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[Guest post] Book review: ‘Developments and Directions in Intellectual Property Law: 20 Years of the IPKat’

The IPKat

The book, titled Developments and Directions in Intellectual Property Law. And, speaking of the book, we are happy to re-publish the review that Bill Patry (Mayer Brown) provided of it, as just published by the Journal of Intellectual Property Law & Practice.

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The Chicken Sandwich Wars: A Sampling of Intellectual Property Law in the Fast Food Industry

LexBlog IP

In 2014 , Lorenzana filed a complaint in an attempt to regain the earnings for his creation. In 1987, a man by the name of Norberto Colón Lorenzana claimed to have invented the chicken sandwich while employed for a Church’s Chicken franchise in Puerto Rico. is quite plainly not copyrightable work.”

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CCC Celebrates World Intellectual Property Day 2023

Velocity of Content

Copyright Office data provide a glimpse into the historical rates of registration, which is itself a window into how often women creators seek intellectual property law protections. On this World Intellectual Property Day, it is important to embrace and encourage women creators and innovators. Studies based on U.S.

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16-Year-Old Pirate Site Prosecution Resurrected Despite Four Acquittals

TorrentFreak

The big struggle for rightsholders was a lack of clarity in Spanish law; specifically whether the mere provision of links amounted to a ‘communication to the public’, a regular feature of many copyright cases that have ended up at the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU).

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‘Pirate’ Site Admins Arrested in 2015, Now Acquitted For a Second Time

TorrentFreak

In 2014, David Tardà, Andreu Caritg, and Oriol Solé were hard at work in Spain developing Tviso , a service with a goal to unify legal streaming services into a centrally-accessed discovery hub. rightsholders, and six months after the introduction of reformed intellectual property law in Spain, local authorities were ready to take action.

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SCOTUS: “The More a Party Claims for Itself the More it Must Enable”

Intellectual Property Law Blog

After a nine-year saga, beginning when Amgen sued Sanofi for allegedly infringing two of its patents in 2014, the Supreme Court held that Amgen’s asserted patents failed to satisfy the enablement requirement under 35 U.S.C. § On May 18, 2023, the Supreme Court of the United States issued a unanimous decision in the case of Amgen Inc.

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Fish & Richardson Elevates 17 Attorneys to Principal 

Fish & Richardson Trademark & Copyright Thoughts

magna cum laude , from George Mason University School of Law in 2014 and his B.S., Dr. Caleb Bates focuses his practice on intellectual property law, with an emphasis on patent prosecution, strategic counseling, and worldwide patent portfolio management in the pharmaceutical and biotechnology fields.