Erik K Pelton
JUNE 19, 2025
The following is an edited transcript of my video 25 Considerations for a Trademark Cease and Desist Letter. A lot goes into the strategy, content, details, law, and evidence in a cease and desist letter. Before sending any such letter, here are 25 important considerations? Who has priority and what are the relevant dates? Is there really a likelihood of confusion or is there actual confusion?
TorrentFreak
JUNE 16, 2025
Pirate sites and services can be a real challenge for rightsholders to deal with. In India, however, recent court orders have proven to be quite effective. Indian courts have issued pirate site blocking orders for over a decade and at least initially, they were relatively basic. To get a site blocked by local ISPs, rightsholders had to request an injunction for specific domain names, providing detailed evidence for each.
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IP Law 360
JUNE 17, 2025
The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office said Tuesday it is developing various artificial intelligence programs to help patent and trademark examiners, including tools to help them identify prior art faster.
The IPKat
JUNE 19, 2025
The Enlarged Board of Appeal (EBA) has issued its highly anticipated decision in G 1/24, relating to fundamental questions about how patent claims should be interpreted when assessing patentability.
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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?
Hugh Stephens Blog
JUNE 14, 2025
Tug of War Image: Shutterstock (modified) Welcome to Canada, where the difficult can become the intractable when you add the inevitable additional ingredient of federal-provincial politics to any policy issue. Throw in the survival of the French language and Quebec culture in Canada and you have another classic Canadian drama.
Copyright Lately
JUNE 15, 2025
No one understands the power of visuals like Hollywood. And in their new lawsuit against Midjourney, Disney and Universal aren’t just alleging infringement—they’re showing it. Another week, another AI copyright complaint. But if you’re tempted to file Disney v. Midjourney away as just “Lawsuit No. 42,” don’t. On Wednesday, Disney and Universal sued the popular image-generation platform for copyright infringement, marking the first time major film studios have entered the generative AI liti
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The IPKat
JUNE 18, 2025
Moses PelhamWhat does 'pastiche' mean? A question like this, raised a few years ago, would probably have sounded esoteric - if not plainly weird - to most. Yet, it is now at the centre of one of the most important recent referrals to the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU): Pelham II, C-590/23 [IPKat here, here, here, here, here].
TorrentFreak
JUNE 15, 2025
In 2023, sports rightsholders and their broadcasting partners had their collective patience tested to the limit. Coordinated industry-wide action late 2022 placed rising IPTV piracy rates under the spotlight, aiming to put the European Commission under pressure to take immediate action. Rightsholders wanted new legislation, to compel intermediaries to cooperate with faster takedowns, or even cooperate at all.
JD Supra Law
JUNE 17, 2025
In the digital age, businesses may assume that firewalls, login credentials and restricted access are enough to shield proprietary data. But a recent federal court decision shows that a “trade secret” under the Defend Trade Secrets Act (DTSA) may require more than technical controls — it requires documented, enforceable commitments to confidentiality.
IAM Magazine
JUNE 19, 2025
It is the South Korean R&D organisation’s first Unified Patent Court action
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The Illusion of More
JUNE 17, 2025
“Midjourney is the quintessential copyright free-rider and a bottomless pit of plagiarism.” Well, there it is. If you had been wondering whether and when the major studios would file a copyright infringement suit against a developer of generative AI (GAI), it finally happened on June 11. Disney and its subsidiaries, along with Universal Studios, filed […] The post Major Film Studios File Copyright Suit Against Midjourney appeared first on The Illusion of More.
TorrentFreak
JUNE 17, 2025
In the late ’90s, with P2P file-sharing yet to really take off, music industry insiders had already toyed with the idea of a ‘celestial jukebox’ that could access all music in the world. While the idea sounded appealing, the economics were not straightforward, and it took an external in ter vention to spur record labels into action. When Napster launched in 1999, it sparked a music revolution that changed the industry forever.
JD Supra Law
JUNE 16, 2025
The Unified Patent Court (UPC) represents a transformative development in European patent litigation. Fenwick’s Ryan Johnson teamed up with Bird & Bird’s Boris Kreye and Chris de Mauny to explore important considerations and strategies based on the UPC’s first two years of operation.
