IP Watchdog

MARCH 12, 2025

Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson ruling on the scope of a 2011 wireless device licensing agreement between Motorola (a Lenovo company) and Ericsson. Yesterday, the UKs High Court of Justice of England and Wales (EWHC) issued an approved judgment in Motorola Mobility, LLC v.

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TorrentFreak

DECEMBER 23, 2024

Once a titan in the Usenet world, NSE was forced to shut down in 2011 after BREIN took legal action on behalf of the movie and music industries. The legal saga of News-Service Europe ( NSE ) and anti-piracy group BREIN has taken another dramatic turn.

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Plagiarism Today

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

They did this between 2011 and 2018 and many of the customers were likely unaware that they had obtained a pirated copy of the software, especially since they were billed for the product. The company has already agreed to pay a $60,000 fine, but the three individuals can face up to 1 year and prison and a fine of their own.

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IP Law 360

MAY 5, 2025

into California federal court, accusing them of infringing his rights to the hit "Dazed and Confused" despite agreeing in a 2011 settlement that Holmes created the song and had complete ownership of it. American songwriter Jake Holmes on Monday hauled Led Zeppelin guitarist Jimmy Page and Warner Chappell Music Inc.

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U.S. Department of Commerce

OCTOBER 1, 2021

Manufacturing Week is designed to coincide with Manufacturing Day, which has been held the first Friday in October since 2011. Manufacturing Week expands upon the traditional Manufacturing Day launched by the Manufacturing Institute in 2011. Census Bureau’s 10th-anniversary celebration of Manufacturing Week.

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Plagiarism Today

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

According to the lawsuit, ACT and WIN were partners for nearly 15 years before their partnership ended in 2011. First off today, David Saleh Rauf at Edweek Market Brief reports that ACT has emerged victorious in a legal fight against their competior WIN as an appeals court has upheld a legal victory for the prominent testing organization.

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Plagiarism Today

MAY 16, 2022

However, that essay contained parts that were plagiarized (albeit with heavy rewriting) from a 2011 post on this site. It was a couple of paragraphs rewritten from a 2011 post. For those who missed it, author Jumi Bello published an essay with the goal of explaining why her upcoming book was cancelled for plagiarism.

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TorrentFreak

NOVEMBER 6, 2024

During 2010/2011, opportunity arose for Hollywood to convince the High Court in London that site-blocking would be a proportionate response to tackle a single Usenet indexing site called Newzbin. Within 14 days, ISP BT would implement blocking to prevent six million customers from accessing the site in the UK.

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Likelihood of Confusion

JUNE 23, 2025

Originally posted 2011-12-23 08:45:51. Republished by Blog Post PromoterLikelihood of confusion isn’t quite so simple, judges and people!

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Plagiarism Today

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

The lawsuit was filed by Unicolors, which accused H&M of infringing a 2011 design that they created as part of a 2015 one H&M sold in their stores and online. Unicolors won at the district court, but that was overturned over issues with the copyright registration.

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IP Watchdog

JULY 28, 2022

He also served for six years as Chief Counsel to Senator Barbara Boxer and was known as “a respected authority on 2011’s America Invents Act,” according to the USPTO’s release. He consulted for Cut Golf, an early-stage golf equipment and apparel company.

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Patently-O

JUNE 23, 2025

However, the program’s popularity plummeted following the introduction of Track One prioritized examination in 2011. Unlike Accelerated Examination, Track One requires only payment of a fee—currently $4,200 for large entities—without the burden of preparing examination support documents or conducting pre-examination searches.

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The IPKat

AUGUST 17, 2021

Only two event studies seem to have examined trade secret cases ( Carr and Gorman, 2011 and Gupta, 2016.). Take the 2011 case of AMSC and Sinovel. In early 2011, Sinovel stopping accepting shipments from AMSC. In the middle (blue cross) is the date of the announcement of the theft, September 14, 2011.

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IIPRD

JANUARY 22, 2025

BD Bhandari (2011) [3] , the Delhi High Court stated that a guidebook compiled using copyrighted material served a purpose of transformation, independent from the expressive intent of the original work. [1] Authors Guild v. BD Bhandari, 2011 SCC OnLine Del 3216. According to University of Cambridge v. Google, Inc., 3d 202 (2d Cir.

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Patently-O

JULY 14, 2022

Some takeaways: For patent infringement cases filed between 2011 and 2016, about 6% have at least one appeal, although this rate has been declining from 7.8% of cases filed in 2011 to 4.4% of cases filed in 2016. Figure 2 from Who Appeals Patent Cases.

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Plagiarism Today

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

Back in 2011, Google had a serious problem. Dubbed the Panda (or Farmer) update , it went live on February 24, 2011 and had a serious impact on both content farms and scraping sites. So, Google came up with a solution: An algorithm change.

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Plagiarism Today

APRIL 5, 2022

The campaign was so prevalent that, in April 2011, Getty Images purchased the image location service PicScout. . Getty Images, along with several other stock photography companies, engaged in a massive copyright campaign that began in the 2000s.

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IP Close Up

JANUARY 30, 2024

Since China became worldwide leader in patent applications in 2011, overtaking Japan, the number of its applications have soared. The question today is not so Continue reading

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Likelihood of Confusion

NOVEMBER 5, 2024

Originally posted 2011-04-26 21:41:29. Republished by Blog Post PromoterRandy Barnett, enjoying a new authorized remix of a bunch of Beatles music, frets that we can’t have more of the same because of bad old “intellectual property”: IP is supposed to create incentives for innovation.

