Plagiarism Today
MAY 13, 2025
Bad Bunny sued over alleged unlicensed sample, Grande Communications petitions the Supreme Court and India to study copyright and AI. The post 3 Count: Bunny Sample appeared first on Plagiarism Today.
Erik K Pelton
MAY 13, 2025
The following is an edited transcript of my video 25 Tips When Brainstorming a New Name. Here are twenty five things to keep in mind when working to create new brand name – whether launching a new business, new product, or new service, or renaming one: Begin with suffixes and prefixesnot full wordsand think about the message you want to convey to consumers.
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JD Supra Law
MAY 13, 2025
In this episode, Austin Padgett and Rusty Close discuss the legal implications of Mike Tyson's face tattoo in the context of intellectual property law. They explore the copyright infringement lawsuit filed by tattoo artist S. Victor Whitmill in relation to the use of Tyson's tattoo design in the poster for The Hangover Part II. The conversation covers the originality and fixation requirements for copyright, the impact of preliminary injunctions, and the broader implications of copyright law.
IP and Legal Filings
MAY 12, 2025
On a significant ruling, the Delhi High Court has conferred trademark ability for the name and photograph of Ratan Tata. This ruling stresses the intensifying importance given to intellectual property rights in the same context in public figures whose names, appearances, and images are valued so much that their reputation may justify their use. It was a fight for Ratan Tata involving the brand Tata, which also became a precedent for individuals regarding how personal branding and legacy misuse c
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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?
Plagiarism Today
MAY 12, 2025
New Nintendo license agreement lets them brick modified consoles, musicians petition UK government on AI and LaLiga blocks more IP addresses. The post 3 Count: Bricked Switches appeared first on Plagiarism Today.
Nelligan Law
MAY 13, 2025
Reading Time: 2 minutes After a car accident, many people understandably want to know what kind of compensation they can expect. Medical bills, missed work, and ongoing pain can all take a tollnot just physically, but financially and emotionally too. Under Ontarios no- fault system, various benefits are available from ones own insurer. In addition, if you are not 100% at fault, a claim may be possible against the other driver.
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The IPKat
MAY 13, 2025
The UK's House of Lords (the upper chamber in the UK's Houses of Parliament) has voted to add what are known as Baroness Kidron's amendments to the Data (Use and Access) Bill. This amendment would, if it becomes law, require the Secretary of State to force AI developers to publish information about the works used to train their models.What is the Bill?
Garrigues Blog
MAY 13, 2025
Reputable trademarks enjoy enhanced protection to prevent third parties from taking undue advantage of that reputation even if the services or products are not similar. The reason: to protect the investment made by trademark owners. But how far should this protection go? We analyze the case of Game of Thrones vs Game of Dner. We could start this post by talking about what Game of Thrones is, but, as the opposition division of the European Intellectual Property Office (EUIPO) concludes , we are d
TorrentFreak
MAY 13, 2025
Late 2022, several of the worlds largest music companies including Warner Bros. and Sony Music prevailed in their lawsuit against Internet provider Grande Communications. The record labels accused the Astound-owned ISP of not doing enough to stop pirating subscribers. Specifically, they alleged that the company failed to terminate repeat infringers.
JD Supra Law
MAY 12, 2025
The Copyright Office released a Pre-publication version of Part 3 of its Report on Copyright and AI. Coincidentally (?) Shira Perlmuter, the Register of Copyrights, was fired amid a shakeup at the Copyright Office. The Report was also supposed to address infringement issues, but did not. Those issued will now be addressed in a Part 4 of the Report.
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SpicyIP
MAY 12, 2025
Image from here ANI v. OpenAI is Indias first copyright challenge against generative AI. Filed in 2024, it has since drawn in other industry groups, reflecting its wide impact. As on date, the Amici Curiae , plaintiff and defendant have nearly completed their submissions (presumably on the interim application). Unfortunately, these submissions are not available to the public.
