The IPKat

JANUARY 14, 2024

In the US, the principle of file wrapper estoppel is well established. S ubmissions made in US patent prosecution may be highly influential for claim interpretation post-grant. Additionally, as recently highlighted in K-fee v Nespresso (Case No. 22-2042, Fed. Cir. Dec. 26, 2023), file wrapper estoppel in the US does not stop at the US file wrapper. Submission made in other jurisdictions, including Europe, may also be cited against the patentee.

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SpicyIP

JANUARY 14, 2024

Recently, the Delhi High Court clarified that the distinctness, uniformity and stability (DUS) testing is a must before a plant variety registration application can be advertised by the Plant Varieties and Farmers’ Rights Authority. SpicyIP Intern Veda Chawla discusses this order. Vedika is a third-year B.A.LL.B. (Hons.) student at National Law University, Delhi.

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Likelihood of Confusion

JANUARY 14, 2024

When will we ever learn? The story here is about a lawsuit by lawyer Moira Bernstein, who complains, on behalf of a purported class, that by listing her plain-vanilla attorney name. The post Personality disorder appeared first on LIKELIHOOD OF CONFUSION™.

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TorrentFreak

JANUARY 14, 2024

At the height of the online file-sharing boom, the phrase ‘Sharing is Caring’ was a reminder that peer-to-peer file-sharing systems lived or died on the availability of upload bandwidth. Its presentation allowed it to be about much more than that. The ‘give to get’ philosophy forms part of the BitTorrent protocol even today, but Sharing is Caring was a phrase that could influence human behavior, to the benefit of the wider file-sharing movement, with no suggestion of pres

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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?

Technology

SpicyIP

JANUARY 14, 2024

Lays Bags the Win A division bench (DB) consisting of Justice Yashwant Varma and Justice Dharmesh Sharma has nullified on 09 January 2023, the single bench’s (SB) ruling from 05 July, 2023 (discussed by Niyati here ) and the order of the Authority established under Protection of Plant Varieties and Farmers’ Rights Act (PPVFRA), 2001, along with its letter dated February 11, 2022, which denied PepsiCo’s application for the renewal of patent registration on a potato seed variety- FL 20

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Patently-O

JANUARY 14, 2024

by Dennis Crouch Martin Luther King Jr. received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1964 , and I re-read his speech today — especially the portion contrasting development of science and technology against development of the human spirit. The past 60 years have continued to reveal astonishing discoveries and invention. Yet King’s words and warnings continue to resonate because we have continued to neglect our internal realm.

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