News of the Week; January 29, 2020

INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY

1. How the Supreme Court’s New Standard of Review Will Impact IP
2. USMCA amendments: implications for Canadian IP law
3. Article 13: UK will not implement EU copyright law
4. Tom Kabinet: CJEU rules resale of e-books requires permission of copyright holder
5. CJEU judgement in Sky v Skykick (case C-371/18)
6. UK Government “has no plans” to implement the Copyright Directive
7. UK Says It Won’t Implement The EU Copyright Directive, Which Wouldn’t Have Passed Without Its Support During A Crucial Vote
8. Here’s why the UK is (finally) dumping Article 13 for good: The UK had plenty of opportunities to veto the controversial EU copyright legislation, so why did it wait so long to torpedo Article 13?
9. An IP Roadmap for Phase-One Sino-US Economic and Trade Agreement
10. Phase 1 U.S. China Trade Deal: Patent Provisions
11. PMPRB Publishes Draft Guidelines to Operationalize Amendments to the Patented Medicines Regulations
12. Court of Appeal clarifies rules for joint authorship of copyright
13. Fair Use and Fanatic Fans
14. Lego A/S v. Zuru, Inc.
15. Structured Asset Sales, LLC v. Sheeran
16. Two Cases Raise New Copyright Infringement Concerns for Internet Linking
17. #CopyrightInfringement: The Sequel
18. IP Insight: Is Linking to Radio Streams Online Copyright Infringement?
19. In ‘N Out Burger Continues Its BS Pop-Up Technique To Keep Trademarks It Isn’t Actually Using
20. SDNY: Collateral Estoppel Halts Social Media Patent Case
21. Conversant Wireless v Huawei: patents valid & essential
22. Competition between generics and originators – what’s the relevance of a patent?
23. Cannabis patent litigation update: construing cannabis claims
24. Recent Suit By US Olympic Committee Is Excellent Reminder Of Special Protection Afforded To The Words “Olympic” and “Paralympic”
25. Life sciences intellectual property: 2019 highlights
26. 2020 Intellectual Property Primer: Cases to Watch this Year
27. Tricks of the trade: Can you just do a quick search on …?
28. Update on Allarco’s “Unusual” Litigation (Howard Knopf)
29. YouTube Streamer Hit With Demonetization Over Copyright Claims To Numbers ’36’ And ’50’
30. Germany Wants To Limit Memes And Mashups Derived From Press Publishers’ Material To 128-by-128 Pixels In Resolution, And Three Seconds In Length
31. As We Get Closer And Closer To The EU Requiring ContentID Everywhere, More Abuses Of ContentID Exposed
32. Copyright As Censorship: Gun Rights Advocate Gets Video Taken Down With Bogus Copyright Claim
33. CBS Gets Angry Joe’s YouTube Review Of ‘Picard’ Taken Down For Using 26 Seconds Of The Show’s Trailer
34. 2019 Emoji Law Year-in-Review (Eric Goldman)
35. JLo Character Hustles Into Court Over Publicity Rights
36. Planning a Super Bowl-themed Marketing Campaign? 5 Tips for Staying In Bounds
37. Japanese court ups punishment for unlicensed Mario Kart-themed go-karts: Maricar must change its name, pay out $458k instead of $92k to Nintendo
38. Blizzard automatically owns any and all Warcraft 3: Reforged custom games
39. Blizzard now claims full copyright for player-made “custom game” mods
40. Warcraft 3 Reforged EULA gives Blizzard total ownership of all custom games: With the remake, Blizzard appears to be trying to avoid another Dota situation
41. Don’t Miss: How a ragtag band of modders restored Star Wars KOTOR II
42. EA ends support for mobile Tetris, Tetris Blitz
43. You Don’t Own What You Buy: The Tetris Edition

Jon