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Heirs to Author of Article That Inspired Top Gun Crash and Burn in California District Court

IP Watchdog

District Court for the Central District of California ruled on Friday that Shosh Yonay and Yuval Yonay, the widow and son of Ehud Yonay, who authored a 1983 magazine article that inspired the renowned film, Top Gun, were not entitled to damages for copyright infringement related to the 2022 sequel to the film.

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Authors of Article That Inspired Top Gun Crash and Burn in California District Court

IP Watchdog

District Court for the Central District of California ruled on Friday that Shosh Yonay and Yuval Yonay, the widow and son, respectively, of Ehud Yonay, who authored a 1983 magazine article that inspired the renowned film, Top Gun, were not entitled to damages for copyright infringement related to the 2022 sequel to the film.

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new article w/Mark Lemley: First Amendment Neglect in SCOTUS IP Cases

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Goldsmith, the Court upheld a ruling that Andy Warhol’s reworkings of Lynn Goldsmith’s photograph of the artist Prince into highly stylized silkscreens and drawings were not transformative, and thus were unfair, at least when images of the artworks were licensed to illustrate articles about Prince. In Jack Daniel’s v.

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EUIPO Grand Board referral on EUTM conversions under Article 139(2)(b) EUTMR

The IPKat

Background Article 157(4)(l) of the EU Trade Mark Regulation (EUTMR) provides that one of the functions of the Executive Director is to refer questions on points of law to the Grand Board in order to ensure the uniform application of the EUTMR.

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Pro-Plex News Articles on Facebook Deleted By Markscan On Behalf of Plex

TorrentFreak

On January 1, 2024, TorrentFreak published a review of the wrongful DMCA notices filed against us in 2023, either directly via email or at Google demanding deindexing of our articles. However, there’s also no shortage of takedowns that make little sense under any IP law.

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Now Available: the Published Version of My SAD Scheme Article

Technology & Marketing Law Blog

I’m pleased to share the final published version of my article, “ A SAD Scheme of Abusive Intellectual Property Litigation.” ” The article explains how IP rightsowners are twisting the rule of law to obtain ex parte TROs that prompt online marketplaces to freeze the defendants’ cash and accounts.

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Federal Circuit Highlights Differences in Statutory and Article III Standing in Patent Cases

IP Watchdog

In so doing, the Federal Circuit found that Article III standing was not extinguished by the plaintiff’s default on a patent security agreement that granted a secured third party the right to assign the patents at issue in the appeal. Zebra Technologies Corp.

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