Likelihood of Confusion

AUGUST 23, 2024

Originally posted 2014-12-03 12:54:57. Republished by Blog Post PromoterIn a totally random way, I ended up linking to an old piece about my adventures seeking a first-year summer associate position at my other blog.

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AUGUST 19, 2024

fraudulently induced him to enter into a 2014 agreement related to patents he owns for spinal implant system components — but also rejected the medical device manufacturer's claim that the doctor had breached the deal by suing. A Delaware federal jury has rejected a physician's claim that NuVasive Inc.

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IP Watchdog

JUNE 13, 2024

In 2014, Alifax, a company that specialized in producing clinical instruments, filed a lawsuit against Alcor Scientific (“Alcor”), which operated in the same general area of clinical development, alleging trade secret misappropriation under the Rhode Island Uniform Trade Secrets Act (RIUTSA).

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Likelihood of Confusion

JUNE 24, 2024

Originally posted 2014-10-28 18:56:17. Republished by Blog Post PromoterYou may have already read the previous post, only from yesterday, about the Roca Labs v. PissedConsumer follies. If you have, great.

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Likelihood of Confusion

JUNE 22, 2024

Originally posted 2014-07-16 19:54:06. Republished by Blog Post PromoterIt’s an art, not a science — like all litigation — and despite the best advice, well… there are some things, many of them in robes, you just can’t account for. But still, why not at least get the best advice?

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Likelihood of Confusion

AUGUST 18, 2024

Originally posted 2014-01-03 09:49:02. Republished by Blog Post PromoterHere’s what you missed if you’re not yet floating in my social cloud: @VenerAbility: “The twin forces which could destroy Twitter are immature game-playing and PC taken to extremes.”[link]

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JD Supra Law

JULY 8, 2024

Between 2014-2023, China has filed more patent applications (38,000) covering Generative AI (GenAI) technology than another other country, six times more than second place United States, as reported by the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) Generative Artificial Intelligence Patent Landscape Report (“Report”).

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

MAY 31, 2024

In 2014, Medina sued Microsoft. In 2020, Medina got the disclosures from the 2014 case sealed. The court says that the 2020 ruling didn’t require publishers to depublish the extant versions of the 2014 documents, so this argument had a faulty premise. This case brought to mind the Martin v. Hearst case.

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JD Supra Law

MAY 31, 2024

CLS Bank (2014) strengthened limits on what subject matter is eligible for patent protection under 35. Blockchain is becoming central to more FinTech patent portfolios than ever – but it’s harder to obtain protection on blockchain than most other technologies. The US Supreme Court’s decision in Alice v.

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Likelihood of Confusion

AUGUST 11, 2024

Originally posted 2014-01-03 09:49:00. Republished by Blog Post PromoterGlenn Reynolds wonders aloud whether the Maine blogger dustup (UPDATE: suit withdrawn!) will generate some interest in his new “libel in the blogosphere” article.

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JD Supra Law

JULY 17, 2024

Supreme Court’s perspective, its Mayo and Alice decisions from 2012 and 2014, respectively, are still sufficient to govern patent law’s § 101 analysis. From the U.S. This inference stems in-part of the Supreme Court’s cert denial in 2023 of both Tropp v. Travel Sentry, Inc. and Interactive Wearables, LLC v.

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IP Watchdog

JANUARY 29, 2024

On Thursday, final judgments were issued in a pair of copyright infringement cases that arose from a now infamous 2014/2015 project New Portraits, where appropriations artist Richard Prince displayed Instagram photos and user comments as a purported commentary on social media and art.

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The Illusion of More

DECEMBER 8, 2023

In my last post, I focused on the hypothetical fair use defense of generative AI under the principles articulated in the Google Books decision of 2014.

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JD Supra Law

OCTOBER 23, 2023

And its reach is significant: The company, which launched to the public in February 2014, now reportedly has more than 20 million active daily users. Slack, a collaboration tool for workplaces, has been among the forces upending the established communication order, offering an organized alternative to email. By: Array

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JD Supra Law

MAY 16, 2024

In 2014, the Supreme Court upended U.S. patent law in the landmark ruling for Alice Corp. CLS Bank International. The Alice decision established new standards for determining whether inventions, especially those related to software and business methods, are eligible for patents. By: Seyfarth Shaw LLP

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IP and Legal Filings

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

Introduction In a recent decision, the Hon’ble Supreme Court of India, hearing appeals from various decisions of High Courts of Kerala, Rajasthan, and Delhi, which quashed most of the said amendments, examined the legality of some changes made to the pension scheme by the Central Government in 2014. Sunil Kumar B. and Others.

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JD Supra Law

MAY 31, 2024

According to Mr. Scott, the Campaign is in response to video game publisher Ubisoft’s decision to decommission The Crew, an online-only video game initially released in 2014. By: Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati

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Patently-O

MAY 4, 2022

For the chart below, I tabulated about 7,000 individual votes from the Federal Circuit Judges in patent cases decided 2014-2021. That is why the data here is limited to 2014+. by Dennis Crouch. For each judge, I show the percentage of individual decisions that sided with the patent challenger; or patent owner in each case.

