The IPKat

MARCH 11, 2024

Here’s what Thato writes: Tax Court of South Africa wrestles with “arm’s length” royalties rate for IP licenses by Thato Moloto On 14 February 2024, the Tax Court of South Africa handed down a judgement in the seminal transfer pricing case of ABD Limited v The Commissioner of the South African Revenue Service ( IT 14302 ).

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LexBlog IP

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

The settlements cover Canada, the European Economic Area, and Japan, clearing the way for Alvotech to launch AVT04 in those markets, where AVT04 has already received regulatory approval. Alvotech also announced that it expects to launch AVT04 in Q1 2024 in Canada, May 2024 in Japan, and late July 2024 in the European Economic Area.

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Patently-O

MAY 9, 2024

By Dennis Crouch and Timothy Knight On May 9, 2024, the Supreme Court issued its opinion in Warner Chappell Music v. 2024) , resolving a circuit split over the availability of back-damages in copyright infringement cases. 20, 2024). 20, 2024). Nealy , No. 22-1078, 601 U.S. Nealy , Patently-O (Feb. 22-787 (argued Feb.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

In 2013, Philpot uploaded the photo to Wikimedia Commons, which is governed by the standard Creative Commons license requiring attribution. Philpot claims his standard photo licensing fee is $3,500, but reuses of the photo from Wikipedia Commons didn’t require any payment (just attribution). ” Market Effect.

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IIPRD

APRIL 2, 2024

vi] This is where governments use ‘compulsory licensing’ to ensure access to affordable drugs in public health emergencies and foster innovation, where patents and monopolies gained through it has prevailed. 6, 2024). [ii] 7, 2024). [ix] 06, 2024). [x] i] World Trade Organization, [link] (last visited Mar. Kaplan, W.A.,

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

MARCH 30, 2024

2024 WL 1330116 (D. March 28, 2024). YouTube appeared first on Technology & Marketing Law Blog. Add this lawsuit to the ever-growing stack of failed lawsuits over account terminations and content removals. Case Citation : Haocheng v. YouTube, Inc., The complaint.

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LexBlog IP

MARCH 5, 2024

On February 23rd, 2024, Alvotech and Teva announced FDA’s approval of SIMLANDI (adalimumab-ryvk), the first high-concentration and citrate-free biosimilar interchangeable with Humira. Prior to FDA’s approval, AVT02 had already been on the market in various other countries.

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LexBlog IP

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

Earlier today, UK’s Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) granted conditional marketing authorization to Vertex Pharmaceuticals and CRISPR Therapeutics for their CRISPR/Cas9 gene therapy, CASGEVY (exagamglogene autotemcel), marking the world’s first regulatory approval for a CRISPR-based gene-edited therapy.

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Indiana Intellectual Property Law

MAY 7, 2024

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43(B)log

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

Arm or Ally, LLC, 2024 WL 756474, No. 23, 2024) The AG sued sellers of “unfinished frames and receivers” — also known as “80% lowers” or “receiver blanks” —designed to evade restrictions on gun sales. Defendants contended that marketing unfinished frames and receivers as “legal” was protected by the First Amendment. It was not.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

MARCH 13, 2024

More crucially, rightholders can instrumentalize their exclusive right to control initial access to their works, making the exercise of user rights increasingly difficult if not impossible ( Kretschmer & Margoni, 2024 ). licenses for specific uses). 6(4) InfoSoc Directive and those shielded from contractual override under art.

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Patently-O

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

The case now before the Supreme Court arose when Sherman Nealy’s collaborator licensed their co-created songs without Nealy’s permission (while Nealy was incarcerated). Nealy sued many years later in 2018 upon learning of the unauthorized licenses in 2016. 51 ABA Preview of US Supreme Court Cases February 2024, at 12.

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Intellectual Property Law Blog

MARCH 13, 2024

The United States Patent and Trademark Office (“USPTO”) and the United States Copyright Office (“USCO”) delivered a report to Congress entitled Non-Fungible Tokens and Intellectual Property on March 12, 2024 (“Report”). While the Report is comprehensive, it does not recommend any new action to address IP issues with NFTs.

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Velocity of Content

MAY 1, 2024

This article appears in the Information Today May 2024 print issue. 29 town hall, The Heart of the Matter: Copyright, AI Training and LLMs, presented a comprehensive case that AI systems do infringe copyrights and called for a licensing system to compensate content owners. Republished with permission.

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LexBlog IP

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

As previously reported , in February 2023, Formycon and Fresenius Kabi entered into a global license agreement to commercialize FYB202, a ustekinumab biosimilar of Janssen’s STELARA, in key global markets after successful regulatory approvals.

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43(B)log

APRIL 29, 2024

20-6057 & 20-6100, 2024 WL 1724995 (10 th Cir. 23, 2024) Hetronic has US registrations; Abitron sold Hetronic-branded products without permission to customers around the world, including in the United States. It executed licensing and distribution agreements for the remotes with two European companies, collectively Abitron.

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SpicyIP

JANUARY 29, 2024

In a major development concerning the Ibrutinib patent, DHC restrains generic manufacturers from manufacturing and marketing the life-saving anti-cancer drug. Tech giants Nokia and Oppo enter into a cross-licensing agreement ending their patent disputes across multiple jurisdictions! But what about the public interest?

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

OCTOBER 18, 2023

This part 2 explores the idea of introducing a statutory license for machine learning purposes for generative AI as a compromise solution to secure a vibrant environment for AI development while preserving the central role played by human creators. In the EU, Art. of the CDSM Directive can be found in the fundamental rights framework.

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LexBlog IP

NOVEMBER 5, 2023

The licensure and marketing of WEZLANA could affect negotiations with CMS regarding Medicare pricing for STELARA under the Inflation Reduction Act’s Drug Price Negotiation Program. For drugs selected for the first year of the Program, negotiations will end by August 1, 2024.

