Intellectual Property Law Blog

MAY 2, 2023

Further, the joint statement reiterates that these agencies “take seriously our responsibility to ensure that these rapidly evolving automated systems are developed and used in a manner consistent with federal laws, and each of our agencies has previously expressed concern about potentially harmful uses of automated systems.” The AI RMF 1.0

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

Emojis are an excellent device for trolling campaigns because they inevitably look alike and copyright law provides many powerful tools to copyright owners. Cub Club’s emoji are therefore “entitled to only thin copyright protection against virtually identical copying.” Case Citation : Cub Club Investment, LLC v.

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LexBlog IP

FEBRUARY 14, 2022

And keep in mind, the real problem is far greater; this report simply includes information that consumers have provided to the FTC or to other law enforcement agencies that share data with the agency. The report provides some interesting trend information. For example, we are now seeing the use of cryptocurrency in these scams. .”

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

JANUARY 2, 2023

Also, did the law ban delivery services from buying keyword ads based on the retailers’ trademarks? As to the criticisms, concerns, and non-defamatory allegations relating to government employees, such speech is core protected activity under the First Amendment. Los Lunas Schools Board of Education, 2022 WL 14008397 (D.N.M.

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Kashishipr

JANUARY 12, 2022

All ardent social media users are aware of the latest trend of using hashtags to spread the word across a wide range of users for bolstering consumer engagement. Therefore, the prime role of such hashtags needs to be assessed in line with the Trademark Law to deduce whether they qualify for trademark protection.

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The IPKat

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

After noting that consumers are accustomed to the presence of geometric signs in the footwear sector, the Board of Appeal ruled that the contested sign is sufficiently striking and memorable to be distinctive. 7 (1)(b) of the EUTMR. The Applicant appealed.

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The IPKat

JUNE 26, 2022

The event is designed to encourage interactive discussions among participants through panel debates, with each of them covering 4 or 5 key topics related to each specific sector. There will also be panels on CJEU and General Court case law, judicial approaches to parasitic competition, and international design protection strategies.

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SpicyIP

JANUARY 1, 2024

The Court observed that the registration of the defendant’s trademark was granted contrary to the law since the Registry failed to consider the extension to file oppositions, in light of the COVID-19 pandemic and wrongly rejected the plaintiff’s opposition to the defendant’s application. Srinivas Rao & Anr.

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The IPKat

JANUARY 27, 2023

2023 ISHTIP WORKSHOP Image by Riana Harvey The International Society for the History and Theory of Intellectual Property (ISHTIP) at the Tel Aviv University will held its 14th Annual Conference, which this year will focus on the theme IP and Migration – of people, information, technology, creativity and law. The conference is hosted by the S.

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TorrentFreak

APRIL 10, 2024

Congress members, the plan is to propose judicial site-blocking legislation that will see local ISPs compelled by law to prevent consumer access to pirate sites. An unquestionably great achievement, especially without protection from site-blocking. Working with U.S. They should listen to a story first.

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Biswajit Sarkar Copyright Blog

MARCH 1, 2024

The topic of interest is related to both the cellular and molecular aspects of biological objects. This leads them to think about protecting their inventions from unauthorized use. Inventors can seek protection from their creations to the government to prevent the infringement of their ideas. What is patent?

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The IPKat

MAY 13, 2022

As the research may also develop in other areas of law (e.g. fundamental rights, competition law, consumer protection, property law, unfair competition), your familiarity with (some) of these topics will be an asset.

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IPilogue

DECEMBER 13, 2021

Candidate at Osgoode Hall Law School, enrolled in Professor David Vaver’s 2021-2022 Intellectual Property Law & Technology Intensive Program. As part of the course requirements, students were asked to write a blog on a topic of their choice. 1] And only expression, not an idea, is protectable. According to s.

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LexBlog IP

JUNE 2, 2022

Protecting the Product ’s Editor-in-Chief James Aquilina and regular contributor Joseph Ambrose will each teach sessions at the American Intellectual Property Law Association’s “Design Rights Boot Camp” on June 23-24, 2022, in Arlington, Virginia. Protecting Designs in the Virtual World. Date & Time.

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IP and Legal Filings

FEBRUARY 12, 2023

One of the major observations which have been accorded during this is that the unregulated markets have been the tendency to assume monopolistic or more monopolistic character and therefore affecting the consumer welfare. Intellectual Property Rights And Competition Law: Is There Any Tussle Between The Two?

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Corsearch

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

About Mike Sweeney As an experienced attorney, Mike counsels brands on all aspects of brand and content protection in the digital space, with a particular focus on leveraging data-driven technology to combat counterfeiting. Targeted topics include IP infringement on fast-growing e-commerce platforms.

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The IPKat

JANUARY 16, 2022

MISCELLANEOUS European Commission | European Union Intellectual Property Office (EUIPO) " EU SME Fund " On 10 January, the Commission and the EUIPO launched the new EU SME Fund, which provides vouchers to help EU-based SMEs protect their intellectual property rights.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

MARCH 29, 2022

In addition, “Plaintiff has not cited any duty of Defendants to protect Plaintiff from alleged harassment by third parties in a video game.” ” Consumer Protection. Forge of Empires appeared first on Technology & Marketing Law Blog. The court says Section 230 preempts most of those claims.

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LexBlog IP

MAY 2, 2023

Bringing law enforcement takes a lot of time – many, many months of investigation, analysis, negotiations and process must occur before an agency brings a law enforcement action. But blogs can get out the door far more quickly. The change has been dramatic and quick , and it has not escaped the notice of regulators.

