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Court Determines Scope of Corporate 30(b)(6) Patent Witness Topics

Chicago IP

Of particular note: Carjams’ claim that Putco should be limited to ten topics, without some agreement by the parties, was not supported by the Federal Rules or the law. The Court limited the temporal scope of the deposition to 2014 (before the patent’s filing date and Carjams’ first accused sales).

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[Guest post]: The proportionality test in European patent law

The IPKat

The difficulty with component patents is that injunctions to such patents can extend the scope of a patentee’s exclusivity (far) beyond the invention they disclose if the infringer cannot easily design around the patented component. Injunctions are all the rage in contemporary patent law.

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SpicyIP Weekly Review (February 26- March 3)

SpicyIP

Here is another round of SpicyIP flashbacks by Lokesh, where he looks into a variety of topics ranging from IP and Gaming to Biodiversity and Benefit Sharing! Here is our recap of last week’s top IP developments. This and a lot more in this SpicyIP Weekly Review. Anything we are missing out on? Please let us know in the comments below.

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Cartel Intel: Interview with Ashley Brickles, Senior Managing Director at FTI Consulting

Herbert Smith Freehills

At the same time, the rules of the game have changed: the nature and scope of dawn raid inspections are evolving and businesses must act now to keep pace. The cartel crackdown continues across EMEA, with levels of enforcement exceeding those witnessed immediately before the COVID-19 pandemic.

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Once Again, LinkedIn Can’t Use CFAA To Stop Unwanted Scraping–hiQ v. LinkedIn

Technology & Marketing Law Blog

LinkedIn lawsuit started in 2017. In 2019, the Ninth Circuit upheld the district court’s injunction ruling in favor of hiQ. The Supreme Court vacated that decision and told the Ninth Circuit to reconsider its ruling in light of the Supreme Court’s Van Buren ruling. The Supreme Court in Van Buren endorsed this approach.

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Recent Hot Topics and Developments in Trade Secrets Law

Trading Secrets

This blog post summarizes some of the significant decisions grouped by the hot topics below. The court rejected defendants’ argument as an “effort to blend together the identification-of-a-trade-secret element and the misappropriation element, when “only discovery will reveal exactly what the defendants are up to.” Thanoo , 999 F.3d

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2021 Post-Grant Report

Fish & Richardson Trademark & Copyright Thoughts

But where Director review provides a more expansive evaluation of the merits, it is comparatively limited in its scope of application. The Director’s review of a final written decision may be initiated sua sponte or requested by a party free of charge. Download a PDF. Table of Contents. Director Review Post- Arthrex.