Plagiarism Today
MARCH 29, 2022
Have any suggestions for the 3 Count? Let me know via Twitter @plagiarismtoday. 1: Court Denies Cox’s Challenge of $1 Billion Music Piracy Verdict. First off today, Ernesto Van der Sar at Torrentfreak writes that a Virginia federal court has rejected Cox Communications’ bid to overturn a $1 billion judgment against them in their long-running dispute with the record labels.
IPilogue
MARCH 29, 2022
Sally Yoon is an IPilogue Writer and a 2L JD Candidate at Osgoode Hall Law School. This article is part of a series covering the 5th Annual IP Data & Research Conference, hosted by the Canadian Intellectual Property Office and the Centre for International Governance Innovation. The 5 th Annual IP Data & Research Conference , organized by the Canadian Intellectual Property Office (“CIPO”) and the Centre for International Governance Innovation (“CIGI”), included a session on “Clean Technol
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Technology & Marketing Law Blog
MARCH 29, 2022
This lawsuit involves the freemium videogame “ Forge of Empires.” The plaintiff, Penny Quinteros (a/k/a TwoCents), claims she became addicted to the game. She played the game virtually every day from 2016-19–over 10,000 hours worth–and spent over $9,000 on in-game transactions. She also claims that she was harassed by in-game moderators who are “volunteers” but compensated with extra in-game privileges and currency.
TorrentFreak
MARCH 29, 2022
In 2018, Canada’s Federal Court approved the country’s first pirate site-blocking order. Following a complaint from major media companies Rogers, Bell and TVA, the Court ordered several major ISPs to block access to the domains and IP-addresses of pirate IPTV service GoldTV. Site Blocking Appeals. There was little opposition from Internet providers, except for TekSavvy, which quickly announced an appeal.
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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?
IP Watchdog
MARCH 29, 2022
Last week, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit (CAFC) reversed and remanded a decision by the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Texas that Dyfan, LLC’s claims were invalid as indefinite. The CAFC concluded that the disputed claim limitations were not drafted in means-plus-function format, and therefore 35 U.S.C. § 112 ¶ 6 did not apply.
TorrentFreak
MARCH 29, 2022
When Vladimir Putin’s tanks and an estimated 200,000 troops began to roll across the border on February 24, 2022, his military expected swift subjugation of Ukraine. Four weeks later amid massive loss of human life and widespread destruction, things are not going to plan for Russia, militarily or economically. An unprecedented sanctions package aimed at deterring Putin has plunged Russia’s economy into crisis and in common with Russia’s bombs hitting innocent civilians in Ukrai
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IP Law 360
MARCH 29, 2022
Patent pool MPEG LA has sued Samsung in German court, claiming its former member has continued to use its portfolio of high efficiency video coding patents without payment or permission.
JD Supra Law
MARCH 29, 2022
Last week, Senators Thom Tillis (R-NC), Tom Cotton (R-AR), and Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) sent a letter to Secretary of Commerce Gina Raimondo (at right) to express their "grave concerns with the so called 'compromise' agreement to waive global intellectual property protections for Covid-19 vaccines." Earlier this month, Reuters reported that the United States, European Union, India, and South Africa had reached an agreement on a waiver with respect to patents for COVID-19 vaccines (see.
IP Law 360
MARCH 29, 2022
A San Francisco federal jury found Tuesday that Yahoo Inc. infringed Droplets Inc.'s patented technology for quickly updating web pages, saying the Silicon Valley web services giant owes $15 million to the small Texas company, which had sought $260 million in damages.
JD Supra Law
MARCH 29, 2022
Rasmussen Instruments, LLC (“Rasmussen”) won a $20M jury verdict against DePuy Synthes (“Depuy”), a part of Johnson & Johnson Medical Devices Companies. Rasmussen asserted Patent Nos. US 9,492,180 (‘180 patent) and US 10,517,583 (‘583 patent), both titled “Arthroplasty systems and methods for optimally aligning and tensioning a knee prosthesis,” against DePuy’s “Balanced Sizer” product for its Attune® Knee System.
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Intellectual Property Office Blog
MARCH 29, 2022
Did you know that intellectual property (IP) is likely to play a part in the foundation of every business, generating key assets to kickstart future success? This might be when you protect your name or business logo, protect your designs and the technical ways in which your product works, or when you protect your original literary, musical or artistic creations.
