VISA’s one year NFT program
On Wednesday, March 30, Visa began accepting applications for a one-year immersive program aiming to help gig workers, entrepreneurs, and artists learn how to, hopefully, turn profits off of non-fungible tokens, or NFTs.
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Ed Sheeran wins ‘Shape of You’ lawsuit: ‘’Oh why, oh why, oh why’’ did Sami Switch file that copyright infringement claim?
Table of Contents This article was originally published by theipincentive. To view the original article, follow the link below: https://theipincentive.wordpress.com/2022/04/10/ed-sheeran-wins-shape-of-you-lawsuit-oh-why-oh-why-oh-why-did-sami-switch-file-that-copyright-infringement-claim-%ef%bf%bc/ Credits: Getty Images Mondadori Portfolio / Contributor Nutshell: Artist Sami Chokri (publicly known as Sami Switch) and music producer Ross O’Donoghue
The General Court finds meaning in MILEY CYRUS
Table of Contents This article was originally published by The Trademark Lawyer magazine To view the original article, follow the link below: https://trademarklawyermagazine.com/the-general-court-find-meaning-in-miley-cyrus/ By Tom Sharman, Partner and Rob McLaughlin, Assistant at Reddie & Grose LLP, a firm of patent and trademark
Should I Sign This NDA
Imagine you’re discussing a business relationship with a third party. It could be related to anything: a prospective joint development, a reseller relationship, an acquisition, a new supplier, a new consultant, a licensing arrangement, or anything else. And further suppose that while you’re discussing this business relationship, someone mentions the need for a non-disclosure agreement, or an NDA. What should you do? Should you sign one?
Oatly’s loss is victory for small producers
Oatly had claimed that the farm’s product, PureOaty, was too similar to its own, in both name and packaging design.
In its defence, Glebe Farm Foods argued that the brand name of its oat milk product and its packaging design featured generic terms and imagery, and there was no intention to mislead Oatly’s customers into believing the two rival brands were associated.
AIPPI releases position paper on TRIPS agreement COVID-19 waiver
The Standing Committees on TRIPS and Pharma at the International Association for the Protection of Intellectual Property, (Association Internationale pour la Protection de la Propriété Intellectuelle – AIPPI), recently released an AIPPI Bureau approved position paper on the waiver for certain provisions of the TRIPS agreement for the prevention, containment and treatment of COVID-19 proposed by some countries within the WTO.
I Love Copyrights, and You Should, Too
Copyrights are unquestionably the least appreciated form of intellectual property. If we were in high school, patents would be the popular kids, trademarks would be the athletes, trade secrets would be the computer experts and gamers, but what about copyrights? Invisible, ignored, disrespected. But they shouldn’t be. They have value. They have purpose. And with the emergence and growth of the Internet, copyrights are beginning to climb the popularity ladder.
Protecting Your Software with Intellectual Property: Tips and Tricks that Your Competitors Don’t Want You to Know
During the past ten years or so, wherever I’ve gone in business, I hear the same complaint: there’s no good way to protect software with intellectual property. And, unfortunately, this mentality has kept some brilliant software-related inventions with fantastic potential from ever reaching intellectual property departments for consideration. So, let’s discuss the importance of software inventions and the different forms of protection available to them. We can also refer to these software inventions as computer-implemented inventions.
The Hottest Types of Intellectual Property: Revealed
Intellectual property is a bundle of exclusive rights over creations of the mind, both artistic and commercial. When people think of intellectual property, they typically consider the four most important forms of IP which are patents, trademarks, trade secrets, and copyrights, And today, IP touches every part of a business. Intellectual property can touch every employee, from the least technical to the most: professionals in engineering, manufacturing, sales, marketing, procurement, customer service, finance, management, and everyone in between. IP can present serious risks – and massive opportunities – for all of us.