IP Watchdog

APRIL 18, 2022

The New York Times Editorial Board over the weekend penned an op-ed charging that the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) has “devolved into a backwater office that large corporations game, politicians ignore and average citizens are wholly excluded from.” The piece calls for an overhaul of the U.S. patent system and for new USPTO Director Kathi Vidal and Congress to “seize the opportunity…to modernize and fortify the patent system.

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TorrentFreak

APRIL 18, 2022

“I woke up to the sounds of a door breaking down. I got out of bed and saw screaming people running towards me upstairs. I’ve tried to close the door to the bedroom. My wife woke up and started screaming loudly in panic…” “My first thought was that these people were robbers, or maybe worse…” During the summer of 2017, the French authorities booked a massive success with the shutdown of T411 , a popular semi-private torrent tracker with over five million regist

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IP Watchdog

APRIL 18, 2022

Last week, U.S. District Judge James Donato of the Northern District of California issued a judgment on the pleadings invalidating claims from one of 12 patents asserted by semiconductor and software developer Broadcom against streaming video provider Netflix. The ruling is the latest setback for Broadcom in its enforcement campaign against Netflix’s use of patented server technologies to support streaming media services that are cutting into Broadcom’s market for semiconductors developed for us

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Intepat

APRIL 18, 2022

Necessity has been called the mother of all inventions and the most recent example of the same was seen when the world was caught unawares in the midst of the Covid-19 pandemic in 2020, without any cure available. However, soon there was a surge of hope as we finally found a breakthrough in the form of anti-virals and mRNA vaccines. A similar account of inevitable human innovation is also discussed in the World Intellectual Property Report 2022 (“ Report ”) titled as “ The Direction of Innovatio

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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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IP Watchdog

APRIL 18, 2022

This week in Washington IP news, while both houses of Congress remain quiet during regularly scheduled work periods, the Hudson Institute takes a deeper look at the U.S. Department of Justice Antitrust Division’s recent draft policy statement on SEPs from the view of those who feel that the statement doesn’t include enough support for SEP owners. Elsewhere, the American Enterprise Institute looks at privacy concerns prevalent during the adoption of central bank digital currencies, the Informatio

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IAM Magazine

APRIL 18, 2022

IAM turned to Docket Navigator for a status update on nine US patent cases between the Taiwanese and Dutch semiconductor companies, and peeked into their broader litigation histories as well.

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Likelihood of Confusion

APRIL 18, 2022

First published on July 15, 2013. Here I thought I understood something about the Lanham Act. But wait, there’s more! Did you know this?: The purpose of the Lanham Act is. The post Best of 2013: The Lanham Act’s surprising penumbras appeared first on LIKELIHOOD OF CONFUSION™.

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JD Supra Law

APRIL 18, 2022

Kilpatrick Townsend’s Michael Pavento, Stephen Dew, and Tony Glosson, recently spoke on a panel at the firm’s annual Kilpatrick Townsend Intellectual Property Seminar (KTIPS) on the topic of “Coexisting: Synergies and Tensions Among Open Source Software, Privacy, and Patents.” The panel discussed the use and licensing of open source software and the patent and privacy law implications of doing so.

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IP.com

APRIL 18, 2022

Economic pressures from the pandemic have left universities looking for new ways to boost revenue. Strategies for doing so have been developing since the Bayh-Dole Act (enacted in 1980) but. The post Old Meets New in University IP Commercialization appeared first on IP.com - IP Innovation and Analytics.

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JD Supra Law

APRIL 18, 2022

This weekend The New York Times published an editorial opinion entitled "Save America's Patent System." It bemoans the purported prevalence of "bad patents" -- including "uninspiring tweaks" to existing products -- that supposedly undermine innovation. This led the Times to call for radical patent reform.

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Intepat

APRIL 18, 2022

Intellectual property rights (IPR) offer protection and grant exclusive rights to the creator’s work. Copyrights are a form of IPR that offers protection to a wide range of artistic and literary works of a creator. It includes musical works, photographic works, artistic works, motion pictures, and computer programs. As the name suggests, copyright means the right to copy.

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JD Supra Law

APRIL 18, 2022

Given the expanding importance and usage of NFTs (non-fungible tokens), litigation was inevitable. One of the first such cases is Nike, Inc. v. StockX LLC, a trademark infringement action in the Southern District of New York. Because there is so little legal precedent about NFTs, this will be an intriguing test case for attorneys, creators, and businesses alike.

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IAM Magazine

APRIL 18, 2022

New proposals outlined in the federal budget are designed to enable the country to become a patent power on a par with the top performing members of the group.

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JD Supra Law

APRIL 18, 2022

As you’ve read in this space before, copyright law can be hard to navigate. Because copyright infringement is a strict liability tort, copying someone else’s material can lead to much more serious consequences than when you looked at the class brain’s math homework in 7th grade. There have been some hefty awards in copyright infringement cases in the news recently, like the jury verdict (later reversed) that would have had Katy Perry paying $2.8 million to rapper Marcus Gray for supposedly using

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IAM Magazine

APRIL 18, 2022

Entity assigned more than 100 patents by the Korean tech giant is run by previous chief of Samsung’s semiconductor IP division.

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Olartemoure Blog

APRIL 18, 2022

La entrada Infographic | What is the Metaverse? se publicó primero en OlarteMoure | Intellectual Property.

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The TTABlog

APRIL 18, 2022

Last week, the TTAB ruled on the appeals from the three Section 2(e)(1) mere descriptiveness refusals, summarized below. Let's see how you do with them. Results will be found in the first comment. Gulf Breeze Treatment Center, LLC , Serial No. 88934988 (April 15, 2022) [not precedential] (Opinion by Judge David K. Heasley). [Mere descriptiveness refusal of TELERECOVERY (in standard characters) for addiction treatment services, namely, drug and alcohol addiction counseling.

