TorrentFreak
FEBRUARY 22, 2022
Pirate site blockades are the preferred anti-piracy tool for many copyright holders around the world. This is also the case in Australia, where blocking injunctions are commonplace today. This week, a group of prominent Hollywood studios, Netflix, and Village Roadshow, obtained the latest blocking order in Australia’s Federal Court. Fresh Blocking Order.
IP Watchdog
FEBRUARY 22, 2022
You may have heard that on January 1, 2022, Winnie-the-Pooh and the other characters from the Hundred Acre Wood are now in the public domain. But did you know that not all of Christopher Robin’s friends are treated the same in the eyes of copyright law? The characters have multiple authors, including A.A. Milne who first published Winnie-the-Pooh in 1926, and The Walt Disney Company, which brought the stories to the screen.
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TorrentFreak
FEBRUARY 22, 2022
PrimeWire is a popular streaming portal that provides a database of links to pirated movies and TV shows hosted by third parties. It’s been around for at least eight years but in December 2021 it became clear that major movie and TV show companies had seen enough. In a lawsuit filed by Paramount, Universal, Warner, Columbia, Disney and Netflix in the United States, the studios accused PrimeWire of massive copyright infringement by encouraging users of the site to upload links to pirated co
Erik K Pelton
FEBRUARY 22, 2022
There are several important reasons why an applicant benefits from using a trademark attorney, to gain maximum Return on Trademark Investment. This episode outlines some of these reasons. The post Do I Need a Lawyer to File a Trademark Application? appeared first on Erik M Pelton & Associates, PLLC. There are several important reasons why an applicant benefits from using a trademark attorney, to gain maximum Return on Trademark Investment.
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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
FEBRUARY 22, 2022
On Friday, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit (CAFC) agreed with the Patent Trial and Appeal Board’s (PTAB’s) decision that the original claims of Zaxcom’s U.S. Patent No. 9,336,307 for Engineering Emmy® and technical OSCAR award-winning wireless microphone technology were unpatentable as obvious. However, the court upheld the substitute claims Zaxcom had proposed.
IPilogue
FEBRUARY 22, 2022
Madelaine Lynch is an IP Intensive student and a 3L JD candidate at Osgoode Hall Law School. As part of the course requirements, students were asked to write a reflective blog on their internship experience. I am extremely grateful for the 10 short weeks I got to spend (virtually) at ventureLAB. ventureLAB is not-for-profit technology hub in York Region which is not only an amazing resource for tech companies, but also an amazing place to work. ventureLAB works with start-ups from the early to l
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Copyright Alliance
FEBRUARY 22, 2022
The last thing anyone wants to do on social media is to get into trouble. But trouble on social media can come from more than just cringey or offensive posts. […]. The post Top 5 Fair Use Myths on Social Media appeared first on Copyright Alliance.
IP Law 360
FEBRUARY 22, 2022
The Federal Circuit on Tuesday revised a recent decision involving Apple to delete language that suggested the America Invents Act's estoppel provision, which prohibits invalidity arguments in district court after an unsuccessful inter partes review, applies more broadly than the law states.
JD Supra Law
FEBRUARY 22, 2022
Spend some time at any intellectual property (IP) industry event and it won’t be long before you hear “AI” being talked about in one context or another. Artificial Intelligence (AI) has augmented many areas of patent attorneys’ lives, including patent search, analysis, and drafting. That said, the most meaningful and consistent cost-reduction AI brings to the patent world is in translations.
Traverse Legal Blog
FEBRUARY 22, 2022
Because it’s fairly easy to list a property for short-term rent, you may be asking yourself the question of “why do I need legal help with my vacation rental? I can do it all myself!” However, when you’re listing a property on Airbnb or plan or doing any sort of short-term rental, it’s vital that you understand what legal issues may arise. These issues include drafting your short-term rental contract, local rental laws and regulations, the terms of service with the platforms such as Airbnb, VRBO
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JD Supra Law
FEBRUARY 22, 2022
On December 3rd, Senior Party Sigma-Aldrich filed its Substantive Preliminary Motion No. 2 in Interference No. 106,133 (which names the Broad Institute, Harvard University, and MIT (collectively, Broad) as Junior Party), asking the Patent Trial and Appeal Board to remove Broad's U.S. Application No. 15/330,876 from the interference, pursuant to 37 C.F.R. §§ 41.121(a)(1)(iii) and 41.208(a)(2).
