INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY
- How Explaining Copyright Broke the YouTube Copyright System
- NYU Law School’s Video Teaching Copyright Completely Flummoxed YouTube’s Copyright Filters
- Protective Orders Alive and Well in Canadian IP Litigation: The Federal Court of Appeal has recently put to rest concerns about the availability of “protective orders” in IP litigation.
- Managing Canadian Trademark Applications Under CIPO’s New Restrictions on Extensions of Time
- Led Zeppelin wins latest battle in Stairway to Heaven legal fight
- 9th Circuit Gets It Right: Says Led Zeppelin Didn’t Infringe; Dumps Dumb ‘Inverse Ratio’ Rule
- Ninth Circuit Affirms Non-Infringement Judgment for Led Zeppelin’s Stairway to Heaven
- Skidmore v. Led Zeppelin: 9th Cir. reinstates jury verdict that Stairway to Heaven did not infringe copyright to song Taurus, ruling that sound recordings of Taurus were properly excluded at trial.
- Ninth Circuit Watch: En Banc Court Overturns Rule That a High Degree of Access to Copyrighted Material Reduces Plaintiff’s Burden to Show Substantial Similarity
- Fantasies About a Formula for Fair Use
- Augmented Reality/Virtual Reality Litigation Update: Virtual Immersion Technologies Litigations
- Hugo Boss – aka comedian Joe Lycett – takes on Hugo Boss
- In New 5Pointz Decision, Second Circuit Concludes That VARA Trumps The Constitution
- Street artists spray paint legal victory across walls
- No success for Questor in its quest for an injunction
- NFL Gets Shopify To Take Down Clear NY Jets Parody Merch Site With Trademark Complaint
- A Bite in the Apple: Apple Inc. v. California Institute of Technology, Appeal Nos. 2019-1580, -1581 (Fed. Cir., March 5, 2020)
- Gender inequality — How many patent offices does it take to fix a leaky pipeline?
- It might be good enough to eat, but is your product good enough to protect?
- Software Can Make Non-Abstract Improvements to Computer Technology Just as Hardware Can (But Didn’t Here)
- Haptic feedback assisted text manipulation: technical
- UK opts out of Unified Patent Court regime
- UK will not be part of the Unified Patent Court or Unitary Patent system
- Will I be able to enforce my European intellectual property rights in the UK?
- Key Estate Planning Considerations for Individuals with Intellectual Property (Part III: Patents)
- Key IP trends to watch for in 2020
- Intellectual Property Protection Strategies for Successful Business in the US and Canada
- Intellectual Property Issues for Foreign Enterprises Acquiring Chinese Companies
- Mastering the patent application process
- Publicity Rights and Its Scope in Intellectual Property Laws
- Facebook Brings Suit against Mobile Marketing Firm for Siphoning User Data without Authorization
- Before it sued Google for copying from Java, Oracle got rich copying IBM’s SQL
- Quibi Accused Of Stealing Technology, Trade Secrets From Interactive Video Company Eko
- Full Count: Retweet Copyright Dispute Against Cubs Moves Forward
- Cannabis Company is Sued for Showing Mural in Advertising Campaign
- Quibi Sued by Eko for Patent Infringement, Theft of Trade Secrets
- Amazon, counterfeits and memes: Online IP developments
- Spotify, Amazon to Argue Against Songwriter Rate Hike in Court of Appeals
- Engineer at the center of Waymo/Uber legal battle declares bankruptcy
- Does my AI own the IP that it creates? If not, who?
- Japan Approves New Law To Make Manga Piracy A Criminal Offense
- Take-Two: Another step in the High Court’s battle against cheating in video games
- Bold: Matthew Storman, Sans Lawyer, Counter Sues Nintendo For False Allegation Of Copyright Infringement
- Joy-Con drift lawsuit denied dismissal, but referred to arbitration: 18 plaintiffs have joined suit against Nintendo, claiming unfair and deceptive business practices
- Nintendo Switch Joy-Con drift class action lawsuit paused as case moves to arbitration
- Mod.io raises $1 million to help game devs support user-generated content
- Playing To Win: The Post-Alice Video Game Patent Landscape
- U.S. Patent no. 10,286,299: Transitioning gameplay on a head-mounted display
- U.S. Patent no. 10,286,307: Game controller with removable faceted finger pad
Jon
Communications Law