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[Guest post] Dutch IP battle about the hyped “Crompouce®”- a croissant-tompouce hybrid

The IPKat

The standard principle that abbreviations of descriptive terms become inherently descriptive when used as such, and the relevant public, acknowledges them as being identical to the full descriptive meaning, does not apply here either, at least not in our opinion. Apparently, the hype emerged not on instigation of the trademark proprietor.

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Never too late: in case you missed the IPKat last week

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Kat Friends Hanne Kirk and Charlotte Mittet Høfler analysed a recent Danish Supreme Court decision regarding the infringement of copyright in pottery, which held that the nature and the severity of the infringement provided a basis for lowering the requirement for proof of the amount of the loss.

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The Challenge of Determining Podcast Plagiarism

Plagiarism Today

But I brought up a thing I read during a convo about a topic that didn't feature his work in any way. Katz took to Twitter to call out the Chilluminati Podcast for allegedly plagiarizing from his book, Gangsters of Capitalism. pic.twitter.com/ZQzV38EQzY — Jonathan M. pic.twitter.com/ZQzV38EQzY — Jonathan M.

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Who Spilled the (green) Beans? 11th Circuit Unseals Private Emails in Organ Transplant Dispute

LexBlog IP

During discovery, the hospitals argued that certain of UNOS’s emails exposed “bad faith and improper behavior” in its policymaking process and should be unsealed and considered as proof that the policy change was arbitrary, capricious, and the result of a denial of due process.

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Reliance on a silent technical effect: Application of G 2/21 to semiconductors (T 2465/19)

The IPKat

evidence that was not public before the filing date of the patent in suit and was filed after that date) as proof that the problem has been solved (i.e. evidence that was not public before the filing date of the patent in suit and was filed after that date) as proof that the problem has been solved (i.e.

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Does the sign “eat clan people” carry an association with cannibalism and thus produce an “adverse effect”?

The IPKat

not to be a standard, recognised phrase, so its meaning will not be universally understood per the language and cultural habits of the general public: According to the interpretation of the Xinhua Dictionary, the common meaning of ‘?’ On 29 November 2017, an individual named Seng Lei (‘Seng’) filed an application (No. is ‘eating’.

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Court Doesn’t Expect YouTube to Moderate Content Perfectly–Newman v. Google

Technology & Marketing Law Blog

This is one of several ideologically motivated lawsuits against YouTube for allegedly engaging in “discriminatory” content moderation. The initial cohort of plaintiffs were conservatives (Prager); but then as a purported “gotcha,” the law firm added LGBTQ (Divino) and people of color (Newman) plaintiff cohorts.