswajit Sarkar Copyright Blog

MARCH 6, 2024

Prior art, the term mostly used during patent applications, is used to describe all information available in the public domain before the priority or filling date of the patent application. Academic researchers play an important role, as most of the time, they are concerned about publication, not patents.

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Kashishipr

APRIL 20, 2022

Patents, copyright, and trademarks have been the most widely recognized forms of IP to date; however, there are other forms as well, including geographical indications and industrial designs, which have been gaining attention in the past few decades. Eligibility Criteria for Trade Secret Protection.

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Intellectual Property Confidentiality Public Domain Business 119

The IPKat

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

Indeed, much of the debate takes place, consciously or unconsciously, in reference to cliché assumptions about moral rights.” The authors emphasize that AI cannot hold moral rights and that in the absence of an author, the work should be in the public domain.

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The IPKat

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

Thus, the owner of a canvas, in general, cannot make reproductions of the work it contains and distribute these copies or make them available on the Internet, unless such work is in the public domain or is subject to any limitation or exception to the rights of its author [see IPKat here ].

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Patently-O

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

Constitution and the Patent Act prohibit design patents on ordinary innovations.” Justice Douglas goes on: It is worth emphasis that every patent case involving validity presents a question which requires reference to a standard written into the Constitution. Although case applied pre-1952 law, the reminder here is poignant.

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The IPKat

JULY 22, 2021

The title of this book clearly sets out its premise: trademark protection has encroached into what used to be solely copyright’s domain, resulting in an undesirable over-protection of works which impoverishes the public domain and restricts others’ creative endeavours. Figure 1: Get your paws on this new book y'all!

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The IPKat

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

Kat friend, Becky Knott, promises that she doesn’t just write about alcohol, see here , but a recent decision involving the Protected Designation of Origin for ‘Porto’ caught her eye (palate?). 2017/1001 (which the GC later said must be understood to refer to Article 8(4a) of Regulation No. 1308/2013 (see here for the Regulation).

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IP and Legal Filings

MAY 3, 2023

The definition of “ original ” as most people understand it refers to something that has never been done before by any person. The Copyright , Designs and Patents Act of 1988 in the United Kingdom specifies in Section (1)(1)(a) that copyright exists in “original literary, dramatic, musical, or artistic works.”

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Copyright Public Domain Copying Publishing 85

SpicyIP

APRIL 29, 2023

Companies are therefore required to take extreme caution while sharing technical know-how, confidential information, designs, concepts, innovative formulas, business strategies, drawings etc. This follows from the Bombay High Court’s reference to Zee Telefilms Ltd. Sundial Communications Pvt. and Ors. , Ketan Mehta and Ors.

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Biswajit Sarkar Copyright Blog

JULY 19, 2022

Unauthorized use of a work protected by copyright is referred to as copyright infringement. Public domain resources as a starting point. There are several places where you can find public domain content that is free to use. Avoid access to prior design work. What is copyright infringement?

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The IPKat

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

The IPKat has received and is pleased to host the following guest contribution by Katfriend Seun Lari-Williams , PhD researcher in the fields of copyright and dispute system design at the University of Antwerp, regarding Nigeria's Copyright Act 2022 (which came into effect in 2023) and its constitutional reference to copyright as movable property.

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Velocity of Content

JUNE 8, 2022

Barrie conceives of the character and refers to him in newly-written poems. The dust jacket text refers to the centenary of the novel’s initial publication and the fact that the rightsholder – Great Ormond’s — opted to mark this occasion by authorizing this work, promoting it as “the first ever authorized sequel to J.M.

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Derivative Work Public Domain Copyright Fair Use 105

SpicyIP

APRIL 17, 2023

To Be or Not To Be (Design): Calcutta HC Sways Against Trend of Denying Design Registrations Over GUIs Image from here Can a GUI be regarded as a Design? In what follows, Rahul Bajaj sets out the key arguments of the parties and the holding of the court, along with his analysis of the judgment.

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The IPKat

JANUARY 25, 2022

EU Designation of International Registration No. 922784 for the 3D mark below covering goods and services in Classes 12, 14, 16, 18, 20, 21, 25, 28, 30, 35, and 37: Volkswagen submitted that its marks enjoy a high degree of recognition within the relevant public in connection with, at least, vehicles in Class 12.

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The IPKat

SEPTEMBER 15, 2022

One of the first enacted changes concerned the rules for calculation of the compensation paid to the patent owner in the event that an invention, utility model, or industrial design is being used without the patent owner’s authorization. Before the 2021 amendment, such use was allowed only for reasons of public defense and security.

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Biswajit Sarkar Copyright Blog

AUGUST 12, 2022

However, in the Intellectual Property policy framework, traditional knowledge refers to the knowledge related to medical, environmental and biological resources. This refers to the identification, documentation, transmission, revitalization and promotion of cultural heritage. Consequently, it has asked Shein to explain the use.

