LexBlog IP

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

After numerous Emergency Rules and a stepped transition, Wisconsin is ready to jump into the deep end and fully transition to a hemp program administered by the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) under the 2018 Farm Bill.

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LexBlog IP

FEBRUARY 20, 2022

Moldex-Metric, Inc. McKeon Products, Inc., 16-55548 (9th Cir. Link to ad for Moldex earplugs. Justia: The Ninth Circuit reversed the district court’s grant of summary judgment for McKeon in a trademark infringement action alleging that McKeon’s green ear plugs infringed Moldex’s green earplugs.

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IP Law 360

MARCH 27, 2024

million patent infringement win against IBG LLC, in an opinion focusing on how to apply a 2018 U.S. The Federal Circuit on Wednesday rejected Trading Technologies' attempt to increase its $6.6 Supreme Court ruling on foreign damages.

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The IPKat

JULY 28, 2022

A useful timeline of events was provided by Darren Meale in his guestpost concerning last year’s Court of Appeal decision: July 2017: High Court refuses a pre-trial reference to the CJEU as premature [2017] EWHC 1769 (see Retromark Volume II ) February 2018: High Court’s 358 paragraph judgment finding infringement subject to referral questions [2018] (..)

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Plagiarism Today

JULY 6, 2022

headline rate for the 2018-2022 period. The rate was originally decided in 2018 but all the major streamers, barring Apple, appealed it saying that the increase was too great. First off today, Jem Aswad at Variety reports that, in the United States, the Copyright Royalty Board (CRB) has reaffirmed the 15.1%

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Plagiarism Today

JANUARY 27, 2022

As we discussed back in May 2018, nearly four years ago, the WHOIS system was condemned to die a quiet death. However, the system hit a landmine in 2018. However, since 2018 there has been a push to restore at least some of that access to users that may need it. Then, one day, it was pretty much gone. The New Proposal.

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JD Supra Law

MARCH 13, 2024

In July 2018, United Cannabis Corporation (UCANN) sued Pure Hemp Collective (Pure Hemp) for infringement of U.S. 9,730,911 (the '911 patent) in the District of Colorado. After prolonged litigation, the parties stipulated to dismissal of their claims and counterclaims. By: Whitcomb Selinsky, PC

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JD Supra Law

JUNE 17, 2022

The rationale behind this ruling has roots in the 2018 Farm Bill (also known as the Agriculture Improvement Act of 2018)—or, more specifically, what was left out of the 2018 Farm Bill. Distro, LLC that delta-8 THC is legal for purposes of trademark protection. 4th 682, 686 (9th Cir. By: Kelley Drye & Warren LLP

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TorrentFreak

JUNE 8, 2023

While other branded services were featured in the investigation, the focus was on Flawless IPTV and its operations between August 2016 and May 2018. In 2018, Flawless began accepting payments from subscribers in bitcoin and evidence showing how much was received proved impossible to obtain.

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Intellectual Property Law Blog

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

2018), Hamilton Beach Brands, Inc. 2018), and Qualcomm Inc. Where a patent owner offers a new claim construction for the first time in a response after the institution decision, a petitioner may, in a reply brief, introduce new arguments and evidence under the newly proposed claim construction. More generally, under Ericsson Inc.

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LexBlog IP

FEBRUARY 20, 2022

Aidadas v Skechers. Justia Opinion Summary. Skechers challenged the district court’s issuance of a preliminary injunction prohibiting it from selling shoes that allegedly infringe and dilute adidas America, Inc.’s ’s Stan Smith trade dress and Three-Stripe trademark.

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IP Watchdog

AUGUST 18, 2022

In 2018, Alper Automotive, Inc. DDI sent Takedown Notices to Alper on May 8, 2018; May 15, 2018; August 2, 2018; and November 1, 2018. began selling a sticker that DDI alleged infringed the licensed copyright.

