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PTAB Updates and Expands the Director Review Process and Offers Transparency in Ex parte Appeals

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the Patent Office implemented an interim process for the Director to review Patent Trial and Appeal Board decisions in AIA trials. The Office sought public feedback on the process last year ( link ) and received more than 4,000 responses ( link )! After the Supreme Court’s decision in United States v. Arthrex, Inc. ,

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Japan’s Systematic Assault on Manga & Anime Piracy Broadens & Intensifies

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And when Japanese rightsholders seek to mitigate infringement in overseas legal processes, new challenges appear around every corner. More than six months later, the first process is still ongoing, and according to the recent application, no pirates have been identified. Publishers Seek Help From U.S. Executive Order 13984.

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Watch Tower’s DMCA Warfare Collapses After Big Guns Defend Apostate

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For years the Watch Tower Bible and Tract Society, the supervising body and publisher for the Jehovah’s Witness religious group, has used the cheap DMCA subpoena process to identify anonymous people said to have infringed their copyrights, usually in music or videos. When cases deviate from this format they tend to stick out.

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Popular File-Sharing Service Refuses to ‘Filter’ Content as it Fears Overblocking

TorrentFreak

Like many other file storage platforms, Ulož can be used to share a wide variety of files but according to copyright holders, many people abuse the platform to share pirated music, movies, and TV shows. This criticism isn’t new. The service still resists the use of broad keyword-based upload checks. Uloz Competitors Start Filtering.

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Commission Calls for Stakeholder Views on Data Access Mechanism under DSA

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The Commission aims to design an easy, practical and clear process for data access which will protect the rights and interests of all parties involved and adequately safeguard against abuse. The Commission is now gathering the views and evidence of stakeholders’ to inform the drafting of the delegated act.

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Is disgorgement the new normal in Lanham Act cases?

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Plaintiff argued that it should have been able to use the testimony of its principal, but even during deposition, plaintiff’s counsel stated that he “was not [there] to talk about causation and damages” and objected to questions directed to him about damages, declaring that this topic would be exclusively “within the scope of expert opinion.”

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Who Spilled the (green) Beans? 11th Circuit Unseals Private Emails in Organ Transplant Dispute

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During discovery, the hospitals argued that certain of UNOS’s emails exposed “bad faith and improper behavior” in its policymaking process and should be unsealed and considered as proof that the policy change was arbitrary, capricious, and the result of a denial of due process.