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Court Says “You May NOT Amend Your TOS by Posting New Terms to Your Site”–International Markets v. Thayer

Technology & Marketing Law Blog

The most recent court to scowl in the direction of a company that purported to unilaterally update its terms-of-use agreement with little or no notice to users was Int’l Markets Live, Inc. 2007) (per curiam). Int’l Markets at 5. Based on the logic of Int’l Markets , it just might work. Thayer , 2022 WL 4290310 (D.

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[GuestPost] Opinion: Patent trolling threatens the market of taxi aggregators in Kazakhstan

The IPKat

Over to Konstantin for the story and his take on the developments: "Some may associate businesses whose primary aim is to assert patents in litigation to obtain license revenue with the Eastern District of Texas or the Unwired Planet decision in the UK, and not think about cases further afield from Marshall, Texas or London. Cue our story.

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An Interview with CCC President & CEO Tracey Armstrong

Velocity of Content

I have been President and Chief Executive Officer of CCC since 2007 and have spent my career working to develop market-based licensing solutions. I am intrinsically motivated with regard to the work I do and am very passionate about the power of direct and collective licensing.

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3 Count: Legal Haze

Plagiarism Today

The case may well become one of the latest to test the “server rule”, a rule that was established by the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals in 2007 that made it so that sites that hyperlink or embed content from other sites cannot be found liable for direct copyright infringement.

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[GuestPost] Opinion: Skirting FRAND requirements under the guise of promoting innovation and efficiency (Part I)

The IPKat

Merpel wonders where we are headed on the FRAND licensing level debate, and who is in the driver's seat? The Fifth Circuit will soon address an antitrust complaint alleging a conspiracy to deny FRAND licenses to component suppliers in favor of licensing car companies. Neither of these positions withstands scrutiny.

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Bayh Dole-esque Guidelines Notified by Dept of Biotechnology

SpicyIP

And more recently, Lokesh covered the whole rise and fall of the earlier Public Funded Research and Development (Protection, Utilisation and Regulation of Intellectual Property) Bill, 2007 (PUPFIP) – that gives some good background context, including that there’s been nearly no development on this front for a decade. Provision 5.d

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Facebook Can Reject Unwanted Ads–Newton v. Meta

Technology & Marketing Law Blog

In our Advertising & Marketing Law casebook, Prof. Google ruling from 2007. Meta appeared first on Technology & Marketing Law Blog. Newton’s fraud claim fails for insufficient pleading. The court defers considering whether 230 could preempt it too. Tushnet and I include the Langdon v. Case citation : Newton v.