Technology & Marketing Law Blog

JANUARY 24, 2024

Gutman created a Pinterest account in 2011 and an Instagram account in 2012, shortly after she began working for JLM. The court explains that, despite the license, Gutman could use “her name for noncommercial purposes, including personal social-media accounts.” Case citation : JLM Couture, Inc. Christou v.

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Social Media Ownership Designs Design 82

IP and Legal Filings

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

At some point, the Plaintiffs decided to expand their business into European markets. To this end, the Plaintiffs entered into the License Agreement with Defendants HIE, HT, and BR. Holding the above facts to be true, The Court held that the Plaintiff’s first claim that the Defendant’s breached the contract was true.

Trademark 54

Trademark Intellectual Property Licensing Copyright 54

Patently-O

APRIL 10, 2022

In spite of its ownership of the patents, however, a jury found that a predecessor of BioVeris (IGEN) had exclusively licensed the patents to Meso Scale Diagnostics, and that Roche was liable to Meso for directly infringing one of the patents, and for inducing infringement of two others.

Licensing 56

Licensing Technology Patent Patent Infringement 56

LexBlog IP

JULY 5, 2023

In 2006, Hetronic entered distribution and licensing agreements with Hydronic Steuersysteme GmbH (later purchased by Abitron Austria GmbH). In 2011, Hydronic began reverse-engineering Hetronic parts and contracted new suppliers to source them. and abroad. To assess the issue, the Court applied a two-step framework.

Trademark 52

Trademark Marketing Marketing Contracts 52

Technology & Marketing Law Blog

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

Fifth, assuming Trump owns a valid copyright, did he grant an implied license to Woodward to publish transcripts of the interviews and/or the record­ings themselves? The bottom line: even if he gets past the implied license problem, Trump still has to survive several other substantive and procedural hurdles to recovery.

Copyright 122

Copyright Blogging Publishing Fair Use 122

The IPKat

AUGUST 2, 2023

FRAND – Licensing Terms InterDigital selected 20 of its previous licences as comparables – the InterDigital 20. The Judge held that the patent licence agreements (‘PLA’) relied upon by InterDigital were not relevant comparables: the scale of the licensed business in each case was dramatically smaller than that of Lenovo.

Marketing 52

Marketing Marketing Licensing Patent 52

The IPKat

AUGUST 24, 2023

Novartis kept Mylan out of the Belgian market for a year before the Technical Board of Appeal (TBA) definitively revoked its patent in September 2011. In the meantime, the European Medicines Agency granted Mylan an EU-wide central marketing authorisation for a generic version of Biogen’s drug on 13 May 2022.

Litigation 52

Litigation Law Patent Invention 52

The IP Law Blog

AUGUST 25, 2022

In 2011-2012, VNG released Zing MP3 apps with Apple and Google. The Court also found it significant that VNG had “contracted with U.S. and noted that it had signed license contracts with various U.S. market” by VNG. In 2014, Lang Van sued VNG for copyright infringement. businesses in conjunction with Zing MP3.”

Copyright Infringement 98

Copyright Infringement Copyright Contracts Music 98

LexBlog IP

JUNE 28, 2023

The term includes, according to the decision, all forms of marketing of the copy of the computer program that include a right of time-limited use for a price. The compensation for damages cannot be less than twice the fee that is usually or by law paid for the type of exploitation that the infringer did without license. 2916/2022. (2)

Copying 52

Copying Copyright Law Copyright Editing 52

JIPL Online

MARCH 19, 2021

Given the disparity in negotiating power between a platform the size of Twitch and individual creators, Twitch is better situated to take on the burdens of negotiating a music licensing solution on behalf of all of the creators who drive traffic to their site. [i] For those unfamiliar with the platform, Twitch.tv

Music 76

Music Copyright Licensing Fair Use 76

LexBlog IP

AUGUST 25, 2022

In 2011-2012, VNG released Zing MP3 apps with Apple and Google. The Court also found it significant that VNG had “contracted with U.S. and noted that it had signed license contracts with various U.S. market” by VNG. In 2014, Lang Van sued VNG for copyright infringement. or other places outside Vietnam.

Copyright Infringement 52

Copyright Infringement Copyright Contracts Music 52

Technology & Marketing Law Blog

JANUARY 24, 2023

Two recent key developments were the Digital Markets Act and the Digital Services Act. This discourages visits to new sites, which will reward incumbents and thwart new market entrants. And yet…a #MAGA Ohio judge sealioned his rejection of Google’s motion to dismiss. at greater risk.

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Law Social Media Government Privacy 116

Technology & Marketing Law Blog

JANUARY 25, 2024

Then he reversed course on remand and ruled in favor of LinkedIn on its breach of contract claims. On January 23rd, Judge Chen once again dropped a bombshell for the web-scraping world (and those looking to stop it) by ruling in favor of Bright Data and against Meta on its breach of contract claims at summary judgment. Bright Data Ltd.

Blogging 74

Blogging Contracts Cease and Desist Confidentiality 74

TorrentFreak

JULY 23, 2023

All third-party services we use are bound by a contract with us to never use the information of our users for their own purposes and not to disclose the information to any third parties unrelated to the service. Our system can understand how many active sessions a given license has at a given moment in time.

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Privacy IP Technology Reporting 137