IP Watchdog

JULY 28, 2024

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit (CAFC) on Friday in SoftView LLC v. Apple Inc. held that the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) properly applied the estoppel provision of 37 CFR § 42.73(d)(3)(i) in invalidating Softview’s amended claims submitted in inter partes and ex parte reexaminations. The PTAB held and the CAFC affirmed that the claims were not patentably distinct from claims previously invalidated in inter partes review (IPR) proceedings involving SoftView, and the cou

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TorrentFreak

JULY 28, 2024

When it comes to the protection of its intellectual property rights, the International Olympic Committee (IOC) is notoriously uncompromising. Hardly a surprise given the role the brand and other rights play in this global sporting event. Non-Profits Always Worry About Piracy With piracy always a concern to those at the top of the multi-billion dollar non-profit Olympic pyramid, those fears naturally filter down to other non-profit entities involved every four years.

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The IPKat

JULY 28, 2024

With the summer season heating up, the IPKat brings news of the latest IP events and opportunities! Chief of the Digital Trade and Frontier Technologies Unit at WTO. Let the summer begin! The World Trade Organization seeks to recruit the Chief of the newly created Digital Trade and Frontier Technologies Unit. The selected candidate will coordinate and oversee the Secretariat's cross-divisional work on digital aspects of trade in goods and services, IP rights and new technologies.

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Patently-O

JULY 28, 2024

by Dennis Crouch This is my third post about SnapPower (SnapRays) v. Lighting Defense , and the Federal Circuit’s holding that patentee’s who use Amazon’s patent enforcement process (APEX) to block infringing product sales open themselves to personal jurisdiction in the home state of the accused infringer. SnapPower v. Lighting Def.

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Speaker: Blackberry, OSS Consultants, & Revenera

Software is complex, which makes threats to the software supply chain more real every day. 64% of organizations have been impacted by a software supply chain attack and 60% of data breaches are due to unpatched software vulnerabilities. In the U.S. alone, cyber losses totaled $10.3 billion in 2022. All of these stats beg the question, “Do you know what’s in your software?

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The IPKat

JULY 28, 2024

There is no doubt that the threes stripes of adidas are a famous trade mark. The simplicity of the sign brings challenges and raises the questions of its scope of protection. The Higher Regional Court of Düsseldorf had to decide whether five different trousers from Nike with different stripe patterns infringed adidas’ three stripes pattern ( I-20 U 120/23 ).

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