Fish & Richardson Trademark & Copyright Thoughts

MAY 21, 2021

A principal in Fish’s Delaware office, Fiorella’s practice focuses on complex patent litigation and combines novel, strategic thinking with a deep understanding of science, technology, and the law to serve a wide range of national clients. The argument resulted in a favorable ruling for her client two days later. Jordan of the U.S.

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LexBlog IP

APRIL 27, 2023

Although a patent can be challenged in federal district court, an IPR is an expedited and less costly procedure than federal court litigation. Thus, an IPR is a useful method for a defendant in a patent litigation lawsuit to invalidate the patent in issue. An IPR is like a mini-trial, as the Board must make a decision within one year.

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TorrentFreak

MAY 29, 2023

In response, he sued the RIAA , asking the federal court in Connecticut to declare his service non-infringing. The RIAA filed a lengthy response concluding that Yout is an “illicit stream-ripping service” that effectively allows people to “bypass YouTube’s technological restrictions” that prevent downloading of works streamed through YouTube.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

JUNE 16, 2023

LeadClick decision , which said: “Courts typically have held that internet service providers, website exchange systems , online message boards, and search engines fall within this definition.” This means that “website exchange systems” qualify for Section 230 protection in at least four federal appellate circuits.

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IP and Legal Filings

MARCH 24, 2023

Introduction The Plaintiff is engaged in the construction business and is the proprietor of trademark BURJNOIDA in class 37 (for building and construction services) as of February 2, 2011, which it claims to have been using since December 24, 2010.

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IP and Legal Filings

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

Introduction A mark represents the institution or company to which it belongs and serves as a means of differentiating goods or services among individuals. Marks can be of various types i.e., word marks, service marks, logos, symbols, series marks, etc [1]. In Freudenberg Gala Household Ltd v.

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LexBlog IP

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

However, the use of AI in litigation also bears risk, as highlighted by a recent First-tier Tribunal (Tax) decision, where an appellant had sought to rely on precedent authorities that, in fact, were fabricated by AI (a known risk with AI using large language models, referred to as hallucination). [1] 2] Ibid , at para. 23 and 24. [4]

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Fish & Richardson Trademark & Copyright Thoughts

SEPTEMBER 27, 2021

Glitzenstein is the leader of Fish’s Litigation Practice Group, which includes more than 250 trial lawyers in 14 U.S. He is nationally recognized for his work reengineering Fish’s litigation business structure to provide better value, efficiency, and client service.

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Patently-O

JANUARY 19, 2022

The vast majority of Netflix content is delivered directly from local residential Internet Service Providers (ISPs). The appellate panel particularly focused on the district court’s apparent bias against transferring venue. The district court also refused to transfer for inconvenient forum. Although N.D.

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SpicyIP

JULY 23, 2023

Karnataka High Court partially allows an appeal against the Commercial Court’s order imposing civil imprisonment on the appellants for willfully disobeying its trademark injunction order T. The appellants specifically argued that appellants 2 and 3 should not be prosecuted since they were not a party to the suit.

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SpicyIP

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

The court further directed the authorities to look whether these DNRs ought to be permitted to continue to offer their goods and services in India, if they are not giving effect to orders the courts and not complying with the provisions of IT Act 2000, and the 2021 Rules. The above DNRs are NameCheap Inc., and Sarek Oy.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

SEPTEMBER 27, 2021

How does an appellate panel reach a third opinion in the same case? 60+ account termination/content removal cases have confirmed the services’ discretion to moderate content they find objectionable. For good reasons–those explanations are also litigation-bait ). See, e.g., Newman v. Google , Wilson v.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

APRIL 16, 2022

After reasoning that California law applied, Judge Baker focused on two decisions from California appellate courts. Long was an e-commerce case where the website simply failed to present the terms of service and ask a purchasing customer to agree to them. Provide Commerce and a more recent decision: Sellers v. JustAnswer LLC.

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Intepat

DECEMBER 6, 2022

The Appellant had initially filed a suit restraining the Respondent from using the trademark “Sai Renaissance” along with any other trademark similar or identical to the Appellant’s trademark. The Supreme Court, thus, delved deep into the legislative intent behind Sections 29, 30, and 31 of the Act.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

DECEMBER 7, 2022

The resulting state court lawsuit has reinforced the Prager Effect, producing another published opinion thoroughly rejecting every argument advanced by Prager and expanding services’ legal protections for their moderation decisions. the same “Good Samaritan” screening that Congress has elected to protect from liability under state law.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

AUGUST 21, 2023

Thus, I always felt the litigation ploy acted as an adverse admission by the plaintiffs. The court says this language could be an enforceable promise: the statement reads like a guarantee that users can expect identity-neutral treatment from YouTube when they use its service.

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TorrentFreak

DECEMBER 12, 2022

Yout explains that its service is based on a modified version of the open source youtube-dl software. The legal status of this software hasn’t been fully litigated and warrants a proper review by an appeal court. Legality of Youtube-dl Based Software?

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

JULY 26, 2021

However, sometimes the likely damages award from a successful federal copyright lawsuit will be less than the attorneys’ fees and other costs to litigate it. To get around this, the CCB proceedings are nominally “voluntary” to the litigants. After filing the CCB proceeding but before service. Along with service.

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SpicyIP

JUNE 27, 2022

That all intermediaries shall ensure accessibility to its services and maintain reasonable expectations of due diligence, privacy and transparency. That a Grievance Appellate Committee shall be set-up to hear appeals against decisions of the Grievance Redressal Officer under Rule 3(2). What exactly are the problems or challenges?

