INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY
- JAVEX vs. JAVELO – Federal Court of Appeal applies Vavilov to first Trademark Opposition Appeal
- Lawsuit over online book lending could bankrupt Internet Archive
- Italian Public Prosecutor Says Project Gutenberg’s Collection Of Public Domain Books Must Be Blocked For Copyright Infringement
- Nothing “Fishy” About Use of Children’s Song “Fish Sticks n’ Tater Tots” in Documentary about Burlesque Dancers, Court Rules
- Chalk this One Up to the Utilitarian Nature of a Toy Chalk Holder
- Southern District of New York: Embedding Public Instagram Post Does Not Infringe Photographer’s Copyright
- Leonard v Nike: Copyright in the Klaw
- District Court Mostly Refuses To Terminate The Litigation Testing The Copyright Termination Provision
- Protection of store layout under copyright law: the KIKO case
- Defendant Must Prove that Copied Portion of Copyrighted Work is Unprotectable
- Open Source Software: the Affero GPL, the ‘as a Service’ world and the CAL
- SpaceX launch footage was taken down thanks to bogus copyright claim
- Just As The Copyright Office Tries To Ignore The Problem Of Bad Takedowns, NBC & Disney Take Down NASA’s Public Domain Space Launch
- Copyright Blocks Interview Of Protesters Because Marvin Gaye’s ‘Let’s Get It On’ Was Playing In The Background
- Copyright Office Finds DCMA Tilts Away From Copyright Owners; Will Congress Act to Change That?
- Conducting Your Way Through Music Licensing: The Most Common Issues
- In The Midst Of A Pandemic And Widespread Unrest, Senate Republicans Think It’s Time To Use Copyright To Make The Richest Musicians Richer
- Reversing Examining Attorney, TTAB Gives the Green Light to Color Mark Application
- Private Prison Company Sues Netflix Over Use Of Logo In ‘Messiah’
- Down N’ Out – Down on their luck
- Lucky Brand Strikes Gold After SCOTUS Rejects Marcel’s Defense Preclusion Argument
- Are GODIVA’s “Belgium 1926” Chocolates Made in Belgium?
- Amended Patented Medicines Regulations will come into force on 1 January 2021
- Federal Circuit: Patent Eligibility Turns on the Content – Not Length – of the Claims
- EPO: Plants and Plant Materials Not Patentable if Exclusively Obtained by Essentially Biological Process
- EPO does not follow the US and JEM on Patentability of Plants
- Our Top 5 Added Matter Drafting Tips
- The importance of IP due diligence
- Trump Issues Executive Order Aimed at Curtailing Online Platforms’ Immunity for User Generated Content
- Why the USMCA Locks in the Internet Platform Liability System in the U.S., Canada and Mexico (Michael Geist)
- Court Discovers Rare and Elusive “Enforceable Browsewrap”
- How Social Media Usage Of Popular DIY Hashtags Has Changed
- Microsoft sacks journalists to replace them with robots: Users of the homepages of the MSN website and Edge browser will now see news stories generated by AI
- Patent Law Alert – AI Machines Are Not Human Inventors
- Protecting AI and machine-learning inventions
- Scotland’s first “virtual appeal” reaffirms the value of fair comment
- Something on Which Even Patent Litigators Can Agree: McRO v. Bandai, Inc. Clarifies the Framework for Enablement Challenges and for Enablement Defenses
- Denuvo security software removed from Doom Eternal and Metro Exodus: Despite speculation, removal of Anti-Cheat and Anti-Tamper was not in response to performance issues
- Denuvo’s Anti-Cheat Software Now Getting Ripped From Games At Record Speed Too
- 30 years later, a lost Days of Thunder NES game recovered from 21 floppy disks
- U.S. Patent no. 10,322,336: Haptic braille output for a game controller
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Communications Law