LexBlog IP

APRIL 5, 2023

In its complaint, the DOJ alleged that Activision would fine an esports team one dollar for every dollar that a team spent over the total player compensation threshold. Activision Blizzard, Inc. , FOOTNOTES [1] Complaint, United States v. 1:23-cv-00895 (D.D.C. 3, 2023). [2] 3] Press Release, U.S. Dep’t of Just.,

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TorrentFreak

MARCH 22, 2024

The MPA still believed the site was operating from OVH in France but also listed other companies as hosts, including Online S.A.S., Entertainment Inc., Amazon Content Services LLC, Columbia Pictures Industries, Inc., Disney Enterprises, Inc., Hetzner Online GmbH, and Interkvm Host10 SRL.

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TorrentFreak

OCTOBER 14, 2022

Its founding director was Patrick Achache, who later rose to fame as the boss of Germany-based BitTorrent tracking company, MaverickEye. According to UK Companies House data, Patrick Achache stopped being a director and the significant controller of CMS on November 19, 2019. Copyright Management Services Wants Out.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

OCTOBER 3, 2022

Lastly, Plaintiff was not denied access to or services of Facebook… Meta is a private company and a user of Facebook cannot dictate what will be published on its website.” ” [As to the latter point, the Fifth Circuit apparently feels otherwise.]. Case citation : Amro Elansari v. LEXIS 178399 (E.D.

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TorrentFreak

JANUARY 23, 2023

After previous assignments at the NSA and Weapons of Mass Destruction Response Team, Special Agent Jones is currently assigned to HSI’s Transnational Cyber Crimes Team (TCCT). Also listed are their corresponding domain registries, in this case mostly VeriSign, but others include GoDaddy, Inc., Identity Digital Inc.,

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Patently-O

APRIL 16, 2024

The case garnered amicus curiae briefs filed by several innovative pharmaceutical companies in support of the patent owner, Salix Pharmaceuticals. By Chris Holman Salix Pharms., Norwich Pharms. 2024 WL 1561195 (Fed. Norwich Pharms. illustrates the concern. Teva Pharms. 2023 WL 3335538 (Fed.

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Velocity of Content

APRIL 12, 2023

This study which has been developed by CCC in partnership with Outsell, Inc. The Rise of Collaboration Tools and Risks Outsell Inc’s analysis , using data from the 2023 study, stated “…digital replaced physical for all interactions. Gaps in communication emerged and the data shows that users overcompensated.”

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IP Law 360

JANUARY 28, 2022

A four-person intellectual property team has joined Calfee Halter & Griswold LLP, and a former Mars Inc. general counsel has been appointed to international CBD company Chill Brands Group's board of directors. Here are the details on these and other notable hires.

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Velocity of Content

JANUARY 12, 2022

Seems like a simple enough task, but one that is a common challenge for most fast-paced, discovery-driven companies. A 2020 Information Seeking and Consumption Study by Outsell, Inc. 2 2020 Information Seeking & Consumption Study, Outsell, Inc. According to the STM Association, about 2.4 Johnson, A. Atkinson, and M.

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Intellectual Property Law Blog

DECEMBER 1, 2021

A Sheppard Mullin trial team led by partners Brad Graveline and Laura Burson obtained one of the largest patent infringement damages awards against the United States of America for client SecurityPoint Holdings, Inc (SecurityPoint).

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BYU Copyright Blog

APRIL 11, 2022

We previously reported on a lawsuit between a team of educational textbook publishers "Publishers" and a logistics company. The Publishers claimed that Radius International, Inc.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

AUGUST 24, 2023

Some of the biggest companies on earth—including Meta and Microsoft—take aggressive, litigious approaches to prohibiting web scraping on their own properties, while taking liberal approaches to scraping data on other companies’ properties. The social media companies have no cognizable property right to assert in this content/data.

