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Third Circuit Declares Copyright Independence for Fireworks Systems–Pyrotechnics v. XFX

Technology & Marketing Law Blog

This case involves copyright protection for fireworks systems–a relevant topic for July 4th! ” FireTEK , a Romanian competitor, reverse-engineered Pyrotechnics’ hardware to understand the protocol, then it built a rival central unit that could control Pyrotechnics’ field modules. Oracle litigation.

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Lauren Degnan named National Law Journal “Litigation Trailblazer”

Fish & Richardson Trademark & Copyright Thoughts

The journal acknowledged her recent reversal of a PTAB decision that had invalidated her client’s turbine engine patent, as well as her leadership in a multi-patent, multi-jurisdiction infringement dispute that ultimately led to the ITC suspending an exclusion order against her client.

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Evolving Perspectives: USPTO Call for Comments on Patent Eligibility Comes to a Close (Part 1)

IPilogue

Patent and Trademarks Office (USPTO) closed the public comment period on the contentious topic of patent eligibility. While a vast realm of things can be patented, software and medical devices are frequently hot topics when discussing patent eligibility. On October 15, 2021, the U.S Current State.

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

TorrentFreak

Hollywood’s goal is to ensure that every domain name company, DNS provider, CDN, web hosting service, reverse proxy provider, advertising company and payment processor are bound by the same rules, so that pirates can be more easily identified. Search Engines Google appears to be taking the same position in Japan as it does elsewhere.

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The New York Times Company Secures Registration of Six Column Names, Including LIKE A BOSS and THE NEW OLD AGE

LexBlog IP

In a precedential decision, the Trademark Trial and Appeal Board (the “Board”) reversed six refusals to register The New York Times Company’s (the “Times”) names of its newspaper columns, THE NEW OLD AGE, A GOOD APPETITE, HUNGRY CITY, WORK FRIEND, OFF THE SHELF, and LIKE A BOSS (the “Marks”).

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2021 IP Year in Review

IPilogue

Photo by Engin Akyurt ( Unsplash ). Availability of Reverse Class Actions for Copyright Infringement Claims. The first of its kind in Canada, the Federal Court of Appeal in Salna v Voltage Pictures, LLC affirmed that reverse class actions may be pursued in connection with copyright infringement claims. 2000 SCC 66 at para.

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Contractual Control over Information Goods after ML Genius v. Google (Guest Blog Post)

Technology & Marketing Law Blog

This topic, and Google’s use of its dominant position, found its way to Congressional deliberations , where Google was accused of “intercept[ing] traffic from third-party websites by forcibly scraping their content and placing it directly on Google’s own site.” From this perspective, Genius’s complaint is rather standard.