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In re TikTok: Fifth Circuit Implicitly Backs Federal Circuit’s Use of Mandamus to Transfer Cases Out of W.D.Tex.

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A Chinese company – Beijing Meishe Network Tech.Co. (“Meishe”) – sued TikTok for infringing its copyrights and misappropriating traded secrets associated with AV editing software. Although both companies are Chinese in origin, the plaintiffs sued in Judge Albright’s Waco Texas courtroom.

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Bald-Faced Attempt to Manipulate Venue Rejected

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The underlying actions were filed by a patent holding company known as Ikorongo Texas LLC against Samsung and LG Electronics. As explained below, the owners of Ikorongo Texas formed the company as an attempt to solidify venue in W.D.Texas and avoid the case being transferred for inconvenient forum. Thus, no proper venue.

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Introducing the Trade Secret Case Management Judicial Guide

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Peter Toren is an experienced criminal trade secret litigator who served for many years in the as a federal prosecutor with the Computer Crime and Intellectual Property Section of the Criminal Division of the United States Department of Justice where he served as Acting Deputy Chief. The following is an introduction and request for comments.

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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. But is that policy rationale truly being achieved? The results might surprise some.

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Trademark Extraterritoriality: Abitron v. Hetronic Doesn’t Go the Distance (Guest Blog Post)

Technology & Marketing Law Blog

This first principle not only prioritizes sovereign determination of national-level policies undergirding the regulation of IP-protected goods and services, but also recognizes the risks associated with interference in other nations’ norm-setting prerogatives. In one of the last opinions announced this term, Abitron Austria GmbH v.

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A Brave New World: The NCAA’s New NIL Policy and the Need for Federal Legislation

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4, June/July 2022, by the American Bar Association. This information or any portion thereof may not be copied or disseminated in any form or by any means or stored in an electronic database or retrieval system without the express written consent of the American Bar Association or the copyright holder. Published in Landslide , Vol.

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A Brave New World: The NCAA’s New NIL Policy and the Need for Federal Legislation

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4, June/July 2022, by the American Bar Association. This information or any portion thereof may not be copied or disseminated in any form or by any means or stored in an electronic database or retrieval system without the express written consent of the American Bar Association or the copyright holder. Published in Landslide , Vol.

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