JD Supra Law

OCTOBER 23, 2023

And its reach is significant: The company, which launched to the public in February 2014, now reportedly has more than 20 million active daily users. Slack, a collaboration tool for workplaces, has been among the forces upending the established communication order, offering an organized alternative to email. By: Array

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The Illusion of More

DECEMBER 8, 2023

In my last post, I focused on the hypothetical fair use defense of generative AI under the principles articulated in the Google Books decision of 2014.

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IP Watchdog

APRIL 9, 2024

The Nagoya Protocol, in force since October 12, 2014, relates to the international commitment of 140 countries, including Brazil, to implement the objective of the CBD on the fair and equitable sharing of benefits from the use of genetic resources and the traditional knowledge associated with them (TK).

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JD Supra Law

APRIL 11, 2024

208 (2014). In a lengthy and detailed opinion, EDVA Judge Hannah Lauck has dismissed a suit alleging infringement of seven patents relating to coordinating drivers to transport vehicles between locations, holding that the patents were not eligible for patent protection under 35 U.S.C. § 101 and Alice Corp. CLS Bank Int’l, 573 U.S.

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The IPKat

JANUARY 11, 2024

Background In 2014, France introduced a national system of GI protection for craft and industrial products ( Law No. 2014-344 of March 17, 2014 – the 2014 Law) [ IPKat here ]. Immediately after the adoption of the 2014 Law, producers of Limoges porcelain started preparing the registration file.

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IP and Legal Filings

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

Introduction In a recent decision, the Hon’ble Supreme Court of India, hearing appeals from various decisions of High Courts of Kerala, Rajasthan, and Delhi, which quashed most of the said amendments, examined the legality of some changes made to the pension scheme by the Central Government in 2014. Sunil Kumar B. and Others.

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Patently-O

MAY 4, 2022

For the chart below, I tabulated about 7,000 individual votes from the Federal Circuit Judges in patent cases decided 2014-2021. That is why the data here is limited to 2014+. by Dennis Crouch. For each judge, I show the percentage of individual decisions that sided with the patent challenger; or patent owner in each case.

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IP Law 360

MARCH 22, 2024

A North Carolina state judge has ruled that parts of a secret recording of a 2014 meeting between the state Department of Natural and Cultural Resources and the organization that discovered the pirate Blackbeard's sunken ship fall under attorney-client privilege and must be redacted as part of a contract dispute over footage and images of the ship. (..)

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JD Supra Law

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

PERA seeks to address the uncertainty and unpredictable outcomes created by the 2014 Supreme Court of the United States decision in Alice Corp. CLS Bank Int’l. By: McDermott Will & Emery

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Patently-O

APRIL 10, 2024

application in March 2014 that issued in 2018. In February 2014, FisherBroyles contracted with CPA Global, the big IP management services company, to provide patent docketing services. .” Unrelated to this particular typo, FisherBroyles terminated CPA’s services in May 2014 – just three months into the engagement.

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JD Supra Law

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

For many who draft, prosecute, or examine software-based claims, the Supreme Court’s 2014 opinion in Alice Corporation Pty. CLS Bank International (Alice) kicked off an era of uncertainty and frustration.

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LexBlog IP

MARCH 12, 2024

From July 2014, the FCA began implementing the Court’s electronic court file (ECF) across its Australian registries. Electronic discovery in the Federal Court of Australia (FCA) is nothing new.

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IP Watchdog

JANUARY 8, 2024

Supreme Court today denied a petition asking the High Court to clarify patent eligibility jurisprudence under Section 101 since its 2014 ruling in Alice Corp. CLS Bank Int’l. Realtime Data, LLC asked the Court specifically to address the U.S.

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The IP Law Blog

MARCH 23, 2023

Given the contractual provision, the trial court found that it precluded Evox from bringing any copyright infringement claim for infringement that occurred prior to January 14, 2014, two years before it filed its complaint.

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Plagiarism Today

MARCH 21, 2022

The law3suit was filed by a producer named Arty that claimed Happier was an infringement of his 2014 remix of OneRepublic’s I Lived. In 2014 Hansmeier as sentenced to 14 years in prison. However, he has continued appealing while in prison and, most surprisingly, renewed his honeypot campaign while behind bars.

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The IPKat

DECEMBER 5, 2021

To this end, since 2006, the Government has conducted rounds of major consultations and introduced two amendment bills in 2011 and 2014 into the Legislative Council. As with many other jurisdictions in the world, the existing copyright regime might not be well-placed to meet the rapid development in technology and the creative economy.

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Michael Geist

MARCH 18, 2024

In 2014, the court issued the Spencer decision , which affirmed a reasonable expectation of privacy in basic subscriber information and earlier this month it released the Bykovets decision , which extends the reasonable expectation of privacy to IP addresses.

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IP Watchdog

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

Supreme Court’s 2014 Alice Corp. As an update to my previous posts from 2017, 2019, 2020, March 2021, August 2021, 2022, and 2023, it has now been almost a decade since the U.S. CLS Bank decision.

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Plagiarism Today

AUGUST 2, 2021

1 Hit ‘Made for You’ Finally today, Sterling Whitaker at Taste of Country reports that country music performer Jake Owen is facing a lawsuit from songwriters Alexander Cardinale and Morgan Reid, who allege that Owen’s 2020 hit Made for You is an infringement of their 2014 song of the same name.