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TorrentFreak

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

As a registered company it was generating annual sales of around $7 million by 2013 and paid taxes to the state. DISH Lawsuit Takes a Second Bite Filed in a Florida district court in October 2020, the complaint alleged that Alfa TV Inc. DISH alleged that the men and Alfa TV Inc. Within days DISH moved to hold Alfa TV Inc.

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Indiana Intellectual Property Law

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

Crowne Point, Indiana – The Plaintiff, Orbital Engineering, Inc. Orbital”) filed suit against Defendants, DVG Team, Inc. The company services a broad range of industries, including infrastructure, metals, refinery, chemical, pipeline, terminal, gas processing and storage, and utilities.

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Patently-O

DECEMBER 21, 2022

Plastipak Packaging, Inc. Premium Waters, Inc. 19, 2021) reversed on appeal in Plastipak Packaging, Inc. Premium Waters, Inc. , — F.4th Usually it is no problem for a company to add additional inventors – even after the fact. Plastipak Packaging, Inc. Premium Waters, Inc. 4th — (Fed.

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TorrentFreak

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

It’s been around for at least eight years but in December 2021 it became clear that major movie and TV show companies had seen enough. Domain name registrars and registries API Gmbh, Gandi SAS, Namecheap, Inc., Nic AG, SWITCH, and Afilias, Inc., and primewire.vc to any other registrant or registrar. Primewire.ag

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IPilogue

APRIL 28, 2022

In March 2021, Rogers Communication Inc. announced an upcoming deal to buy Shaw Communications Inc for a US$26 billion takeover. If successful, Rogers will become Canada’s second -largest cellular and cable company operator. Canada would resultingly have three wireless providers to choose from instead of four.

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IP and Legal Filings

MARCH 5, 2024

Trademarks are becoming even more significant assets for companies trying to stand out in a competitive market due to the growth of online platforms and e-commerce. Further, when a company uses a similar or identical trademark to falsely portray its goods or services as those of another company, this is known as passing off.

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LexBlog IP

OCTOBER 4, 2022

In recent years, House Industries, a font foundry, has made copyright infringement accusations against Michaels Stores, Inc. Noteworthy companies like Samsung, Apple, Google, and Adobe all own several design patents for typefaces, examples of which are provided below. D879874, owned by Adobe, Inc., D964458, owned by Apple Inc.,

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TorrentFreak

AUGUST 11, 2022

“My original account just got removed by Reddit’s legal team. Documents filed at a court in California by Home Box Office, Inc. Discovery Inc. And that’s exactly what the company is doing. . “HOTD LEAKS VERIFIED BY COPYRIGHT STRIKE” they declared , before continuing the suspended user’s work.

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Herbert Smith Freehills

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

Leading international law firm Herbert Smith Freehills has advised Newborn Town Inc. Newborn Town Inc. Newborn Town Inc. The company went public on the Stock Exchange of Hong Kong in December 2019 and acquired Beijing Mico World Technology Co., HK) on completion of a HK$347 million (US$44.5 HK???????

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LexBlog IP

DECEMBER 2, 2022

announced its intent to acquire the global biosimilars business of its long-term partner Viatris, Inc. billion comes from a Sustainability Linked Loan (SLL), making it the largest SLL to pharmaceutical and biomanufacturing companies in the Asia-Pacific region. (a subsidiary of Biocon Ltd.)

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LexBlog IP

SEPTEMBER 27, 2021

Varsity Brands, Inc., Although the copyright protection afforded to this design is a thin one that will protect its owner from only “virtually identical” copying, such a right is still highly valuable to many companies in the furniture, housewares, and other industrial design spaces. ” Star Athletica, LLC v.

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LexBlog IP

OCTOBER 9, 2023

” In other words, football fans have come to know that the Packers specifically are playing football in part because of their team name: GREEN BAY PACKERS. The passion rose to a level that LBJ Trademarks LLC, LeBron James’ company, filed to register TACO TUESDAY as a trademark. Deion Sanders’ company.

