IP Watchdog

OCTOBER 15, 2024

It continues on remand in Arizona federal court, where this case first began a decade ago in 2014. The High Court ruled that VIP had no defense to either cause of action. But the story does not end there.

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Plagiarism Today

AUGUST 23, 2021

This prompted Andre Sims, who wrote the song in 2014, to file a lawsuit against H.E.R., Camper, the coauthor of Focus, went on Instagram live and said that Endless Minds was the inspiration for the melody of the song. Camper and others involved in the song. Sims initially sought $3 million in the case, as well as injunctive relief.

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Plagiarism Today

APRIL 25, 2022

A record studio owned by Melomega released a version of the song in 2014. The lawsuit was filed by the music company Melomega, which claims that 10,000 Hours is an infringement of the 1973 R&B song The First Time Baby Is A Holiday. Neither Dan + Shay or Justin Bieber had any comment on the lawsuit.

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Plagiarism Today

OCTOBER 5, 2022

The lawsuit was filed by screenwriter Joe Carlini, who claimed that the film was an infringement of his 2014 script entitled What the F is He Thinking. Finally today, Anousha Sakoui at the Los Angeles Times reports that the United States Supreme Court has declined to hear a case filed against Paramount Pictures over the film What Men Want.

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Plagiarism Today

MARCH 14, 2022

The lawsuit was filed in 2014 by musician Marcus, Gray, who claimed Dark Horse was an infringement of his earlier song, Joyful Noise. Let me know via Twitter @plagiarismtoday. 1: Katy Perry Wins in Dark Horse Copyright Appeal. Originally, a jury sided with Gray and awarded him $2.8 million in damages.

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Plagiarism Today

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

Specifically, Cox alleges the metadata on the evidence indicates that they are files from 2016 though the case only deals with 2012-2014. However, Cox is appealing that ruling to the Fourth Circuit and is claiming that the labels either withheld or manipulated the evidence against them.

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Plagiarism Today

MAY 5, 2022

In 2014, the estate attempted to file a notice of copyright termination with Authentic Brands to terminate a 1983 agreement that resulted in them obtaining rights to the song.

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Plagiarism Today

JANUARY 5, 2022

The app was launched in 2014 though the original developers abandoned it quickly after its debut. First off today, Priya Anand at Bloomberg reports that the piracy app Popcorn Time has shuttered its doors, ending a seven-year run where the app was one of the most prominent and popular piracy services.

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Plagiarism Today

DECEMBER 14, 2021

First off today, Reuters reports that a lawsuit accusing Taylor Swift of copyright infringement in her 2014 hit single Shake it Off has been allowed to move ahead, setting the stage for a possible trial. Let me know via Twitter @plagiarismtoday. 1: Can’t Shake This: Taylor Swift to Face Copyright Lawsuit.

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Plagiarism Today

SEPTEMBER 27, 2021

Next up today, Curtis Killman at Tulsa World reports that members of a group known as The GAP Band have filed a lawsuit against those involved in the 2014 song Uptown Funk by Bruno Mars and Mark Ronson. 2: Lawsuit Claims Bruno Mars’ Song Violated The GAP Band’s Copyright.

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Plagiarism Today

MAY 17, 2022

However, that court has bounced it back, citing a 2014 ruling that held open-source licenses had an “extra element” that needed to be heard in state court. A California Court sided with Vizio, sending the dispute to a federal district court. 2: Kenya’s Sauti Sol Threatens to Sue Raila Odinga Over Copyright.

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IP Watchdog

AUGUST 26, 2021

Supreme Court’s 2014 Alice Corp. As an update to my posts from 2017, 2019, 2020, and March 2021, it has now been 86 months since the U.S. CLS Bank decision.

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Plagiarism Today

SEPTEMBER 14, 2022

Okolita began making costumes in 2014 for her own children and turned that into a business the following year. In 2020 she claims to have sold over 8,000 pieces, mostly through her Etsy store. However, since then, she claims that the retail giants have been using her images and descriptions to sell similar costumes and hurt her business.

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Plagiarism Today

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

The lawsuit was filed in 2017 by songwriters Sean Hall and Nathan Butler, who claimed that their 2001 song Playas Gon’ Play was infringed by Swift’s 2014 song Shake it Off. Specifically, they cited lyrical and other similarities.

