The IP Law Blog

APRIL 30, 2021

If you pay much attention to sneakers, you might know that the agreement between Nike and the Bryant Estate for Nike’s line of Kobe sneakers recently expired. Although Kobe started his career with Adidas, he changed to Nike in 2003, and he stayed there for the rest of his life. Many people expected the estate to reach a deal with Nike to continue the partnership, but the deal has officially expired without any sort of agreement being reached.

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Copyright Lately

APRIL 30, 2021

Nirvana has been sued for using an illustration from a 1949 translation of Dante’s “Inferno” on band merchandise. Here’s why determining the copyright status of old foreign works can be a hellish undertaking. Move over smiley face. Welcome to the Seventh Circle of Hell. Nineties grunge-rock band Nirvana, already embroiled in a long-running legal battle against fashion company Marc Jacobs over its “happy face” t-shirt designs , now finds itself on the less happy end of a new copyright infri

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Intellectual Property Office Blog

APRIL 30, 2021

This week we're focusing on small to medium sized enterprises (SMEs). Every business starts with an idea, and every business owns or uses intellectual property (IP). Your IP can include your web site, business name or logo. IP assets can also include innovative technology, know how, designs and secret recipes. Here are Ten Top IP Tips for helping SMEs identify and make the most of the intellectual property assets they own.

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Managing IP

APRIL 30, 2021

Senior counsel at BMS, HPE, Volvo, Veritas and PAX Labs say IP attorneys should endeavour to become jacks of all trades to help them climb the corporate ladder

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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?

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Delaware Intellectual Property Litigation Blog

APRIL 30, 2021

By Standing Order entered on April 30, 2021, the Honorable Colm F. Connolly, of the United States District Court for the District of Delaware, rolled out the new summary judgment motion practice in all patent cases assigned to him. Essentially, Judge Connolly is now requiring parties to number the motions for summary judgment that they file with the Court.

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Managing IP

APRIL 30, 2021

Sources from two companies, two universities and two law firms reveal why know-how can be just as valuable as the patent rights themselves

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Fish & Richardson Trademark & Copyright Thoughts

APRIL 30, 2021

Fish & Richardson obtained a settlement and license agreement for Skull Shaver, LLC, the market leader in uniquely designed and patented handheld electric shavers and personal grooming products, in a patent infringement lawsuit against Magicfly LLC. In October 2020, Skull Shaver filed suit against eleven entities, including Magicfly, before the United States International Trade Commission in Washington, DC and the United States District Court for the Western District of Texas for infringemen

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GDB Firm Blog

APRIL 30, 2021

An upstate court holds that the time to renew a mechanic's lien, which otherwise lapses after a year, can be extended by 228 days when tolled by Governor Cuomo's Executive Orders.

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Fish & Richardson Trademark & Copyright Thoughts

APRIL 30, 2021

This post reviews two April 2021 opinions from the Eastern District of Texas deciding post-trial motions. The first case involves the denial of enhanced damages by the Honorable Amos L. Mazzant, III. In the second case, the Honorable J. Rodney Gilstrap denied the defendants’ motions to enter judgment as a matter of law of no induced infringement and to alter the court’s findings of no inequitable conduct.

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43(B)log

APRIL 30, 2021

With Christine Farley and Pam Samuelson : our brief addresses the effect of Google v. Oracle, which the Second Circuit has explicitly asked for more briefing about. I would expect other amicus interest, including on Goldsmith's side, given the stakes of whether Gv.O is a software case or a fair use case at heart. [link].

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Advertiser: IPO

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Above the Fold

APRIL 30, 2021

Every day we are inundated with countless advertisements. TV ads, radio ads, internet ads, billboard ads. But have you stopped to think, what exactly qualifies as an advertisement? Luckily for us, the National Advertising Division (“NAD”) recently issued a decision that sheds some light on exactly how broad agencies monitoring the advertising industry view “advertising.”.

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Stock Legal Blog

APRIL 30, 2021

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