News of the Week; July 1, 2020

INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY

1. Access Copyright and York University File Leave to Appeal Material in the Supreme Court of Canada (Howard Knopf)
2. Copyright Board Activity in 2020: Launch of Twitter Account and Guidelines for Economic Evidence (Howard Knopf)
3. Florida Law Will Allow College Athletes to Profit from Name, Image, and Likeness Starting Summer 2021
4. Can copyright law help Brompton ride out an IP storm?
5. Zindel v. Fox Searchlight Pictures, Inc.: Ninth Circuit reverses dismissal of copyright claims against The Shape of Water film, ruling that dismissal on pleadings was premature because additional evidence could aid.
6. The fair remuneration provisions in the new Copyright Directive
7. Copyright: Hyperlinks and the Communication to the Public Right
8. John Bolton Doesn’t Need Copyright Protection
9. Companies Issuing Bogus Copyright Claims To Hide Police Training Materials From The Public
10. Copyright Troll Richard Liebowitz Benchslapped And Sanctioned AGAIN In A Massive Filing Detailing Pages Upon Pages Of Him Lying Under Oath
11. Supreme Court says generic domains like booking.com can be trademarked
12. Prosecco People Move On From Bullying Puns Over Trademark To Bullying Portmanteau Over Trademark
13. Captain Tom Moore – a positive pandemic trade mark story
14. Vegan food fight: Does Nestlé’s Incredible Burger infringe Impossible Burger?
15. EU law on the “technical result” and “substantial value” exclusions for shape marks
16. Where Claimed Points of Novelty Have Primarily Functional Purpose, They Fail “Ornamental Design” Patentability Requirement
17. Federal Circuit Affirms Use of Common Sense for Obviousness Determination
18. Falling short of a sufficient disclosure
19. Patent claim ambiguities and their interpretations
20. Upheaval for patent law of sufficiency from the UK Supreme Court
21. Patents diary June 2020: UK Supreme Court holds Regeneron’s transgenic mice patents invalid
22. Supreme Court Decision: Regeneron v Kymab
23. Territorial licensing: “start at the end before you begin”
24. New Section 301 investigations into digital services taxes involving multiple countries
25. Millions of Americans Depend on Libraries for Internet. Now They’re Closed: From big cities to tiny towns, librarians are getting scrappy to meet the need
26. Instagram Users, Beware Of Copyright Infringement Warning You May Receive In DMs
27. Goldman Sachs Created A Font, But You Are Forbidden By Its License To Critique Goldman Sachs Using It
28. Pokemon Go Developer Niantic Wins Battle Over 3D Virtual Thematic Environment Patent
29. Sinespace dev partners with Unity to let Asset Store creators sell models in-game 
30. European retailers can no longer sell download codes for Nintendo-published titles
31. New hack runs homebrew code from DVD-R on unmodified PlayStation 2

Jon