The IPKat
FEBRUARY 22, 2022
The thorny issue of the registration of a 3D trade mark never ceases to challenge the trade mark system. This time it is the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU), which recently denied the admissibility of appeal, brought by Eos Products (more commonly known as EOS) against the decision by the General Court (case C-672/21 P ). As a result, EOS did not succeed in registering the shape of its egg-shaped lip balm as a 3D trade mark.
JD Supra Law
FEBRUARY 22, 2022
Last month, the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office released its Performance and Accountability Report for Fiscal Year 2021 (FY 2021). The Report notes that in 2018 the Office issued its 2018-2022 Strategic Plan, which "outlines the framework that enables the USPTO to respond to domestic and international customers' demands for vital and timely IP products and services and builds on the agency's current organizational effectiveness and efficiency.
Patently-O
FEBRUARY 22, 2022
by Dennis Crouch. California Institute of Technology v. Broadcom Ltd. (Fed. Cir. 2022). The Federal Circuit inadvertently created some confusion when it released its February 4 opinion in CalTech. The original opinion indicated that Section 315(e) estoppel applies to “all claims and grounds not in the IPR but which reasonably could have been included.
JD Supra Law
FEBRUARY 22, 2022
On February 18, 2022, the Court of Appeal of Quebec released its decision in Merck Canada Inc c Procureur général du Canada (2022 QCCA 240). This is the appeal of the Quebec Superior Court decision declaring price and revenue calculation provisions of the amended Patented Medicines Regulations (“the Regulations”) unconstitutional.
IP Close Up
FEBRUARY 22, 2022
Non-resident patent applicants accounted for 90% of the patent applications received by the IP office of Australia in 2020, but only 10% of the applications received Continue reading.
JD Supra Law
FEBRUARY 22, 2022
The patent fight between Caltech and Broadcom/Apple made waves this month when the Federal Circuit vacated the $1.1 billion infringement award that Caltech had won in district court.
The TTABlog
FEBRUARY 22, 2022
The Board sustained an opposition to registration of the proposed mark GET ORDAINED for on-line retail store services featuring clothing, stationery, publications in the fields of religion, and various other products, conducting religious ceremonies, ordaining ministers, and providing religious information, finding that the phrase is so commonly used that consumers will not perceive it as a source indicator pointing uniquely to the applicant.
U.S. Department of Commerce
FEBRUARY 22, 2022
FirstNet at 10: A Decade of Dedication to Public Safety. February 22, 2022. KCPullen@doc.gov. Tue, 02/22/2022 - 12:53. By Edward Parkinson, CEO, First Responder Network Authority (FirstNet Authority). Broadband has become the lifeblood of our economy. It is also essential to our national security and public safety, a fact that first responders recognized many years ago.
Legal Zoom
FEBRUARY 22, 2022
In the US, different levels of income are taxed at different rates. Federal tax brackets indicate the rate to be paid on each level of taxable income. As taxpayer income increases, it is taxed at higher rates, which is a progressive tax system.
IP Law 360
FEBRUARY 22, 2022
After beating a lawsuit from a writer who said the Walt Disney Co. stole his ideas for a "Muppet Babies" spinoff, the entertainment giant is not movin' right along from the claims, as the writer's bankruptcy estate revived the allegations in its own complaint in California federal court Friday.
IP Tech Blog
FEBRUARY 22, 2022
Subscription-based contracts are common. They provide certain benefits to businesses, such as offering predictable revenue. These types of agreement often contain ‘auto-renewal clauses’, whereby the agreement will auto-renew unless the consumer cancels. However, The Competition and Markets Authority ( CMA ), the UK regulator responsible for the enforcement of consumer protection legislation, has taken an interest in this area because these clauses and surrounding practices can be problematic fro
IP Law 360
FEBRUARY 22, 2022
Consumer advocacy group Public Citizen says that it's concerned with dozens of Pfizer's new patent applications for a key component of its at-home oral antiviral COVID-19 treatment, Paxlovid.