IP Watchdog
JUNE 17, 2025
This week on IPWatchdog Unleashed I speak with F. Scott Kieff, former Commissioner on the International Trade Commission, and Joshua Hartman, head of Merchant & Gould’s ITC practice group. Our conversation, which took place on June 4, focused on the landmark ruling by the Federal Circuit in Lashify, Inc. v. International Trade Commission, which was a big win for small business patent owners.
Likelihood of Confusion
JUNE 14, 2025
Originally posted 2017-07-24 15:38:29. Republished by Blog Post PromoterI was recently, and very briefly, the toast of whatever for my efforts in making the world safe for nasty trademark registrations under the banner of the First Amendment. But today I got a result, along with my colleague Bruce Godfrey of Jezic & Moyse LLC, in a First […] The post That great, free First Amendment thing appeared first on LIKELIHOOD OF CONFUSION™.
Technology & Marketing Law Blog
JUNE 14, 2025
This is one of those oh-so-stupid hard-eyerolling lawsuits that I blog for coverage purposes, but I blog it joylessly and with annoyance at the wasted time. I previously summarized this case: Jaime Rogozinski, a/k/a “ jartek ,” created the r/WallStreetBets subreddit, which became notorious for (among other lowlights) its role as a venue for hyping meme stocks like Gamestop.
JD Supra Law
JUNE 18, 2025
On June 4, 2025, Reddit, Inc. (“Reddit”) filed suit against Anthropic, PBC (“Anthropic”) in the Superior Court of California, alleging that Anthropic scraped and commercially exploited Reddit user data—including deleted posts—without consent or compensation. Unlike recent enforcement efforts that have centered on establishing copyright infringement liability, Reddit’s complaint brings five causes of action—breach of contract, unjust enrichment, trespass to chattels, tortious interference, and.
IP Watchdog
JUNE 19, 2025
In the latest Director Discretionary Denial decision, Acting U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) Director Coke Morgan Stewart granted AXA Power’s request for discretionary denial based on “settled expectations” of the patent owner—a doctrine that is shaping up to be a key factor in Stewart’s interim discretionary denial process.
SpicyIP
JUNE 15, 2025
In light of the Delhi High Court’s recent orders in Sadhguru Jaggi Vasudev and Ankur Warikoo cases, SpicyIP intern Anureet Kaur highlights how, instead of building a principled framework for assessing personality rights, the courts are granting injunctions without a firm doctrinal grounding. Anureet is a second year B.A. LL.B. (Hons.) student at Rajiv Gandhi National University of Law, Punjab.
IP and Legal Filings
JUNE 17, 2025
India’s media and entertainment (M&E) industry, worth more than $25 billion, functions within a vibrant tax regime influenced by GST reforms, income tax laws, and focused incentives. In the post-GST era, the sector shifted from state-level fragmented taxes to a consolidated structure, while current budgets and policies seek to fuel growth through subsidies and ease of compliance.
JD Supra Law
JUNE 19, 2025
The US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit reversed a district court’s summary judgment grant based on an equitable estoppel defense, finding that the accused infringer failed to show that the patent owner’s silence or inaction influenced the decision to migrate to the accused system. Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft v. Sirius XM Radio Inc., Case No. 23-2267 (Fed.
TorrentFreak
JUNE 19, 2025
In a complaint filed at a Nashville federal court two years ago, Universal Music, Sony Music, EMI and others, accused X Corp of ‘breeding’ mass copyright infringement. The social media company allegedly failed to respond adequately to takedown notices and lacked a proper termination policy. The National Music Publishers Association (NMPA) claimed it had sent over 300,000 formal infringement notices, many of which didn’t lead to immediate removals.
SpicyIP
JUNE 16, 2025
In a significant judgement, the Delhi High Court in Commissioner of Income Tax v. Amazon Web Service held that payments for cloud computing services to AWS do not constitute “royalty”(one of the reasons being the absence of any commercial exploitation of IP rights involved). Rupam and Kartik analyse this judgement, explaining how it marks a pivotal moment in India’s approach to taxing cross-border digital transactions.
