SpicyIP

JUNE 17, 2022

The Trade Marks Registry (TMR) lists Revlon and its related brands as ‘well-known’ trademarks in India since 1997. Prior to the enactment of the Trade Marks Rules, 2017, a trademark could be declared as well-known either by a court or by the Registrar in an opposition, rectification or infringement / passing off action.

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IP and Legal Filings

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

Furthermore, a list of notified illegal trademarks is enumerated in the Central Government’s Manual of Trade Marks, Practice and Procedure. The Court ruled that the appellants did not have a monopoly on utilising Krishna’s name in connection with dairy products. The legislature has not taken a stand on this topic.

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TorrentFreak

OCTOBER 21, 2021

In addition to providing an updated list of piracy threats, these domain name troubles were highlighted. “In addition, ICANN has failed to adopt meaningful solutions to improve the accuracy of registrant information, despite discussions on this topic for the last several years,” the RIAA adds. GDPR Byspass? – Ytmp3.

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TorrentFreak

MARCH 13, 2022

“TorGuard knows and encourages its end users to use its VPN service to access The Pirate Bay and pirate content” the complaint read, pointing to a topic in the Torguard forums. The court hasn’t ruled on this motion yet, and that’s no longer needed either. Settlement & U.S. Torrent Blocking.

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TorrentFreak

JANUARY 2, 2024

The contrast between $35 million in advertising revenue and the hardware on display has been a topic of discussion since the raid, and probably best summed up by the comment , “The shelter operator lives more frugally than I thought.” A browse around the platform reveals several items of interest.

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TorrentFreak

OCTOBER 3, 2023

People Love Offers Too Good to Be True To demonstrate how easily people will hand over their personal details, BeStreamWise hired Jenny Radcliffe, aka ‘The People Hacker’ Radcliffe lectures on topics including social engineering, frauds and con artistry. Million Devices Have Been Infected With Viruses.

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LexBlog IP

MAY 2, 2023

And the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has been blogging fast and furiously – one could say obsessively – about the hot topic of generative artificial intelligence (AI). Step one for the FTC is to lay the groundwork and emphasize that the same rules apply whether we are talking about AI or mere human decision-making.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

OCTOBER 5, 2021

The court’s ruling raises interesting, but troubling, questions about any government actor’s ability to enable reader comments on social media. Tanner commented “this guy sucks,” but the post “contained no profanity, and it was on topic with the substance of the post.” The Manually Deleted Comment.

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Velocity of Content

SEPTEMBER 21, 2022

As with my earlier post on the overall role of peer review in the scholarly and scientific publishing process, for Peer Review Week 2022 we are reposting this series and including some updated information on the topics we covered: An article in Nature Medicine suggests access to preprints might be good for patient outcomes.

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TorrentFreak

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

The domains they used have long since been replaced, but in the past, redirected to other domains listed in the same application. Site Blocking and CDN Providers Large international rightsholders are broadly in favor of site-blocking measures, but the topic is controversial in Japan. One of Yahoo!

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The IPKat

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

Topics ranged from the trends being seen in online fashion commerce post-pandemic, to counterfeiting issues and how to deal with them, through to the legal changes and updates coming up that will impact both marketplaces and the brands that use them. The panel also discussed the incoming Digital Markets Act (DMA) and its expected impact.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

DECEMBER 11, 2023

Among the additions to the Act’s scope is a set of rules for general-purpose AI (GPAI) systems and models, added to address issues raised by generative AI models such as GPT4 and Midjourney that have become available over the past two years. Overall, the copyright provisions in the AI Act are a step in the right direction.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

In the words of the UKIPO: “ this is an issue that industry can, and should, seek to fix itself, although it does not rule out the possibility of legislative action in this area if industry does not take adequate steps to improve the situation.” For a full list, see here. Copyright law has always been an emotional topic.

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The IPKat

AUGUST 29, 2022

Non-Fungible Tokens (NFTs), ranging from art and literature to fashion and cinema, remain among the hottest legal topics in the world of intangible rights, despite the lack of clear legal regulation. Notably, the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom ruled in the “Lavinia Deborah Osbourne v (1) Persons Unknown (2) Ozone Networks Inc.

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TorrentFreak

DECEMBER 1, 2022

The file-sharing and hosting service is listed among the most-visited websites in the country, while its mobile apps are frequently used as well. This topic has become relevant again this month after Hellspy and Hellshare, two other Czech file-sharing platforms, signed a deal with rightsholders to filter uploads and search results.

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The IPKat

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

The punitive damages request was not upheld by the court of first instance, which ruled that “although the intention to infringe was confirmed, the circumstances were not serious enough to reach punitive damages.” In this Kat’s perception, this ruling is noteworthy for at least four reasons. 1)-(6) of the PD Interpretation.

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TorrentFreak

OCTOBER 25, 2022

Copying isn’t the issue here; it’s the topic of the article that’s important. The ISP informs the court that the labels previously tried to exclude the article from the evidence list, but the request was denied. The email contains a copy of a blog post published by Boing Boing.

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LexBlog IP

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

Stephen Thaler sued the USPTO for rejecting the patent application he submitted that listed DABUS, an AI, as the recognized creator of a beverage container and some new type of flashing lights. The problem, as you might imagine, is that the rules governing who can and cannot be an inventor are limited to humans.

