Plagiarism Today
MARCH 9, 2022
Earlier today, two Austrian brothers, Julian and Paul Zehetmayer, announced that they have purchased the intellectual property behind the name LimeWire and will be relaunching the service, though not in as a peer-to-peer file sharing service. Initially released in May 2000, Limewire was a peer-to-peer file sharing service that found a great deal of success and infamy following the closure of Napster in July 2001.
Intellectual Property Law Blog
MARCH 9, 2022
In Nippon Shinyaku v. Sarepta Therapeutics, the Federal Circuit held that a forum selection clause specifying that patent infringement or invalidity actions shall be filed in federal district court in Delaware made clear that any validity challenge was required to be brought in that court and that Sarepta’s IPR petitions filed with the Patent Trial and Appeal (“the Board”) contravened the plain language of the forum selection clause.
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Plagiarism Today
MARCH 9, 2022
Have any suggestions for the 3 Count? Let me know via Twitter @plagiarismtoday. 1: Cox Moves to Overturn $1 Billion Music Suit. First off today, Mike Farrell at Multichannel News reports that oral arguments are beginning today as Cox attempts to overturn a $1 billion judgment against them. Back in 2019, a jury verdict found that Cox was not doing enough on its network to deter piracy and, as such, awarded a group of some 53 music publishers a $1 billion judgment for some 10,000 instances of copy
Intellectual Property Law Blog
MARCH 9, 2022
In Nippon Shinyaku v. Sarepta Therapeutics, the Federal Circuit held that a forum selection clause specifying that patent infringement or invalidity actions shall be filed in federal district court in Delaware made clear that any validity challenge was required to be brought in that court and that Sarepta’s IPR petitions filed with the Patent Trial and Appeal (“the Board”) contravened the plain language of the forum selection clause.
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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?
Erik K Pelton
MARCH 9, 2022
Over the years, Erik has shared dozens of trademark registration tips. In this episode, he reveals the most important one. The post #1 Tip When Applying for Trademark Registration appeared first on Erik M Pelton & Associates, PLLC. Over the years, Erik has shared dozens of trademark registration tips. In this episode, he reveals the most important one.
TorrentFreak
MARCH 9, 2022
In 2019, several major music companies filed a lawsuit against Internet provider RCN. Helped by the RIAA, they argued that the ISP turned a blind eye to pirating subscribers. The lawsuit is in many regards similar to the ones against other ISPs, such as Cox, Grande, and Charter, which were all accused of failing to terminate the accounts of repeat infringers.
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Hugh Stephens Blog
MARCH 9, 2022
As you, dear reader, will know, this is a blog focused on copyright and content related issues, rather than politics, although at times there is an inevitable political spillover when dealing, for example, with the copyright dimensions of trade agreements, given that many such agreements are driven as much by political objectives as economic considerations. … Continue reading "Russia’s Invasion of Ukraine: It’s Also a Culture and Content War?
IP Watchdog
MARCH 9, 2022
On March 8, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit (CAFC) affirmed decisions by the International Trade Commission (the Commission) and the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (the Board or PTAB) both 1) declining to ban Renesas Electronics Corporation and other companies from importing into the United States products alleged to infringe upon Broadcom Corporation’s two patents and 2) finding certain claims of Broadcom's patents obvious.
IPilogue
MARCH 9, 2022
Photo by Jaroslav Nymburský ( Pexels ). Meena Alnajar is an IPilogue Writer, IP Innovation Clinic Fellow, and a 2L JD Candidate at Osgoode Hall Law School. . Although many aspects of life have become virtual, video games have always been virtual and well-loved. Behind every video game, there is a video game designer. And behind every designer, there is a publisher.
IP Watchdog
MARCH 9, 2022
It was a banner district court week, with 104 patent filings and 64 cases terminated, mostly file-and-settle non-practicing entity (NPE) litigation, and 26 Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) cases, including Nokia challenging NPE TQ Delta, LLC; Dexcom, Inc. filing against Abbot Diabetes Care Inc.; and Samsung filing against the Fortress IP-funded Netlist, Inc.
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IP Law 360
MARCH 9, 2022
A pool supply company has asked a Georgia federal court for temporary restraining orders against two former executives who left the company to start a competing business and are now allegedly stealing trade secrets and poaching employees.
