I.P. News of the Week 17 August 2025 (A.I. generated/human edited)

Trademark

• [Guest post] Retromark Volume XVI: the last six months in trade marks
  Darren Meale of Simmons & Simmons presents the sixteenth volume in his rundown of notable trade mark cases over the past six months. Here we…
• Can trade mark law help protect one’s privacy (and stop the spread of embarrassing WhatsApp audio messages)?
  Italian actor Raoul BovaThe use – and abuse – of IP rights to achieve objectives other than protecting what those rights were originally meant to…
• Once the genie is out of the bottle…
  So far, the Aladin case law and the principle of partial use have only been applied to decide whether genuine use of a trade mark…
• What Are NFTs and Are NFTs Goods Under Trademark Law? A Key Ruling from the U.S. Ninth Circuit
  July 27, 2025 Barry Sookman New technologies frequently challenge existing legal frameworks, and few innovations have sparked more legal debate than those related to blockchain and…

Copyright

• AI Visual Effects and Copyright Infringement Issues
  June 30, 2025Barry Sookman Does it infringe copyright to make an unauthorized copy of artwork and to use that as a base image for the…
• Blog – Michael Geist
  The controversy over the Toronto International Film Festival decision to remove a Canadian made October 7th documentary film from its lineup focused primarily on the…
• Copyright Notice and Notice in Voltage Pictures Case
  July 26, 2025 Barry Sookman The Federal Court of Appeal released an important decision comprehensively reviewing the notice and notice regime in the Copyright Act (the…
• EXCESS COPYRIGHT: Fantasy & Fiction about Fair Dealing in Canada: Access Copyright’s Strategic Plan 2025
  Access Copyright (“AC”) has recently published its Strategic Plan 2025 – 2028 which states that: The plan outlines the four complementary strategic goals we will be…
• In 512(f), the “F” Stands for “Futility”-Shaffer v. Kavarnos
  This 512(f) case reached a bench trial on the Lenz issue of what it means for a copyright takedown notice sender to consider fair use…
• Internet Access Providers Aren’t Bound by DMCA Unmasking Subpoenas-In re Cox
  August 16, 2025 · by Eric Goldman · in Copyright, Derivative Liability, Privacy/SecurityThe DMCA online safe harbor is a notice-and-takedown scheme. Web hosts aren’t liable…
• Judge Kness: the SAD Scheme “Should No Longer Be Perpetuated in Its Present Form”-Eicher Motors v. Schedule A Defendants
  When I first encountered the SAD Scheme, I felt like Alice entering Wonderland. The scheme was so obviously whacked that I felt like I had…
• The Indigo Kills Kids Site Blocking Injunction Case – Update
   vs.The interim (temporary short duration) wide ranging site blocking injunction obtained by Indigo Books from Justice Fuhrer of the Federal Court has now been extended…
• Universities Canada’s 2025 Unpublished Final Fair Dealing Guidelines
  So it seems like there will be no puff of white smoke from Universities Canada (“UC”) about its new long-awaited fair dealing guidelines that were…
• Who is Canada’s Top Lawyer in Copyright, IP, Technology, Privacy & AI?
  July 27, 2025 Barry Sookman When search was king, people used to “google” themselves to see what search results appeared. Increasingly, some people are starting to…

Patent

• Divergence between the UPC and EPO on claim interpretation and description definitions (Agfa v Gucci, UPC_CFI_278/2023)
  The recent decision of the UPC Hamburg Local Division in Agfa v Gucci (UPC_CFI_278/2023) is another addition to the case law on claim interpretation and…

Other

• Google and Roblox Defeat Videogame Addiction Lawsuit-Courtright v. Epic Games The plaintiff claims that “video games are designed, marketed, and sold in a way that creates and sustains addiction in users.” This becomes the anchor…
• The New CBS Already Promising Major, ‘Painful’ Layoffs
  from the repeat-the-same-mistakes-over-and-over-again deptTue, Aug 19th 2025 05:29am – Karl BodeU.S. media mergers always follow the same trajectory. Pre-merger, executives promise all manner of amazing…
• Starbreeze Entertainment sees 64% profit boost for Q2 2025, but still made a loss
  Starbreeze Entertainment has released its interim report for Q2 2025, alongside its figures for the first six months of the year, revealing that the developer/publisher’s…
• T-Mobile claimed selling location data without consent is legal—judges disagree
  Location data sales T-Mobile can’t overturn $92 million fine; AT&T and Verizon verdicts still to come. Credit: Aurich Lawson | Getty ImagesCredit: Aurich Lawson |…
• Trump admin says it convinced UK to drop demand for Apple backdoor
  Skip to content Backdoor stays closed UK previously demanded that Apple break encryption to aid government spying. Apple Store in Hangzhou, China, on February 20,…