The IPKat

JULY 17, 2021

The EPO yesterday announced the Enlarged Board of Appeal (EBA) decision in G1/21 (ViCo oral proceedings). The EPO press release can be read here. In what will be a disappointment to many, the EBA has limited its answer to the legality of mandatory oral proceedings during a period of general emergency. The question of whether new Article 15a of the Rules of Procedure of the Boards of Appeal is permitted under the EPC has therefore not been addressed.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

JULY 17, 2021

The plaintiff is deaf. He tried to watch videos on the USA Today website but couldn’t due to the lack of closed captioning. USA Today defended on the grounds that its website isn’t a place of public accommodation. The court treats this as a straightforward case: Neither a newspaper publisher nor a digital media content provider falls within any of the twelve enumerated places of public accommodation categories under the ADA… Plaintiff points to defendants’ offices, video and te

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Likelihood of Confusion

JULY 17, 2021

Originally published on February 21, 2014. In October of 2013 I blogged here about my participation in a panel on “trademark misuse” at the annual meeting of the AIPLA, where, The post Best of 2014: Nothing but err appeared first on LIKELIHOOD OF CONFUSION™.

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The Trichordist

JULY 17, 2021

[This post first appeared on MusicTech.

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Speaker: Blackberry, OSS Consultants, & Revenera

Software is complex, which makes threats to the software supply chain more real every day. 64% of organizations have been impacted by a software supply chain attack and 60% of data breaches are due to unpatched software vulnerabilities. In the U.S. alone, cyber losses totaled $10.3 billion in 2022. All of these stats beg the question, “Do you know what’s in your software?

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Selvam & Selvam Blog

JULY 17, 2021

As you may recall, the Tribunals Reforms (Rationalisation and Conditions of Service) Ordinance, 2021 was promulgated by the President of India and notified on April 4, 2021. It amended several acts relating to Intellectual Property Rights (IPR), effectively abolished various Boards/Tribunals including the Intellectual Property Appellate Board, and vested the power to deal with pending and fresh matters which were originally the jurisdiction of such Boards/Tribunals in the appropriate High Courts

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IAM Magazine

JULY 17, 2021

Neither SCOTUS nor the USPTO has come up with a workable solution to the issues at the heart of the case.

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