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WIPIP session 2: ™ Doctrine, © Fair Use

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Goldsmith SCOTUS understood the “use” to be the foundation’s commercial licensing. But licensing is neither a © use nor an act of infringement. Incoherent to raise/evaluate fair use as to an act that wasn’t a use or infringement. The counterclaim doesn’t use the language of inducement. Because of Google v.

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White House Directs Copyright Office and USPTO to Provide Guidance on AI-Related Issues

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Patent and Trademark Office to provide guidance on IP risks and related regulation to address emerging issues related to AI. Patent Law President Biden’s directive instructs the Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property and Director of the U.S. Fair Use: The Executive Order encourages data sharing and research.

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White House Directs Copyright Office and USPTO to Provide Guidance on AI-Related Issues

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Patent and Trademark Office to provide guidance on IP risks and related regulation to address emerging issues related to AI. Patent Law President Biden’s directive instructs the Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property and Director of the U.S. Fair Use: The Executive Order encourages data sharing and research.

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White House Directs Copyright Office and USPTO to Provide Guidance on AI-Related Issues

LexBlog IP

Patent and Trademark Office to provide guidance on IP risks and related regulation to address emerging issues related to AI. Patent Law President Biden’s directive instructs the Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property and Director of the U.S. Fair Use: The Executive Order encourages data sharing and research.

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How to Protect Software as Intellectual Property

LexBlog IP

A trademark cannot be used to protect an invention, coding, or software program. Oracle Supreme Court Decision , where the Court determined that Google’s copying of 11,500 lines of Oracle’s Java SE code was indeed fair use of that material as a matter of law. Patent Protection for Functionality.

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SpicyIP Weekly Review (August 23 – 29)

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Domex Advertisement: Product Disparagement or Nominative Fair Use? In this guest post , Pragya Jain offers an independent analysis of the law in relation to comparative advertising and nominative fair use and applies it to analyse a recent YouTube commercial by Domex, a Hindustan Unilever Ltd. Other posts.

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WIPIP Concurrent Session #3: Copyright Doctrine

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Lemley: Patent law uses the actual license amount; there’s no reason to use a multiplier when we actually know. But that’s supposedly not the law we have, and also brings in punitive damages constitutional jurisprudence. Works almost like a fair use defense. Where is de minimis used elsewhere?