The TTABlog

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

Stott began to "manage" the band SPLIT DECISION two years after it was formed, and claimed to be a "full, non-performing primary band member," but there was no agreement regarding ownership of the band's name. The band members’ actions, undertaken in concert, establish their collective ownership of the mark. Wonderbread 5.

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LexBlog IP

MAY 19, 2023

Influencer marketing offers brands a unique opportunity to target and connect with online communities, using a personalized approach. Whilst influencer marketing can yield great returns for brands, it is essential for influencers and brands to navigate this legal landscape carefully, especially in terms of contractual relationships.

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IP and Legal Filings

MARCH 9, 2022

Trademarks- as the patents protect the inventions, trademarks refer to the unique symbols and phrases used by an organization helping them to distinguish from the others in a competitive market. This may be for a limited period and is only limited to publishing, rendering left of the ownership to the author.

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SpicyIP

JULY 1, 2021

In this post, I look at the question of the government’s copyright ownership in State Board textbooks, and its implications on access to knowledge and education. Smartphone ownership levels among rural households with school going children have doubled to 62% in 2020 from 36% in 2018. Image from here. Section 2.2(iv)

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JD Supra Law

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

Companies often hire employees to develop new products, improve processes, create new technologies, and develop new markets. But how should employers address the ownership of intellectual property created by their employees in the course of their employment?

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IP Watchdog

DECEMBER 12, 2022

This week in Washington IP news, the Senate Judiciary Committee is holding an Executive Business Meeting in which they will discuss the Pride in Patent Ownership Act, while several Senate subcommittees hold hearings related to American manufacturing, diversity in entrepreneurship, and increasing access to capital in underserved markets.

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JD Supra Law

MAY 27, 2022

Web3 is a tech buzzword for a blockchain-powered phase of the internet (different from the current internet state of user-generated media in Web 2.0); in other words, Web3 is a network powered by blockchain where NFTs signal ownership in the online world, which some bloggers hope will decentralize the internet to put power in the hands of consumers.

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Olartemoure Blog

JANUARY 11, 2024

Tokenization refers to the process of creating digital tokens that represent ownership of an asset. The assets can be physical or digital, and tokenization allows for fractional ownership of assets, making it easier for investors to buy and sell them. Tokenization of IP assets has several benefits.

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IP and Legal Filings

MAY 10, 2024

Assignment of License is transfer of ownership. Where licensing is temporary, assignment is a transfer of IP rights like ownership over the invention. Likewise, IP marketing plays a pivotal role, markets are identified where usage of technology is exchanged or transferred by recognizing prospective stakeholders.

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JD Supra Law

AUGUST 24, 2021

Companies often hire employees to develop new products, improve processes, create new technologies, and develop new markets. But how should employers address the ownership of intellectual property created by their employees in the course of their employment?

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

DECEMBER 5, 2022

Case Citation : Digital Marketing Advisors v. Universal. * Two 512(f) Rulings Where The Litigants Dispute Copyright Ownership. * It Takes a Default Judgment to Win a 17 USC 512(f) Case–Automattic v. The post 512(f) Plaintiff Must Pay $91k to the Defense–Digital Marketing v. McCandless Group, LLC, 2022 WL 17403067 (C.D.

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43(B)log

OCTOBER 11, 2022

Appian disseminated the report through its sales team, social media, and other marketing. Starting with Pegasystems’ claims, Appian and BPM argued that there was no proof of cognizable injury, and that there was no presumption of injury because multiple firms compete in the BPM market. The BPM market is large.

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IPilogue

MARCH 14, 2022

The lawsuit so far contains many harsh comments about StockX, including that it “ has chosen to compete in the NFT market not by taking the time to develop its own intellectual property rights , but rather by blatantly freeriding, almost exclusively, on the back of Nike’s famous trademarks and associated goodwill.”.

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43(B)log

AUGUST 11, 2021

Twain thought he should have ownership of his lectures—“my lecture was my property.” There’s some transformation in organization; used entire work/market substitute so Cord wouldn’t be able to sell her narrative a publisher. It’s not clear that giving Cord’s estate ownership would be social justice, but that’s a question worth asking.

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IP Law 360

AUGUST 17, 2021

There are several important but underappreciated technical aspects of nonfungible tokens that inform their relationship with intellectual property rights and ultimately the valuation of NFTs conveying ownership of assets, say Collin Starkweather at Starkweather Economics, Izzy Nelken at Super Computer Consulting and Sam Miller at Rimon.

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IP Watchdog

NOVEMBER 12, 2021

Massie introduces the Restoring America’s Leadership in Innovation Act to repeal much of the America Invents Act and clarify Section 101 subject matter eligibility.

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Intellectual Property Law Blog

MARCH 13, 2024

Unsophisticated consumers may conflate the purchase of an NFT associated with a digital good with ownership of IP rights in that good. The Offices found: To the extent that an NFT is associated with a copyrightable work, the creation, storage, marketing, or transfer of that NFT may implicate copyright owners’ exclusive rights.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

JANUARY 24, 2024

However, the appellate court seems to invalidate that six-factor test: “Determining he ownership of social-media accounts is indeed a relatively novel exercise, but that novelty does not warrant a new six-factor test.” The next step is to determine whether ownership ever transferred to another party.

