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Best of 2010: How Supreme Skateboard plays the edge

Likelihood of Confusion

First posted on June 1, 2010. The new Case Clothesed blog out of New York Law School has a very interesting, if lightly sourced, piece about how Supreme Skateboard has managed. The post Best of 2010: How Supreme Skateboard plays the edge appeared first on LIKELIHOOD OF CONFUSION™.

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Trade Dress, Aesthetics And Functionality

IIPRD

On July 14, 2021, the General Court of the European Union delivered leading cosmetics and skincare label Guerlain a win in the fight to register the distinctive shape of its “Rouge G de Guerlain Lipstick.” The decision annulled the earlier determination of the European Union Intellectual Property Office (EUIPO) and its Board of Appeal (BOA), both of which frowned upon the idea of affording protection to an unconventional feature of the lipstick (Rouge G)—namely, its trade dress.

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Copyright case: Victor Elias Photography, LLC v. Ice Portal, Inc., USA

Kluwer Copyright Blog

The photographer’s mere showing of removal of embedded copyright management information (CMI) in hotel photographs is insufficient to meet the scienter requirement. The federal appeals court in Atlanta, Georgia has refused to reinstate a case brought by a photographer claiming a violation of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) against a hotel intermediary that provided hotel photographs to travel websites.

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Article of Manufacture Requirement in the US

IP and Legal Filings

Section 171 of title 35 United States Code provides “whoever invents any new, original and ornamental design for an article of manufacture may obtain a patent thereof”. To satisfy the basic requirement of gaining a design patent, the applicants must truly depict that the design must be for an article of manufacture or it must be embodied in such an article of manufacture.

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Software Composition Analysis: The New Armor for Your Cybersecurity

Speaker: Blackberry, OSS Consultants, & Revenera

Software is complex, which makes threats to the software supply chain more real every day. 64% of organizations have been impacted by a software supply chain attack and 60% of data breaches are due to unpatched software vulnerabilities. In the U.S. alone, cyber losses totaled $10.3 billion in 2022. All of these stats beg the question, “Do you know what’s in your software?

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Can a website be patented?

Biswajit Sarkar Copyright Blog

A website is an essential asset to any form of business today as it forms a part of the business identity. However, it is possible that someone else would want to exploit this asset and reap benefits from it. Is the protection of patent available for website? Read ahead to find out. Protection of websites. A website can be seen as a collection of webpages comprising of a wide variety of information such as text, media files, sometimes even software.

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Tell Judge Connolly about litigation finance and ownership structures – or else

IAM Magazine

The chief judge of the US District Court for the District of Delaware has taken action against two patent plaintiffs who did not comply with recent standing orders

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Tell Judge Connolly about litigation finance and ownership structures – or else

IAM Magazine

The chief judge of the US District Court for the District of Delaware has taken action against two patent plaintiffs who did not comply with recent standing orders