IP Law 360

OCTOBER 25, 2021

federal agencies have flouted White House sanctions with a new campaign targeting cloud service companies, Microsoft Corp. Russian spies behind a cyberattack on software provider SolarWinds that led to breaches at nine U.S. said Monday.

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LexBlog IP

APRIL 1, 2022

The indictment detailed how the threat actors gained access to networks through spearphishing attacks “targeting more than 3,300 users at more than 500 U.S. and international companies and entities, in addition to U.S. ” One concerning example cited is the successful intrusion into the Wolf Creek Nuclear Operating Corp.,

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43(B)log

MAY 13, 2024

Exxon Mobil Corp., Here, the city successfully wins remand (and a fee award) in this opinion rejecting removal of its false advertising suit against Exxon, other fossil fuel companies, and their top trade association for violations of New York City’s Consumer Protection Law. Exxon Mobil Corp., 2024 WL 2091994, No.

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LexBlog IP

JUNE 16, 2022

Alvotech, a global biotech company focused solely on the development and manufacture of biosimilar medicines announced yesterday that its ordinary shares and warrants will begin trading on Nasdaq today, June 16, under the new ticker symbols “ALVO” and “ALVOW”, respectively. and Icelandic stock exchange. For the U.S.

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TorrentFreak

OCTOBER 9, 2023

An RIAJ statement notes that Jpopmix offered for download a catalog of music owned by its member companies, without obtaining any type of permission. The RIAJ says that while Jpopmix was also operating from a server outside Japan, the platform targeted the local market which accounted for 80% of its traffic. Johnny’S Music Company Inc.

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TorrentFreak

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

rightsholders, had been linked right back to companies in the United States itself. Overall, 26 locations were targeted. He was among 11 others arrested in 2021, including two men of broadly the same age working at the same company. The decision to name the pirate device company Unblocktech Taiwan Co.,

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LexBlog IP

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

Introduction Uptik in Threat Letters & Legal Actions: A Wake-Up Call for Companies Using Meta Pixel In recent years, the digital landscape has become a battleground for privacy rights, with Meta Pixel at the epicenter of numerous legal disputes. Companies using Meta Pixel and similar tracking technologies increasingly face legal scrutiny.

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Traverse Legal Blog

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

Introduction Uptik in Threat Letters & Legal Actions: A Wake-Up Call for Companies Using Meta Pixel In recent years, the digital landscape has become a battleground for privacy rights, with Meta Pixel at the epicenter of numerous legal disputes. Companies using Meta Pixel and similar tracking technologies increasingly face legal scrutiny.

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LexBlog IP

DECEMBER 1, 2022

Cop Security System Corp. Patent: 8,396,743 (Sending targeted product offerings based on personal information); 8,712,846 (Sending targeted product offerings based on personal information). Lowe’s Companies, Inc. Target Corporation (E.D. Defendant: Target Corporation. Lowe’s Companies, Inc.

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LexBlog IP

OCTOBER 20, 2022

Internet Media Interactive Corp. Plaintiff: Internet Media Interactive Corp. Kate Spade & Company LLC. Target Corporation. The New York Times Company (E.D. Defendants: The New York Times Company. Sonoco Products Company (W.D. Defendant: Sonoco Products Company. Trusted Media Brands, Inc.

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Kashishipr

MAY 5, 2021

’ A patent troll is a term used for describing a company that uses Patent Infringement claims to win arguments and court judgments for profit or to stifle competition. ’ A patent troll operation may be called a ‘patent assertion company,’ ‘entity,’ or a ‘non-manufacturing patentee.’

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TorrentFreak

JANUARY 23, 2024

To suppress current leaks and to deter others from leaking content in the future, the company uses the DMCA’s takedown provisions and DMCA subpoenas respectively. Cognosphere obtains the latter to compel online platforms, typically social media companies, to hand over whatever information they hold on alleged infringers.