JD Supra Law
MARCH 9, 2022
The term “microorganism” encompasses entities across the taxonomic classes including bacteria, actinomycetes, fungi, viruses, protozoa, and algae. According to current Chinese patent rules, a microorganism is neither an animal nor a plant.
IP Law 360
MARCH 9, 2022
Impossible Foods lodged an infringement suit Wednesday in Delaware federal court that accuses a rival of ripping off a patent for a beef-replicating ingredient to launch a plant-based alternative to hamburger meat.
JD Supra Law
MARCH 9, 2022
Artificial Intelligence and Societal Roles- The use of artificial intelligence (“AI”) continues to expand into aspects of our lives. From shopping to health care, everyone has benefited from the implementation of such technology.
Michael Geist
MARCH 9, 2022
The Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission issued a notable decision last month involving the creation of an annual digital media survey that likely provides an advance preview of how it will address Bill C-11 if it becomes law. That is a cause for concern, since the Commission apparently sees few limitations in its powers despite obvious doubts that it is operating within the boundaries of existing law.
JD Supra Law
MARCH 9, 2022
In three previous blog posts, we have discussed recent inventorship issues surrounding Artificial Intelligence (“AI”) and its implications for life sciences innovations – focusing specifically on scientist Stephen Thaler’s attempt to obtain a patent for an invention created by his AI system called DABUS (“Device for Autonomus Bootstrapping of Unified Sentence).
IP and Legal Filings
MARCH 9, 2022
Subway, the famous American fast food restaurant, has recently taken the indirect tax department to court, alleging that it was forced to pay differential Goods and Services Tax (GST) on services without issuance of any such notice. Subway Systems India alleged in the writ petition filed in the High Court of Punjab and Haryana that the tax department had issued several summons to their higher management over the taxability of intellectual property rights.
Nelligan Law
MARCH 9, 2022
Reading Time: 4 minutes On February 17, the Plaintiffs in the widely reported Ottawa “Freedom Convoy” class action obtained a Mareva injunction freezing assets. The order has been widely reported as being a ‘Canadian first’ in that it orders the freezing of cryptocurrency assets. Unfortunately for the Plaintiffs, and as brashly stated by the Nunchuk Development team, ordering the freezing of cryptocurrency assets is an exercise in ramming a round peg through a square hole.
Likelihood of Confusion
MARCH 9, 2022
Jim Lindgren of the The Volokh Conspiracy writes (hat tip to Glenn Reynolds), a tad grudgingly, of a kinder, gentler left-wing Supreme Court nominee on the issue of that supposedly. The post Love means … appeared first on LIKELIHOOD OF CONFUSION™.
Patently-O
MARCH 9, 2022
The chart below provides a contrasting glimpse into the subject matter of US-originated patents compared with their foreign-originated counterparts. For each art-unit grouping, I show the percent of patents having US inventors (residence).
Kashishipr
MARCH 9, 2022
A patent is a form of Intellectual Property (IP) granted to the owners of an invention or innovation, giving them the right to control how others could use or exploit their invention or innovation. At present, the software, in many cases, is released under what’s widely known as an ‘Open-Source License,’ which corresponds to the idea that anyone can view and modify the source code of a particular piece of software.
U.S. Department of Commerce
MARCH 9, 2022
NOAA’s GOES-T Blasts into Orbit: New Satellite will Support Weather Forecasts for the U.S. West Coast, Hawaii and Alaska. March 9, 2022. KCPullen@doc.gov. Wed, 03/09/2022 - 14:08. Weather and satellites. NOAA’s GOES-T , the third in a series of four advanced geostationary weather satellites, blasted into orbit aboard a United Launch Alliance Atlas V 541 rocket at 4:38 p.m.
IP and Legal Filings
MARCH 9, 2022
Introduction: Appreciating art, culture, and innovation is a prevalent practice for ages. The encouragement towards innovation is legalized under Intellectual copyrights patents and trademarks Rights are provided by the states around the globe. The IP dive pertains to all the original creations of humankind inclusive of technical or any scientific innovation.
