Below are the summaries of two cases from the UK and two from America, which demonstrate both the importance of correct trademark searches and doing your homework before making a trademark application.

Though there wasn’t a court case and an actual verdict, this case created a lot of discourse around the value of work in these copyright battles.

Thankfully, … Parties in a number of interesting copyright cases have or are expected to file cert petitions in early 2019. It is a legal right possessed by the owner under Intellectual Property. 7 times artists sued others for copying their music. Paris Hilton successfully sues Hallmark for infringing on her “That’s hot” trademark. Decisions for both cases should come out before the end of the Court’s term in June, and likely sooner than that. It is a legal right possessed by the owner under Intellectual Property. In his lawsuit, Mr. T claimed that Leafly, the largest cannabis website in the world for people in legal cannabis markets, infringed on his trademark rights by abbreviating one of their product names, called Mr. Tusk, to “Mrt.”Mr. The New England Patriots attempt to trademark “19-0,” fail, lose the 19 th game anyway. In the first of these two decisions, the Supreme Court unanimously held in Fourth Estate Public Benefit Corporation v. : Ramos v. Louisiana, No. Nicki Minaj and Tracy Chapman are seeking to work out a deal in their case, which began last year after Tracy sued Nicki for copyright infringement. Google is asking for the Supreme Court to hear the There’s more to this case than just “don’t steal photos for porn!”. Nicole “Snooki” Polizzi attempts to trademark her nickname. In its current term, the U.S. Supreme Court took on three copyright and trademark cases. These filings and docket sheets should not be considered findings of fact or liability, nor do they necessarily reflect the view of Justia. The 'copyright case of the decade' is a $9 billion copyright infringement suit Oracle filed against the search giant, Google, nearly 10 years ago. Disclaimer: Justia Dockets & Filings provides public litigation records from the federal appellate and district courts. 18-801 [Arg: 10.7.2019 Trans. 18-5924 [Arg: 10.7.2019 Trans. 10 January 2018, 17:03 | Updated: 24 June 2018, 18:11 . The word copyright means “right to work” where the creator or the authorised person has the right to produce the work. / Aud. The CASE Act, a major piece of legislation that would introduce a small claims court for copyright infringement cases, has officially been passed by … It was one of the first major copyright cases to show how easy it is to steal photos online, especially over international boundaries (Lara, a U.K. citizen, had to take her case to a U.S. court). Oral arguments are scheduled for January 14. Over the past seven months, the U.S. Supreme Court and the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit (the U.S. appellate court tasked with reviewing all district court patent decisions) have issued several significant rulings that may affect the rights of patent owners.

This case serves more as an example of statutory interpretation and enforcement of consistency across circuits with limited impact on litigants and proceedings going forward.

/ Aud. In its current term, the U.S. Supreme Court took on three copyright and trademark cases. DIRECTIVE (EU) 2019/790 OF THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT AND OF THE COUNCIL. of 17 April 2019. on copyright and related rights in the Digital Single Market and amending Directives 96/9/EC and 2001/29/EC (Text with EEA relevance) THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT AND THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN UNION, It’s unlikely that Garcia’s work could have ever reached the level of fame it did, if not for Fairey’s poster.