Dear Rich IP Blog

SEPTEMBER 16, 2020

My understanding is that all publicity photos taken back in the 1920s and 1930s were never copyrighted, therefore, in the public domain, especially if the photographer is unidentified. We contacted the USPTO for guidance as to why the FOA was reversed but the examining attorney directed us back to the documentation.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

JANUARY 25, 2023

Shah pointed to his copyright registrations as evidence of his ownership, but the court says the allegations in his complaint show that he was never entitled to register the copyrights (i.e., To be clear, joint copyright ownership of photos like these could be a policy disaster, so I don’t share the judge’s lament on that front).

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Biswajit Sarkar Copyright Blog

AUGUST 3, 2023

Prima facie Evidence: In legal proceedings for copyright infringement, the registration certificate serves as evidence in a court of law for prove the ownership of original work. After the expiration of the copyright term, the work enters the public domain, and anyone can use it without seeking permission.

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IP and Legal Filings

JUNE 15, 2023

Even a WIPO guide on recording traditional knowledge talks about empowering communities to write their own traditional knowledge, and provide limited access to the recorded documents in order to preserve secret traditional knowledge. With protecting their TK as trade secrets, the community at aim as perpetual ownership.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

APRIL 22, 2022

The report complements the analysis of laws with a review of practices and contractual arrangements of claiming and attributing authorship and/or ownership by actors in the field of AI music creation. The study covers practices of for-profit AI-powered online music creation services (e.g., folk-rnn , Melomics ).

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IP Whiteboard

JULY 19, 2020

PRO counterclaimed seeking declaratory judgment that the entire OCGA was in the public domain. There is a special provision in the Act dealing with ownership of copyright relating to “the Crown”. As a result, the Commission sued PRO for infringing its asserted copyright in the annotations of the OCGA.

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43(B)log

OCTOBER 4, 2021

WPI counterclaimed against Restellini and third-party Institut Restellini SAS – Documentation Centre alleging copyright infringement and false advertising. But WPI’s allegations still went to contested ownership of the information contained in the Modigliani Material, rather than the Modigliani Material as a physical product.

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Biswajit Sarkar Copyright Blog

MAY 7, 2021

Just like other patents, the patent protection on Blockchain also achieves exclusive rights to its inventor or assignee in exchange of details about the blockchain invented to be released in the public domain. billion) as this is the reason for its global importance. to various entities dealing with the same.

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Biswajit Sarkar Copyright Blog

MAY 7, 2021

Just like other patents, the patent protection on Blockchain also achieves exclusive rights to its inventor or assignee in exchange of details about the blockchain invented to be released in the public domain. billion) as this is the reason for its global importance. to various entities dealing with the same.

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Biswajit Sarkar Copyright Blog

MAY 7, 2021

Just like other patents, the patent protection on Blockchain also achieves exclusive rights to its inventor or assignee in exchange of details about the blockchain invented to be released in the public domain. billion) as this is the reason for its global importance. to various entities dealing with the same.

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Technology Patent IP Invention 52

43(B)log

FEBRUARY 4, 2023

Hughes: increasing registrations for women at the © office compared to other metrics where women are disadvantaged—ownership of stock, real property, presence on corporate boards, patent ownership which then translates to being in a startup. Said: ownership records; interview a few repeat players. public domain.

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IP and Legal Filings

MARCH 14, 2023

x] It is challenging to accurately identify and follow the knowledge holders [xi] , partly because complex group ownership. A “community rights regime,” in which Indigenous Peoples possess ownership rights to TK instead of a small number of capitalist proprietors [xvi] , is one concept. xiv] Henry P.

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LexBlog IP

APRIL 24, 2023

The Bad Pre-institution Settlement Provide for rules clarifying that settlement documents be filed if prior to institution? 135(e), 317(b) and 327(b) govern the filing of settlement documents for post-institution settlement, but not pre-institution. Taxing the American public on technology already in the public domain is the issue.

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43(B)log

AUGUST 3, 2023

Data mining legal documents, work product, court cases, and then create work based on previous work. Taken copyright-protected material and transformed it into public domain material—dangerous for law firms. We also have to look through © owners to look at ultimate beneficiaries of ownership. Copyright for humans only?

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IP and Legal Filings

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

The Industrial and Commercial Bank of China’s blockchain patent application, which included a system used to improve the efficiency of certificate issuance and save users from repetitively filing the same document on multiple platforms, was one of the first known blockchain patent applications.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

MAY 17, 2023

Public domain. Public domain and paying public domain regimes remain highly fragmented and not harmonized in the EU. Yet, national specifications are different, with the result that, despite the CJEU’s intervention in the field, the boundaries of public domain in EU copyright law remain unclear.

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Barry Sookman

MAY 4, 2020

This further called into question whether an assignment document satisfied the requirements of the applicable law and the ability of the assignee to even file the application. The petitioner accepted that an AI system could not under current law own property including the property rights in inventions the machine itself created.

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LexBlog IP

JANUARY 10, 2024

That then plays off the rest of the title’s allusions to separating “subjects” from the “predicates” of copyright ownership, themselves words connoting the foundational elements of both “ any complete sentence ” and at times a court’s jurisdiction over infringement matters. ” H.R.

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