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UK IPO launches call for views on Standard Essential Patents, innovation and competition

The IPKat

This is a highly topical issue, with methods or devices which utilise technology that is essential to implementing a standard often being protected by patents, running the risk that a third-party manufacturer would be unable to create standard compliant products.

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World IP Day 2022 – With a Side Look at TikTok

Velocity of Content

That strikes me as certainly a worthy and intriguing topic, but before saying more about why I’m inclined to think so, I think the terms used could probably stand a little unpacking first. Why did WIPO select the topic “IP for young people” this year? It’s not a perfectly clear concept , and the laws concerning each form differ.

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Major Record Labels Sue Youtube-dl’s Hosting Provider

TorrentFreak

. “Not only does YouTube pay license fees for music, we all pay fees for the right to private copying in the form of the device fee, which is levied with every purchase of smartphones or storage media,” says Reda. After more than a year, the warring factions are no closer to an agreement.

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Around the IP Blogs

The IPKat

In addition, potential and tangible intersections between intellectual property and these trending topics were recently discussed by The Trademark Lawyer Magazine. has challenged the validity of a figurative mark registered for goods related to smartphones in class 9. This article provides an overview of the current trends in the U.S.

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Copyright Hygiene for Digital Content Creators

Velocity of Content

According to most sources , podcasts began to catch on in the early 2000’s, when the technology for distributing audio content – and devices such as smartphones, the cellular/wireless capabilities of which made audio subscriptions more convenient – became more widely available and found in the pockets of more consumers.

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Blockchain and Cryptocurrency: What is Blockchain Technology?

Fish & Richardson Trademark & Copyright Thoughts

User A’s five bitcoins are not technically sent from user A’s smartphone to user B’s smartphone, rather new transaction added to the Bitcoin blockchain records the transfer and future references to the Bitcoin blockchain will show that user B owns five additional bitcoins and A has five fewer bitcoins. see Figure 5).

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Antitrust Law Doesn’t Prevent Apple From Rejecting Apps From Its App Store–Coronavirus Reporter v. Apple

Technology & Marketing Law Blog

(Indeed, the plaintiffs said they sued to redress Apple’s “curation” and “censor[ship]” of smartphone apps). Even if these two apps (Coronavirus Reporter and Bitcoin Lottery) were not scams (a topic I have no opinion about), others in the same niche almost certainly would be scams–and dangerous ones at that.

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