JD Supra Law
MARCH 29, 2022
Premier forum which shapes the law, policy, and proceedings of Paragraph IV Litigation is back to New York City on April 26-27! Pharmaceutical patent practitioners from across the globe attend this flagship conference to confer with each other and assess the implications and imprimaturs of court cases, legislation, and industry behaviors which affect the patent endgame and the pursuit of related profits.
Copyright Alliance
MARCH 29, 2022
About a half century ago, when the existing Copyright Act was enacted, the nature of journalism did not look like the fast-paced nature of the field today. Reporters, editors, fact-checkers, […]. The post Copyright in Journalism and News Reporting appeared first on Copyright Alliance.
JD Supra Law
MARCH 29, 2022
On September 29, 2021, the Attorney General of Canada sought leave to appeal a decision of the Federal Court of Appeal (2021 FCA 157) setting aside the decision of the Federal Court dismissing Alexion’s application for judicial review, and remitting the matter to the Patented Medicine Prices Review Board (Board). The Federal Court of Appeal expressed concerns with both the adequacy of the Board’s reasons and the substantive reasonableness of its reasons in determining that Alexion’s SOLIRIS.
IAM Magazine
MARCH 29, 2022
Huge dollar sums are at stake in the Swedish company’s licensing dispute with the iPhone giant, writes Avikka AB managing director Eric Stasik.
JD Supra Law
MARCH 29, 2022
(Part 1 of a 4 Part Series) - The application of innovative data driven approaches such as bioinformatics and artificial intelligence to the life science sector has brought about a change in way that biological inventions can be protected by patent laws.
Nelligan Law
MARCH 29, 2022
Reading Time: 3 minutes Like many other aspects of life, commercial and industrial real estate has felt the drastic effects of the COVID-19 pandemic. As a reaction to the shift from working at the office to working at home, continuous government shutdowns and restrictions, and the rise of e-commerce, many businesses have had to rethink their entire business operation to remain profitable and relevant.
IP Close Up
MARCH 29, 2022
The first three IP CloseUp readers who email explore@understandingip.org will receive complimentary registration to the 5th Intellectual Property Awareness Summit. IPAS 2022 is being held at Continue reading.
IP Law 360
MARCH 29, 2022
Epic's "Fortnite" brand was hit with a new copyright infringement lawsuit on Tuesday from a choreographer who says the video game lets its players rip off a popular dance he made that accompanies a Charlie Puth song.
The TTABlog
MARCH 29, 2022
The Board repeatedly tells us that there is no per se rule that all beverages are related for Section 2(d) purposes. Okay, then how do you think this appeal came out? The USPTO refused to register the mark ROCKAWAY for "Non-alcoholic sparkling water-based beverages, namely, functional beverages containing herbal extracts, plant infusions, and fruit," finding confusion likely with the registered mark ROCKAWAY BREWING COMPANY for "Beer; Brewed malt-based alcoholic beverage[s] in the nature of a be
IP Law 360
MARCH 29, 2022
A California federal judge refused Tuesday to let Gilead forcibly revive an Aetna lawsuit, which the insurer voluntarily dismissed, in order to avoid a state court fight alongside the array of federal antitrust lawsuits accusing the drugmaker and others of driving up HIV drug prices by illegally staving off cheaper generic versions.
Patently-O
MARCH 29, 2022
by Dennis Crouch. I’ve written a number of times about the Supreme Court’s old decision in Halliburton Oil Well Cementing Co. v. Walker , 329 U.S. 1 (1946). Walker’s patent claimed a “means. for tuning” a sound filter to a particular vibration frequency while looking for an oil-well blockage. The Supreme Court found the claim problematic because it did not claim the physical characteristics of the invention’s point-of-novelty, but instead that tuning element
IP Law 360
MARCH 29, 2022
A vape company sued a rival in California federal court Monday, claiming the competitor infringed on its patent for a portable vaporizer.
IAM Magazine
MARCH 29, 2022
“Take me seriously, because you're going to spend a bunch of money and then decide you need to take a licence,” says Bill LaFontaine, Big Blue’s general manager of intellectual property, in an exclusive IAM interview.
