SpicyIP

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

These are some highlights from the recently released report from E&Y titled ‘ The Rise of Music Publishing in India ’ based on figures by the Indian Performing Right Society (IPRS) (the copyright society concerned with music publishing). speech in the Parliament while introducing the Copyright (Amendment) Bill 2012.

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Music Publishing Reporting Government 105

Intellectual Property Law Blog

JANUARY 11, 2023

The SCPA legally protects layouts of integrated circuits upon registration, making them illegal to copy without permission. Registration of a mask work with the Copyright Office provides certain legal benefits, including the ability to bring a lawsuit for infringement of the mask work. Registration of a Mask Work.

Registration 189

Registration Designs Design Copying 189

The IPKat

APRIL 30, 2024

Through a comparative lens he showcased the registration trends over the recent years in the examples of US, China and Hungary. Will registration – standing the no formalities rule in international law – enhance legal certainty or merely be an administrative matter? Is the overlap of different IP regimes genuinely problematic?

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Reporting Copyright Public Domain Law 62

IP Watchdog

AUGUST 19, 2021

Department of Commerce Office of Inspector General (OIG) published a final report on the audit of the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) trademark registration process. The report ultimately found that the trademark registration process was ineffective in this respect. On August 11, the U.S.

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Registration Trademark Reporting Publishing 128

Biswajit Sarkar Copyright Blog

JANUARY 10, 2023

What is a registration of trademark? Trademark registration is not a mandate under the Indian trademark law, however it is advisable to go for a registration for certain reasons. Under Section 31 , the registration certificate of the trademark serves as an evidence during infringement lawsuits. Procedure of Registration.

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Registration Trademark Reporting Trademark Law 52

The IPKat

JUNE 10, 2023

Jan Jacobi (photo: Neil Graveney) Darren Meale followed on by discussing how to allow the registration of a colour ad pointing out how such registration should be narrow and specific. He then recalled the principle affirmed by the CJEU on the intention of use when applying for a trade mark registration.

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Reporting Registration Law Patent Law 82

LexBlog IP

MARCH 13, 2024

The United States Patent and Trademark Office (“USPTO”) and the United States Copyright Office (“USCO”) delivered a report to Congress entitled Non-Fungible Tokens and Intellectual Property on March 12, 2024 (“Report”).

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Reporting Non-Fungible Tokens IP Intellectual Property 52

Intellectual Property Law Blog

JANUARY 11, 2023

The SCPA legally protects layouts of integrated circuits upon registration, making them illegal to copy without permission. Registration of a mask work with the Copyright Office provides certain legal benefits, including the ability to bring a lawsuit for infringement of the mask work. Id, section 1206. In particular, Section 1213.2

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Registration Designs Design Copying 130

IP and Legal Filings

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

Indian Copyright Registration The Indian Copyright Office is similarly confused how to handle such requests. As previously reported, the copyright office rejected an application in 2020 that claimed AI (RAGHAV) who was only/sole author of the artwork. [i] In this case, the copyright office allowed registration.

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Registration Art Copyright Artwork 80

Intepat

DECEMBER 4, 2023

With an increasing number of countries joining this unique international trademark registration framework, the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO), a specialized United Nations agency in Geneva, has administered over a million trademark registrations worldwide. What is a Provisional Refusal under the Madrid System?

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Registration Trademark Intellectual Property Registering Trademarks 52

LexBlog IP

JANUARY 17, 2024

The new legislation requires certain entities to report information about their owners, management and the individuals who helped create the entities to the U.S. This edition will outline the information required to be reported to FinCEN by reporting companies and highlight the timeline for reporting such information.

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Reporting Ownership Business Editing 52

Biswajit Sarkar Copyright Blog

JULY 9, 2022

The protection is granted in the form of registration of Industrial designs and an effective system of protection promotes fair competition and honest trade practices, encouraging creativity and producing more aesthetically pleasing products for the consumers. Criteria for design registration. Criteria for design registration.

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Registration Designs Design Confidentiality 52

The TTABlog

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

The USPTO's 2021 Performance and Accountability Report is chock full of information and data regarding USPTO operations. The report is slightly more than 250 pages long, so I will hit a few of the highlights regarding our favorite tribunal, the TTAB. pdf here ). Under the heading "CASE LAW DEVELOPMENTS: RECENT DECISIONS" (p.