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IP and Legal Filings

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

Over the course of the late 1980s and early 1990s, unethical business activities and dubious corporate policies plagued the global corporate sector, giving rise to the topic of corporate governance.

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Velocity of Content

DECEMBER 15, 2022

This is a summary of a pre-print article my team has written on this topic (with supporting data and references); it is accessible at biorxiv. Nevertheless, sensible (domain specific) rules can be created to estimate that value. The better our data are, the greater the amount of knowledge that can be produced for a given effort.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

MAY 2, 2022

In 2019, the Ninth Circuit upheld the district court’s injunction ruling in favor of hiQ. The Supreme Court vacated that decision and told the Ninth Circuit to reconsider its ruling in light of the Supreme Court’s Van Buren ruling. The court predictably reaches the same conclusion as in its first ruling.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

DECEMBER 11, 2021

The search results provide a list of sixteen records associated with Mr. Abraham. The plaintiffs lost the Section 230 ruling in the Ancestry case, but the court says collateral estoppel doesn’t apply because the plaintiffs are appealing that ruling (?) and the Knapke and Sessa rulings reached different results.

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The IPKat

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

The survey has been running for almost a week and garnered several comments and emails on the topic. As of today, the AmeriKat has not seen such a list. The authentication certificate has to be stored on a physical security device (smart card or USB stick).

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Copyright Lately

SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

That order actually topped my list of the 5 Worst Copyright Decisions of 2020 because, by sending the case to a jury, the court effectively ruled that anyone with a tattoo is not in control of the uses to which his or her likeness is put. There’s a lot at stake. Take-Two wasn’t nearly as fortunate in the Alexander case.

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Velocity of Content

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

Note: Although some might expect to see Sci-Hub or LibGen also listed here as repositories of postprints, from my perspective they ought not be considered among legitimate services because they usually post materials without the permission of or notice to any of the author or the author’s institution or the publisher.

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SpicyIP

AUGUST 2, 2021

Topical Highlight. He notes the list of recommendations in the Report while highlighting the pro-industry nature of the same. India’s Accession to the Locarno Agreement: Amendments to the Design Rules, 2001 & Other Impacts. A Parliamentary Standing Committee Report that Challenges the Fine Balances Within the IP System.

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IP and Legal Filings

FEBRUARY 26, 2023

Asiya Begum [v] comes into the forefront, wherein the petitioner was a worker employed by the Central Government and hence was subject to the Central Civil Services (Leave) Rules, 1972. 4343 of 2019 Facebook Twitter LinkedIn WhatsApp The post Analyzing Maternity Benefits under the Social Security Code first appeared on IPLF.

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IP and Legal Filings

MARCH 6, 2023

Both national and international doping regulations are established, but there is no coordination between them, thus these rules are constantly at odds with one another. Doping in competitive sports is a controversial topic since it undermines fair play and sportsmanship at its core.

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TorrentFreak

MARCH 10, 2023

Softer, More Cooperative Tone There is no such thing as a friendly anti-piracy report, the topic immediately rules that out, but the language and tone in the Industry Trust’s publication is interestingly close. Our initial article focused on just one item in the report but something much more fundamental ran throughout.

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Art Law Journal

JUNE 30, 2022

When people find out that I am an Intellectual Property attorney, I am often battered with questions about the topic. The same is true of titles, slogans, short phrases, names, headlines, facts, or lists. Each trademark application must list the goods or services that the trademark is supposed to protect. That’s understandable.

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LexBlog IP

JULY 28, 2022

On 3 March 2022, the EPO published a notice to remind users of certain rules that may help Ukrainian companies based in areas directly or indirectly affected by military activities. The EPO also recalled Rule 82c( 1) and Article 26bis(3) of the PCT, which allow for the extension of time limits in similar circumstances.

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TorrentFreak

MARCH 7, 2023

The usual format is the inclusion of a photograph or image, a description of the image, a hyperlink to the original source, and sometimes a link to a secondary source with additional information on the current topic. But he said ‘I’m the one who breaks Twitter’s rule’,” he continues.

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SpicyIP

DECEMBER 15, 2023

In Europe, the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) has affirmed multiple times, notably in its significant Infopaq ruling ( C-5/08 Infopaq International A/S v Danske Dagbaldes Forening ), that copyright is applicable exclusively to original creations. Conclusion It must also be noted that the recent decision in LI v.

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IP Tech Blog

JULY 28, 2022

On 3 March 2022, the EPO published a notice to remind users of certain rules that may help Ukrainian companies based in areas directly or indirectly affected by military activities. The EPO also recalled Rule 82c( 1) and Article 26bis(3) of the PCT, which allow for the extension of time limits in similar circumstances.

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IP and Legal Filings

JANUARY 19, 2023

The recent case of Revlon is related to bankruptcy but focusing on the other side, the case has brought the attention to the topic that could be of useful to intellectual property rights that is the relation of IPR and the bankruptcy. Along with tangible assets, intangible assets has also become an important part for the company.

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LexBlog IP

DECEMBER 15, 2022

It is standard practice at the FTC to review every rule or guide at least every ten years, and the Green Guides were last amended in 2012. For those who are not that familiar with the FTC’s organizational structure, that was a bit of an unexpected choice to present on this topic.

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The IPKat

FEBRUARY 21, 2022

As many of our readers know one of the most recurrent tax-related topics that come into discussion in the IP field is the so-called Patent Box (sometimes also - more properly - defined as the Innovation Box since it is not all about patents ).

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