JD Supra Law

MAY 8, 2023

Think you know the law? If you’re an attorney or simply well-versed in legal matters, you may have a working knowledge of statutory and case law. However, the area of intellectual property (IP) law is rife with surprises about which even seasoned lawyers may be unaware.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

MAY 13, 2023

This is another lawsuit between personal injury law firms over competitive keyword ads. The plaintiff is Nicolet Law, based in Hudson, Wisconsin with 14 offices in Wisconsin and Minnesota. However, note that Nicolet Law, a surname, isn’t registered with the USPTO and there may be questions about its secondary meaning.

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JD Supra Law

MAY 12, 2023

Kilpatrick Townsend’s Sindy Ding-Voorhees recently spoke at the “13th Annual Fashion Law Symposium” held by the Fashion Law Institute at Fordham University Law School.

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Erik K Pelton

JULY 27, 2022

Erik explains what these common law trademark rights are and how they work. The post What Are Common Law Trademark Rights? Erik explains what these common law trademark rights are and how they work. Did you know that a brand can acquire some trademark rights without registering at the USPTO?

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The IPKat

JANUARY 24, 2023

The IPKat has received and is pleased to host the following legislative update on the new Ukrainian Copyright Law from Kateryna Militsyna and Liubov Maidanyk (both Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv). This prompted intensive work on the text of the draft law. See also here for the previous law.

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Patently-O

MAY 25, 2023

Longtime patent attorney Martin Abramson just sent me a copy of his short 153 page book titled The Devil’s Dictionary of Patent Law & Beyond: Tapping the Funny Bone of Patent Law. The Devil’s Dictionary of Patent Law and Beyond by Martin Abramson fills a long-standing humor gap in patent law.

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IP and Legal Filings

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

In India particularly, the Copyrights Act, 1957 was enacted to prevent copyright infringement and recently the amendment act of 2012 was introduced to combat the changing needs of copyright law. Case Laws The first case in this regard is UTV Software Communication Limited v.

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IP and Legal Filings

APRIL 4, 2023

With the patriarchy being so deeply embedded in both our mindset and our laws, Indians have long accepted the current social situation as the default. Women seek strong laws and legislation in order to be strong stakeholders in nation-building. The Constitution is the Supreme Law of the country.

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JD Supra Law

MARCH 17, 2023

The evolution of artificial intelligence (AI) machines has resulted in a number of interesting issues in both copyright and patent law. See, for example, our prior articles involving attempts to qualify machine-made works for patent and copyright registration.

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Patently-O

APRIL 26, 2023

I am happy to announce the launch of my newsletter series, “ Patent Law Primer: A Short Introduction to Key Issues in Patent Law ,” currently distributed through LinkedIn. This series is designed for a broader audience, making it accessible for anyone interested in the subject, not just patent attorneys.

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The IP Law Blog

APRIL 13, 2023

A dispute has emerged between the NFL, the Las Vegas Raiders, and the Dimopoulos Law Firm over the NFL and the Raiders threatening to sue the firm for trademark infringement. The law firm claims it has been using a black and silver color scheme to promote its services since its inception in 2012.

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IP and Legal Filings

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

Introduction There are two significant conflicts of laws theories under the private international law of corporate entities: the incorporation theory and the real seat theory. In all the other terms, the incorporation theory often governs the question of recognition when it is used to determine prevailing law.

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JD Supra Law

MAY 5, 2023

One does not simply meme without knowing the law. It’s therefore no surprise that so many companies are interested in leveraging memes in marketing. But as with all advertising, certain rules apply. By: Smart & Biggar

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

MAY 11, 2023

The most modern instalment of this long history comes in the form of another kind ‘copy’, less richly decorated, yet more relevant and politically sensitive for a country that has established a long-term foreign investment “partnership” with the tech and communication industry: the transposition of Directive 2019/790 into Irish law.

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JD Supra Law

MAY 16, 2023

That’s how Missouri State Representative and former University of Missouri offensive lineman Kurtis Gregory described the burgeoning patchwork of state laws that govern student athletes’ ability to profit from their name, image, and likeness (NIL). “This is the new arms race.” Missouri has now entered the NIL arms race. By: ArentFox Schiff

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43(B)log

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

Please join us for the next entry in Harvard's series on teaching law: Teaching First-Generation Students in Law School, Friday, March 10, 12 pm EST First-generation students face unique challenges. What about when those students go to law school? before transitioning into law teaching.

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JD Supra Law

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

Under what law should international parties dealing in intangible assets, recorded only on decentralised, unregulated, global ledgers transact? Do "traditional" geographic boundaries mean anything in the Metaverse? By: Dentons

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Nelligan Law

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

Reading Time: < 1 minutes To celebrate Black History month, Nelligan Law has put together a timeline highlighting a few of the many trailblazers who helped shape Canada’s cultural and legal landscape, and some of the milestones and significant decisions impacting Black rights in Canada. The difference amounted to a single cent.

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IP Watchdog

MAY 14, 2023

Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) finding that AI cannot be considered a named inventor to a patent application remains the law of the land. The issue of AI inventorship in the United States remains at large following the Supreme Court’s denial of cert in Thaler v. Vidal, meaning that the U.S.

