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Friday Fantasies

The IPKat

Some excellent news was broken right before the end of 2023, with FeedSpot ranking The IPKat first in its list of ‘30 best UK Intellectual Property blogs’ based on “traffic, social media followers & freshness.” Assimilate webinars The Katfriends at Assimilate are organizing several webinars over the next few months.

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Multi-Level Marketing Company Sufficiently Alleges Reasonable Efforts Despite Posting Trade Secret Materials to Thousands

LexBlog IP

” Defendants first argued that the network of salespeople and customer lists on Facebook were owned by them, as they have ownership interests in their Facebook profiles, and that because each defendant’s Facebook friends could see the rest of their friend network, these lists were not confidential. .” The court disagreed.

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[Guest post] How much is that SEP in the window? 5 Themes from the IPKat/LSE Nokia v Daimler seminar

The IPKat

The social media posts that morning were of course riddled with congratulatory messages greeting the settlement, with some seizing the moment to declare that the settlement meant the end of component-level licensing arguments, while others pointed to the contrary, not least because no one knows the terms of the settlement.