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LexBlog IP

APRIL 7, 2022

Plaintiffs filed suit in the District Court for the District of Delaware against Shopify Inc. and TaskUs Inc., alleging that the companies failed to implement measures to prevent a data breach that resulted in a breach of their personal information and cryptocurrency portfolios.

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JIPL Online

APRIL 7, 2021

million,” showing that despite government agency efforts, the prevalence of counterfeit merchandise that infringes on sports team trademarks remains a constant problem. Euroquilt, Inc. , ii) Policy rationales behind trademark law and their application in the sprots apparel context. In Scandia Down Corp.

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TorrentFreak

JANUARY 1, 2024

Google is one of those platforms and without the diligence of the Google Search team, at least 150 articles published on TorrentFreak.com would’ve been disappeared over the years due to bogus DMCA notices. On April 3, 2023, we received an email from Turkey-based anti-piracy outfit DigiGuardians Inc.

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Fish & Richardson Trademark & Copyright Thoughts

MARCH 2, 2021

Fish & Richardson obtained denial of eight petitions for inter partes review (IPR) filed by Globus Medical Inc. The Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) found that Globus, a publicly-traded medical device company, failed to meet its burden and was not likely to prove any of the challenged claims of Moskowitz’s U.S.

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Fish & Richardson Trademark & Copyright Thoughts

OCTOBER 21, 2021

The investigation against them was initiated by the specialty product conglomerate Illinois Tool Works Inc. This case is an extension of our longtime work defending the intellectual property rights of Chinese companies in the U.S. Fish regularly secures patent and trademark protection for Chinese companies in the U.S.

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TorrentFreak

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

The company provided a copy of the copyright infringement notice sent to Cloudflare and demanded that the company hand over “information sufficient” to identify the persons infringing its works so that Shueisha could protect its rights under the Copyright Act. The attack was allegedly traced to AS9370 SAKURA Internet Inc.

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Velocity of Content

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

From Research and Industry News to Workforce Trends and Legislative Reform, Organizations Rely on the Reuse of Published Content to Support Collaboration and Drive Innovation CCC today announced key findings from the just released “ Information Seeking and Consumption Study ” based on data gathered by Outsell, Inc.,

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Herbert Smith Freehills

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

The company ranked first globally by nickel product trading volume in 2021, and first in China in terms of nickel ore trading volume in 2021, with a market share of 26.8% We look forward to continuing to support Chinese companies to access international investors through Hong Kong.". Lygend is Hong Kong's 6th largest IPO in 2022.

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Herbert Smith Freehills

DECEMBER 13, 2021

The company started from a business unit of Chinese delivery service giant SF Holding Group (002352.SZ), We congratulate SF Intra-city on its successful IPO, which reflects the company's ability to capture new consumption trends and meet evolving customer needs in China," said Hong Kong partner Jason Sung. "As billion in 2016 to 3.0

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U.S. Department of Commerce

FEBRUARY 25, 2022

President and CEO of KFA, Inc., a Chicago-area company that specializes in technology solutions for smart cities, capital construction, facilities management, and business continuity. companies to foreign markets. minority-owned companies interested in expanding in Southwestern Europe (Italy, Portugal and Spain).

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Trading Secrets

JUNE 22, 2022

The court also found that the trial court correctly found that the defendant’s letter for his new business constituted a solicitation as a matter of law because the letter went well beyond an announcement by actively encouraging customers to leave and do business with his new company. Silvermark).

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Herbert Smith Freehills

NOVEMBER 7, 2021

Leading global law firm Herbert Smith Freehills has advised CMBC Securities Company Limited and Guotai Junan Securities (Hong Kong) Limited as joint global coordinators of online marketing solutions provider UJU Holding Limited (01948.HK)'s We congratulate the company on this new chapter, and look forward to its continued success.".

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IPilogue

MARCH 22, 2022

Companies put forth that they have a limited number of qualified applicants who are diverse and this smaller applicant pool drives to disparities in the workplace, as opposed to peoples’ internal biases. It was inspiring to see women from diverse career paths, as not all started as IP professionals or were even sure of entering the IP space.

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