LexBlog IP

DECEMBER 15, 2022

Nothing says Holiday Season like the final public Federal Trade Commission meeting of the very long year. The lights are hung, joy is sort of in the air and we turn to our four commissioners for even more holiday cheer. The holiday spirit was not in abundance. If we are lucky they will be a holiday gift in 2023.

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The IPKat

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

IFIM Holiday Seminar – Tales of the New Doctors of Law (physical event) The Institutet för Immaterialrätt och Marknadsrätt (IFIM) at Stockholm University will be running its traditional Holiday Seminar on 7 December 2021. Stay updated with the latest information here. This year’s event will be an in-person one at Stockholm University.

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The IPKat

APRIL 20, 2022

The holiday is over and this Kat hopes that all readers managed to renew their energies. A Kat in desperate need of a coffee GuestKat Gabriele Girardello shared with us the trends and topics covered at the “Pharma & Biotech Patent Litigation” conference in Amsterdam, which he attended on 14-16 March 2022.

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The IPKat

JULY 11, 2022

Thus, contrary to the recent Nature article on this topic, AI is not breaking patent law. Dr Thaler argued that he derived the right to DABUS's inventions by virtue of being the AI's employer [ Merpel: Raising the question of whether DABUS gets decent pay and holiday? Has anyone asked DABUS if it wants its inventions to be patented? ].

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TorrentFreak

JANUARY 15, 2024

After the miniseries was seen by millions earlier this month, private prosecutions – which allow alleged victims of crime to prosecute their own criminal cases – are now a topic of national debate. The Brit was on holiday in Florida and didn’t return to the UK for another three months.

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Plagiarism Today

OCTOBER 27, 2021

We’ll understand the myriad of ways copyright has helped to shape the spookiest of holidays, and how you can keep yourself (legally) safe through it. Though not a deep article, it’s an interesting overview of the topic and a look at the copyright challenges we face running our small haunted house.

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TorrentFreak

FEBRUARY 25, 2023

During international holidays, news in a tight niche like ours can completely dry up, so when an exciting headline suddenly appears after 14 hours at a desk, things aren’t so bad after all. While the language dances around the topic, it’s fairly obvious what the report is driving at.

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Erik K Pelton

MAY 9, 2022

And it’s one of my favorite topics to talk about because there’s so many exciting and interesting examples of different non-traditional trademarks. Holiday Inn has a unique color and the way that the lights are shined, and what they’re pointed at in front of their hotels, that layout is a registered trademark.

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LexBlog IP

DECEMBER 21, 2021

Opportunistic TV networks saw the opportunity to make use of royalty-free airtime and started broadcasting the film during the holidays each year, where the film grew immensely in popularity. For anyone interested in more details, the Library of Congress created a helpful blog post a few years ago discussing the topic.

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Nelligan Law

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

The simple act of listening more and talking less and being aware of how certain common conversational topics may be exclusionary to people who haven’t grown up with those experiences – these things are always helpful.”. For instance, leadership can notice and make space to mark cultural holidays.

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LexBlog IP

MARCH 8, 2023

So our holiday gift from the FTC, which flew a bit under the radar if you ask us, was the Health Products Compliance Guide. We also have an upcoming webinar covering the topic in March – details here.) We shall see. The FTC gives a pithy overview of the new guidelines in this blog. (We

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

JANUARY 15, 2024

To piggyback on the editorial board analogy, if the newspaper itself had published an account of its editorial policies and decisions, and it turned out to be potentially fraudulent in some way, it would not chill the newspaper’s exercise of editorial control to investigate whether the newspaper’s public statements on that topic were false.

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The IPKat

SEPTEMBER 12, 2021

Merpel gives the "German injunction gap" factor some much needed side-eye After the end of what English and Welsh litigators call the Trinity term (aka end of the term before the Court breaks for the summer holidays), Mr Justice Mellor was working overtime to deliver two decisions. Purr-haps a good topic for a dissertation.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

JANUARY 18, 2022

Students: this post surfaces numerous potential paper topics. This ruling came out right before the New Years holiday, so it’s not gotten a lot of attention. Despite this post’s length, the only thing you will know with confidence after reading this post is that FOSTA is not a good solution to any problem. Ruling #1: Doe v.

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TorrentFreak

SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

When he reappeared online, apparently after taking a pre-booked holiday, NAFO were lying in wait ready to resume where things left off. In pure terms, Dotcom is 100% right that a chaotic mob has undermined his ability to have his own opinion on a controversial topic and air that in public.

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