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Apple Watch Patent Wars Create a Defensive Roadmap for ITC Respondents

IP Watchdog

Late last year, , the United States International Trade Commission (ITC) announced that it would issue a limited exclusion order (LEO) and cease and desist order (CDO) against Apple, Inc. prohibiting Apple from importing and selling its Apple Watch (Series 6 and 7) products in the United States.

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To Make the U.S. Patent System More Efficient, Let’s Obviate Obviousness

IP Watchdog

inventors) to send cease and desist letters, file complaints in federal district court, and at times endure patent litigation to its completion. Recovering money from users of technology requires movement on the part of inventors of technology. All of these movements require the inventor to possess a patent.

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Chipotle and Sweetgreen Play Chicken Over Trademark

IP Watchdog

Prior to filing the complaint, Chipotle sent Sweetgreen a cease-and-desist letter asking the salad chain to drop the word “chipotle” from the name, which is the usual practice in trademark related lawsuits.

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OTT Platforms and Digital Piracy

Biswajit Sarkar Copyright Blog

If viewers are able to access these contents for free then the amount of revenue generated from licensing of intellectual property will be far below estimations. At the global level, the World Intellectual Property Organization Internet Treaties aims to restrict unauthorized access to OTT content over the Internet.

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Germany: Liability of hosting providers under copyright law if they have breached a duty of care – The German BGH ends mere ‘Stoererhaftung’

Kluwer Copyright Blog

Under German law, there are no special rules governing liability in cases of intellectual property rights infringements. Stoererhaftung’ merely provides for a cease and desist and removal obligation where a reasonable duty was breached. The resulting conclusion in the BGH case law (e.g., Swan € 112

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SpicyIP Weekly Review (February 6- February 12)

SpicyIP

Regardless, it sent a cease and desist to the defendants in 2022 who have a shop in Jaipur with a similar name and have registered the word mark in 2013. Ltd for disobeying the Palbociclib interim injunction. In this case, the Plaintiff, who is the proprietor of the mark “Footlockers” since 1988, has not used it for 30 years.

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