Bags & Carpets

Bags

The Poughkeepsie Journal reports that a fellowship inward the surface area has gained a U.S. of A. of America merchandise grade registration for the variety of its bag. The Healthy Back Bag already has blueprint protection, simply AmeriBag, which has sold the purse since 1995, wanted extra protection.

Lynne Beresford, commissioner of trademarks at the U.S. of A. of America Patent together with Trademark Office, noted that the grant of such protection was rare because consumers don’t usually associate a product’s variety alongside a message close its origin.

is never happy close the prospect of instruction consumers to stance production shapes every bit merchandise marks. If they don’t come across the production variety every bit a grade ab initio, together with then yous involve a real at nowadays message to railroad train them to create so. The mere fact that the variety has been advertised shouldn’t endure enough, without the extra message ‘look for variety X, which indicates the products of Y’.


Carpets

is puzzled past times an article inward Furniture Today. Domestic stuff suppliers are unhappy alongside the proposed Orphan Works Bill inward the US. An manufacture representative said:

“if yous come upwards across a slice of fine art – a textile pattern or anything else, together with there’s no identification on it, if yous create a reasonable search together with can’t honour the author, yous are costless to travel it alongside impunity…So the infringer tin tell he did a reasonable search, together with nether this proposed police clitoris the copyright possessor is alone entitled to reasonable compensation — assuming yous e'er knew close the infringement — which would non comprehend attorneys fees inward most suits.”


What the IPKat can’t sympathize is, who’s losing out here? If the writer can’t endure traced together with then at that spot are ii options: let the afterwards travel together with and then let the writer to claim reasonable compensation if he all of a abrupt pops upwards (what the Act does) or forestall the use, inward which instance the writer volition larn no remuneration whatsoever, since the would-be user won’t endure able to honour him to negotiate alongside him.