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JD Supra Law

JANUARY 26, 2024

208, 216, (2014)) and Mayo (Mayo Collaborative Servs. On June 22, 2023‎, the U.S. CLS Bank Int'l, 573 U.S. Prometheus Labs., 66, 71, (2012)). Per the authors, PERA seeks to provide clear. By: Locke Lord LLP

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JD Supra Law

MARCH 28, 2023

CLS Bank Int’l decision in 2014, patent eligibility under Section 101 of the Patent Act has been increasingly invoked in early motion practice. Following the Supreme Court’s Alice Corp. In Hantz Software, LLC v. Sage Intacct, Inc.,

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IAM Magazine

JUNE 20, 2022

Docket Navigator data reveals defendants filing a skyrocketing number of Section 101 challenges since the 2014 decision and succeeding, much of the time, very early in cases.

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JD Supra Law

JUNE 6, 2023

After almost five years of litigation, British singer-songwriter Ed Sheeran pulled out all the stops (and his guitar) to obtain victory over claims his 2014 song “Thinking Out Loud” infringed on the copyrights held by the estate of Ed Townsend, who co-wrote Marvin Gaye’s 1973 hit “Let’s Get it On”.

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IP Law 360

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

Ed Sheeran can't escape a copyright lawsuit over claims that he ripped off his 2014 hit "Thinking out Loud" from Marvin Gaye's iconic "Let's Get It On," with a New York federal judge saying on Thursday that key questions involving the songs' similarities should be left to a jury to decide.

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IP Law 360

JULY 10, 2023

Two of Aretha Franklin's sons vying for control of the late singer's estate on Monday tried to convince a Michigan state jury that a 2014 handwritten document favoring them is the Queen of Soul's last wishes, even if the document was found under a couch cushion.

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JD Supra Law

AUGUST 31, 2023

In 2014, ABS filed an antitrust lawsuit in the Western District of Wisconsin against STGenetics. This case addresses the issue of res judicata and the interpretation of the scope of an earlier judgment awarding an ongoing royalty. Background In 2006 and 2012, ABS and STGenetics entered into related contracts for sorting semen.

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JD Supra Law

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

Although NFTs (non-fungible tokens) have been around since approximately 2014, they exploded into the mainstream in early 2021, fetching eye-popping prices at auction. After Beeple’s March 2021 sale made headlines, the market remained red hot through the rest of that year. million in December 2021.

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The Illusion of More

APRIL 28, 2023

This year’s World IP Day theme celebrates Women and IP: Accelerating Innovation and Creativity, and for that reason as well as the fact that artificial intelligence dominates all topics these days, my guest for this episode is the highly innovative Carla Diana, whom I first interviewed in 2014.

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TorrentFreak

MAY 24, 2023

Denmark, a country with an overall movie and TV show piracy rate of 11% in 2014, now has an overall rate of 20%, up from the 13% reported in Mediavision’s survey in 2022. With an overall rate of just 8% in 2014, increases over the years led to a 13% overall rate for Finland in 2022.

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IP and Legal Filings

MARCH 11, 2024

In India, whistle-blowing is governed by the Whistle Blowers Protection Act 2014 and by the Companies Act, 2013. While the Whistle Blowers Protection Act, 2014 is limited to public sector undertakings and public servants, it does not include private corporate entities.

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McKinsey Operations

APRIL 18, 2023

Serial entrepreneur Tomáš Čupr takes us behind the scenes of Rohlik, a fast-growing online grocer founded in 2014 in the Czech Republic that caters to affluent urban shoppers.

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JANUARY 4, 2023

A gift given to my daughter (the cat kindly agreed to stop sitting on it for 10 seconds to allow this picture to be taken): Some other vacation TM T-shirts: 2012 , 2014 , 2016.

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Likelihood of Confusion

APRIL 11, 2022

La tour dans ses nvx atours… pic.twitter.com/DU39LzGThR — pierre eric spitz (@sprichtt) October 5, 2014 Just saying: The post Eiffel Tower “copyright”: I didn’t appeared first on LIKELIHOOD OF CONFUSION™. Demain Anne Hidalgo est sur la Tour pour goûter au vertige du vide!

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JD Supra Law

OCTOBER 7, 2022

208 (2014), courts, attorneys and inventors have struggled with the metes and bounds of what subject matter can and what cannot be patented. Tillis introduced the Patent Eligibility Restoration Act (S.4734) 4734) in an effort to clarify which inventions are actually patentable and to codify those that are not. Prometheus Laboratories, Inc.,

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McKinsey Operations

APRIL 21, 2023

The president and CEO of the Westside Future Fund shares learnings from working to revitalize neighborhoods in Atlanta and the impact the organization has had in the community since being launched in 2014.

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JD Supra Law

AUGUST 29, 2023

In 2014, a Jimmy John’s employee leaked a copy of a noncompete agreement that the Sandwich of Sandwiches™ chain required employees at all levels (including store-level employees, such as sandwich makers and delivery drivers) to sign. By: Constangy, Brooks, Smith & Prophete, LLP

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McKinsey Operations

AUGUST 3, 2022

In this report, McKinsey’s Center for US Health System Reform shares its analysis of the individual health insurance market and outlines trends in products, plans, and prices from 2014 to 2022.

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