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

DECEMBER 23, 2022

Here are the screenshots at issue: The court says: In the first three screens, the hyperlinks to Fitbit’s Terms of Service are presented in blue text in a sentence that otherwise uses gray text; they are next to the box a user must select to accept the terms; and the screens on which they appear are uncluttered. Two clicks FTW.

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The IPKat

AUGUST 16, 2021

Merpel does not like this form of taxi Friend of the Kat and Legal Head of Delivery for Gett in Moscow, Konstantin Voropaev has been following some developments out of Kazakhstan relating to an uptick in litigation in the taxi-app space. The court found that Yandex.Taxi’s services had all the features of G-Taxi’s utility model.

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Fish & Richardson Trademark & Copyright Thoughts

DECEMBER 2, 2020

Juanita Brooks, an intellectual property litigator and principal in Fish & Richardson’s Southern California office, will receive a 2020 Lifetime Achievement Award from The American Lawyer for leaving an “indelible mark…on the legal profession.” Brooks will be honored on January 14, 2021, at the A merican Lawyer ’s Industry Awards event.

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Patently-O

JANUARY 31, 2024

” Although customers are not yet actively using the service, the network itself is actually complete and the final step is including the chipsets within the planes. Ryan Corbett (Burr & Forman) argued the case for appellant-patentee SmartSky with Nathan Love (Sidley) for Gogo. Judge, Jennifer L.

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IP and Legal Filings

JANUARY 8, 2023

Contingent liabilities, or funds saved in case of a potential litigation, may result from infringement instances. Rameshwari photocopy services & ors. It is obvious that inefficient copyright rules pose serious problems for streaming services. Image Sources : Shutterstock]. In the case of Tips Industries Ltd. Wynk Music Ltd.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

JULY 18, 2023

While this is only the second appellate circuit to adopt this approach, the Second Circuit, having jurisdiction over New York State, hears a disproportionally high number of cases concerning copyright and contracts. On June 26, just before the end of its term, the Supreme Court denied Genius’s cert petition, putting this litigation to rest.

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IP and Legal Filings

MAY 23, 2023

Judicial precedents in India Although innumerable domain name disputes have been litigated all over the world since early 1990s, the first case came up before an Indian court only in 1999, with the number of such cases growing ever since. Inc under its well-known mark. Satyam Infoway Ltd. vs. Sifynet Solutions Pvt.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

MARCH 18, 2022

It will also inspire plaintiffs to bring more negligent design claims against Internet services–a looming tsunami of litigation. The Maynards sued Snapchat, alleging “Snapchat knew that its users could ‘use its service in a manner that might distract them from obeying traffic or safety laws.’

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Fish & Richardson Trademark & Copyright Thoughts

DECEMBER 4, 2020

This post explores three leading California appellate court opinions interpreting the requirements of § 2019.210. The leading appellate decision interpreting the requirement statute is Advanced Modular Sputtering v. The appellate court overturned the trial court’s rejection of the final designation. Advanced Modular Sputtering.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

FEBRUARY 13, 2022

The operator of the website filed a motion to compel arbitration based on the language of its online Terms of Service (with mandatory arbitration, the class action would not be possible). See, e.g., In re Ring LLC Privacy Litigation (C.D.Cal., The Superior Court of San Diego denied the Defendant’s motion to compel arbitration.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

MARCH 19, 2022

Gellis is being sued as a “content provider,” not a “service provider.” I wouldn’t be surprised if the intermediate appellate court felt the lower court misinterpreted the Shiamili precedent. ” The court disagrees: The CDA does not shield Gellis here. Case citation : Zuckerbrot v.

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Patently-O

JANUARY 25, 2022

” Serious Questions : A preliminary injunction in trade secrecy cases require only a “fair chance of success on the merits or questions serious enough to require litigation.” The companies here compete in the market for creating specialized finger-LED equipment and accompanying data analysis services.

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Copyright Lately

DECEMBER 29, 2021

This is actually the second year in a row that long-running copyright litigation involving Pirates of the Caribbean has made my “worst of” list. Oracle was long billed as the Supreme Court’s “Copyright Case of the Century,” but the culmination of over ten years of litigation resulted in an opinion that’s largely unsatisfying.

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Fish & Richardson Trademark & Copyright Thoughts

JANUARY 5, 2022

These colleagues not only represent the future of Fish, they also demonstrate the best qualities of the firm today, including a genuine commitment to client service,” said John Adkisson , president and chief executive officer of Fish. Will Freeman focuses his practice on patent litigation in U.S. He received his J.D.,

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

MAY 2, 2022

Yet, the dispute is still very heavily litigated in the district court (while the Ninth Circuit was mulling over its ruling in light of Van Buren ). This makes me wonder whether the lawyers for hiQ are handling it on an hourly basis (something hiQ surely cannot afford at this point) or if a litigation funder or other benefactor is involved.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

JULY 9, 2022

Interactive Computer Service Provider. It would be impossible for service providers to screen each of their millions of postings for possible problems.”” This ruling involves the service those defendants used to disseminate their robocall. .” Cites to La’Tiejira v. Facebook , Hinton v. Amazon , Wells v.

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Fish & Richardson Trademark & Copyright Thoughts

JANUARY 26, 2021

Fish attorney Kurt Glitzenstein spoke with The American Lawyer about Fish’s success on being the busiest patent litigation firm in the land. He discusses his goals and priorities as the Litigation Practice Group leader, where the firm is looking to expand in the next year, and more.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

In support of that conclusion, the court makes this murky statement: “courts in this Circuit have repeatedly held that a plaintiff may state a claim under the Lanham Act where the defendant (1) interfered with the plaintiff’s ability to offer its own commercial services, and/or (2) used the Internet.” That’s what gripers do.

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