News of the Week; March 25, 2020

INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY

  1. Awful, Awful People Keep Trying To Trademark COVID And Coronavirus
  2. The Utility of Recent Force Majeure Amendments to Canadian Trademark Law
  3. Federal Court of Appeal remands Remicade new use patent decision on anticipation and obviousness
  4. (Trade)mark America Great Again: Should Political Slogans Be Able to Receive Trademark Protection? (Katherine Kerrick)
  5. Newspaper Can Talk About “Derby Pies” Without Infringing Trademarks–Rupp v. Courier Journal (Eric Goldman)
  6. Supreme Court Decides North Carolina Is Immune from Filmmaker’s Copyright Suit
  7. Surprise: Judge Throws Out Jury’s Awful Copyright Infringement Decision Over Katy Perry Song
  8. Supreme Court rules states are immune from copyright law
  9. States Cannot be Sued for Copyright Infringement Says the Supreme Court
  10. SCOTUS Strikes Down Law Abrogating Sovereign Immunity to States for Copyright Infringement
  11. North Carolina Won’t Be Walking the Plank: Supreme Court Finds State is No Copyright Pirate in Blackbeard Ruling
  12. U.S. Supreme Court Rules That Sovereign Immunity Shields States From Copyright Suits
  13. Supreme Court Rules That States Cannot be Sued for Copyright Infringement, For Now…
  14. Brompton bike case unfolds as AG’s opinion indicates no copyright infringement
  15. A casual snapshot can make for a valuable copyright
  16. Responding to COVID-19 | Global intellectual property update
  17. COVID-19 and trademark-driven scams
  18. Judge Woods Finds Dating App Patent Doesn’t “Match Up” With Section 101
  19. Federal Circuit Adds “Method of Preparation” Claims to Bucket List of Claim Types that May Elude the Dreaded US 101 Invalidity Finding
  20. An Improved Step in a Diagnostic Method is Patentable Subject Matter
  21. Everyone’s Got A Pet Project: Patent Maximalist Says We Need Longer Patents To Incentivize Coronavirus Vaccines
  22. RIP to the Australian innovation patent
  23. ‘Upload filters’ and human rights: implementing Article 17 of the Directive on Copyright in the Digital Single Market
  24. Double Blow To The EU’s Long-Delayed Unified Patent Court, But Supporters Unlikely To Give Up
  25. Former Google engineer pleads guilty to stealing confidential document
  26. ‘A worldwide hackathon’: Hospitals turn to crowdsourcing and 3D printing amid equipment shortages
  27. Artificial Intelligence: Can a machine be an inventor?
  28. Google v CNIL – an update on the right to be forgotten
  29. Judge To Art Licensing Agency: No, Your Stupid Unicorn Is Not More Important Than COVID-19 Right Now, Shut Up
  30. No Fun and Games: Blizzard Alleges Infringement by JoyFun Inc.
  31. High Fashion Invades Runeterra – Fascinating IP Issues in the Collaboration Between League of Legends and Louis Vuitton
  32. Nintendo presses Sony to remove Mario creations from Dreams: Sony confirms ongoing case-by-case purge of Nintendo IP from creation game
  33. Nintendo Gets ‘Dreams’ Mario Taken Down Because Of Course It Did
  34. Mods that cut VR from Half-Life: Alyx will only show how vital its VR is, says Valve
  35. U.S. Patent no. 10,286,323: Dynamic difficulty adjustment

Jon