TorrentFreak

DECEMBER 27, 2021

With more ways to stream online video than ever before, protecting video continues to be a key issue for copyright holders. This is often achieved through Digital Rights Management, which is often referred to by the initials DRM. In a nutshell, DRM is an anti-piracy tool that dictates when and where digital content can be accessed. Widevine DRM is one of the leading players in the field.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

DECEMBER 27, 2021

This case involves vegan chef Chloe Coscarelli , the first vegan to win Food Network’s Cupcake Wars. That win made her a legend in the vegan community, and she has parlayed her fame into some great vegan cookbooks. She also connected with a management group to build a vegan fast-casual restaurant chain called “By Chloe.” Unfortunately, that relationship did not go well.

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TorrentFreak

DECEMBER 27, 2021

After eight months, Triller’s legal campaign against sites that allegedly streamed the Jake Paul vs Ben Askren boxing match on April 17 is still ongoing. Named in its initial $100m lawsuit and described as “cyber-criminals”, one of Triller’s early targets were the operators of Online2LiveStreams.us. The platform was accused of diverting a share of 2,000,000 streams away from Triller’s legal services.

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IP Watchdog

DECEMBER 27, 2021

As of today, the 2022 Supreme Court docket is light on intellectual property cases, with the Court having granted review of only one copyright case. However, one other major case lurks in the background on an issue—patent ineligibility—upon which the Supreme Court has already demonstrated its interest. These two cases are examined in greater detail below.

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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?

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The IPKat

DECEMBER 27, 2021

Just a few days before Holidays season, the Legal Board of Appeal announced its ruling in the cases J 8/20 and J 9/20, thus confirming the decisions of the Receiving Section of the European Patent Office, both of which has refused the DABUS applications EP 18 275 163 and EP 18 275 174. These well-known applications designated an artificial intelligence system as the inventor.

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JD Supra Law

DECEMBER 27, 2021

Following a telephone conference held on August 16th between the Board and representatives of Junior Party the Broad Institute, Harvard University, and MIT (collectively, Broad) and Senior Party Sigma-Aldrich, the Board issued its Order on September 20th authorizing motions and setting times under 37 C.F.R. §§ 104(c) and 121.

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JD Supra Law

DECEMBER 27, 2021

There are some cases where the Federal Circuit makes its decision based on the eternal verities of patent law (insofar as there are any eternal verities in patent law). One such decision arose earlier this month when the Federal Circuit affirmed a determination of non-obviousness by the Patent Trial and Appeal Board in an inter partes review proceeding, that opinion captioned Teva Pharmaceuticals USA, Inc. v.

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The Illusion of More

DECEMBER 27, 2021

During a recent scan of the Authors Guild discussion boards, where I look for copyright related comments, I noticed a couple of authors mentioning how dismayed they were to hear the NPR show 1A host a one-sided conversation about the Internet Archive being sued by several major publishers. The program, which aired on December 7, […]. The post Why is the press so bumfuzzled about copyright issues?

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JD Supra Law

DECEMBER 27, 2021

As more states legalize cannabis, companies are dealing with the absence of national trademark uniformity. Currently, there is no legal mechanism to obtain a trademark to sell cannabis across state lines. Instead, companies are limited to state-wide trademarks. These limited marks have created a fractured market, with little clarity for businesses in a cannabis industry that continues to grow despite the lack of federal decriminalization.

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SpicyIP

DECEMBER 27, 2021

image from here. The Delhi High Court recently granted an interlocutory injunction to Novartis against Natco’s use of Eltrombopag Olamine (EO). The debate at the crux of the dispute is, or rather was, the dichotomy between deference to the validity of a granted patent vis-a-vis the challenge to its validity and consequently disregarding the exclusivity granted to it, in litigation.

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JD Supra Law

DECEMBER 27, 2021

I. Legal developments - 1. Next Investments, LLC v. Bank of China, No. 20-602 (2d Cir. 2021) In 2013, Nike, Inc. ("Nike") and Converse Inc. ("Converse") brought a trademark infringement action under the Lanham Act against hundreds of participants in Chinese counterfeiting networks. The district court entered five prejudgment orders, a default judgment, and one postjudgment order against defendants, who never appeared in court.

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The IPKat

DECEMBER 27, 2021

It is worth remembering that copyright is as much about the distribution of contents as the conditions of their creation. A contemporary example of the distribution function, in an age of social media, is the influencer, whose written and oral words can impact, indeed forge, the thoughts and ideas of myriads of followers. A recent podcast of the BBC's " In Our Times" program , well-timed for the holiday season, discussed the iconic novel by Charles Dickens, "A Christmas Carol.

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JD Supra Law

DECEMBER 27, 2021

The metaverse is the future; it involves wearing a headset that transports you to anywhere you want to go. You can do it on your own time and in your own home. So not only will you be able to watch something “when and where you want to” (the mantra of VOD), but now you will be able to be when and where you want to. Want to be on Mars? Want to race at the Indianapolis 500?

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The IPKat

DECEMBER 27, 2021

While we are changing from the "All I want for Christmas is you" to the "Happy New Year" playlist, check what has been going on around the IP blogs before 2021 is over. Patents A Kat experiencing a Christmas hangover The Kluwer Patent Blog brought a summary of the recent UK and US calls for views regarding their SEP and FRAND policies, to understand the opinions of stakeholders, including inter alia patent owners, implementers, and consumers.

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JD Supra Law

DECEMBER 27, 2021

An Early Christmas for Arena Pharmaceuticals - Hot on the heels of acquiring immuno-oncology company Trillium Therapeutics for about $2.22 billion last month, Pfizer was quickly seeking additional promising drug candidates to complement its development pipeline. This month, it inked a $6.7 billion all-cash deal with Arena Pharmaceuticals. While the boards of directors of both Pfizer and Arena have unanimously approved the transaction, it still must be cleared by regulators and Arena.

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IP Watchdog

DECEMBER 27, 2021

In Part I of this post, we provided an update on three lead pioneers in the mRNA IP space, Moderna, BioNTech and CureVac. In this post we profile Sanofi, Arcturus, eTheRNA and other mRNA companies and offer conclusions. Sanofi (NASDAQ: SNY), headquartered in Paris, FR, acquired mRNA pioneer Translate Bio in September 2021 for approximately $3.2 billion and mRNA startup Tidal Therapeutics in April 2021 for approximately $470 million.

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LexBlog IP

DECEMBER 27, 2021

As we close out another calendar year, we look back at the top legal developments of 2021 that could influence the market for biologics and biosimilars. There were many interesting decisions and other developments in district court, at the Federal Circuit, at the PTAB, and even at the ITC. Biosimilars also saw some attention from Congress, as new legislative proposals were considered and passed.

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Likelihood of Confusion

DECEMBER 27, 2021

The Google Copyright Blog rips into that bad deep-linking decision in Texas. Originally posted 2007-01-04 18:02:41. Republished by Blog Post Promoter. The post Heavy lifting appeared first on LIKELIHOOD OF CONFUSION™.

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The TTABlog

DECEMBER 27, 2021

In an otherwise straightforward Section 2(d) analysis, the Board ruled that confusion is likely between Respondent's registered marks MIRAGE BRANDS (standard form) and MIRAGE BRANDS & Design [BRANDS disclaimed], and Petitioner Mahender Sabhnani's previously used and registered mark ROYAL MIRAGE & Design , all for perfume. Finding that "Respondent's presence in the marketplace is considerably greater than that of Petitioner," the Board saw "a circumstance of reverse confusion in which con

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