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The TTABlog

MARCH 12, 2024

The licensor allowed the registration to expire in February 2018. In March 2018, Abundance filed its Section 1(a) application to register the mark, claiming use since 2008. The subject registration issued in November 2018. Respondent was permitted to use the mark until December 2017.

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JD Supra Law

AUGUST 24, 2022

Greene's Energy Group, LLC (2018)"; "Return Mail, Inc. Iancu (2018)"; "Cuozzo Speed Technologies, LLC v. Postal Service (2019)"; "SAS Institute Inc. Lee (2016)"; and "Teva. By: McDonnell Boehnen Hulbert & Berghoff LLP

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JD Supra Law

MAY 12, 2023

In 2018, United Cannabis Corporation (“UCANN”) sued Pure Hemp Collective (“Pure Hemp”) for infringement of U.S. 9,730,911 (the “‘911 patent”), entitled “Cannabis Extracts and Methods of Preparing and Using the Same. By: Weintraub Tobin

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IP Watchdog

AUGUST 7, 2021

The number of artificial intelligence (AI) patent applications received annually by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) grew from 30,000 in 2002 to more than 60,000 in 2018. Further, the USPTO has issued thousands of inventions that utilize AI.

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JD Supra Law

JANUARY 31, 2024

1348 (2018)) and cancelled some, but not all, claims. Valve responded by filing an IPR challenging the claims on various grounds. The Patent Trial & Appeal Board instituted partial review (pre-SAS Institute, Inc. Iancu, 138 S. By: Sterne, Kessler, Goldstein & Fox P.L.L.C.

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JD Supra Law

MARCH 1, 2024

Public accessibility has been held to be the touchstone for whether a reference constitutes a printed publication. Jazz Pharms., Amneal Pharms., LLC, 895 F.3d 3d 1347, 135 (Fed. In Weber, Inc. Provisur Technologies, Inc., the Federal Circuit clarified that dissemination of a reference for. By: Kilpatrick

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Plagiarism Today

JANUARY 3, 2023

The change was a requirement of the Canada-United States Mexico Agreement (CUSMA), which was signed 2018 with a revised version signed in 2019. This caused a two-decade lull in new work entering the public domain in the United States, with that lull ending in 2018.

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Indiana Intellectual Property Law

MARCH 11, 2024

” Valcrum claims to have begun establishing trademark and trade dress rights for this design as early as late 2018. These hubcaps are identified by their distinct features, including a “signature red hex bezel with a hexagonal outer perimeter and an inner diameter.”

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JD Supra Law

JANUARY 23, 2024

In 2018, Stephen Thaler filed two patent applications with the U.K. The United Kingdom Supreme Court has held that AI is not a person. Intellectual Property Office (“UKIPO”). The UKIPO rejected the patent applications on the basis that a person must be listed as an inventor under UK law.

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The Illusion of More

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

A lot of world-shaking events have occurred since 2018, when the CASE Act was introduced for the purpose of creating a small-claim copyright alternative, now known as the Copyright Claims Board (CCB).

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IP Watchdog

JANUARY 3, 2023

Law and Biosciences Vol 5(3) Dec 2018, 590-647). Notwithstanding, the White House and certain members of Congress picked up I-MAK’s “Overpatented, Overpriced” faulty advocacy piece (2018; updated Sept 2022), and without checking the integrity of the data, quoted to it, and got to work. Feldman, “May your drug price be evergreen” J.

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IP Watchdog

MARCH 28, 2024

Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit (CAFC) on Wednesday, March 27, affirmed a district court’s decision invalidating the claims of two of Trading Technologies’ (TT’s) patents as being patent ineligible under Section 101 and also clarified the application of a 2018 Supreme Court ruling on foreign damages.

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JD Supra Law

DECEMBER 7, 2023

The copyrightability of AI-generated output has been a hotly debated topic before various Chinese courts since 2018. The latest Chinese judgment on this topic was issued recently by the Beijing Internet Court, on 27 November 2023.

