The Brand Protection Blog

On 8 July 2024, the Hong Kong government launched a two-month public consultation on potential revisions to the Copyright Ordinance (Cap. 528) in view of the rapid developments in artificial inte...

https://www.thebrandprotectionblog.com/2024/08/the-unavoidable-trajectory-hong-kong-considers-interplay-between-copyright-and-artificial-intelligence/

Over the past few years, the PRC courts have witnessed a significant increase in AI-related disputes (see our previous newsletters here and here). The Beijing Internet Court’s recent decision o...

https://www.thebrandprotectionblog.com/2024/08/prc-hands-down-first-ruling-on-ai-voice-infringement/

By Georgina Hey & Jerome Messiha Content developers and creatives are generators of ideas and concepts. The point at which any concept transforms into a copyright protected work is often a vexed ...

https://www.thebrandprotectionblog.com/2024/07/concepts-creative-ideas-and-copyright-protection-buster-the-brave-little-wooden-boat-illustrating-the-limits-of-causal-connection-and-copyright-protection/

** Drew Engel, a Summer Associate in NRF’s Minneapolis office, assisted with this article. Drew is supervised by attorneys who are licensed in the state of Texas.** The Tenth Circuit’s recent...

https://www.thebrandprotectionblog.com/2024/07/10th-circuit-moves-forward-with-supreme-court-directive-domestic-anchor-required-for-lanham-act-application/

** Logan Woodward, a Summer Associate in NRF’s Minneapolis Office, assisted with this article. Logan is supervised by attorneys who are licensed in the State of Texas. ** In June 2024, the Supr...

https://www.thebrandprotectionblog.com/2024/06/supreme-court-rules-section-2c-of-lanham-act-constitutional-and-trump-too-small-not-registrable/

** This article was drafted by Logan Woodward, a Summer Associate in NRF’s Minneapolis Office.  Logan is supervised by attorneys who are licensed in the State of Texas. The MetaBirkin dispute ...

https://www.thebrandprotectionblog.com/2024/06/trademarks-and-nfts-the-battle-over-metabirkin-nfts-continues/

The Copyright Act provides that a copyright owner must bring an infringement claim within three years of its accrual. See 17 U. S. C. §507(b). In Warner Chappell Music, Inc., et al., Petitioners...

https://www.thebrandprotectionblog.com/2024/05/united-states-supreme-court-sidesteps-discovery-rule-question-and-allows-copyright-owners-to-recover-damages-without-time-limit/

In our previous newsletter here, we reported a decision from the Beijing Internet Court ruling that the copyright of a portrait generated by an artificial intelligence (“AI”) program is owned...

https://www.thebrandprotectionblog.com/2024/05/who-is-liable-when-an-artificial-intelligence-system-infringes-copyright-a-missed-opportunity-by-the-prc-court/

In April, the Ninth Circuit issued a precedential decision, BBK Tobacco & Foods LLP , in that could change the course of a trademark applicant’s ability to register a mark. BBK Tobacco & Foods ...

https://www.thebrandprotectionblog.com/2024/04/ninth-circuits-decision-rawks-trademark-world-bbk-tobacco-foods-llp-v-central-agriculture-inc/

On January 17, 2024, the Supreme People’s Court of China (“SPC”) published its decision upholding a ruling in favor of Sennics Chemical Technology Co., Ltd. (“Sennics”), granting them a...

https://www.thebrandprotectionblog.com/2024/04/trade-secrets-triumph-mega-rmb201-54m-verdict/