IAM Magazine

JANUARY 23, 2023

Freed from its global dispute, the Swedish company is seeking to ramp up its IP revenues in the coming months

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IAM Magazine

JANUARY 23, 2023

Freed from its global dispute, the Swedish company is seeking to ramp up its IP revenues in the coming months

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IAM Magazine

DECEMBER 14, 2021

A preliminary injunction has been issued against the state’s strict reverse payment law, but antitrust considerations are here to stay in IP litigation settlements.

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The IPKat

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

This post discusses a recent patent case in which the Supreme People’s Court of China (SPC) awarded punitive damages upon post-settlement-agreement repeated infringement. One month later, a settlement was reached. Shelly: 'Oops!…You You did it again ?' In April 2021, Jin sued Baijia store for patent infringement.

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Plagiarism Today

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

First off today, Jack Queen at Reuters reports that Miramax and director Quentin Tarantino have reached a settlement in their dispute over Pulp Fiction-based NFTs. The two sides have now reached a settlement and the terms have not been disclosed. Let me know via Twitter @plagiarismtoday.

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IP Law 360

AUGUST 28, 2023

A former division vice president at an HVAC company allegedly threw his driver's license at a court reporter and has refused to comply with a settlement agreement he signed in a trade secrets fight with his former employer, the company has told the North Carolina Business Court.

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TorrentFreak

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

Licensed ‘Copyright Cockroaches’ Early June 2022, news outlets in Taiwan reported that former ultramarathon runner, entrepreneur, political critic, and law graduate Kevin Lin was a suspect in a “copyright cockroach” case. In May 2021, licenses were obtained from Vie Vision Pictures Co.

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IP Law 360

MAY 11, 2023

Late racing icon Carroll Shelby's licensing company told a California federal judge in written closing arguments of a bench trial that a producer behind "Gone in 60 Seconds" did not come "remotely close" to proving it breached a settlement over intellectual property rights to the 2000 film's Ford Mustang "Eleanor" car.

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IP Law 360

MARCH 22, 2023

An attorney for late racing icon Carroll Shelby's licensing company testified at a California federal bench trial Wednesday that he was "shocked" when a producer behind the 2000 film "Gone in 60 Seconds" apparently breached a long-standing settlement over intellectual property rights to the film's Ford Mustang "Eleanor" car.

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IP Watchdog

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

It was a rather light district court week for patent filings, with just 24 new cases filed last week—we are starting to see the effects of a depressed rate of filing from IP Edge in the overall numbers (link behind paywall). The week also saw an average number of Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) filings, all inter partes reviews (IPRs).

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IAM Magazine

DECEMBER 14, 2021

A preliminary injunction has been issued against the state’s strict reverse payment law, but antitrust considerations are here to stay in IP litigation settlements.

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IP Watchdog

JULY 14, 2023

Patent and Trademark Office issues a final rule formalizing its Diversion Pilot Program and making other changes to agency practice; the Third Circuit affirms a default judgment for several litigation delays in a trademark case; Huawei announces that it earned $560 million in patent licensing revenues last year; the FTC announces an investigation into (..)

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LexBlog IP

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

This installment will focus on a company named Triumph IP. Triumph IP claims to own a patent on technology that is vital to the 802.11 Technology companies would not collaborate without the protection of their patents and the associated license fees they hope to obtain. Then there are companies like Triumph IP.

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IP Law 360

DECEMBER 18, 2023

Apple appears to be the latest manufacturer to come to a settlement deal with a patent licensing outfit dealing in resold LG wireless technology patents, with a recent "global settlement agreement" putting an end to appeals court litigation over the validity of patents covering purported developments in wireless charging technology.

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The IPKat

JUNE 21, 2022

The book opens with Anselm Kamperman Sanders and Anke Moerland advancing their vision as to why intellectual property (IP) must be regarded as a complex adaptive system (CAS). Harper continues with the topic of IP as complex phenomena in Chapter 2. In the definition of John H.

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IP and Legal Filings

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

Ownership of intellectual property (IP) used as collateral often belongs to the borrower. A lender may, however, impose restrictions on how the IP may be used in the future. The ability to licence the IP or transfer it to others may be impacted by this. Applying for IP Financing. In 2021, the creative economy produced 6.98

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IP Law 360

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

A Lumen Technologies subsidiary and a Texas-based AI company have settled a trade secrets lawsuit accusing Lumen of misappropriating the company's proprietary software and stiffing it on payments after ending their licensing agreement, according to a notice of settlement filed in Colorado federal court Friday.

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LexBlog IP

DECEMBER 13, 2023

Samsung Bioepis recently reported that it has signed a settlement and license agreement with Johnson & Johnson (“J&J”) in the United States relating to SB17, Samsung Bioepis’s ustekinumab biosimilar to J&J’s STELARA® If SB17 is approved by the FDA, the license period in the United States will begin on February (..)