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Patently-O

AUGUST 3, 2023

Although Moderna pledged not to enforce its COVID-19 patents during the pandemic, it signaled in March 2022 that expected companies to respect its intellectual property rights going forward. See Phillips v. 3d 1303 (Fed. 2005) (en banc). We might see a different strategy if a non-profit or consumer-focused group had filed.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

JULY 16, 2021

NutriSearch Corp., 22, 2021): companies now pay so-called “influencers” to issue posts on social media touting their products or services. WSJ : Many Companies Want Remote Workers—Except From Colorado. Advertising/E-Commerce. Ariix, LLC v. 2021 WL 221878 (9th Cir Jan. Reuters : In U.S. Miscellaneous. Everest for Faking Photo.

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LexBlog IP

SEPTEMBER 27, 2021

companies abroad. These issues received significant media attention with the focus far and away on China; by way of example, 60 Minutes cited the Justice Department as saying “the scale of China’s corporate espionage is so vast it constitutes a national security emergency, with China targeting virtually every sector of the U.S.

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Patently-O

MARCH 1, 2024

The patentee particularly provided evidence that its claimed sequence had a much higher ability to bind to inflammatory targets — suggesting an important practical and likely structural difference from the naturally occurring larger molecule. The PTAB relied on CyberSource Corp. Retail Decisions, Inc., 3d 1366 (Fed.

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Trading Secrets

JANUARY 13, 2022

Thus,” the court concluded, Netflix’s interference “could not be justified as promoting an interest or right that the targeted employees had voluntarily relinquished ” let alone against the “social interest in protecting Fox’s legitimate expectancy.” As in Ixchel , the court in Twentieth Century Fox Film Corp. See Ixchel Pharma, LLC v.

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Fish & Richardson Trademark & Copyright Thoughts

DECEMBER 9, 2022

In one instance, the 2019 Max Sound Corp. One possible explanation is that the NPEs that do not pay the ordered fees are underfunded entities — often limited liability companies — created for purposes of patent assertion. 10] See Max Sound Corp. Google LLC decision in the U.S. Oftentimes, it is much less. in the U.S.

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LexBlog IP

JANUARY 13, 2022

” “Thus,” the court concluded, Netflix’s interference “could not be justified as promoting an interest or right that the targeted employees had voluntarily relinquished ” let alone against the “social interest in protecting Fox’s legitimate expectancy.” ” See Ixchel Pharma, LLC v.

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Intellectual Property Law Blog

DECEMBER 21, 2023

See Targeting costly meds, Biden admin asserts authority to seize certain drug patents – POLITICO. Drug companies who may be at risk of having their patents seized should be aware that they have the right to sue the government for patent infringement in such an event. Zoltek Corp. 2021) (citing Georgia Pacific Corp.

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43(B)log

MAY 2, 2022

Premier Nutrition Corp., And less surprisingly, excluding respondents under 35 was fine, because the evidence showed “that the typical joint juice consumer—and the type of consumer targeted by Premier—was in their forties, fifties, and sixties.” 2022 WL 1225031, No. 16-cv-06980-RS (N.D. And note the lower-case “joint juice,” yikes.]

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The IPKat

OCTOBER 7, 2021

7 In GPNE Corp. Overall, the evidence described above and in Part 1 demonstrates that discrimination by certain SEP owners against licensing component suppliers allows them to maximize their licensing returns by targeting more expensive products. ZTE Corp. , 8 GPNE Corp. Apple, Inc. 13-000009-RGA (D. 21, 2014).

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TorrentFreak

APRIL 22, 2023

Capstone Studios Targets 150 IP-addresses Movie production company Capstone Studios is one of those rightsholders. The company decided to take action when it noticed that its survival thriller film “ Fall “, which it co-produced with BuzzFeed, was widely pirated through various torrent sites.

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43(B)log

OCTOBER 11, 2022

Appian Corp. I’m proud to work for a company that is not afraid to undertake the unpleasant action of litigating against those whose actions we believe are unlawful and unethical. Pegasystems Inc. 19-11461-PBS, 2022 WL 4630231, F.Supp.3d Previous discussion.) If you’re thinking about Appian, you should read this first[.]

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IPilogue

OCTOBER 19, 2022

All accepted the presence of a common design between Sea Shepherd UK and its overseas parent organisation, Sea Shepherd Conservation Society (“SSCS”), under which the UK company supported SSCS in its attempts to stop bluefin tuna fishing in the Mediterranean.