IP and Legal Filings
FEBRUARY 22, 2022
Official address of any Company, which forms the part of any public record, is called its “Registered office”. Registered Office of any company is mandatorily needed to be registered with the Registrar of the Companies (ROC), governed under Ministry of Corporate Affairs, Government of India and is considered as the Principal office or head office of that company.
IP Law 360
FEBRUARY 22, 2022
The Ninth Circuit on Tuesday revived an indie director's claims that M. Night Shyamalan ripped off her movie to make a TV show for Apple TV+, saying the district court was too quick to toss the suit.
LexBlog IP
FEBRUARY 22, 2022
As the country slowly addresses and learns to control the prevalence and spread of COVID-19, conversations that were put on hold during the pandemic re-emerge with vigor and debate, including sustainability. Our student organization, the Journal of Business and Intellectual Property Law ( JBIPL ), seeks to narrow and focus the issue of sustainability into SME (small and medium enterprise) sustainability as the dominant theme of our 2022 Spring Symposium.
Likelihood of Confusion
FEBRUARY 22, 2022
First posted October 4, 2011. Here’s a guy who just may be in for some serious money! So, what magic words can resurrect a potentially multi-million-dollar copyright lawsuit from a. The post Best of 2011: Madden ’nuff appeared first on LIKELIHOOD OF CONFUSION™.
Kluwer Copyright Blog
FEBRUARY 22, 2022
Photo via CREATe. Introduction. When we launched the Copyright Evidence Portal , our ambition was no less than to create a catalogue of all existing empirical studies about copyright. This ambition, and the resulting huge body of work (over 850 studies), inspired us to think about new ways to interpret this empirical literature, and to offer a state-of-the-art overview of the evidence on how copyright works in society.
Herbert Smith Freehills
FEBRUARY 22, 2022
Leading international law firm Herbert Smith Freehills has advised CICC and Morgan Stanley as joint sponsors and the underwriters of biopharmaceutical company Lepu Biopharma Co., Ltd. (02157.HK)’s mainboard listing on the Stock Exchange of Hong Kong. Lepu Biopharma focuses on oncology therapeutics. The company has designed a pipeline of innovative drug candidates targeting in a number of indications, including ADCs, oncolytic virus drugs and immunotherapies at clinical and pre-clinical stages, a
Patent Trademark Blog
FEBRUARY 22, 2022
What is a Notice of Allowance in a patent application? A Notice of Allowance (NOA) is a USPTO document indicating that a patent application has been allowed. The approval of your patent application is basically the finish line of your journey and presumably the goal of every applicant. If you have received the NOA, congratulations! As you approach the end of the journey for this particular patent application, you’ll need to take certain final steps to wrap up your patent.
LexBlog IP
FEBRUARY 22, 2022
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IP Law 360
FEBRUARY 22, 2022
A Connecticut federal judge has ruled in a long-running patent dispute that has spanned more than 16 years that Sports Tutor Inc. owes ProBatter Sports LLC $776,000 in damages for infringing two patents on a baseball pitching machine.
LexBlog IP
FEBRUARY 22, 2022
Tangibly launched in February as a solution for companies to manage their trade secrets. Tangibly offers two distinct products: (1) a cloud-based platform that provides a dashboard where users can manage their assets and associated people and (2) a platform designed to make it easy for companies to execute and track NDAs. Tangibly’s founder and CEO Tom Londergan said that Tangibly is architected around five questions companies should be able to answer regarding their trade secrets: What is
JD Supra Law
FEBRUARY 22, 2022
On 24 January 2022, Mr Justice Meade handed down the latest main judgment in the ongoing litigation between Neurim (and Flynn) and Generics (UK) Ltd (trading as Viatris but formerly trading as Mylan), which has swiftly been followed by a further short judgment from Mr Justice Marcus Smith.
LexBlog IP
FEBRUARY 22, 2022
Subscription-based contracts are common. They provide certain benefits to businesses, such as offering predictable revenue. These types of agreement often contain ‘auto-renewal clauses’, whereby the agreement will auto-renew unless the consumer cancels. However, The Competition and Markets Authority ( CMA ), the UK regulator responsible for the enforcement of consumer protection legislation, has taken an interest in this area because these clauses and surrounding practices can be pro
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