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Court Block Penguin Random House Acquisition of Simon & Schuster

Velocity of Content

On Monday, Halloween, Federal Judge Florence Y. In its statement, the Authors Guild “celebrated” the ruling. AG president Doug Preston said, “This is the first time a court has recognized what authors and the Authors Guild have been arguing for decades: that consolidation among publishers hurts authors.”.

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Federal Circuit Narrows Scope for Copyrighting Software Function

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by Dennis Crouch The copyright lawsuit between the data-software company SAS Institute and its scrappy copycat World Programming has been interesting to follow over the past several years, and the Federal Circuit has now issued a controversial opinion in the case. WPL , the Federal Circuit squarely addressed the copyrightability question.

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German Federal Court of Justice: Copyright Case Law of 2021 – Part I

Kluwer Copyright Blog

17 DSMD was discussed in an earlier blog post by Julian Waiblinger and Jonathan Pukas. That said, 2021 also saw a very active German Bundesgerichtshof (“BGH” – Federal Court of Justice) in the area of copyright law. Germany’s implementation of Art. That court therefore rejected the application of Section 45 UrhG.

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Copyright Office Considers New DMCA Carveout for AI Anti-Bias Research

LexBlog IP

Copyright Office announced in the Federal Register that it will consider a proposed exemption to the Digital Millennium Copyright Act’s (“DMCA”) anti-circumvention provisions which prohibit the circumvention of any technological measures used to prevent unauthorized access to copyrighted works. On October 19, 2023, the U.S.

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Conditional Claim Limitations

Patently-O

In Arthrex , the Supreme Court rewrote the Patent Act, charging the USPTO Director with authority to review final written decisions stemming from inter partes and post grant review proceedings (IPR/PGR). If the party appeals, admit to the Federal Circuit that the PTAB erred and seek remand to reconsider the PTAB panel decision.

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Supreme Court on Patent Law for October 2022

Patently-O

According to the Federal Circuit, US patent law contains separate and distinct written description and enablement requirements. But, the Federal Circuit concluded that the specification should have done more to disclose those binding elements, including all “known and unknown” elements covered by the claims.

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Attorneys Adam Shartzer and Josh Carrigan Author Law360 Expert Analysis “Patent Fee-Shifting Often Leaves Prevailing Parties Unpaid”

Fish & Richardson Trademark & Copyright Thoughts

Principal Adam Shartzer and Associate Josh Carrigan authored Expert Analysis for Law360 examining a fee-shifting statute for patent cases that allows prevailing parties to recover their reasonable attorney fees in exceptional patent infringement cases. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit in the 1990 Badalamenti v.

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