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The TTABlog

JULY 5, 2022

Coca-Cola Company , 2022 USPQ2d 602 Fed. Brooklyn Brewery Corp. The Board found that Meenaxi had used the registered marks to misrepresent the source of its goods, in violation of Section 14(3) of the Lanham Act, and that Coca-Cola had met the zone-of-interests and damages prongs of the Lexmark test for statutory standing.

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43(B)log

FEBRUARY 21, 2022

also held that the defendant’s company name, “Liberty Casket,” and the iconography of the Statue of Liberty and the American flag “evoke clear associations with the United States of America,” but were “too general to evoke any specific geographical associations or to support an inference that there is an implied claim of domestic manufacture.”

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LexBlog IP

AUGUST 17, 2023

X Corp (formerly Twitter) has cracked down on data scrapers in a series of lawsuits filed within the last several weeks. One lawsuit targets an Israel-based research firm that provides commercial data scraping, called Bright Data, for alleged unjust enrichment.

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LexBlog IP

DECEMBER 21, 2023

See Targeting costly meds, Biden admin asserts authority to seize certain drug patents – POLITICO. Drug companies who may be at risk of having their patents seized should be aware that they have the right to sue the government for patent infringement in such an event. Zoltek Corp. 2021) (citing Georgia Pacific Corp.

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Patently-O

OCTOBER 19, 2022

In re FedEx Corp. But, the joinder limitations of the AIA limited that approach and so instead R2 simultaneously filed several parallel lawsuits all in the same court against Walmart, Charles Schwab, Deezer, JP Morgan, Samsung, Target, Fidelity, Intel, Citigroup, Allegiant, CVS, State Farm, Redfin, Hilton, Booking.com, American Airlines, etc.

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Patently-O

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

What made the Delaware orders particularly relevant to this forum’s readers is that Delaware is a hub for patent infringement litigation—it perennially one of the three busiest districts in the nation, by wide margin over most districts—in no small part because Delaware is a popular location to incorporate large companies. [26] 8, 2023). [12]

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LexBlog IP

OCTOBER 19, 2021

Eli Lilly and Company , Appeals 2020-1747, -1748, and -1750 (Fed. Specifically, in Teva , the court affirmed Board decisions canceling claims to antibodies that target a central nervous system neurotransmitter, known as “CGRP” and known to cause migraine headaches. at 20 (citing Immunex Corp. ” Id.

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TorrentFreak

AUGUST 8, 2023

Adult entertainment company MG Premium has left no stone unturned in its three-year legal standoff with the operator of piracy sites including the hugely popular ‘DaftSex’ The first public sign of the battle ahead arrived courtesy of a huge MG Premium DMCA takedown campaign that aimed to remove 832,000 DaftSex URLs from Google search.

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43(B)log

JANUARY 3, 2024

Penn Engineering & Manufacturing Corp. There’s a factual dispute over whether Peninsula’s use of Penn Engineering’s trademarks in its “PEM Family of Marks” (based on the name of its holding company) in Google search advertisements stemming from three ad vendors constituted an intent to confuse. Peninsula Components, Inc.,

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LexBlog IP

DECEMBER 15, 2022

In Masimo Corp. Judge James Selna issued an injunction restraining the former researcher and his current company from using trade secrets arising from pulse oximetry, which involves measuring oxygen in the blood. True Wearables, Inc., The FTC and DOJ have filed amicus briefs in support of an appeal to the U.S.

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Fish & Richardson Trademark & Copyright Thoughts

JANUARY 11, 2022

Several other companies have also announced plans to pursue interchangeable status for biosimilar products. Consistent with this, as shown below in Table 2, numerous companies have publicly announced the submission and/or acceptance of new biosimilar BLAs. Targeting Anti-Competitive Behavior. Stimufend ® (Fresenius Kabi).

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Fish & Richardson Trademark & Copyright Thoughts

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

The pendency of Director review requests reportedly has been around two months (or more), longer than the Board’s one-month target for rehearing requests. [1] Reynolds Vapor Company v. In Raytheon Technologies Corp. 1] As for case outcomes, early results suggest an uphill climb for requesting parties. Similarly, in R.J.

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