43(B)log

FEBRUARY 19, 2022

(c) does grant authors “rights in something he created” and that “already belong to him” at common law and is taken after a few short years from him and his heirs. Natural or moral right to own fruit of labors. Rests on natural moral right to enjoy products of own exertion and no interference with anyone’s right to do likewise.

Copyright 59

Copyright Moral Rights Artwork Art 59

SpicyIP

JULY 23, 2023

The plaintiff is the proprietor of the word marks “Zenith” and other “Zenith” device mark and the defendant had registration over “Zenith” device which was later revoked by the IPAB, causing the defendant to use the impugned variant. The court further held that the plaintiff’s product is inventive over the cited prior art.

Trademark 98

Trademark IP Higher Education Moral Rights 98

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.

Intellectual Property 89

Intellectual Property Editing Privacy Moral Rights 89