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IP Law 360

DECEMBER 16, 2022

As evidenced in recent instances of law firms separating from attorneys who represented certain industries or espoused certain views, firms and the legal practice itself have grown troublingly polarized and intolerant of dissent, says Rebecca Roiphe at New York Law School.

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IP and Legal Filings

APRIL 8, 2023

Conclusion In India, there is no clear statutory provision within intellectual property laws that protects celebrities’ personality rights , and courts currently dealing with celebrity cases rely on constitutional protection under Article 21 of the right to privacy and publicity. ISSN:1583-6258, Vol. ISSN:1583-6258, Vol.

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Intepat

MAY 4, 2023

Competition law (hereinafter used interchangeably with antitrust law) and Intellectual Property Rights (IPR) have been regarded as two ends of the spectrum in an economy. Interface of Competition Law and Patents Patent law particularly bears more relevance to antitrust jurisprudence. The Supreme Court in Eldred v.

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IP Law 360

MAY 26, 2023

Generative artificial intelligence technologies will put pressure on the business of law as it is structured currently, but clients may end up with more price certainty for legal services, and lawyers may spend more time being lawyers, says Jonathan Cole at Melody Capital.

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Velocity of Content

AUGUST 10, 2022

In a much-anticipated report , the UK Intellectual Property Office recommends a major rewriting of UK copyright law, delivering the future of copyright to those using AI and damaging the present and future financial interests of publishers, authors, journalists, and musicians among others. UK to EU to UK. Beware the Fig Leaf.

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Patently-O

MARCH 3, 2023

I’m looking forward to speaking at Columbia Law School on Monday night (March 6, 2023) at the 5th Annual IP Law in the 21st Century Panel. Columbia Law School (NYC) starting at 7pm, Monday March 6. The event is moderated by the really amazing professor Mavis Fowler-Williams. Registration: [link] — Dennis

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

JULY 12, 2022

I’m pleased to announce the 2022 edition (13th edition) of my Internet Law casebook, Internet Law: Cases & Materials. This year, the book shrunk by 7% as I took a hard look at where Internet Law stands now. The Florida and Texas social media censorship laws and the associated court challenges. Excerpts from 16 C.F.R.

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IP Law 360

MAY 17, 2023

state at a different stage of engaging with name, image and likeness laws for collegiate and high school student-athletes, the NIL world is as much a minefield for attorneys as it is for the players themselves — and counsel must remain on red alert for any and all legislative changes, say Lauren Bernstein and Dan Lust at Moritt Hock.

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IP Law 360

MAY 19, 2023

As law schools prepare for the fall 2023 semester, administrators should reevaluate the role of the underappreciated, indispensable adjunct, and consider 16 concrete actions to improve the adjuncts' teaching experience, overall happiness and feeling of belonging, say T.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

Promoting research and access to its products has always been a core purpose of copyright law, often expressed in limitations and exceptions for research uses. Until now, however, there has not been a collection and categorization of the world’s copyright laws according to the degree to which they provide exceptions for research.

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Managing IP

MAY 31, 2023

IP counsel urge the government to restrict safe harbour exceptions available to intermediaries and clear up doubts with the existing law

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The IP Law Blog

APRIL 14, 2023

The NFL and Las Vegas Raiders threatened to sue a local law firm for trademark infringement, after the firm hired one of its athletes to appear in an advertisement with black and silver branding. Scott Hervey and Josh Escovedo talk about this dispute on this episode of The Briefing by the IP Law Blog.

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IP Watchdog

APRIL 14, 2023

Patterson Intellectual Property Law, P.C. is seeking to hire associates with 1-5 years of experience in Intellectual Property law with specific experience in electrical engineering, computer science, software, or related industries. This is a full-time, permanent position located in Nashville, TN.

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JD Supra Law

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

How would you pronounce #law? Is it “hashtag law,” as the PTO examiner suggested would be the most common understanding, or “pound law,” as alleged by the unsuccessful registrant of #law as a service mark.

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JD Supra Law

OCTOBER 4, 2022

The World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) has announced plans to negotiate a Design Law Treaty (DLT). Similar treaties already exist in the area of Patents (Patent Law Treaty of 2000) and Trademarks (Trademark Law Treaty of 1994 and Singapore Treaty on the Law of Trademarks of 2006). By: AEON Law

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

APRIL 13, 2023

Photo by Markus Spiske on Unsplash Welcome to the first trimester of the 2023 round up of EU copyright law! In this edition, we report on an AG Opinion that came out late in 2022 and update you on what has happened in the first trimester of 2023 in EU copyright law. The copyright in these two titles expired at the beginning of 2021.

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SpicyIP

MAY 14, 2022

Shamnad Basheer’s 46th birth anniversary today, we at SpicyIP are proud to announce the third edition of the Shamnad Basheer Essay Competition on Intellectual Property Law. The response to the competition was overwhelming in the previous years and we’ve received entries from law students across India on an impressive range of topics.

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IP and Legal Filings

MARCH 6, 2023

In support of employing the weight of international law to counter the hazards of doping in sports, more than 170 governments signed this pact. The only two states with active sports laws at the moment are Rajasthan and Himachal Pradesh. Author: Preksha Preya, a 4th year law student pursuing B.B.A.LL.B.

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