LexBlog IP

OCTOBER 1, 2022

3] The subject litigation followed, with Cici Enterprises claiming Mucho Pizza and Mr. Perales’ access to and use of confidential, competitive information to directly compete with its CiCis restaurants violates the federal Defend Trade Secrets Act and the Texas Uniform Trade Secrets Act. [4]. Mucho Pizza, LLC et al.

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The IPKat

SEPTEMBER 12, 2021

Merpel gives the "German injunction gap" factor some much needed side-eye After the end of what English and Welsh litigators call the Trinity term (aka end of the term before the Court breaks for the summer holidays), Mr Justice Mellor was working overtime to deliver two decisions.

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LexBlog IP

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

One of the post- AMG predictions about Federal Trade Commission (FTC or Commission) law enforcement is that we will see more administrative litigation. And what are the three matters in administrative litigation? Let’s walk through the FTC administrative litigation process and see what makes it particularly time-consuming.

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BYU Copyright Blog

MARCH 11, 2024

The court found that Woodson had reason to believe in 2010 that her article would be published and should have conducted further investigation at that time. Therefore, the statute of limitations began when Woodson responded to the email in 2010 expressing interest in the schools publication opportunity.

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Trading Secrets

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

That contract contained a non-solicitation provision prohibiting Aya from soliciting AMN’s employees. Aya signed the agreement in 2010. To fill their client’s needs, AMN subcontracted with smaller health care staffing agencies, including the plaintiff, Aya Healthcare Services, Inc. (“Aya”).

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IIPRD

JUNE 24, 2024

Authors protect their digital content from infringement using contracts and technological methods, which led to the international community creating the “WIPO Copyright Treaty”. As a result, the number of cross-border conflicts and patent infringement litigation is increasing. 14] “Nayoga Protocol, 2010, UN Doc.

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Patently-O

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

Most significantly, HTC was the developer and manufacturer of Google’s Nexus One Android phone , which was released in 2010. However, this case did not sound in patent infringement, but in breach of contract. patent law with no reference to French contract law. As my co-authors and I have previously observed (see p.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

In 2010, the Second Circuit issued a watershed decision about secondary trademark infringement. Those requirements will impose huge compliance costs, but those investments won’t prevent online marketplaces from being dragged into extraordinarily expensive and high-stakes litigation over eligibility for this defense.

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Intepat

OCTOBER 23, 2024

To expedite market entry and avoid delays in formalizing an assignment or license agreement, parties sometimes rely on verbal agreements, which are considered valid under Indian Contract Law. Navinta LLC (2010), the plaintiff filed an infringement suit without holding the patent’s legal title. In Abraxis Bioscience, Inc.

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SpicyIP

DECEMBER 30, 2023

The decisions in the first category, i.e., Top 10 IP Cases/Judgements (Topicality/Impact) reflect those that we thought were important from a topical point of view and were covered by the media in some way owing to the importance of parties litigating or the issue being considered or for impact on industry and innovation/creativity ecosystem etc.

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Traverse Legal Blog

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

Unlike traditional proprietary software, SaaS or PaaS business models where license terms can often be renegotiated or amended in subsequent contract cycles, open-source licensing is far less forgiving of afterthoughts. This is particularly important for projects that may later change one of the dual licenses or add a commercial one.

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SpicyIP

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

Xiaomi highlighting how the common practice of courts granting confidentiality in commercial litigation problematizes transparency, judicial accountability, and the citizens’ right to be informed of court processes and reasoning under Article 19(1)(a). One may wonder how the said judicial transparency interplays with commercial cases.

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LexBlog IP

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

Unlike traditional proprietary software, SaaS or PaaS business models where license terms can often be renegotiated or amended in subsequent contract cycles, open-source licensing is far less forgiving of afterthoughts. This is particularly important for projects that may later change one of the dual licenses or add a commercial one.

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Fish & Richardson Trademark & Copyright Thoughts

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

Yet 2020 saw a slowdown in biosimilar activity with the lowest number of annual biosimilar approvals since 2016 and fewer product launches than 2019—as well as a decrease in district court litigation and post-grant proceedings. BPCIA Litigation. Antitrust Litigation. BPCIA Litigation. Biosimilar Regulatory Updates.

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Fish & Richardson Trademark & Copyright Thoughts

JANUARY 3, 2023

With deep expertise in litigation and patent prosecution and counseling, the attorneys represent clients across a range of industries and in various legal venues. Newly promoted principals for 2023 are: Ashley Bolt has experience handling complex patent and intellectual property litigation in U.S. District Court, before the U.S.

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The IP Law Blog

MARCH 2, 2021

Will it incentivize more trademark litigation since it clearly establishes that a showing of willfulness is not required to obtain a profits award? But we believe the decision is unlikely to have much of a practical effect on trademark litigation other than in situations substantially similar to Romag.

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43(B)log

AUGUST 11, 2022

Around 2010, some studios started enforcing, e.g., Twentieth Century Fox sued over copying of plot of Phone Booth and was successful. The upside-down free riding story is just as hard to tell in litigation as the mosaic of exceptions and limitations that we already struggle to tell. But maybe there’s a way to tell it differently.

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Fish & Richardson Trademark & Copyright Thoughts

JANUARY 11, 2022

Litigation under the Biologics Price Competition and Innovation Act (BPCIA) in the district courts also decreased. BPCIA Litigation. The House also advanced the Affordable Prescriptions for Patients Through Improvements to Patent Litigation Act (H.R. BPCIA Litigation. Biosimilar Approvals and Launches in 2021.

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43(B)log

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

Photographers=demonstrated that they are artists, not the way they made their $, which was through contracts. Widespread piracy corroded the traditional model—pirated PC games were 4x authentic copies in UK in 2010. They tried doubling down, including legislation, litigation, and DRM; that iddn’t work.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

JANUARY 24, 2023

And if Musk ever flips any of Twitter’s long-standing legal or policy positions in litigation or lobbying, he could truly melt down the industry. So what do we make of the earlier rulings that suggested hiQ had a legally protected right to scrape? ¯_(ツ)_/¯ CCB Launches We have a new venue for copyright litigation.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

JANUARY 9, 2025

If you haven’t been watching the litigation tsunami over Meta Pixels, it’s been a sight to behold. An important ruling from the Saschakewan Court of Appeals , affirming that a thumbs-up emoji could constitute assent to a contract with tens of thousands of dollars of economic consequence. Pixel Cases. Emoji Law Cases Are.

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