IP Watchdog
JUNE 20, 2025
This week in Other Barks & Bites: Senators Hirono and Blackburn join the bipartisan collection of lawmakers supporting the current version of Section 101 legislative reform; Accenture announces that it will combine several of its professional services as part of the company’s adoption of AI; the Federal Circuit clarifies that nexus does not need to be proved for specific patent claims-at-issue when licensing agreements involving their patents are entered as evidence; Advocate General Kokott
JD Supra Law
JUNE 18, 2025
“Disruption” is business-speak for innovative companies or technologies that challenge the status quo. Now more than ever, it seems like disruption is a constant theme in today’s business and regulatory environment, presenting both threats and opportunities for companies in a wide array of industries. While disruption is predominantly thought of as a business issue, antitrust risks are often lurking in the background.
IAM Magazine
JUNE 18, 2025
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SpicyIP
JUNE 15, 2025
What Indian Courts Are Getting Wrong About Personality Rights? – A post analysing the recent Delhi HC order in Sadhguru and Ankur Warikoo. Post on the Delhi HC’s increases coverage via a ‘superlative injunction’ The long awaited Pandemic Treaty is finally here but will it be able to overcome the challenges it originally aimed to resolve?
The IPKat
JUNE 20, 2025
This is a review of the book, The Protection of Traditional Knowledge at the Frontiers of Drug Discovery (Hart, 2024) by Peter S. Harrison.
JD Supra Law
JUNE 19, 2025
The USPTO recently announced that the Accelerated Examination program will be discontinued as of July 10, 2025. Given that the program has had limited use over the past decade, with fewer than 100 Accelerated Examination requests being filed yearly since 2014, this will have limited impact on the current application backlog, but Track One Examination remains a viable option to expedite examination of US patent applications.
Patently-O
JUNE 20, 2025
by Dennis Crouch The Supreme Court is being asked to decide whether the PTAB can invalidate expired patents through inter partes review, in a case that could limit the reach of the landmark Oil States decision that found IPRs constitutionally permissive. In Apple Inc. v. Gesture Technology Partners , the Federal Circuit ruled that PTAB retains jurisdiction over expired patents, but the patentee argues in its petition that once patents expire, they become purely private property rights that requi
SpicyIP
JUNE 19, 2025
[A big thanks to Praharsh and Swaraj for their inputs on this post.] [Disclaimer: Long post ahead] A recent order ( pdf ) by the Delhi High Court (DHC) has drawn significant attention regarding the manufacture and availability of the diabetes management and weight-loss assistance drug semaglutide (sold as Wegovy and Ozempic). On 29 May 2025, the Single Bench (SB) comprising Justice Amit Bansal restrained Indian companies Dr.
TorrentFreak
JUNE 17, 2025
Incorporated in Georgia, YuppTV USA Inc. markets itself as one of the world’s largest internet-based TV and on-demand platforms for South Asian content. Most of the company’s subscribers are described as “non-resident individuals.” Filed at a federal court in the Middle District of Pennsylvania, YuppTV’s copyright complaint begins by naming Canada-based Harpreet Singh Randhawa as the operator of one or more IPTV services, sold under multiple brand names.
JD Supra Law
JUNE 16, 2025
Kilpatrick’s Justin Krieger and Karam J. Saab recently presented at the “23rd Annual Rocky Mountain Intellectual Property & Technology Law Institute” in Westminster, Colorado. This two-day event brings together thought leaders, seasoned practitioners, and innovators to explore how emerging technologies, global regulations, and emerging legal theories shape the future of IP and technology law.
IP Watchdog
JUNE 19, 2025
On Wednesday, June 18, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit (CAFC) issued an opinion affirming in part and vacating in part the Patent Trial and Appeal Board’s (PTAB) decision regarding Avago Technologies' U.S. Patent No. 8,646,014. The patent, titled "Multistream Video Communication With Staggered Access Points," addresses methods for reducing latency in video streaming systems.
SpicyIP
JUNE 20, 2025
The Delhi High Court recently dismissed an appeal against the Controller’s order rejecting a patent for an intermediate on the grounds of Section 3(d). Analysing the Court’s decision, SpicyIP intern Ayush Shetty argues how the Court might have erred in applying the provision by comparing the intermediate with the final product. Ayush is a fourth-year law student at the National Law School of India University, Bangalore, with a keen interest in patent law.
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