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Reporting Registration Trademark Copyright 114

LexBlog IP

JULY 25, 2023

Understanding the Beneficial Ownership Information Reporting Rule by Josh Slovin The New Beneficial Ownership Reporting Rule: A Step towards Greater Transparency in US Businesses Privately-owned companies in the United States have long enjoyed a great degree of privacy about their internal affairs, particularly as to the identities of their owners.

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Ownership Reporting Business Registration 52

IPilogue

MARCH 21, 2022

In September 2021, the IPilogue reported that India’s copyright office recognized the RAGHAV Painting App (“RAGHAV”), an artificial intelligence (“AI”) tool, as an author of the copyright-protected artistic work, Suryast. Sabrina Macklai is an IPilogue Senior Editor and a 2L JD Candidate at the University of Toronto Faculty of Law.

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Registration Copyright Intellectual Property Public Domain 120

LexBlog IP

AUGUST 29, 2023

The new legislation requires certain entities to report information about their owners, management and the individuals who helped create the entities to the U.S. This edition will outline the information required to be reported to FinCEN by reporting companies and highlight the timeline for reporting such information.

Reporting 52

Reporting Ownership Business Editing 52

The TTABlog

JULY 6, 2023

3) issue of The Trademark Reporter (TMR) has arrived. This in-depth article explores the tension between the denial of registration of trademarks that contravene “public policy” or “public order” and/or “morality” under European Union (“EU”) law and the right to freedom of expression under the EU’s Charter of Fundamental Rights.

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Reporting Trademark Branding Brands 54

Plagiarism Today

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

Copyright Office Backtracks on Registration of Partially AI-Generated Work. First off today, Franklin Graves at IPWatchdog reports that the U.S. Copyright Office has begun the process of revoking a copyright registration that was granted to the human author of a piece of artwork that was generated by artificial intelligence (AI).

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Plagiarism Registration Artwork Reporting 220

IP and Legal Filings

MAY 17, 2022

It has the freest economy in the Middle East and as per reports in Index of Economic Freedom published by The Wall Street Journal ranked Bahrain as the 12 th freest economy in the world. Process of registration. Despite being not mandatory, a trademark search is an important part in the whole process of trademark registration.

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Registration Trademark Trademark Law Publishing 52

SpicyIP

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

Continuing our series of posts on the Parliamentary Standing Committee Report on Review of the IPR Regime in India, in this post I will be covering the Report’s recommendations on IPR and Traditional Knowledge (TK). The other posts on the Report can be found here , here , here , here , and here. Highlights from the Report.

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Reporting IP Invention Government 119

SpicyIP

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

We’re very happy to bring our readers a guest post that uses a dataset of more than 300,000 trademark examination reports from the year 2019, as the basis for analysing the trademark registry’s examination process. Empirically Examining Examinations Reports (Part 1). Exam Report Issued. Who Watches the watchmen?

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Reporting Trademark Advertising Advertising 126

Plagiarism Today

SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

First off today, Adam Schrader at UPI reports that New York artist Kris Kashtanova has received a copyright registration for a graphic novel entitled Zarya of the Dawn , representing the first known copyright registration granted to a work of AI-generated artwork.

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Settlement Registration Artwork Art 174

The TTABlog

OCTOBER 26, 2023

A fancy bit of footwork by Applicant Stratio Automotive yielded a registration for the mark STRATIO & Design for diagnostic apparatus and diagnostic services for land vehicles. Opposer Stratio Big Data claimed a likelihood of confusion with its mark STRATIO for computer software for collecting and analyzing data. Stratio Big Data, Inc.

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Registration Editing Business Reporting 51

The IPKat

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

From time to time, this Kat receives queries from clients in relation to the registrability of slogans as trade marks. This was specifically mentioned in the EUIPO’s comprehensive report titled “ The Distinctive Character of Slogans ” (dated October 2021) issued in March 2022 ( the Report ).

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Registration Advertising Advertising Reporting 113

LexBlog IP

OCTOBER 18, 2022

The registration process also varies state-to-state, though it typically requires filing a form with the state and payment of a filing fee. Once the initial filing is made, states typically require annual report filings from each foreign entity registered in the state, which are oftentimes accompanied by a filing fee.

