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Licensing by Acquisition: The High-Stakes Dispute Over Whether Intel is Licensed to VLSI’s Patents

Patently-O

The Federal Circuit has issued an interesting nonprecedential order in In re VLSI Technology LLC , denying VLSI’s petition for a writ of mandamus that sought to reverse a district court order allowing Intel to amend its answer to assert a declaratory judgment counterclaim regarding a patent license defense. 367 (2004).

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A present assignment of future continuation applications

Patently-O

The decision is lacking though because the court does not ground its decision in any particular contract or property tradition. Although it did not state directly, the court appears to have based its contract interpretation on federal patent law as it has done in prior cases. MLB Advanced Media, L.P., 3d 1284 (Fed.

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Quebec Court of Appeal Sears “Halloumi” Trademark (Again)

IPilogue

Certification marks are a type of trademark that can be licensed to manufacturers as an indication to consumers that its products meet the owner’s defined standard. Cyprus sued Saputo for breach of contract and requested a permanent injunction preventing Saputo from making further use of “Halloumi” or similar marks on its packaging.

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Africa IP highlights 2023: Copyright

The IPKat

January: The year kicked off in Tanzania with the news that the Parliamentary Standing Committee in Tanzania received a report from the Ministry of Culture, Arts and Sports addressing its efforts to review and improve the loopholes found in the Copyright Licensing and Rights to Benefit from Re-Sale Regulations, 2022. Katpost on that here.

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Publicity Rights Concerning Sports Athletes

IP and Legal Filings

Case Study 3 – Sourav Ganguly (7) The Court granted in a case for Sourav Ganguly relief by holding that his popularity constituted intellectual property in the form of a licensed innovation and, therefore, the sale of tea using his name without his consent amounted to a violation even though he was an employee of the defendant.

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Authorship of photographs and ownership of image rights in Nigeria: Banire v NTA-Star TV Network Ltd

The IPKat

Noting the Respondent/Defendant’s evidence that the photographs in question were supplied to it by Virtual Media Network Limited (VMNL) in pursuance of a Channel License Agreement, the Federal High court further held that the Appellant/Plaintiff should have joined VMNL as a party to the suit. Image of camera: Unsplash.

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Growth of Virtual Youtubers and IP Complications

IIPRD

The issues pertaining to the rights of VTubers encompass rights to the design of the character, the privacy of the individual, licensing and taking inspiration from an existing character. However, the conversation being considered as a contract between them was unclear regarding the IP rights. 6] Stuart D. Levi & Alex B.

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