{"id":159,"date":"2017-02-04T22:37:45","date_gmt":"2017-02-05T03:37:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ipmanagement.harnessip.com\/?p=159"},"modified":"2017-02-05T07:30:45","modified_gmt":"2017-02-05T12:30:45","slug":"159","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ipmanagement.harnessip.com\/?p=159","title":{"rendered":"Getting a Copyright Registration in Advance Not Only Speeds Enforcement, but it Improves Your Remedies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">On January 23, 2017. Forever 21, Inc. sued\u00a0C Luce, Inc., and Cornerstone Apparel, Inc. for copyright <a href=\"https:\/\/ipmanagement.harnessip.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/pants.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-160\" src=\"https:\/\/ipmanagement.harnessip.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/pants.jpg\" alt=\"pants\" width=\"201\" height=\"250\" \/><\/a>infringement, selling copies of Forever 21&#8217;s Ikat Harem Patent. \u00a0Nothing remarkable in the story so far, but was is remarkable that Forever 21 had the foresight to register the copyright in their Ikat pattern back in 2013. \u00a0Having a registration is usually a prerequisite to bringing an infringement action. \u00a0Furthermore, if the registration is obtained within five years of first publication, the certificate of a registration is <em>prima facie<\/em> evidence of the validity of the copyright and of the facts stated in the certificate.\u00a017 U.S.C.\u00a0\u00a7410(c). \u00a0Finally if the registrations is obtained before the infringement begins, a \u00a0prevailing copyright owner has access to an award of statutory damages and attorneys fees. \u00a017 U.S.C. \u00a7412.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">See Forever 21, Inc. v. C Luce, Civil Action No. 2:17-cv-0553 (C.D.Cal. 2017).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On January 23, 2017. Forever 21, Inc. sued\u00a0C Luce, Inc., and Cornerstone Apparel, Inc. for copyright infringement, selling copies of Forever 21&#8217;s Ikat Harem Patent. \u00a0Nothing remarkable in the story so far, but was is remarkable that Forever 21 had &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ipmanagement.harnessip.com\/?p=159\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-159","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-copyright"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipmanagement.harnessip.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipmanagement.harnessip.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipmanagement.harnessip.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipmanagement.harnessip.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipmanagement.harnessip.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=159"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/ipmanagement.harnessip.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":163,"href":"https:\/\/ipmanagement.harnessip.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159\/revisions\/163"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipmanagement.harnessip.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=159"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipmanagement.harnessip.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=159"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipmanagement.harnessip.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=159"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}