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IP Watchdog

JANUARY 3, 2024

entered into a settlement and license agreement in 2014, following years of patent litigation over their competing glucose monitoring system patents. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit (CAFC) today issued a precedential ruling that affirmed a district court’s denial of preliminary injunction to DexCom, Inc.,

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IP Law 360

JANUARY 3, 2024

after they reached a settlement to end claims Ford improperly restricted the use of its most recognizable logo and that Nine didn't pay Ford royalties under a licensing deal. A Michigan federal judge on Tuesday dismissed Hong Kong-based manufacturer Nine HKG's suit against Ford Motor Co.,

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IP Law 360

NOVEMBER 22, 2023

Patent licensing company Arigna has agreed to drop its patent suit in the Western District of Texas against Apple, almost a year and a half after the Irish business reached a settlement with Samsung in the same court.

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LexBlog IP

MARCH 6, 2024

On February 29, Biocon Biologics Ltd announced that it signed a settlement and license agreement with Janssen Biotech Inc. As part of the settlement, Biocon has agreed to terminate the pending inter partes review of Janssen and J&J’s U.S. 10,961,307, which claims methods of treating ulcerative colitis with ustekinumab.

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IPilogue

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

Back in June 2021, The National Music Publishers’ Association (NMPA) sued Roblox for allowing users to upload copyrighted music without paying a licensing fee. The lawsuit further alleged that Roblox has established control and a moderation team to address content that is against policy but does not monitor music licensing in uploads.

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IP Law 360

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

over disputed royalty payments under a prior settlement with Sophos Inc., The Fourth Circuit has revoked a $24.6 million award for cybersecurity company Vir2us Inc. finding the district court "effectively rewrote" their agreement in siding with Vir2us.

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IP Law 360

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

district court data on how patent damages expert testimony has been challenged based on comparability, and how courts have ruled with regard to license and settlement agreements, litigation verdicts, market studies and more. Rich Franciosa and Michael Herrigel at Charles River Associates analyze nearly seven years of U.S.

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IPilogue

OCTOBER 26, 2021

It started out in 2010 when Oracle sued Google for copying the application programming interfaces (APIs) of Java, a programming language developed and licensed by Sun Microsystems and later acquired by Oracle, in Google’s development of the Android operating system.

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LexBlog IP

MARCH 15, 2024

at a future date “[i]n accordance with [Fresenius Kabi’s] patent settlement agreement with Genentech” under which Fresenius Kabi has a license to market its tocilizumab products in the U.S. starting at confidential license dates. TYENNE will be available in the U.S.

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IP Law 360

OCTOBER 22, 2021

million in patent licensing fees to Massachusetts General Hospital and Dana-Farber, saying an agreement the trio had reached in a sublicensing settlement wiped earlier pay requirements. The First Circuit has vacated a Massachusetts federal judge's holding that a Labcorp unit owes $1.3

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IP Law 360

DECEMBER 4, 2023

A Texas licensing company and Taiwanese manufacturer ASUSTeK Computer Inc. came to an 11th-hour settlement agreement over the weekend in a patent dispute that was scheduled to go to trial Monday.

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IPilogue

AUGUST 24, 2022

The first kind, academic institutions, acquire patents to protect the research work of their faculty and researchers while licensing others to use the results of the research produced without commodifying the patent. Despite the obvious tension between the business models of NPEs and IP law, NPEs can exist for the following two reasons.

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IP Law 360

AUGUST 25, 2023

Circuit panel refused Friday to revive a Federal Trade Commission lawsuit targeting an opioid medication settlement between Endo Pharmaceuticals and Impax, concluding the license brandmaker Endo granted for Impax to sell a generic, even the only version of the drug available, was just "a standard exclusive license."

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LexBlog IP

JANUARY 25, 2024

The settlement prohibits InMarket from selling or licensing any precise location data and from “selling, licensing, transferring or sharing any product or service that categorizes or targets consumers based on sensitive location data.” ” Ouch.

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IP Law 360

OCTOBER 17, 2023

Following notice of a settlement, a federal judge in Washington state has dismissed a suit from Seattle-based Docklight Brands Inc. against two firms over a scuttled licensing deal to sell Bob Marley-branded cannabis products in Canada.

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IP and Legal Filings

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

Payment And Settlement Systems Act RBI, the primary regulatory authority of different forms of financial bodies has been quick in anticipating and adopting technological innovations. These banks are in fact Private Limited Companies and cannot discharge banking activities especially accepting demand deposits and on payment and settlements.

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LexBlog IP

SEPTEMBER 15, 2022

Transfers of rights: How does the transfer of an NFT impact IP rights in the associated asset? Licensing of rights: How should IP rights in the associated asset be licensed in an NFT context? Or where the NFT creator also owns the IP in the underlying asset, and the asset is infringed by a third party?

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LexBlog IP

APRIL 13, 2023

Patent trolls leverage the litigation system to negotiate settlements for less than the cost of defending against a lawsuit. VirnetX, on the other hand, licenses its patents for eight and sometimes nine figures. All of this is quite common with large damages awards and licensing fees. Paying a large license fee is one thing.

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The IPKat

JULY 5, 2021

But then, of course, in a statement published on 1 June, the two companies said they have signed an agreement under which Nokia will license mobile telecoms technology to Daimler. They discussed the questions referred in the Nokia v Daimler case, and the broader issues around standards, supply chains and FRAND licensing.

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