LexBlog IP

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

As our blog has demonstrated time and again, aggressive, and immediate action is necessary in these situations and typically once the gauntlet is thrown down, settlement is difficult. From a general standpoint there are two sweet spots that appear in these types of cases when settlement has a shot. Mediation is a fair process.

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Patently-O

FEBRUARY 17, 2023

This landmark legislation, modeled on the Uniform Trade Secrets Act, elevated and expanded trade secret law’s role in the federal intellectual property system. DTSA fully opened the federal courts to trade secret litigation as well as added several new features, including an ex parte seizure remedy and whistleblower immunity.

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LexBlog IP

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

However, commonly overlooked is the fact that the underlying image or media fragment in a meme is someone’s intellectual property, and thus subject to potential legal implications if used improperly. Often, memes transform and grow as viewers and sharers add new, individualized glosses to the underlying media. Warner Bros.

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LexBlog IP

APRIL 13, 2023

Patent trolls leverage the litigation system to negotiate settlements for less than the cost of defending against a lawsuit. Patent trolls normally prefer to keep their operations as confidential as possible, as I wrote about in connection with the District of Delaware. .” How can you tell?

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LexBlog IP

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

We also noted that this theory could wreak havoc on routine employee departure litigation by creating a turf war between the court system and the NLRB. Takeaway : Companies often include a long list of information that qualifies as proprietary or confidential.

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TorrentFreak

DECEMBER 26, 2022

Confidential agreements with domain registrars and registries, for example, help to efficiently take down domain names. Government’s National Intellectual Property Rights Coordination Center. Interestingly, ACE has collected some large damages payments through its legal actions and many confidential settlements too.

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TorrentFreak

NOVEMBER 23, 2023

Bungie previously won several lawsuits against cheaters, either by default or through confidential settlements, but AimJunkies assigns little value to these achievements. Bungie has repeatedly stressed that cheaters are not tolerated as they ruin the pleasure of honest players, which ultimately hurts sales of games such as Destiny 2.

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LexBlog IP

AUGUST 4, 2021

On July 20, 2021, after nearly four years of litigation, Johnson & Johnson (J&J) and Pfizer have agreed to dismiss all claims asserted in the antitrust suit brought by Pfizer in the Eastern District of Pennsylvania regarding Remicade (infliximab). According to J&J , “The U.S. competition-based model is working.

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LexBlog IP

OCTOBER 18, 2023

3] On July 21, 2023, Aicon Art moved to disqualify the Law Firm from representing Aicon Contemporary in the litigation, alleging that Aicon Art and Aicon Contemporary had jointly retained the Law Firm to assist in preparing the Toor Agreement and related logistics. [4] 11] The decision provides a lesson for art market participants.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

DECEMBER 15, 2021

The Lenz case got a lot of press, but it ended with a confidential settlement. To my knowledge, the only litigated case that resulted in a 512(f) win was Online Policy Group v. The 512(f) plaintiff wins after 3 years of litigation and a bench trial. A few plaintiffs have won default judgments (including one I blog below).

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Patently-O

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

Stroud is General Counsel at Unified Patents – an organization often adverse to litigation-funded entities. [1] litigation finance boom of the past 20 years—as has been widely reported, private equity now undergirds huge swaths of U.S. Guest post by Jonathan Stroud. Patent assertion finance today is a multibillion-dollar business. [2]

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Fish & Richardson Trademark & Copyright Thoughts

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

Yet 2020 saw a slowdown in biosimilar activity with the lowest number of annual biosimilar approvals since 2016 and fewer product launches than 2019—as well as a decrease in district court litigation and post-grant proceedings. BPCIA Litigation. Antitrust Litigation. No earlier than July 31, 2023 per settlement.

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SpicyIP

MARCH 11, 2024

Highlights of the Week Hot-Tubbing in Indian IP Litigation: Delhi High Court Issues Directives in High-Stakes Patent Infringement Case Image from [link] here Recently, the DHC issued directives regarding expert evidence in the Perjeta patent litigation. Please let us know in the comments below. Read on to know more!

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Biswajit Sarkar Copyright Blog

MAY 7, 2021

The first application for a blockchain patent was submitted by the Industrial and Commercial Bank of China with China’s State Intellectual Property Office in November 2017. An opt-in scheme could address the confidentiality concerns of IP owners. However, are the blockchain technologies really patentable?

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Biswajit Sarkar Copyright Blog

MAY 7, 2021

The first application for a blockchain patent was submitted by the Industrial and Commercial Bank of China with China’s State Intellectual Property Office in November 2017. An opt-in scheme could address the confidentiality concerns of IP owners. However, are the blockchain technologies really patentable?

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Biswajit Sarkar Copyright Blog

MAY 7, 2021

The first application for a blockchain patent was submitted by the Industrial and Commercial Bank of China with China’s State Intellectual Property Office in November 2017. An opt-in scheme could address the confidentiality concerns of IP owners. However, are the blockchain technologies really patentable?

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Trading Secrets

DECEMBER 19, 2023

A day before the FTC issued its proposed rulemaking, the FTC issued a press release that it had sued, and reached a settlement with, three employers in the security and manufacturing sector that the FTC alleged had “illegally imposed noncompete restrictions on workers.”

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LexBlog IP

DECEMBER 19, 2023

A day before the FTC issued its proposed rulemaking, the FTC issued a press release that it had sued, and reached a settlement with, three employers in the security and manufacturing sector that the FTC alleged had “illegally imposed noncompete restrictions on workers.”

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TorrentFreak

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

Gayduchenko agrees that judgment shall be entered against him “in the amount of two million dollars ($2,000,000), to be due and payable solely pursuant to the terms set forth in the Parties’ Confidential Settlement Agreement and Release.” “The Court is a neutral adjudicator of the law.

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Fish & Richardson Trademark & Copyright Thoughts

JANUARY 5, 2022

With these technical advances comes an increase in legal activity, including intellectual property (“IP”) filings and litigation. 19 Ancillary technologies have likewise seen a spike in patent litigation activity in recent years, including charging technologies and battery control systems (e.g.,

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LexBlog IP

APRIL 3, 2023

This is an important decision to review in understanding licensing and litigation of international SEP portfolios. While negotiating with Ericsson, Intex had filed a complaint with the Competition Commission of India (CCI) and also had challenged patent validity in the Intellectual Property Appellate Board (IPAB).

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LexBlog IP

JUNE 7, 2023

2] The European intellectual property landscape is already undergoing major upheaval with the launch of the Unified Patent Court (the “UPC”) on 1 June 2023. [3] Essentiality checks do not eliminate litigation. Confidential nature of the EUIPO’s findings.

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LexBlog IP

MARCH 12, 2023

District Court of Nevada ruled on a host of different requests to exclude evidence, including requests under Daubert and other expert challenges, Rule 408 settlement discussions and evidence of the parties’ respective wealth. Litigation Funders Beware! Want to persuade a litigation funder to help you with your trade secrets case?

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LexBlog IP

APRIL 20, 2022

” The need for spring cleaning, and a sense of coming out of hibernation, seems especially acute this April for this intellectual property lawyer. Beyond these IP cases and properties, the notion of spring cleaning has been applied to courts sorting through the issues before them.

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