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Zippyshare Quits After 17 Years, 45m Visits Per Month Makes No Money

TorrentFreak

When file-hosting service Zippyshare showed its first signs of life in September 2006, accessing the site using an iPhone was impossible; the smart phone’s existence wouldn’t be announced for another four months. As the file-hosting market developed and competition increased, being zippy was still good but wasn’t enough.

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Sky’s Enhanced High Court Pirate IPTV Blocking Order Closes Loopholes

TorrentFreak

As a TV broadcaster, Sky has an exceptional view of the legal subscription TV market and how the illegal IPTV market encroaches on that. As an ISP that supplies 20% of the market, Sky’s view of its own customers using Sky Broadband to pirate Sky’s pay TV content is a persistent irritant that comes with the territory.

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Memes as Judicial Opinions–Courthouse News Service v. Forman

Technology & Marketing Law Blog

For example, in 2006, I did a rundown of the Princess Bride quotes I could find –surely there are more now). Walker of the Northern District of Florida, who richly deserves the (slightly belated) crown of the Technology & Marketing Law Blog’s Superhero Opinion Author of the Day. Forman , 4:22cv106-MW/MAF (N.D.

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Why the Government’s New Telecom Policy Directive Means More of the Same for Canada’s Communications Competition Woes

Michael Geist

While the new proposed policy directive features much needed details and helpfully replaces the 2006 and 2019 directives that often conflicted and enabled the CRTC to pay little more than lip service to the issue, it sends a strong signal that it is happy with the Commission’s current approach. ” A full MVNO model?

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Google Answers Question About Plagiarized Content, Kind Of

Plagiarism Today

In 2006, for example, Google told legitimate authors not to worry about duplicate content issues. This has taken many forms, including article marketing and spinning. However, that’s simply not how plagiarism works and, almost certainly, not how Google works. But the issue of duplicate content has long been a thorny one for Google.

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Chief Judge Connolly Issues Comprehensive Opinion Setting Forth Court’s Findings of Fact and Conclusions of Law on Infringement Claims and Invalidity Defenses as to Patents-in-Suit Following ANDA Trial

Delaware Intellectual Property Litigation Blog

Food & Drug Administration (FDA) seeking approval to market generic versions of Plaintiffs’ brand-name drug Imbruvica®. Plaintiffs’ claims centered under the Hatch Waxman Act, 21 U.S.C. § 355(j), and arose out of Defendants’ submission of an Abbreviated New Drug Application (ANDA) to the U.S.

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Finding the Real “Burger King”: Identical Marks & Prior Use in the Pune Eatery Case

SpicyIP

The eatery owners argued that they had been using the name Burger King since 1992, which was over two decades before Burger King US entered the Indian market in 2014. to restaurant services only in 2006. It becomes critical to ask whether prior use in the worldwide market suffices in such cases.