TorrentFreak

FEBRUARY 19, 2022

Pirate site blocking was a novelty ten years ago, but today it’s common practice in many countries. This is also true for Greece, where the first domains were targeted in 2018. These blocking requests are managed by the EDPPI, a special commission at the Greek Ministry of Culture and Sports that acts following complaints from rightsholders. The Greek system is different from that of many other countries because it doesn’t involve court oversight.

Intellectual Property 80

Intellectual Property Copyright Copyright Law IP 80

43(B)log

FEBRUARY 19, 2022

Rebecca Tushnet Bad Spaniels, Deceptive Raptors, and Tiny Hands: The Persistence of Commercial Speech as a Category Jennifer Rothman has done related work, but her focus has been on the different definitions of commerciality across IP regimes; I’m interested in a different question: holding constant the definition of commercial speech as defined by First Amendment jurisprudence, which is basically speech that does no more than merely propose a commercial transaction, does the Lanham Act cover co

Trademark Law 72

Trademark Law Trademark Art Branding 72

Delaware Intellectual Property Litigation Blog

FEBRUARY 19, 2022

By Memorandum Opinion and Order entered by The Honorable Maryellen Noreika in Osteoplastics, LLC v. Conformis, Inc. , Civil Action No. 20-405-MN-JLH (D.Del. February 14, 2022), the Court overruled Plaintiff’s objections to the Report and Recommendation Regarding Claim Construction (D.I. 92) and adopted the claim construction of The Honorable Jennifer L.

Copying 70

Copying Patent Reporting Patent Infringement 70

43(B)log

FEBRUARY 19, 2022

Jessica Silbey, Section 102(b) and the Fact Exclusion Genealogy in U.S. Copyright Law Why are we so sure facts are excluded from the statute when the statute doesn’t use that word and uses a lot of other words. We cite 102(b) for what Feist tells us—that facts are excluded—but where does that come from. Looked at leg history and cases cited by Feist.

Copyright 59

Copyright Moral Rights Artwork Art 59

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

LexBlog IP

FEBRUARY 19, 2022

By Memorandum Opinion and Order entered by The Honorable Maryellen Noreika in Osteoplastics, LLC v. Conformis, Inc. , Civil Action No. 20-405-MN-JLH (D.Del. February 14, 2022), the Court overruled Plaintiff’s objections to the Report and Recommendation Regarding Claim Construction (D.I. 92) and adopted the claim construction of The Honorable Jennifer L.

Copying 52

Copying Patent Reporting Intellectual Property 52

Patently-O

FEBRUARY 19, 2022

by Dennis Crouch. Daikin Industries v. Chemours Co. (Supreme Court 2022). Daikin’s IPR was successful, and the PTAB concluded that challenged claims of the Chemours patents were obvious. US Patent Nos. 7,122,609 and 8,076,431. On appeal though, the Federal Circuit reversed — holding that the prior art “teaches away from the claimed invention” and that the Board also relied on non-analogous prior art.

Art 53

Art Invention Law Patent 53

43(B)log

FEBRUARY 19, 2022

Matt Bodie Trademark, Employees & the Firm How does TM designate the entity entitled to hold and defend a mark, and what effects does this have on the worker/firm relationship? TM represents source/producer, but is that the same thing as the economic firm? General theory of the firm: production in which several types of resources are used and the product is not a sum of separable outputs of each cooperating resource.

Branding 59

Branding Brands Branding Music 59

43(B)log

FEBRUARY 19, 2022

Sari Mazzurco, The Law of Social Roles for the Platform Internet Law’s expressive function: how law tells people what social roles various institutions are supposed to carry out. Policy discourse should explicitly consider the social roles legal reform would construct for platforms to help public understand whether platforms are doing what they should, guide platform behaviors, and guide further reform.

Law 119

Law Branding Brands Branding 119