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Indiana Intellectual Property Law

APRIL 26, 2024

The lawsuit alleges that certain swimsuits marketed by FullBeauty Brands and affiliated entities bear a striking resemblance to designs owned by competitors. Global Trademarks, operating under the umbrella of Swim USA , claims ownership of swimwear designs and brands like MIRACLESUIT ® and SWIM SOLUTIONS ®.

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IAM Magazine

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

Experts embrace the Leahy/Tillis bill’s aims, but warn it could create unwelcome, new overhead costs and administrative burdens.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

AUGUST 5, 2022

This is a case focusing on ownership of social media accounts. See “ Social Media Ownership Disputes Part II: Bridal Wear Company Takes Back Control of Instagram Account from Ex-Employee ” and “ Another Confused Entry in the Social Media Account Ownership Jurisprudence–JLM v. (See We blogged this case twice before.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

JANUARY 26, 2022

“Web3 cannot and should not be reduced to blockchain when the real shift is towards user ownership of digital assets… This definitional shift focuses attention on what assets can be legally owned and the meaning of ownership “rights,” more generally, in the emerging digital spaces of web3.”. . user ownership of digital assets)?

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JD Supra Law

JUNE 14, 2022

The person or entity that owns the NFT records the ownership in the blockchain, which allows NFTs to be sold and traded. The market value of the NFT is linked directly to the. NFTs typically are made up of digital files such as photos, videos, and music.

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LexBlog IP

AUGUST 16, 2023

The deal market reached historic levels in recent years, with record-setting merger and acquisition activity in 2021. Markets have since cooled, with capital becoming harder to find. A settled “patent troll” lawsuit is typically not the end of the world and is very common for any company in the middle market or larger.

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IP and Legal Filings

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

Introduction Mergers and acquisitions have incredibly taken a sharp stride in the Indian as well as the global market in today’s time. The Indian market till 2000 witnessed some major mergers and acquisitions post that the global credit crisis took a blatant hit on many major economies of the world.

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LexBlog IP

MARCH 15, 2022

Plaintiff, Tori Belle Cosmetics LLC (“Belle Cosmetics”), sells its cosmetics and false eyelashes through a network of salespeople, allowing each salesperson to earn a portion of any revenue generated by any salespeople they recruit to join their sales network, i.e., a multi-level marketing business.

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IP Tech Blog

JANUARY 4, 2023

The challenge becomes even bigger if NFTs are to be commercialized, exploited, and protected in different jurisdictions and at the same time — particularly when those markets include China, where protection for a foreign NFT creator or exploiter may face unique challenges. Therefore, DCs cannot be freely transacted in the Chinese market.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

JUNE 19, 2023

Image by Tumisu via Pixabay Non-fungible tokens (NFTs) are altering society’s notion of digital ‘ownership’ and redefining the common perspective on distribution of original works to consumers by introducing scarcity to the digital realm.

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IP Watchdog

MAY 18, 2022

In January 2022, StockX announced its plans to launch The Vault, which uses non-fungible tokens (NFTs) to allow buyers to track ownership of physical products resold on its e-market and warrant their authenticity, including Nike shoes.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

MAY 27, 2023

” I sense the court was overwhelmed by the complexity of music licensing, where there are layers upon layers of agreements over the initial ownership of the work, subsequent ownership transfers, distribution licenses, designations of enforcement agents, and voluntary uploads of the works by one or more people in the chain.

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CopyrightsWorld

MAY 7, 2022

How are NFTs Transforming Digital Ownership Today, non-fungible tokens (NFTs) give a comprehensive history and evidence of ownership for digital assets and any other asset recognised as a non-fungible token. The importance of NFTs in online communities and events. Useful and interchangeable game elements.

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IP Law 360

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

A Canadian entity claiming to own Quantum, a non-fungible token believed to be the first of its kind, alleged in New York federal court that Sotheby's wrongly marketed the NFT's ownership in an auction where the artist sold the work for $1.47

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Intepat

APRIL 2, 2022

It gives the inventor or patent owner exclusive rights and prevents others from manufacturing, selling, or marketing the invention. Patents give you the much-needed competitive edge in the market. Firstly, it prevents other organizations from copying the invention, thereby lowering the risk of competitors in the market.

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Patently-O

AUGUST 28, 2023

IPH’s strategy is to dominate secondary IP markets like Canada, New Zealand, and Singapore. The growth also tests regulations restricting non-lawyer ownership of law firms. This comes just 10 months after IPH purchased Canada’s largest IP firm, Smart & Biggar. For now, the USPTO prohibits their model.

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The IPKat

JUNE 13, 2022

The non-fungible part means that it is something that has unique value based on the buyer’s sentiment and/or market dynamics. In practice, what this means is that a whole new market has been opened-up as NFTs have provided a system that has enabled the sale of digital items by transforming them into collectables, such as a tweet.

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IPilogue

MARCH 29, 2022

The 5 th Annual IP Data & Research Conference , organized by the Canadian Intellectual Property Office (“CIPO”) and the Centre for International Governance Innovation (“CIGI”), included a session on “Clean Technologies” about the status of Canada’s IP ownership and cleantech sector. Clean Technologies’ Economic Impact and Innovation.

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IP Law 360

AUGUST 3, 2023

million for a startup's "complete disregard" of its ownership of a patented air conditioning technology, finding the startup had continued to market the technology as its own throughout the lawsuit and tried to avoid liability by disappearing from the litigation. Colorado federal judge has awarded an Australian company nearly $8.5

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