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Software Piracy Triggers Innovation, Research Finds

TorrentFreak

Its introduction in 2001 was sudden, the technology is ideally suited for software piracy, and it wasn’t notably interrupted during the sample period which ends in 2007. Today, more than twenty years after BitTorrent was invented, piracy levels remain high. BitTorrent Piracy Triggered Innovation. increase in R&D spending.

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Understanding IPO’s Rejection of UPL’s Patent Application for Mancozeb and Ortho Silicic Acid Combination in Light of the Patent Bargain and Sufficiency of Disclosure

SpicyIP

Image from here Understanding IPO’s Rejection of UPL’s Patent Application for Mancozeb and Ortho Silicic Acid Combination in Light of the Patent Bargain and Sufficiency of Disclosure By Deepali Vashist Thanks to Sandeep Kanak Rathod for mentioning this development on his LinkedIn profile and sharing the copy of the order with us.

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Federal Circuit Overrules Rosen-Durling Test for Design Patent Obviousness

Patently-O

In utility patents, the test for analogous arts has two prongs, with the reference qualifying as prior art if either prong is met: Whether the prior art is from the same field of endeavor as the claimed invention, regardless of the problem addressed by the reference.

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Federal Circuit Takes Judicial Notice of Wayback Machine Evidence of Prior Art

IP Intelligence

Ironburg Inventions Ltd. , One of Valve’s primary prior-art references was “a printed copy of an online review of an Xbox 360 controller.” Ironburg Inventions, Ltd. , 06-CV-1909, 2007 WL 922306, at *5 (E.D.N.Y. In its Aug. 17 decision in Valve Corporation v. Valve Corp. 2020-1315, 2021 WL 3628664, at *3 (Fed.

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Federal Circuit Takes Judicial Notice of Wayback Machine Evidence of Prior Art

LexBlog IP

Ironburg Inventions Ltd. , One of Valve’s primary prior-art references was “a printed copy of an online review of an Xbox 360 controller.” Ironburg Inventions, Ltd. , 06-CV-1909, 2007 WL 922306, at *5 (E.D.N.Y. In its Aug. 17 decision in Valve Corporation v. ” Valve Corp. July 21, 2017); Novak v.

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Egglife Foods Sues Crepini, LLC for Alleged Trade Dress Infringement

Indiana Intellectual Property Law

Introduced in 2019, founder Peggy Johns claims to have invented egglife egg white wraps, using a now patented method ( U.S. The Defendant, Crepini, LLC (“Crepini”), was apparently founded in 2007 with “the dream of bringing crepes into every North American household.” 10,194,669 ).

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SpicyIP Weekly Review (September 4- September 10)

SpicyIP

Comparing the competing works the court held that the respondent’s work is a direct copy of the petitioner’s work and directed to remove the impugned work from the register. The registration has previously been stayed by the Copyright Board and an injunction is in operation, restricting the defendant from using the impugned label.