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Extension of the Deadline for the 2024 Shamnad Basheer Essay Competition on Intellectual Property Law – 28th July, 2024 

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Shamnad Basheer 1976-2019; taken at NUJS, Kolkata circa 2009. With several requests for extensions coming in, we’ve decided to extend the deadline for the 2024 Shamnad Basheer Essay Competition on Intellectual Property Law. The new deadline is 28th July, 2024 (11:59 pm IST).

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Sony’s Ancient Lawsuit vs. Cheat Device Heads in Right Direction – Sony’s Defeat

TorrentFreak

If Sony has its way and the protection software enjoys under the 2009 Computer Programs Directive is extended to transient variables in RAM, those who modify those variables – the users of tweaking software – would become direct infringers under copyright law.

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The WIPO Files I: the quest to protect user rights

Kluwer Copyright Blog

In 2009 the Committee initiated text-based negotiations on L&Es for persons with visual impairments, which led to the adoption in 2013 of the Marrakesh Treaty to Facilitate Access to Published Works for Persons Who Are Blind, Visually Impaired or Otherwise Print Disabled , the first WIPO treaty to focus on user rights.

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Federal Circuit Concluded that Operating Manuals Subject to Confidentiality Restrictions are Prior Art Printed Publication

Intellectual Property Law Blog

2009), the Board concluded in the IPRs that the operating manuals were not sufficiently publicly accessible to qualify as printed publications under pre-AIA 35 U.S.C. § Patent Nos. 10,639,812 and 10,625,436) relate to high-speed mechanical slicers for slicing and packaging food articles. By applying the framework in Cordis Corp. 3d 1319 (Fed.

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Should the EU unify copyright laws?

The IPKat

Then, in April 2024, former Italian prime minister Enrico Letta released his report Much More than a Market and inter alia recommended the establishment of a European Code of Business Law through “the systematic codification of the existing legal framework”, including in the field of “intellectual property law”.

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16-Year-Old Pirate Site Prosecution Resurrected Despite Four Acquittals

TorrentFreak

When a black and white movie produced in Argentina was spotted by the rightsholder, a criminal complaint escalated into Spanish law enforcement action in 2009, and a search at the home of one of the site’s operators. All determined that linking did not amount to a communication to the public.

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UCB, Inc. v. Actavis Laboratories UT, Inc. No. 2021-1924, (Fed. Cir. Apr. 12, 2023)

Intellectual Property Law Blog

In 2018, UCB filed a new patent application (the “’589 patent”, priority date 2009) covering a reformulation of Neupro. UCB prevailed in the lawsuit, and was awarded an injunction against Actavis until March 2021, when one of the Muller patents expires.

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