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World’s Best IP Blogs – IP Tango

Hello there dear readers. Hope you are all having a very Merry Christmas. In our recent post on the World’s Best IP Blogs we featured an IP blog from China called “China IPR.” In today’s post we bring to you an Intellectual Property blog from Latin America. Tango happens to be a dance form that originated in Argentina and Uruguay, in this context Tango refers to the second part of the name of the blog that we are bringing to…

December 26, 2015 BananaIP Reporter Intellectual Property 0Comment 2800Views 0Like

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Grumpy Cat gets into an IP Spat

“Don't make me Grumpier than I feel already, or I WILL see you in Court.” - Grumpy Cat Note: Dear Readers, you will probably best enjoy this post after viewing this video of Grumpy Cat: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hoSep_Otcvg Yes, Grumpy Cat a.k.a Tardar Sauce has achieved more than most humans, she is the first cat to have been immortalized by Madame Tussauds wax museum as of 8th December 2015. She has authored three books, been on the American Idol and featured on the covers…

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World’s Best IP Blogs: PHOSITA

In patent law, PHOSITA is a mythical person of ordinary skill in the art. This fictional person is considered to have the normal skills and knowledge in a particular technical field, without being a genius. In our World’s Best IP Blogs series, PHOSITA happens to be an Intellectual Property blog of the Oklahoma and Washington based law firm of Dunlap Codding. The blog is not specific to patents alone as would be expected from a blog named “Phosita”; it is in…

December 18, 2015 BananaIP Reporter Intellectual Property 0Comment 1236Views 0Like

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World’s Best IP Blogs – IP Finance

Intellectual Property (IP) plays a very important role in providing competitive and business advantage to a company. In order to maximize competitive advantage, a company must make the best and most of its intellectual assets. The owner of any Intellectual Property can procure financial rewards for its use. This is because like tangible property, if ownership of an IP can be clearly established, the IP could be sold, leased, licensed, assigned or mortgaged. IP and Money have always been related…

December 16, 2015 BananaIP Reporter Intellectual Property 0Comment 1191Views 0Like

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World’s Best IP Blogs: Patent Baristas

For most people, an ideal day begins with a cup of coffee and a newspaper. The blog that we bring to you today is rather unique in its concept and content. It gives you the exact feel of sipping coffee while updating yourself with the latest IP news. Often featured as one of the top pharma blogs, Patent Baristas serves its readers with some “patent chat over a steaming cup of Coffee.” Patent Baristas is an intellectual property news and…

December 9, 2015 BananaIP Reporter Intellectual Property, Patents 0Comment 1109Views 0Like

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World’s Best IP Blogs – Afro-IP

Afro-IP is an IP blog that covers the African intellectual property law, practices and policies. It provides the reader with news, information and comments on IP law, practice and business deals pertaining to the continent of Africa. Born in the last week of December 2007, Afro-IP arose from the concern of team leader Darren Olivier that there was no decent source from which to obtain reliable news concerning IP developments in Africa and nowhere to put it once you’d gotten…

December 8, 2015 BananaIP Reporter Industrial Designs, Intellectual Property 0Comment 777Views 1Like

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Disney Sues Venezuelan Company

Disney has always been extremely protective of its intellectual property. The company has been aggressively pursuing infringers who have tried to use its IP assets without authorization. The number of suit against these infringers has increased in the recent times, with the expansion of its IP portfolio due to its acquisition of Marvel Entertainment. There have been several instances of infringement concerning Disney films, such as 'Frozen', 'Star Wars' and the Marvel movies, which it pursued aggressively. Last week, Disney…

December 5, 2015 BananaIP Reporter Copyrights 0Comment 849Views 0Like

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‘Bound by Law: Tales from the Public Domain’

(Trapped in a struggle she didn’t understand; By day a filmmaker....by night she fought for fair use!) Could you ever imagine there being a graphic novel on Fair Use? Surprise, surprise! Some law scholars actually thought it to be a feasible idea and created this unusual piece of work. James Boyle, Jennifer Jenkins and Keith Aoki, from the Duke Centre for the Study of the Public Domain, being passionate copyright enthusiasts as well as keen artists published a graphic novel…

December 1, 2015 BananaIP Reporter Copyrights, Intellectual Property 0Comment 1148Views 0Like

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Essential Clauses of a Digital License Agreement

With the development and widespread use of internet and digital networks, we are now witnessing a revolution as to how copyrighted contents are acquired, displayed and disseminated. In the pre-internet days, there were limited options for distribution and exhibition of copyrighted contents. For example, the distribution of cinematographic films was limited to cinema halls and video cassettes. The internet revolution has opened several doors for content owners by creating new modes and formats of exploitation. Licensing out, creative contents like…

November 16, 2015 BananaIP Reporter Intellectual Property, Media and Entertainment Law 0Comment 1702Views 0Like

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Movie making – A tale of woes.

“We don’t make movies to make money; we make money to make more movies.” - Walt Disney Movie Producers or Movie Production houses are often referred to as money making machines, but where there are riches; there are also a multitude of woes. In this post, we speak about some of the legal challenges that movie producers often face. Keeping in mind that it is always easier to list the problems than to find the solutions to them, we have jotted…