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BYU Copyright Blog

APRIL 1, 2024

Private School Too Public With Photographs Joshua Potter April 01, 11:19 AM April 01, 11:22 AM In March 2024, professional photographer Mando Morlos ("Morlos") filed a Complaint alleging that St. Francis High School - Salesian College Preparatory ("St. Morlos and St.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

MARCH 5, 2024

In the ongoing legal battles over print-on-demand services, RedBubble and (more recently) Printify have sometimes achieved favorable results by disaggregating all of the functions and acting solely as a marketing agent for the disaggregated vendors. Pixels.com, LLC , 2024 WL 885356 (W.D. Case Citation : Canvasfish.com, LLC v.

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SpicyIP

MARCH 11, 2024

Case Summaries Therelek Machines Private Limited vs Therelek Engineers Private Limited on 28 February, 2024 (Karnataka High Court) The petitioner challenged the rejection of its interim application under Section 124 of the Trade Marks Act, seeking a stay in a suit for trademark infringement.

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SpicyIP

APRIL 30, 2024

Discussing the Delhi High Court’s Microsoft Technology Licensing v. By Kevin Preji On 28th Feb, 2024, the Delhi High Court in Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC vs Assistant Controller of Patents and Designs in allowing an appeal, clarified the role of the ‘person skilled in the art’ (‘PSITA’) in determining non-obviousness.

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LexBlog IP

JANUARY 17, 2024

The CTA takes effect on January 1, 2024. Any reporting company that is created or registered before January 1, 2024, must file a BOI report no later than January 1, 2025. FinCEN has recently extended this deadline to 90 calendar days for reporting companies created or registered in 2024.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

FEBRUARY 17, 2024

Those options lower access barriers for users to create accounts, so they are often compelling to the marketing team. 2024 WL 559591 (N.D. CMG appeared first on Technology & Marketing Law Blog. However, the legal team must ensure that all account creation options presented to users satisfy minimum TOS formation processes.

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Dragons' Den

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

What is its appeal to the market? In IPO’s free, online, easy to use toolkit there are resources designed to help businesses identify their IP and understand how to protect, manage it and even license it to scale up their product. They spoke about wanting to scale up their business, and one way of achieving this is through licensing.

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SpicyIP

MARCH 4, 2024

Case Summaries BMI Group Danmark Aps vs The Assistant Controller Of Patents on 22 February, 2024 (Delhi High Court) Image from here An appeal was filed against the impugned order rejecting the suit patent for lack of an inventive step. The Court also directed the applicant to pay INR 25 thousand as costs, though later waived this direction.

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LexBlog IP

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

Celltrion Submits BLA for Tocilizumab Biosimilar On January 28, 2024, Celltrion USA announced that it has completed submission of its application to the FDA for CT-P47, its proposed tocilizumab biosimilar.

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LexBlog IP

JANUARY 30, 2024

The amended Regulations came into effect on 20 January 2024. More than three years later, the PRC State Council has finally approved and promulgated the amended Patent Implementation Regulations (“ Regulations ”) to align various patent practices with the changes made under the Patent Law.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

JANUARY 4, 2024

In this edition, we update you on what has happened in the last three months of 2024 in EU copyright law. All in all, 2024 promises to be an exciting year for EU copyright law. Photo by Markus Spiske on Unsplash Dear readers, Happy new year! Welcome to the fourth (and last) round up of EU copyright law for 2023! Stay tuned!

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TorrentFreak

MAY 9, 2023

DAZN’s marketing drilled that message home – and then some. With other market forces already biting hard, DAZN followed up with a recent announcement heralding huge price increases for its regular subscription packages. It covers just two seasons (2023/24 and 2024/25) and is believed to be worth in the region of £5.1

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

MAY 13, 2024

May 9, 2024). Center for Countering Digital Hate, 2024 WL 1246318, at 1 (N.D. March 25, 2024). a worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free license”), and there is no allegation that it was corrupted, changed, or deleted. In November 2023, X corp. Recently, Bright Data had its motion to dismiss granted against X Corp.

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LexBlog IP

AUGUST 29, 2023

The CTA takes effect on January 1, 2024. Any reporting company that is created or registered before January 1, 2024, must file a report no later than January 1, 2025. Reports will not be accepted prior to January 1, 2024.

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LexBlog IP

JANUARY 25, 2024

As we kick off 2024, we reflect on regulatory developments in the biologics and biosimilars space in 2023. FDA Approvals In 2023, there were 23 FDA approvals of Biologic License Applications , including for Vertex’s CASGEVY and Bluebird’s LYFGENIA, the first cell-based gene therapies for the treatment of sickle cell disease.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

JANUARY 24, 2024

The court explains that, despite the license, Gutman could use “her name for noncommercial purposes, including personal social-media accounts.” Gutman , 2024 WL 172609 (2d Cir. 17, 2024) Selected Related Posts : Who Owns Social Media Accounts?–In Gutman appeared first on Technology & Marketing Law Blog.

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Patently-O

MARCH 31, 2024

27, 2024), involved patents relating to tamper-resistant and tamper-evident food containers. At trial, Inline presented evidence on several objective indicia of nonobviousness, including industry praise, copying, and licensing of its patented products. The case, Inline Plastics Corp. Lacerta Group, LLC , No. 2022-1954 (Fed.

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LexBlog IP

AUGUST 14, 2023

The reporting rule goes into effect on January 1, 2024. The CTA requires new companies or registered on or after the rule’s effective date of January 1, 2024, to provide identifying information of the Company Applicant. The rule goes into effect January 1, 2024. Who is Required to Report? When do I Need to Report By?

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