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SNIPR Tech. Ltd. v. Rockefeller Univ., No. 22-1260 (Fed. Cir. July 14, 2023)

Intellectual Property Law Blog

This case addresses certain implications of the Laehy-Smith America Invests Act (AIA), namely whether patents with a filing date after March 16, 2013 (pure AIA patents) may be part of an interference proceeding under pre-AIA, 35 U.S.C. §

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Reminder: 2024 Shamnad Basheer Essay Competition on Intellectual Property Law [Submit by July 14]

SpicyIP

Basheer’s 48 th birth anniversary we announced the 2024 edition of the Shamnad Basheer Essay Competition on Intellectual Property Law. programs can take part) across the world, as well as to those who have completed their first law degree in 2022 or later. Shamnad Basheer 1976-2019; taken at NUJS, Kolkata circa 2009.

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The Chicken Sandwich Wars: A Sampling of Intellectual Property Law in the Fast Food Industry

LexBlog IP

Jonathon Ballantyne is a third-year law student at Wake Forest University School of Law. He holds a Bachelor of Arts in Political Science from Washington and Lee University and served as a class representative on W&L’s Executive Committee from 2013-2015. Upon graduation, he intends to practice transactional law.

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Common Mistakes to Avoid When Registering a Trademark

IP and Legal Filings

Trademark Law: A Practitioner’s Guide (5th ed.). Principles of Intellectual Property Law (4th ed. Retrieved October 18, 2024, from [link] Baldwin, J. D., & Kesselman, D. Wolters Kluwer, 2021. Catherine Colston & Kirsty Middleton.

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Copyrightability of a Programming Language

Patently-O

New briefs in support of the accused infringer WPL: Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) : The law treats copyrightability of software differently than other literary works (as it should). Posner, The Economic Structure of Intellectual Property Law (2003). 1821 (2013). Patents should be the go-to in this area.

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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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Cyntec Company, Ltd. v. Chilisin Electronics Corp., Chilisin America Ltd. Nos. 2022-1873, (Fed. Cir. October 16, 2023)

Intellectual Property Law Blog

2013), the Federal Circuit threw out expert testimony on damages because it relied on calculations that assumed, without evidence, that all shipments of certain mobile phones included an infringing power circuit, even though the power circuits were found in chargers and not phones. In the first case, Power Integrations v. 3d 1348, 1357 (Fed.

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