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Likelihood of Confusion

AUGUST 16, 2024

Originally posted 2014-12-03 12:54:52. Republished by Blog Post PromoterEric Goldman: A Colorado judge has reached the remarkable conclusion that a hospital publicizing its star ratings and other recognition from a third party rating service in its marketing material might be committing copyright and trademark infringement.

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IP Law 360

JUNE 14, 2024

Supreme Court's 2014 Alice v. With blockchain-related patent application filings on the rise, Thomas Isaacson at Polsinelli offers strategies for responding to U.S. Patent and Trademark Office determinations that the blockchain network is just a generic computer and patent-ineligible under the U.S. CLS Bank decision.

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The IPKat

JANUARY 11, 2024

Background In 2014, France introduced a national system of GI protection for craft and industrial products ( Law No. 2014-344 of March 17, 2014 – the 2014 Law) [ IPKat here ]. Immediately after the adoption of the 2014 Law, producers of Limoges porcelain started preparing the registration file.

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Likelihood of Confusion

JULY 10, 2024

Originally posted 2014-10-06 09:52:04. Republished by Blog Post Promoter Remember the insufferable Josh Wolf? He’s back on the streets, the enemy of police and the people they protect and yet another martyr for the self-absorbed press everywhere. Perhaps, if we’re fortunate, there’s a haircut out here for him.

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IP Law 360

MARCH 29, 2024

Allergan told the Federal Circuit to reject Sandoz's fight over a $39 million verdict against it for infringing an Allergan eyelash growth drug patent, saying Sandoz's reliance on a 2014 decision involving the same drug misses the decision's central point.

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Plagiarism Today

MARCH 21, 2022

The law3suit was filed by a producer named Arty that claimed Happier was an infringement of his 2014 remix of OneRepublic’s I Lived. In 2014 Hansmeier as sentenced to 14 years in prison. However, he has continued appealing while in prison and, most surprisingly, renewed his honeypot campaign while behind bars.

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Plagiarism Today

AUGUST 2, 2021

1 Hit ‘Made for You’ Finally today, Sterling Whitaker at Taste of Country reports that country music performer Jake Owen is facing a lawsuit from songwriters Alexander Cardinale and Morgan Reid, who allege that Owen’s 2020 hit Made for You is an infringement of their 2014 song of the same name.

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The IPKat

DECEMBER 5, 2021

To this end, since 2006, the Government has conducted rounds of major consultations and introduced two amendment bills in 2011 and 2014 into the Legislative Council. As with many other jurisdictions in the world, the existing copyright regime might not be well-placed to meet the rapid development in technology and the creative economy.

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The IP Law Blog

MARCH 23, 2023

Given the contractual provision, the trial court found that it precluded Evox from bringing any copyright infringement claim for infringement that occurred prior to January 14, 2014, two years before it filed its complaint.

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IAM Magazine

JUNE 20, 2022

Docket Navigator data reveals defendants filing a skyrocketing number of Section 101 challenges since the 2014 decision and succeeding, much of the time, very early in cases.

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JD Supra Law

MARCH 28, 2023

CLS Bank Int’l decision in 2014, patent eligibility under Section 101 of the Patent Act has been increasingly invoked in early motion practice. Following the Supreme Court’s Alice Corp. In Hantz Software, LLC v. Sage Intacct, Inc.,

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JD Supra Law

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

PERA seeks to address the uncertainty and unpredictable outcomes created by the 2014 Supreme Court of the United States decision in Alice Corp. CLS Bank Int’l. By: McDermott Will & Emery

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Likelihood of Confusion

JUNE 25, 2024

Originally posted 2014-05-29 01:48:53. Republished by Blog Post PromoterSometimes we’re not only right, but a judge agrees with us.

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Likelihood of Confusion

JUNE 25, 2024

Originally posted 2014-05-29 01:48:53. Republished by Blog Post PromoterSometimes we’re not only right, but a judge agrees with us.

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JD Supra Law

JUNE 6, 2023

After almost five years of litigation, British singer-songwriter Ed Sheeran pulled out all the stops (and his guitar) to obtain victory over claims his 2014 song “Thinking Out Loud” infringed on the copyrights held by the estate of Ed Townsend, who co-wrote Marvin Gaye’s 1973 hit “Let’s Get it On”.

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IP Law 360

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

Ed Sheeran can't escape a copyright lawsuit over claims that he ripped off his 2014 hit "Thinking out Loud" from Marvin Gaye's iconic "Let's Get It On," with a New York federal judge saying on Thursday that key questions involving the songs' similarities should be left to a jury to decide.

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JD Supra Law

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

For many who draft, prosecute, or examine software-based claims, the Supreme Court’s 2014 opinion in Alice Corporation Pty. CLS Bank International (Alice) kicked off an era of uncertainty and frustration.

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IP Watchdog

APRIL 9, 2024

The Nagoya Protocol, in force since October 12, 2014, relates to the international commitment of 140 countries, including Brazil, to implement the objective of the CBD on the fair and equitable sharing of benefits from the use of genetic resources and the traditional knowledge associated with them (TK).

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IP Law 360

MARCH 22, 2024

A North Carolina state judge has ruled that parts of a secret recording of a 2014 meeting between the state Department of Natural and Cultural Resources and the organization that discovered the pirate Blackbeard's sunken ship fall under attorney-client privilege and must be redacted as part of a contract dispute over footage and images of the ship. (..)

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