43(B)log

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

IP Australia also regulates patent & TM attorneys through professional standards board domination. doesn’t know what to do with all of its money (it’s self-funding), so we have the Wallace & Grommit World IP Exhibition, with Grommit chasing off copycats. So in litigation, no one says “the Office has done this 20 times before.”

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43(B)log

AUGUST 4, 2023

Partly in response to NJ’s 2002 law—once there’s a smart gun, manufacturers have to switch to it w/in 30 months, though NJ backed off and just required retailers to stock it, but still infuriated gun rights advocates who boycotted Colt and Smith & Wesson who then got out of the market entirely. installation of Shot Spotter all over. $21

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43(B)log

FEBRUARY 24, 2024

Sealed complaint; ex parte TRO; used to freeze entire accounts and money. TRO is better than a notice & takedown—you get the seller’s entire account down and you get all their money; marketplaces are treating them as risk of being held liable for infringement by that merchant. Putting pictures side by side often isn’t enough.

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LexBlog IP

JULY 21, 2021

That question is “how have various countries’ intellectual property laws addressed efforts to copyright, trademark, or patent holy names, sacred words, or outputs of creation?” context to see how various other countries have responded to such challenges as well, not only in copyright but in trademark and patent too.

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