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IP Law 360

APRIL 18, 2022

A California federal judge wrongly concluded that the Federal Circuit has created a "bright-line rule" that infringement notice letters can't justify personal jurisdiction, the appeals court said Monday in reviving a patent suit brought by Apple.

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Trading Secrets

APRIL 18, 2022

A federal court in Texas recently provided useful insights on what constitutes “solicitation” by a former employee under that employee’s restrictive covenant with his former employer, and the court provided further insights on what inferences courts will, and will not, draw in favor of a plaintiff seeking a preliminary injunction based on alleged misappropriation of trade secrets.[1].

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IP Law 360

APRIL 18, 2022

The Patent Trial and Appeal Board has agreed to review two Vocalife LLC microphone patents, one of which a Texas jury ordered Amazon to pay $5 million for infringing, agreeing with challenger Google LLC that the patents are likely invalid.

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Patently-O

APRIL 18, 2022

In Amgen v. Sanofi , the Supreme Court has been asked to review Federal Circuit precedent on the enablement doctrine found in 35 U.S.C. § 112(a). Although still uncertain, the case has a strong chance of being granted certiorari. Most recently, the Supreme Court requested that the US Solicitor General file a brief in the case indicating the views of the U.S.

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IP Law 360

APRIL 18, 2022

A ruling from a California federal judge left Post Malone unable to fully defeat a lawsuit from an artist claiming he helped write a No. 1 hit by the rapper, holding that the artist can still go to trial and seek to establish rights to a jam session that led to "Circles.

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Patently-O

APRIL 18, 2022

by Dennis Crouch. This week, the New York Times published a lengthy staff editorial negatively focusing on the U.S. patent office as a “backwater” used for corporate gamesmanship, won-over by “legal trickery,” and undermining innovation whenever possible. It appears primarily a hit piece designed to destabilize and direct Dir. Kathi Vidal’s initial weeks as USPTO Director.

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IP Law 360

APRIL 18, 2022

Recent copyright infringement decisions in favor of musicians Ed Sheeran, Katy Perry and Led Zeppelin should help turn the tide against frivolous music copyright lawsuits, says Gerald Sauer at Sauer & Wagner.

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Intepat

APRIL 18, 2022

Intellectual property rights (IPR) offer protection and grant exclusive rights to the creator’s work. Copyrights are a form of IPR that protects a wide range of artistic and literary works of a creator. It includes musical , photographic, artistic, motion pictures, and computer programs. As the name suggests, copyright means the right to copy, which signifies that only the creator of the work has the right to use it.

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IP Law 360

APRIL 18, 2022

The Patent Trial and Appeal Board has axed part of a video technology patent asserted against the owner of Pornhub that allows users to record a review of a service or product, finding 13 claims were obvious or anticipated by prior art.

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Intepat

APRIL 18, 2022

World Intellectual Property Report 2022. Necessity has been called the mother of all inventions, and the most recent example was when the world was caught unawares amid the Covid-19 pandemic in 2020 without any cure available. However, soon there was a surge of hope as we finally found a breakthrough in the form of anti-virals and mRNA vaccines. A similar account of inevitable human innovation is also discussed in the World Intellectual Property Report 2022 (“ Report “) titled “

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IP Law 360

APRIL 18, 2022

Intellectual property firm Patterson + Sheridan LLP rehired a former counsel as industrial services assistant general counsel to its Houston office, the firm announced last week.

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IAM Magazine

APRIL 18, 2022

EPO patent applications originating in Japan, China and Korea suggest the region’s tech giants are poised to take advantage as Europe becomes even more important to patent strategy.

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IP Law 360

APRIL 18, 2022

Husch Blackwell has hired a former chief of staff of Andrei Iancu, former director of the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, for its intellectual property practice and technology, manufacturing and transportation practice group in Washington, the firm announced Friday.

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IAM Magazine

APRIL 18, 2022

IAM turned to Docket Navigator for a status update on nine US patent cases between the Taiwanese and Dutch semiconductor companies, and peeked into their broader litigation histories as well.

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JD Supra Law

APRIL 18, 2022

The US Supreme Court is set to hear a case regarding fair use as it pertains to a photo of the universally known music artist, Prince. The nation’s highest court will hopefully clarify when and how artists can make use of the work of others.

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LexBlog IP

APRIL 18, 2022

Catalent and Abzena both recently announced substantial investments into new biologics facilities. Catalent is spending up to $160 million to build a new manufacturing facility near Oxford, UK. Catalent plans to equip the facility with “state-of-the-art capabilities for the development and manufacture of biologic therapies and vaccines, including mRNA, proteins and other advanced modalities,” and hopes to start servicing customer programs from the new facility before the end of 2022.

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JD Supra Law

APRIL 18, 2022

The Federal Circuit has vacated and remanded a district court’s ruling of noninfringement because of erroneous claim construction that would leave the dependent claims of a patent with no scope. In Littelfuse, Inc. v. Mersen USA EP Corp, Littelfuse alleged that Mersen infringed U.S. Patent No. 9,564,281.

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Velocity of Content

APRIL 18, 2022

“Data Directions,” a CCC Town Hall, featured global experts in technology, public policy, and media, who offered insights on the boom in big data. While data and data mining technology can accelerate discovery and decision-making, they noted, misapplication of data can raise critical questions about privacy and equity. Dr. Sonia Shaikh’s research interests include how individuals and teams use AI-enabled and automated technology to make decisions, interact, and perform.

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