Kluwer Copyright Blog
MAY 13, 2025
Chris Downer / Wimborne Minster: later books in the chained library / CC BY-SA 2.0 This two-part blog looks at the provisions that exist in library laws across European countries concerning the building of collections and what libraries can do with them. It then assesses how far the achievement of these mandated functions is frustrated by a lack of access to e-books.
IP Law 360
MAY 12, 2025
The U.S. Supreme Court is expected to address for the first time Thursday the propriety of universal injunctions, a tool federal judges have increasingly used to broadly halt presidential orders and policy initiatives, and whose validity has haunted the high court's merits and emergency dockets for more than a decade.
JD Supra Law
MAY 13, 2025
Companies around the world are facing increasing uncertainty brought on by the unpredictable and rapid shifts in tariff policies. As a result, corporate leaders are seeking ways to adapt and respond to the sudden and unprecedented changes in the international trade landscape. In this video, Brian Gleason, John Peiserich, James E. Malackowski, and Livia Paggi experts in turnaround, supply chain, intellectual property, and political risk discuss key strategies for senior management teams to.
Copyright Alliance
MAY 13, 2025
Whatever the occasion, a well-selected greeting card with just the right words and images can make the recipient laugh, cry, or want to give the sender a hug. They can […] The post Copyrightability of Greeting Cards appeared first on Copyright Alliance.
TorrentFreak
MAY 12, 2025
For those who had fun playing #laligagate ‘collateral damage bingo’ over the weekend, a full house meant identifying the top internet intermediaries and services, blocked by LaLiga on Friday, Saturday, and Sunday. Most services utilize shared IP addresses, so typically the number of non-pirate sites blocked at the same time can run to hundreds of sites, potentially more.
SpicyIP
MAY 13, 2025
Image generated through ChatGPT Running a few years behind the initial 2022 Diwali deadline, India and the UK have finally concluded their talks on the Free Trade Agreement (FTA). Projected as an ambitious and mutually beneficial FTA, the agreement marks a significant step for both economies. Reportedly , this is the UKs biggest trade deal since Brexit and on the Indian side, it shifts the focus from east to west, in terms of bilateral trade partnerships, and saw India negotiating on many non-tr
JD Supra Law
MAY 12, 2025
Global Capability Centers (GCCs) have become strategic hubs for multinational corporations, financial institutions and other organizations because they can provide centralized control over high-value technology and back-office functions.
Kluwer Copyright Blog
MAY 12, 2025
Chris Downer / Wimborne Minster: later books in the chained library / CC BY-SA 2.0 This two-part blog looks at the provisions that exist in library laws across European countries concerning the building of collections and what libraries can do with them. It then assesses how far the achievement of these mandated functions is frustrated by a lack of access to eBooks.
The IPKat
MAY 11, 2025
At the beginning of 2024, the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) issued its much-anticipated judgment in Audi (Case C-334/22), which addressed the delicate issue of trade mark use on spare car parts produced by independent third parties.
SpicyIP
MAY 11, 2025
In these tough times of conflict, we saw numerous applications seeking a trademark over the codename of India’s military response against the Pahalgam attack- “Operation Sindoor” To comment on the surge in these applications, we invited Mr. Sunil Jose to share his views on whether the Trademarks Act allows such applications or not.
JD Supra Law
MAY 13, 2025
IBM UK ("IBM") successfully enforced the terms of a mainframe license against the defendants who had created a competing software product.
IP Law 360
MAY 13, 2025
Music publishers claiming artificial intelligence company Anthropic infringed their works to train its AI models told a California federal magistrate judge Tuesday that an Anthropic expert witness cited a "fictitious" AI-generated study in a recently filed declaration, urging the judge to sanction the company's Latham & Watkins attorneys for not catching the issue.
The IPKat
MAY 13, 2025
IP strategy for cell therapies presents unique challenges compared to traditional pharmaceuticals and biologics. Previous posts have highlighted the limitations of process patents in cell therapy (IPKat) and the need to think strategically about how best to protect the product from fast-follower competition (IPKat).
