Sun.Jan 09, 2022

article thumbnail

In memoriam: William (Bill) Cornish (1937 - 2022)

The IPKat

The IPKat Team was extremely saddened to be informed of the passing of Professor William (Bill) Cornish. The co-founder of our blog, Professor Jeremy Phillips, remembers him as follows: In memoriam: William (Bill) Cornish (1937 - 2022) by Jeremy Phillips I first encountered Bill Cornish in 1974 when, as a raw intellectual property doctoral student, I travelled up from Canterbury to discuss my chosen topic and seek his advice.

article thumbnail

2021 Emoji Law Year-in-Review

Technology & Marketing Law Blog

A recap of emoji law developments in 2021: Court References. I maintain a dataset of US court opinions that reference emojis and emoticons. I have compiled the dataset using keyword alerts in Westlaw and Lexis, supplemented by a few opinions I’ve found other ways. The latest version enumerates a total of 586 opinions through the end of 2021. Most case references are merely that–the court simply notes the presence of a symbol as part of reciting evidence in the case.

Law 137
Insiders

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

article thumbnail

Subpoenas Targeted Over 35,000 Cloudflare Customer Domain Names in Six Months

TorrentFreak

Popular CDN and DDoS protection service Cloudflare has come under a lot of pressure from copyright holders in recent years. The company offers its services to millions of sites. This includes multinationals, governments, but also some of the world’s leading pirate sites. Not all rightsholders are happy with the latter. Some have accused Cloudflare of facilitating copyright infringement by continuing to provide access to these platforms.

Reporting 135
article thumbnail

New Vision Gaming’s Motion for Reconsideration Highlights Issues with Arthrex USPTO Director Review Mandate

IP Watchdog

In the last few weeks of 2021, patent owner New Vision Gaming & Development filed a motion for reconsideration of a remand order issued by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit. That ruling, entered in early December, remanded New Vision Gaming’s appeal of covered business method (CBM) review proceedings back to the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) “for the limited purpose” of requesting Director review of the CBM review decisions under the U.S.

Business 119
article thumbnail

Software Composition Analysis: The New Armor for Your Cybersecurity

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?

article thumbnail

Huawei inks 6G licensing deal; IPCom secures Apple settlement; Vidal USPTO vote cancelled; Software patent sales surge; InterDigital v Oppo analysis; plus much more

IAM Magazine

Get ready for the new working week with a summary of all the stories posted on the IAM platform over the past seven days.

article thumbnail

[Conference Report] Patents, truth, PCT and more at the UIC School of Law International IP Practice Seminar

The IPKat

Back in October, University of Illinois Chicago School of Law’s Center for Intellectual Property (“IP”), Information, and Privacy Law organized and virtually hosted its International IP Practice Seminar. The Seminar, co-organized by the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) and Kuhnen & Wacker, brought together international policymakers and practitioners to discuss the worldwide landscape of the most cutting-edge IP issues from a comparative perspective.

More Trending

article thumbnail

Blawgers’ Blawg Review

Likelihood of Confusion

Blawg Review #125 is at, and about the concept of, “Real Lawyers Have Blogs.” A little pointy-headed? Maybe. Bit of the old inside baseball, perhaps? Perhaps. But if you’re considering. The post Blawgers’ Blawg Review appeared first on LIKELIHOOD OF CONFUSION™.

article thumbnail

Strict US written description requirement applied to CAR-T-cell therapy (Juno v Kite)

The IPKat

In the US, functional antibody claims have increasingly failed to satisfy the strict "written description" sufficiency requirement. The written description requirement stipulates that a patent specification should sufficiently describe the claimed invention such that a skilled person would be convinced that the inventor had possession of the claimed subject matter at the filing date.

article thumbnail

Computer and Internet Weekly Updates for 2022-01-08

Barry Sookman

Computer and Internet Weekly Updates for 2022-01-01 [link] 2022-01-02. Cyberlibel : Information Warfare in the 21st Century?, 2021 CanLIIDocs 13247 [link] )) 2022-01-02. Damages for copyright infringement, Ark Innovation Technology Inc. v. Matidor Technologies Inc., 2021 FC 1336 [link] 2022-01-02. Twitter bans personal account of U.S. Republican Rep.

Privacy 57