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Registration Business Law Reporting 52

Plagiarism Today

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

1: Ninth Circuit Affirms Validity of Unicolors’ Copyright Registration on Remand, But H&M Scores Big on Remittitur Calculations. Unicolors won at the district court, but that was overturned over issues with the copyright registration. Let me know via Twitter @plagiarismtoday.

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Registration Designs Design Copyright 209

IP Law 360

JULY 8, 2022

Supreme Court held that an applicant's lack of knowledge about the law can excuse innocent mistakes in a copyright registration, while the Ninth Circuit refused to reinstate a $2.8 In the first half of 2022, the U.S. million verdict against Katy Perry over her hit "Dark Horse."

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Copyright Reporting Registration Law 75

Biswajit Sarkar Copyright Blog

OCTOBER 22, 2021

Besides, any association of persons or organizations can make an application for registration of Geographical Indication in India. The applicant should check whether the indication falls under section 2(1)(e) of the Geographical Indications of Goods (Registration and Protection) Act, 1999. Registration Certificate.

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Registration Journalism Copying Intellectual Property 52

JD Supra Law

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

According to the 2022 annual report of the China National Intellectual Property Administration (hereinafter referred to as the “CNIPA”), the preliminary approval rate of trademark applications is only 52%. In other words, about half of all trademark applications will be rejected or.

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Registering Trademarks Trademark Intellectual Property Registration 73

Plagiarism Today

AUGUST 3, 2022

Next up today, Malathi Nayak at Bloomberg reports that YouTube has failed in its efforts to get a lawsuit filed against them dismissed, setting the stage for a possible trial down the road. Finally today, Steve Brachmann at IPWatchdog reports that the U.S. 2: YouTube Must Face Suit by Grammy Winner Over Rights Protection.

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Settlement Registration Copyright Plagiarism 182

Indiana Intellectual Property Law

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

Trademark Office issued the following 132 trademark registrations to persons and business in Indiana in January 2023 based on applications filed by Indiana trademark attorneys: Reg. 6944877 LAKE ESCAPE 6939584 REPAIRWARES GET IT RIGHT THE FIRST TIME. 6944877 LAKE ESCAPE 6939584 REPAIRWARES GET IT RIGHT THE FIRST TIME.

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Registration Trademark Designs Design 52

Plagiarism Today

JUNE 7, 2022

1: Paramount Pictures faces copyright lawsuit over ‘Top Gun: Maverick’ First off today, Joe Hernandez at NPR reports that Paramount Pictures is facing a lawsuit over their new movie Top Gun: Maverick. 3: Thaler Pursues Copyright Challenge Over Denial of AI-Generated Work Registration. Have any suggestions for the 3 Count?

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Registration Artwork Licensing Copyright 188

The IPKat

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

The synthetic skills of this GuestKat unfortunately do not allow to summarize all the lectures by these eminent scholars, but a report of the discussions that were made, mainly in their chronological order, is still possible and maybe can provide some food for thoughts for our Kat readers (with many apologies for any oversimplification).

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Reporting Copyright Intellectual Property Artistic Work 82

The IPKat

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

Kat friend Latha Nair reports on an interesting decision from India on the registrability of two marks--SWISS MILITARY and design, and the word mark SWISS MILITRY. 11(5) stipulates that registration of a trademark can be refused under Section 11(3) only if the proprietor of an earlier trademark raises an objection under 11(3).

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Registration Trademark Intellectual Property Designs 98

The IPKat

JULY 7, 2023

The challenges identified related to: (1) registration from physical goods to the digital market; (2) access to services; (3) enforcement; (4) issues linked to multimedia marks or to non-traditional marks; (5) designs that could provide for a solution to the risk of the loss of relevance of trade marks due to future uses in the Metaverse.

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Reporting Music IP Intellectual Property 86

Trading Secrets

JUNE 18, 2021

Pacific, Seyfarth partner Dawn Mertineit will present a live webcast discussing Lex Machina’s Trade Secret Litigation Report for 2021. And stay tuned for a follow-up blog discussing the report’s key findings. More details and a registration link can be found here.

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Reporting Litigation Blogging Registration 40

Plagiarism Today

AUGUST 5, 2021

First off today, Leslie MacKinnon at iPolitics reports that the Canadian Supreme Court has ruled unanimously that York University cannot be held liable for its failure to pay a collective licensing fee that it did not agree to pay. Copyright Office typically gets fewer than 20 such registrations in a year.

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Social Media Music Copyright Infringement Licensing 246