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IP and Legal Filings

JANUARY 29, 2024

An indication becomes generic when it returns to the public domain and is no longer protected in its country of origin or has ceased to be used there. References Gautami Govindarajan & Madhav Kapoor, Why The Protection of Geographical Indications In India Needs An Overhaul, Volume-VIII-Issue-I-39-65, NLR, 2019.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

Better Regulation The EU has committed itself to designing policies and laws with a greater level of transparency and evidence , backed up with the views of citizens and stakeholders. In achieving this balance, the EU legislator resorts to several tools: the Better Regulation Agenda , the subsidiarity and the proportionality principles.

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The IPKat

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

Birkenstock's claim that it had designed the pattern and it had been the first on the market to use that design, was considered by the court to as insufficient to consider that the pattern itself also significantly different from other patterns in the shoe and clothing sector. Universal Public Domain Dedication license.

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IP and Legal Filings

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

Subject matter of a copyright is covered under section 13 of the Copyrights Act 1957 (hereby referred to as the Act) which subsists of the following: Literary Work. The issue of copyrightable material for modern art that is object-based or based on a design still exists, though. Copyrighting Art. Subject Matter of Work. Conclusion.

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IP and Legal Filings

OCTOBER 4, 2022

Design rights are registered with the IPPD. Unregistered design rights are not recognised (although in some instances, copyright may apply). There are specific know-how provisions in the Patent and Design Law (Section 5, Federal Law No. The term of protection is ten years. The UAE is a member of the Paris Convention.

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Intellectual Property Law Business Designs 52

Intepat

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

Copyright laws are designed to safeguard the rights of creators. The Creator’s Conundrum: Defining Authorship in the Age of AI The emergence of AI-generated art introduces a fascinating paradox, commonly referred to as “The Creator’s Conundrum.”

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43(B)log

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

So: if the gov’t can bar registration of a TM including a disparaging reference to a person without that person’s permission, can it also bar you from a © registration if your work disparages a living person? This survey format is not designed to plumb the depths of understanding of authorization or approval. Or abortion.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

JUNE 8, 2022

In the field of AI, bias may be present at various stages of the development of an application including the design of the algorithms, the designers of the algorithm, the identification and sampling of the learning information and the curation, annotation , and verification of the input data (see, e.g., here and here ).

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IP and Legal Filings

NOVEMBER 27, 2022

Trademark refers to the cumulation of distinctive sign/symbol, design, or combination which is exclusively associated with the products or services helping the targeted customers identify the same easily. INTRODUCTION. Image Source: iStock]. But then why are colour marks controversial?

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IP and Legal Filings

MARCH 29, 2022

Intellectual Property” refers to mental creations such as inventions, literary and creative works, as well as symbols, names, and pictures utilised in business. Screen displays, visual user interfaces, web pages, and computer-generated graphic symbols are all eligible for Industrial Design Protection. INTRODUCTION.

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SpicyIP

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

There are other proposed changes as well like the introduction of an omnibus extension for all the deadlines upon payment of fees (many discussed in Sabeeh’s post here ), change in the syllabus for the Patent Agent Exam to include Designs Act and Rules, however, we will not be discussing these for the purpose of this post.

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IIPRD

MAY 4, 2023

To qualify as a patentable invention, the invention: must not be in the public domain or have been published or used previously; must not be obvious and must involve a technical advancement; and must be capable of being implemented commercially. Medical devices are patentable in India with certain caveats.

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LexBlog IP

FEBRUARY 12, 2022

Some GIs indicate a very tight relationship with place; these are known in older protection systems as Appellation of Origins (also used for wine growing areas) or Protected Designations of Origin (PDOs), or in French, Appellation d ’ Origine Prot é g é e (AOP) or Appellation d ’ Origine Control é e (AOC).

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SpicyIP

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

Interestingly, the court did not expressly rule on the question of can copyright be claimed over a GUI as a whole and rather simply referred to the US case Apple Tech v. Protection of GUIs have often been discussed in the context of Designs and a Calcutta High Court judgement in Ust Global (Singapore) Pte Ltd v.

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Velocity of Content

JULY 8, 2021

Public Domain work. Section 1201 provides a set of rules collectively referred to as “anti-circumvention”, which might be thought of as addressing the propensity of users to break open the ‘digital locks ’ that you may have placed on your super-valuable content. Image Attribution: John Tenniel (1865).

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The IPKat

APRIL 2, 2024

The EBA’s decision states that the two approaches give the same result and referred to various national cases. Ocado discovered that Autostore, the patentee, had disclosed designs for patented products to a potential customer before the priority date. Desserts 10.

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LexBlog IP

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

In August 2011, the plaintiff, an English data center design company, drafted an NDA in connection with negotiations over its potential sale to a competitor. The recent decision in Bladeroom demonstrates what can happen when the drafter of an NDA tries to have it both ways. Ninth Circuit’s Decision in Bladeroom.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

APRIL 28, 2022

In this week’s judgment the Court rejected the argument brought forward by Poland and concluded that the design of Article 17 includes sufficient safeguards protecting the right to freedom of expression and information of the users. 193, endorsed by the Court in para.

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