TorrentFreak

APRIL 6, 2024

Information requested included domains and IP addresses blocked, reports and documents received from rightsholders, plus copies of the blocking tickets filed on the days when overblocking occurred. More Piracy Shield Controversy The news that AGCOM has sanctioned ASSOProvider first appeared on the ISP association’s website.

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LexBlog IP

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

The Complaint notes that Defendants submitted a FOIA Request in late September of 2021, seeking information relating to Google’s water consumption for 2020. The Complaint further noted that on the same day, Dalles denied the FOIA Request under Oregon Public Records Law, ORS 192.311 et seq.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

To effectively achieve its goals, the NAACP must access and record the names and addresses of tenants who have eviction actions filed against them, because tenants have only ten days from receipt of an eviction notice to request a hearing. The NAACP says that the Public Index is public data and it should be able to scrape it if it so chooses.

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TorrentFreak

JANUARY 26, 2023

The BBC refuses to discuss them in response to FOIA requests and the suspicion here is that ISDCs (all anti-piracy terms MUST have an acronym) will find themselves shrouded in similar mystery. In the meantime, all “hacked and dodgy Firesticks” should be immediately wrapped in tin foil and buried outside.

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Erik K Pelton

MARCH 11, 2022

Last year, to determine how widespread these scams are, our firm sent a FOIA request to the FTC seeking documents and more information pertaining to Misleading Trademark Notices sent by various fraudulent entities. 15] See text of comments received in data file from the FTC, responsive to FOIA request FOIA-2021-00522, at [link]. [16]

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IP Watchdog

APRIL 22, 2024

Department of Commerce, which denied the GIPC's January 2024 Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request seeking more detail about the working group behind the Biden Administration’s draft framework for considering the exercise of march-in rights.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

AUGUST 31, 2021

The court denies plaintiff’s request. In a surprise move, it grants summary judgment to defendant even though Pub Ocean did not formally request summary judgment. Pub Ocean did not seek permission from McGucken, but the article did credit him by linking to his Instagram page. McGucken moved for summary judgment on the fair use defense.

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TorrentFreak

JANUARY 29, 2024

Last Friday, we reported on two Freedom of Information Act requests directed at two regional police forces in the UK. If West Midlands Police or Leicestershire Police receive similar requests, their record retrieval skills shouldn’t disappoint. That was disappointing. How many of the 3.9

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IP Watchdog

NOVEMBER 21, 2021

More precisely, Public Health and Medical Professionals for Transparency (PHMPT), a group of doctors and scientists, submitted a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request for documents relating to the approval of the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine.

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TorrentFreak

APRIL 2, 2024

These complaints and many more have been delivered to telecoms regulator AGCOM via several mechanisms, including letters, emails, FOIA requests, and countless times via the media. Another rejection, publicly posted on X by Ernesto Castellotti, concerned a legitimate FOIA request sent to AGCOM in February.

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IP Watchdog

JANUARY 10, 2024

Chamber of Commerce’s Global Innovation Policy Center (GIPC) sent Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests on January 9 to the Department of Commerce and the National Institutes for Standards and Technology (NIST) regarding the Biden Administration’s recent Request for Information Regarding the Draft Interagency Guidance Framework for Considering (..)

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LexBlog IP

AUGUST 17, 2021

These decisions were gathered after a FOIA request to the Patent Office. To provide further insight into the practices of the Patent Office, the present analysis reviews § 1.183 petition decisions between 5/1/2020 and 5/11/2021. 37 CFR § 1.183 Petitions – Decisions from 5/1/2020 – 5/11/2021.

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Patently-O

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

That’s because current disclosure of litigation funding relies on a patchwork of state law, court rules, self-reporting, FOIA requests, leaks to journalists, and funding pitches. What we do know comes mostly from self-reporting, industry reports, and journalists.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

MAY 14, 2023

Hart sought to revive his case based on new information he acquired from a FOIA request, discovery from another lawsuit (Missouri v. I previously described this lawsuit: Both Facebook and Twitter restricted Hart’s account access due to various posts over COVID, masking, and other culture war issues. You can guess how that went.

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LexBlog IP

OCTOBER 5, 2022

In a post for Crowell’s Government Contracts Legal Forum , John McCarthy, Anuj Vohra and Daniel Wolff describe the decision that better defined what degree of competitive harm needs to be presented to support a trade secret invocation under the 2016 FOIA Improvement Act. In RedWolf Energy Trading, LLC v.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

MAY 8, 2022

” As a result, it denies leave to amend (unless his FOIA request reveals something good). The court concludes: “Hart fails to come close to alleging that Facebook and Twitter’s enforcement of their misinformation policies against him were state action.”

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LexBlog IP

DECEMBER 7, 2021

The agency released a few documents in response to Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests, which indicated that the policy at issue has existed since 1984. And questions were raised regarding under what circumstances, if any, a departing commissioner’s vote should count. Now, back to voting.

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