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LexBlog IP

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

The press release noted that the Office “will strengthen the FTC’s ability to keep pace with technological challenges in the digital marketplace by supporting the agency’s law enforcement and policy work.” ” Any details about the Office – size and budget – were left to our creative imaginations.

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The IPKat

FEBRUARY 19, 2023

City University of London – IP and National Competitive Identity – ‘Made in’, ‘Made by’, ‘Made of’ On the 14th March , Dr Natalie Corthésy (PhD from CCLS Queen Mary University of London, Associate Dean at Mona Law, The University of the West Indies, Jamaica) will deliver a seminar on what a nation brand is and what its correlation is to IP.

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The IPKat

MAY 1, 2022

6 May 2022 – 9:00 – 17:30 (CEST) | CEIPI - « La jurisprudence Européenne en Propriété Intellectuelle » On May 6, CEIPI will organize its traditional one-day seminar " Journée d'actualité " dedicated to European intellectual property case law. All information and registration can be found here.

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Velocity of Content

APRIL 26, 2022

That strikes me as certainly a worthy and intriguing topic, but before saying more about why I’m inclined to think so, I think the terms used could probably stand a little unpacking first. The noun phrase, “intellectual property” is used to refer, in the aggregate, to these forms of legal protection for works of the mind.

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LexBlog IP

APRIL 23, 2023

Allergan also argued that the slogan misrepresented to consumers that the effects of skincare INHIBOX were not only comparable to those of BOTOX but would also last for a similar period. These actions are all still available to be deployed by brand owners in protecting their trade marks.

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43(B)log

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

Panel #2, TM, moderated by Vice Dean Felix Wu Jack Daniels says that use as a trademark is special: like copyright’s bête noire, confusion caused by trademark use is the central concern of trademark law.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

MAY 17, 2022

The plaintiffs alleged “Roblox does not include any sort of age-related protections that some other websites use, such as requiring parental permission,” but that allegation suggests an obvious COPPA problem). Many are premised on the idea that consumers got exactly what they expected, they just did not like the results.”

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TorrentFreak

MARCH 29, 2024

A sampling of opinions on this controversial topic would likely place sentiments like these at the edge of a spectrum, acting as a perfect counterbalance to equally extreme positions adopted by a subset of particularly aggressive rightsholders. . And all this under a ‘protected privacy’,” the statement continues.

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The IPKat

JUNE 13, 2022

Digital assets can be protected by IP and have always been capable of being licensed or assigned via a contract, or protected as a trade mark. NFTs are legal property… A recent case in the High Court recognised NFTs as property under the law of England and Wales.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

MARCH 2, 2022

One of the central issues in this respect is the copyright protectability of journalistic outputs generated by or with the help of AI. This research project seeks to fill that gap in literature by turning to the application of AI in the specific field of journalism and copyright law. Copyright and journalism – the status quo.

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LexBlog IP

JULY 8, 2022

“Right to repair” is a consumer protection issue that is rapidly picking up steam. The Mag-Moss Warranty Act – not to be confused with Mag-Moss rulemaking – broadly addresses issues involving warranties for consumer products. Right to repair is indeed a hot topic in 2022.

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IP Tech Blog

JANUARY 4, 2023

Securing the right IP protection for an NFT will be key to its successful commercialization and exploitation by the creator and its owner. In this blog post we examine how copyright is leveraged to protect NFTs, both in the US and China, with a comparative approach that elucidates both the challenges and potential solutions.

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Trademark and Copyright Law Blog

JUNE 23, 2021

Product configuration and packaging play an integral part in consumer choice and can often set a particular product apart from its competition on the store shelf. Topics Include: How to effectively use trademarks, trade dress, patents, and copyrights to protect product configurations and packaging designs.

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The IPKat

JULY 9, 2022

This week I attended the IP Case Law Conference , organized by the European Union Intellectual Property Office in what was factually accurate and often referred to during the 2-day event as “sunny Alicante”. All the above said, it is possible to rely on different IP rights simultaneously or at a different time to protect valuable ‘objects’.

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IPilogue

MARCH 21, 2022

Nikita Munjal is an IP Innovation Clinic Fellow, a Student Editor with the Intellectual Property Journal, and a third-year JD/MBA Candidate at Osgoode Hall Law School. Sabrina Macklai is an IPilogue Senior Editor and a 2L JD Candidate at the University of Toronto Faculty of Law.

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SpicyIP

JANUARY 17, 2022

Lokesh attempts to find grounding for it in Indian law through the current post. He is an LLM Candidate (IP and Technology) at American University Washington College of Law (AUWCL), InfoJustice Fellow at PIJIP , and Arodhum Scholar, 2021. He graduated from the Institute of Law Nirma University, Ahmedabad in 2021. Lokesh Vyas.

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Trading Secrets

JUNE 9, 2023

makes the largest change to existing law, prohibiting virtually all noncompetition covenants in physician contracts. This section also prohibits hospitals or psychiatric hospitals from taking any action to prevent a physician from discussing such topics or working for another medical facility or office.

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SpicyIP

AUGUST 2, 2021

Topical Highlight. Dr. Scaria points out that the Report lacks focused questions of enquiry and instead undertakes a superficial review of all IP laws in the country. Parliamentary Standing Committee Report on IPR: Tipping the Scales of Patent Law? The post focuses on three methodological flaws in the Report. Part I and II.

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