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JD Supra Law

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

The Report notes that in 2018 the Office issued its 2018-2022 Strategic Plan, which "outlines the framework that enables the USPTO to respond to domestic and international customers' demands for vital and timely IP products and services and builds on the agency's current organizational effectiveness and efficiency."

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JD Supra Law

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

The 2018 Farm Bill (i.e., Agriculture Improvement Act of 2018) decriminalized those cannabis plants and parts having low concentrations (up to 0.3% by dry weight) of delta-9-tetrahydrocannabinol (?9-THC). Such low ?

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TorrentFreak

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

In a case dating back to 2018, BREIN focused on a torrent site and eliminated both. The man and woman signed an abstention agreement back in 2018, just like the couple mentioned above. Pirate Couple Caught Uploading Although it probably wouldn’t shy away from the opportunity, BREIN tends not to chase down casual pirates.

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Michael Geist

JANUARY 29, 2024

A former Radio-Canada broadcaster who was appointed to the Senate by Justin Trudeau in 2018, she joins the Law Bytes podcast to debate her bill as she provides her rationale for it and defends against the criticism and concerns it has sparked. Senator Julie Mivelle- Dechêne is the chief architect and lead defender of the bill.

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JD Supra Law

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

2018-1976, 2018-2023, 2001 WL 3412496 (Fed. Case Name: GlaxoSmithKline LLC v. Teva Pharms. 5, 2021) (Circuit Judges Moore, Newman, and Prost presiding; Opinion per curiam) (Appeal from D. Stark, J.) - Drug Product and Patent(s)-in-Suit: Coreg® (carvedilol); U.S. Patents Nos.

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IP Law 360

DECEMBER 7, 2023

Comics giant Marvel has settled its copyright dispute with the estate of the legendary Marvel artist Steve Ditko, who died in 2018, resolving the last remaining action in its dispute with a group of writers and artists and their estates over the copyrights on several popular Marvel characters and stories, according to a notice filed Wednesday.

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GDB Firm Blog

JANUARY 31, 2018

The New York State Court System opened the new year with a swath of proposed changes to the way criminal justice is administered in New York State. These changes, which come in the form of administrative directives from Chief Judge Janet DiFiore, may help to streamline the criminal justice system and avoid improper convictions.

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IP Watchdog

AUGUST 28, 2021

We couldn't help but notice the decline in ANDA filing activity that has begun, after reaching its peak in 2018. We observe a considerable decline from 2018 to 2019 (a decline of 4.2 Year-over-year comparison of the ANDA data, as seen in the following chart, shows the trend in the last four years.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

MARCH 7, 2024

In our 2018 study, we found seven cases involving male victims. While this opinion isn’t a surprising outcome, it reinforces three points of note. First, though non-consensual pornography (NCP) is often characterized as an Internet phenomenon, not all NCP is distributed online. However, men are victims too, as in this case.

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TorrentFreak

JANUARY 21, 2024

Classifying Countries by Piracy Volume and Growth The full report includes a rather insightful graph that ranks countries based on the number of visits to pirate sites per citizen, and how the rate has changed between 2018 and 2023. This allows for an intuitive comparison and highlights where piracy presents the biggest threat.

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Erik K Pelton

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

In 2018, there were just 20 filings that referenced pickleball at the USPTO. Although it was invented a couple of decades ago, ever since the pandemic in 2020 its popularity has boomed. Some studies indicate that it’s the fastest-growing sport in the United States. In 2021, there were 80. In the span of 3 years, it grew fourfold.

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JD Supra Law

JANUARY 26, 2023

2018) (holding that virtually all method of…. It's not often that we write about pharmaceutical patents on this blog, and even less often that we blog here about PTAB decisions. The former is a function of the Federal Circuit's decision in Vanda Pharmaceuticals Inc. West-Ward Pharmaceuticals Int'l Ltd., 3d 1122 (Fed.

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