U.S. Department of Commerce
MARCH 9, 2022
Three Organizations Win 2021 Baldrige Awards for Performance Excellence. March 9, 2022. KCPullen@doc.gov. Wed, 03/09/2022 - 14:18. Three U.S. organizations will receive the Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award, the nation’s only presidential award for performance excellence. Celebrating robust quality management systems, the Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award evaluates businesses and nonprofit organizations in seven areas defined by the Baldrige Excellence Framework : leadership; strate
IP and Legal Filings
MARCH 9, 2022
INTRODUCTION. If a singer, at a concert, was to sing in a melodious way, in an impromptu manner, i.e., there were no prior existing lyrics or melody, would such a singer be considered an author of the lyrics and the music, apart from being a performer Under Indian Copyright Law ? Interestingly, a lot of thought has been put into such a situation or any other situation of a similar kind, where a performer, say a singer, choreographer, or stand-up comedian, is creating a work on the spot through h
Nelligan Law
MARCH 9, 2022
Reading Time: 4 minutes On February 17, the Plaintiffs in the widely reported Ottawa “Freedom Convoy” class action obtained a Mareva injunction freezing assets. The order has been widely reported as being a ‘Canadian first’ in that it orders the freezing of cryptocurrency assets. Unfortunately for the Plaintiffs, and as brashly stated by the Nunchuk Development team, ordering the freezing of cryptocurrency assets is an exercise in ramming a round peg through a square hole.
IP Law 360
MARCH 9, 2022
A federal judge in New York has ruled, for the second time, that Facebook's news feed doesn't infringe patents owned by Mirror Worlds Technologies LLC, a Connecticut business notable for scoring big-ticket jury verdicts and settlements over patents from companies like Apple and Microsoft.
43(B)log
MARCH 9, 2022
Melwani v. Amazon.com, Inc., 2022 WL 670919, NO. C21-1329RSM (W.D. Wash. Mar. 7, 2022) Melwani owns the Royal Silk trademark for “a wide variety of products.” His marks are enrolled in Amazon Brand Registry, and Royal Silk Direct maintains an authorized Royal Silk “storefront” on Amazon.com. Nonetheless, Melwani alleged that Royal Silk was “plagued” by third party infringers, and his legal actions and notices allegedly resulted in the removal of about 200 infringing listings from Amazon.com that
IP Law 360
MARCH 9, 2022
The Federal Circuit on Wednesday said substantial evidence supports Patent Trial and Appeal Board decisions that upheld claims in three secure messaging patents owned by a Finnish tech company that accused Apple of infringing them.
Trading Secrets
MARCH 9, 2022
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IP Law 360
MARCH 9, 2022
A voice-based search company that has accused Amazon's Echo and Alexa products of infringing its voice user interface technology scored a win at the Patent Trial and Appeal Board, which upheld one of Voicebox Technologies' patents in a challenge from the tech giant.
43(B)log
MARCH 9, 2022
Brown Bottling Gp. v. Imperial Trading Co., 2022 WL 667780, No. 3:19-CV-142-HTW-LGI (S.D. Miss. Mar. 4, 2022) Brown Bottling alleged that it had the exclusive bottling, distribution, and sale rights for Pepsi & Dr. Pepper soft drinks in an exclusive geographic territory encompassing much of central and southern Mississippi, as well as two counties in Alabama.
IP Law 360
MARCH 9, 2022
The location of independent car dealerships can't be used to justify venue in patent litigation against auto manufacturers, the Federal Circuit said Wednesday, overriding U.S. District Judge Alan Albright for the first time in months.
JD Supra Law
MARCH 9, 2022
TTAB Cancellation Actions: Terminating an Infringing Trademark Registration - You learn that another person or entity has a registered trademark at the United States Patent and Trademark Office (the “USPTO”) that is similar to your trademark, is a generic or descriptive term you believe should not be “owned” by one party, is a mark that has been abandoned (or perhaps never used), or is a mark that was secured by fraudulent representations to the USPTO.
LexBlog IP
MARCH 9, 2022
Business owners need to know the commercial real estate lease contracts basics. Attorney Marcos gives 10 provisons to help entrepreneurs. The post 10 Commercial Real Estate Lease Provisions to Know appeared first on Legal Business Global.
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