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Does a WIPO patent supersede a US patent?
If a United States utility patent has expired but a virtually identical World Intellectual Property Organization patent is still in effect, would the WIPO patent prevent any US manufacturers from ...
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Publish a vocabulary list from a Korean Comic
I'm learning Korean through comics. So everytime I read a chapter, I always make an extensive vocabulary list containing an English translation for each Korean word in that chapter.
My question is: ...
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When a historical name is trademarked, will the trademark be considered 'weaker' than an invented name?
Like the names of important people of medieval Europe, names of planets of the Solar System and its moons or geographical features etc.
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Are Google, Bing, DuckDuckGo and other search engines allowed to copy website text because of the copyright fair use exception? [duplicate]
These sites certainly send bots out that copy the entirety of websites by stepping through links and then store the entirety of websites in databases.
Then they show any part of a quote from a website ...
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Creative commons license on sheet music of classical pieces and performing in public
Suppose that there is a piece of classical music (let's say written by Bach in 1726) and there is a recent arrangement (sheet music) of that piece which was made available through Creative Commons ...
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How to determine which national copyright legislation applies if I put someone else's work online? [duplicate]
Suppose there is a work by author A, whose copyright expires tomorrow (i.e. it goes into public domain) in their country of birth C1. I upload it (tomorrow) online on a blogging site by a company E ...
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I just got a facebook trademark infringement notice by email from Meta [closed]
I am the owner of https://*******onfacebook.com . Its a free tool to find mutual friends between two or more people.
I made a facebook account to promote this website on many FB groups about mutual ...
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Are commercially published British fashion plates from early 1800s in Britain in public domain in USA?
I'm designing a deck of card that will incorporate many British fashion plates from roughly 1790 to 1825. The magazines in which they were published have gone out of business long ago.
I am working ...
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Is it legal to produce GI tagged products without using the tag outside the tagged region
A Geographic Indication (GI) tag gives exclusive rights to use a particular name/tag to certain people/region regarding a product.
Does this mean it is still legal for other people/regions to produce ...
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Credit card charged but domain not booked by a domain registrar where should I go against an International Merchant [closed]
Sav.com had latency in the month of October. Therefore, Domains were not posted in my account, but the amount debited from the credit card. The same is accepted in written correspondence by sav.com ...
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What are the best legal methods to protect one's jewelry designs? [closed]
As handcrafted jewelry producers, our cooperative has created literally thousands
of original jewelry designs over the past 30 + years. What would be the most effective
and practical ways to protect ...
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Does secret or semi-secret prior art invalidate granted patents when presented?
An example would be inventions from the former Soviet Union that were officially secret, then some became semi-secret as they leaked into the public realm but so obscure that only very narrow circles ...
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Adaptations of partially expired copyright in some countries
Let's say that there are 2 (hypothetical) countries with different copyright durations:
Country A has a copyright duration of Life + 70 years.
Country B has a copyright duration of Life + 50 years.
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Can I use the name Friedrich Nietzsche as commercial application title?
Can I use the name Friedrich Nietzsche as commercial application title that will be available globally?
I know that his books are in the public domain and I can use fragments in my app but I don't ...
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What countries' copyright laws would I need to abide by if I wrote a heavily modified rearrangement of an existing song for third-party usage?
Let's say that I, citizen of Alicetopia in the EU, were creating a derivative work of a copyrighted composition. This would be a heavily modified instrumental rearrangement of an existing song, to the ...