Intepat
MAY 11, 2025
The High Court of Delhi’s recent ruling in AbbVie Biotherapeutics Inc & Anr. v. Assistant Controller of Patent Designs [C.A.(COMM.IPD-PAT) 44/2023] addresses a critical aspect of Indian patent law: the permissible scope of amendments to patent applications. This case originated from an appeal filed under Section 117A of the Patents Act, 1970, against an order dated July 31, 2023, issued by the Assistant Controller of Patents and Designs.
JD Supra Law
MAY 13, 2025
This year, the INTA Annual Meeting lands in sunny San Diego, Californiaa city known not only for its breathtaking coastline, laid-back vibe, and rich cultural diversity, but also for its dynamic landscape of iconic brands and trademark activity. From the world-famous San Diego Zoo to the fiercely protected Comic-Con International brand, San Diego offers a case study in how intellectual property shapes local industry and culture.
IP Law 360
MAY 13, 2025
The Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center say the full Federal Circuit should review a decision rejecting Xencor's application for an antibody patent, arguing that the decision wrongly created a new precedent that could be harmful to other patents.
Barry Sookman
MAY 13, 2025
The Alberta Court of Kings Bench just released a bombshell decision in Clearview AI Inc v Alberta (Information and Privacy Commissioner) , 2025 ABKB 287. In short, it found that sections 12 , 17 , and 20 of the Personal Information Protection Act , (PIPA), unjustifiably infringed section 2(b) of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms. In so ruling, it essentially found that PIPAs blanket restrictions against collecting publicly available information from the Internet without obtaining indiv
BYU Copyright Blog
MAY 12, 2025
Was the Copying Rightful? Faculty,Secondary Education,Fair Use,College May 12, 11:43 AM May 12, 11:44 AM On March 18, 2024, we published a post on the case Wilder v. Hoiland , reporting on the decision made by the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York, which ruled in favor of Defendant Sarah Hoiland (Hoiland) on a claim of copyright infringement.
JD Supra Law
MAY 13, 2025
In Ingenico Inc. v. IOENGINE, LLC, the Federal Circuit defined for the first time the scope of inter partes review (IPR) estoppel in district court and International Trade Commission (ITC) proceedings: IPR estoppel applies only to invalidity arguments that the claimed invention was described in a patent or printed publication before the critical date.
IP Law 360
MAY 13, 2025
A Pennsylvania federal judge on Tuesday denied Walmart Inc. and Farberware Licensing Co.'s bid to prevail in a suit alleging they sold a defective pressure cooker that erupted and burned a woman using it to make steak.
Velocity of Content
MAY 13, 2025
CCC has earned 2025 Top Workplaces Culture Excellence Awards from Energage LLC for Leadership, Work-Life Flexibility, Innovation, and Purpose & Values for the third consecutive year. The Top Workplaces Culture Excellence Awards recognize organizations prioritizing their employees workplace experience, while making them feel truly valued for their contributions.
Technology & Marketing Law Blog
MAY 12, 2025
[Note: lawsuits over takedown notice attacks occur occasionally. I’m blogging this case as an exemplar, not because it’s unique.] This case involves two Amazon marketplace merchants, GM Photo (operating as Digital Village) and Focus Camera. At issue are “high-end Sigma brand single-lens reflex camera lenses that retail for approximately $600 to $1,200.” GM claims that in October 2022, Focus “conspired to de-list certain of GM’s Amazon listings” by claimi
JD Supra Law
MAY 13, 2025
It is a basic tenet of trademark law that rights are jurisdictional. Trademark owners only have rights in the mark in the jurisdictions in which they have registered (or, in some cases, used) the mark.
IP Law 360
MAY 13, 2025
U.S. District Judge Alan Albright has overruled a jury's $26 million verdict against Google LLC and its YouTube LLC subsidiary for infringing VideoShare LLC's video sharing patent, finding that as a matter of law "the only reasonable interpretation of the claim language" shows no infringement.
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