IP Law Daily, BLOG TRACKER—Noteworthy blog posts and other commentary, (Jan 9, 2025)

By WK Editorial Staff

The week’s most insightful, intriguing, or entertaining blog posts regarding intellectual property issues.

• IP Watchdog, INTA Urges EUIPO Grand Board to Confirm Human Face Marks are Not Excluded from Trademark Registration, by Eileen McDermott

• JD Supra, Protecting Innovation in an AI-Powered Age: Patents, by Scott Flanz, Ryan McCarthy, and Jeanel Sunga

• Mondaq, Efficiency v Flexibility – The Patent Prosecution Highway (PPH) Program's Pros and Cons, by Magdalena O. Cilella, Ph.D.

• Hugh Stevens Blog, Looking Back at 2024: It’s All About AI and Copyright (And a Few Other Things), by Hugh Stevens

• Patently-O, Ripe for Review: Digital Access to a Banana taped to the Wall, by Dennis Crouch (University of Missouri School of Law).

• Hollywood Reporter, Music Publishers Reach Deal With AI Giant Anthropic Over Copyrighted Song Lyrics, by Winston Cho

• IP Update, Transparency Is the Best Medicine: Device Parts Don’t Justify Orange Book Listing, by Amit Kumar Saha, PhD

• The IPKat, USPTO awkwardly forgets to follow the rules on trademarks for grass varieties... but naming conflict still resolves amicably, by Jocelyn Bosse

• TTABlog, Precedential No. 1: TTAB Upholds USPTO Objections to Over-Inclusive Drawings for Watch Configuration Marks, by John Welch

Attorneys: Scott Flanz, Ryan McCarthy, and Jeanel Sunga (Fish & Richardson). Magdalena O. Cilella, Ph.D. (Crowell & Moring LLP). Amit Kumar Saha, PhD (McDermott Will & Emery). John Welch (Wolf Greenfield & Sacks, P.C.).

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