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Likelihood of Confusion

OCTOBER 23, 2023

In July of 2011 I wrote about the case of Aron Swartz, arrested at the time for stealing more than 4 million articles from JSTOR, an online archive and journal. The post The making of a martyr? appeared first on LIKELIHOOD OF CONFUSION™.

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Likelihood of Confusion

APRIL 19, 2025

Originally posted 2011-12-12 10:12:47. Republished by Blog Post PromoterYouTube is at it again, or something. We’ve blogged before and even taken to the airwaves to discuss the political abuse of YouTube’s terms of use, the copyright laws and the trademark laws.

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Likelihood of Confusion

DECEMBER 28, 2024

Originally posted 2011-05-23 16:57:09. Republished by Blog Post PromoterIt had to happen — another piece of territory now being rented out in the Lanham-Act-as-competition-buster industry: A new service has announced that it will scoop up the Google infringements for ya for a few kopeks.

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IP Watchdog

APRIL 5, 2022

The ruling is the latest chapter in a series of challenges to VLSI’s patent claims, which has forced VLSI to run a gauntlet arguably demonstrating that the PTAB fails to function as the alternative forum for speedy validity resolutions originally envisioned by Congress when it passed the America Invents Act (AIA) into law back in 2011.

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Patently-O

DECEMBER 23, 2024

This post looks at the court’s new decision in CloudofChange, LLC v. NCR Corp. , 23-1111 (Fed. 18, 2024) and contrasts it Centillion Data Systems, LLC v. Qwest Communications International, Inc. , 3d 1279 (Fed.

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IP Watchdog

SEPTEMBER 16, 2021

Some of the most controversial provisions were ultimately dropped in order to get the law through Congress, and overall, the IP world was celebrating on September 16, 2011, that at least some action had been taken on reforming, and ostensibly strengthening, the U.S. innovation. patent laws.

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Likelihood of Confusion

SEPTEMBER 29, 2024

Originally posted 2011-05-03 23:40:13. Republished by Blog Post Promoter An odd little display at a garden center in Clifton, New Jersey. The post Trademarks of yesterday appeared first on LIKELIHOOD OF CONFUSION™.

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SpicyIP

DECEMBER 19, 2024

After determining that the defendant, Mobi Antenna, infringed the patent, the Court calculated the damages based on a 2011 Total Addressable Market (TAM) Analysis prepared by the plaintiff. Praharsh in another piece has shed light on the confounding approach of the Court in this calculation.

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Likelihood of Confusion

JULY 23, 2024

Originally posted 2011-04-21 00:20:15. Republished by Blog Post Promoter Mommy’s Time Out wine, a photo by Ron Coleman on Flickr. I couldn’t but snap the above shot of “Mommy’s Time Out” wine when I first saw it three years ago in the local wine store.

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JD Supra Law

AUGUST 23, 2023

Before 2019, the annual number of new cases had not been below 4,300 since 2011. According to Docket Navigator, 2022 was the first year since 2019 that the annual number of new patent cases fell below 5,300. By: BakerHostetler

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Likelihood of Confusion

OCTOBER 27, 2024

Originally posted 2011-11-08 08:32:23.

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Likelihood of Confusion

FEBRUARY 12, 2023

In February, 2011 I wrote about Trademark™, a design studio with the domain name www.trademark-trademark.com. I was looking to refer back to that post because I wanted to link to it, as. The post Trademark, trademark, trademark! appeared first on LIKELIHOOD OF CONFUSION™.

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Plagiarism Today

AUGUST 5, 2021

During a graduation speech, he gave to Bolling Springs High School on June 10, he repeatedly took language from a 2011 address actress Amy Poehler gave at Harvard University. This story involves Matthew Strine, the current superintendent of the South MIddleton School District in Pennsylvania.

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TorrentFreak

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

Finally Held to Account After the matter returned to court, it was determined that since 2011, customer payments to TVkaista totaling 1.8 The suspect was the CEO of TVkaista Oy, who, however, could not be reached for prosecution before November 2023,” TTVK reveals.

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IP and Legal Filings

MAY 14, 2025

Information Technology Rules, 2011 The Information Technology (Reasonable Security Practices and Procedures and Sensitive Personal Data or Information) Rules 2011 (Privacy Rules) are another significant piece of cybersecurity law within the IT Act.

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Plagiarism Today

APRIL 20, 2022

This form of web scraping began to fall out of favor in 2011 following a series of Google search updates that de-prioritized scraped websites. For much of the web’s recent history, we scraping commonly referred a technique through which spammers would copy content from a website and republish it, either rewritten or verbatim.

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Plagiarism Today

DECEMBER 12, 2022

Though the owners of the intellectual property haven’t been quite as litigious as the Seuss estate, they did file a lawsuit in 2011 against a parody book that was slated to be published. The Elf on the Shelf was first published in 2005 and is still very much protected by both copyright and trademark. 5: The Battle Over Baby Yoda.

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Patently-O

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

For the period of 2011–2020, ITC determinations about validity upheld the patent 95% of the time and invalidated only 5%. We also looked at design patent outcomes in the International Trade Commission and the UPSTO Patent Trial and Appeal Board.

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