LexBlog IP
MARCH 29, 2022
With significant increases in both standard and (especially) innovation patent applications , 2021 should have been a bumper year for patent attorneys operating in Australia. And although that was true overall, the benefits were not uniformly distributed. While some smaller firms experienced gains in filing numbers well above the overall growth rate, a number of larger firms within the publicly-listed ownership groups struggled to keep pace.
Likelihood of Confusion
MARCH 29, 2022
So much for Special Creation in blog graphics, I guess. It seems that the theologically inclined among us trademark law types think alike… but in any event, it’s good news. The post Fashion ex nihilo? appeared first on LIKELIHOOD OF CONFUSION™.
IP and Legal Filings
MARCH 29, 2022
INTRODUCTION. “Intellectual Property” refers to mental creations such as inventions, literary and creative works, as well as symbols, names, and pictures utilised in business. With evolution and development in recent trends and creations, every person got the right to protect their artistic creativity by acquiring intellectual property rights to save their invention from being violated by the competition present in the market.
LexBlog IP
MARCH 29, 2022
On March 22, British Columbia’s Ministry of Health announced that three new enoxaparin biosimilars, Valero Pharmaceuticals’ REDESCA, Juno Pharmaceuticals’ NOROMBY, and Sandoz’s INCLUNOX, would be covered by PharmaCare, the province’s public health plan. Enoxaparin is a blood thinner that is used for the prevention and treatment of blood clot disorders.
Above the Fold
MARCH 29, 2022
The quicker, streamlined, and less expensive method for resolving copyright infringement matters valued at under $30,000 will soon be available to copyright enforcers. Currently scheduled to begin hearing cases in Spring 2022, which may be extended into late June 2022, the Copyright Claims Board (CCB) was established by the Copyright Alternative in Small-Claims Enforcement Act passed by Congress on December 27, 2020.
LexBlog IP
MARCH 29, 2022
Employers faced with an apparent trade secret misappropriation by former employees must decide what jurisdiction to bring suit in. For an employer headquartered outside of California who employs California residents working primarily in California, choice of law and forum selection clauses favoring states other than California may be ineffective against them unless they had counsel who negotiated the provisions on their behalves.
JD Supra Law
MARCH 29, 2022
Hunting Titan, Inc. v. DynaEnergetics Europe GMBH, Appeal Nos. 2020-2163, -2191 (Fed. Cir. March 24, 2022) - In a notable review of the USPTO’s new Precedential Opinions Panel, the Federal Circuit discussed the circumstances under which the Patent Trial and Appeal Board should raise a ground of unpatentability against substitute proposed claims in a motion to amend that a petitioner has not advanced or insufficiently developed.
LexBlog IP
MARCH 29, 2022
The quicker, streamlined, and less expensive method for resolving copyright infringement matters valued at under $30,000 will soon be available to copyright enforcers. Currently scheduled to begin hearing cases in Spring 2022, which may be extended into late June 2022, the Copyright Claims Board (CCB) was established by the Copyright Alternative in Small-Claims Enforcement Act passed by Congress on December 27, 2020.
JD Supra Law
MARCH 29, 2022
Following multiple extensions of the notice and comment period for the establishment of the Copyright Claims Board under the CASE Act, the Copyright Office has published its highly anticipated final rule for the initiation of proceedings before the Board. The CASE Act establishes a voluntary forum, the Copyright Claims Board, in which parties can resolve disputes valued at $30,000 or less and has been heralded as ideal for pro se copyright holders.
Velocity of Content
MARCH 29, 2022
CCC has earned a 2022 Top Workplaces USA national award from Energage , a technology company that empowers workplace excellence. This employer recognition program recognizes organizations across the country that have built exceptional workplace cultures. The Top Workplaces USA national award is open to organizations with 150 or more U.S. employees.
Patent Trademark Blog
MARCH 29, 2022
How many patent Office Actions are possible? No, there are no limits to how many patent Office Actions (OA) an Examiner can issue. Sadly, multiple Office Actions are quite common in utility patent applications. How far you are willing to go to fight a patent rejection will likely depend on other factors. What is your budget? How close are the prior art references ?
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