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JD Supra Law

AUGUST 6, 2024

One notable example is Ted Ligety, an alpine skier who earned gold medals in both the 2006 Turin Olympics and the 2014 Sochi Olympics. Olympians are typically celebrated for their physical achievements—but some are also inventors who have contributed to innovation in the sporting world. By: Foley & Lardner LLP

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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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IP Watchdog

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

Blockchain technology was separated from currency in 2014, and that advance opened the door for using blockchain for applications beyond currency. The engine that runs the bitcoin ledger that Nakamoto designed is called the blockchain; the original and largest blockchain is the one that still orchestrates bitcoin transactions today.

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Patently-O

OCTOBER 14, 2024

The move echoes Tesla CEO Elon Musk’s 2014 declaration that “all our patent … belong to you” – a pledge that garnered significant attention but left many questions unanswered.

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TorrentFreak

MAY 24, 2023

Denmark, a country with an overall movie and TV show piracy rate of 11% in 2014, now has an overall rate of 20%, up from the 13% reported in Mediavision’s survey in 2022. With an overall rate of just 8% in 2014, increases over the years led to a 13% overall rate for Finland in 2022.

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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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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

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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IP Watchdog

JULY 6, 2022

I’ve lost count as to how many times the Court has refused to provide clarity to the fundamental question of patent eligibility since it last muddied the waters in Alice back in 2014. I stopped counting several years ago, when the number of petitions—pleas begging for help really—crossed over 50.

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Intellectual Property Law Blog

MAY 22, 2023

After a nine-year saga, beginning when Amgen sued Sanofi for allegedly infringing two of its patents in 2014, the Supreme Court held that Amgen’s asserted patents failed to satisfy the enablement requirement under 35 U.S.C. § On May 18, 2023, the Supreme Court of the United States issued a unanimous decision in the case of Amgen Inc.

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TorrentFreak

SEPTEMBER 27, 2021

During the Cox trial, the music companies presented a hard drive that contained the files, suggesting that those were the original songs that were pirated between 2012 and 2014. The allegedly infringing files were central to prove direct copyright infringement. Vacate the $1 Billion Verdict.

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Likelihood of Confusion

JANUARY 2, 2025

Originally posted 2014-11-17 17:55:38. Republished by Blog Post PromoterThe NFL is a lot of things, but I never thought it was stupid. It turns out that it isn’t.

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IP Watchdog

JULY 12, 2022

208 (2014).”. 101, as interpreted in Alice Corporation Pty v. CLS Bank International, 573 U.S.

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IP Watchdog

MARCH 21, 2022

Supreme Court’s 2014 Alice Corp. As an update to my posts from 2017, 2019, 2020, March 2021, and August 2021, it has now been 93 months since the U.S. CLS Bank decision.

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Patently-O

OCTOBER 3, 2021

Lee , 1:13-CV-1464 AJT/JFA, 2014 WL 5500799, at *1 (E.D. 30, 2014) (parties “stipulated that the Court should resolve any material factual disputes without any further proceeding based on the summary judgment record.”). 8, 2016) (“The parties have agreed that. ”); Autodesk, Inc. ”).

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IP Watchdog

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

Sheeran affirming the Southern District of New York’s dismissal of copyright infringement claims filed against British singer-songwriter Ed Sheeran over his 2014 single “Thinking Out Loud.” Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit issued a ruling in Structured Asset Sales, 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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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

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

DECEMBER 21, 2024

Originally posted 2014-02-26 09:43:40. Republished by Blog Post PromoterWe reported on Lego’s overreaching years ago here and here. They tried to use trademark rights as a way to protect the design of their toy and avoid competition. But that is not what trademarks are, much less what they are for.

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TorrentFreak

MARCH 27, 2023

This bi-annual postponement cycle began in 2014 and continued earlier this month. MPA and RIAA Cases Postponed Again Over the past several years, Megaupload has repeatedly asked the court to delay these lawsuits. Marking the case as inactive makes sense, as no progress is expected anytime soon.

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IPilogue

MAY 19, 2022

Music distribution company The Orchard , a subsidiary of Sony , released First Time in 2014, and the original written song had been submitted to the US Copyright Office by Melomega in 1980. First Time was initially released in 2014, followed by re-releases in 2017 and 2019 by The Orchard, which has distribution channels in 45 countries.

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Patently-O

OCTOBER 15, 2021

545 (2014); Highmark Inc. 559 (2014). On appeal, the district court’s factual and equitable determinations are given deference and only overturned based upon an abuse of discretion. Octane Fitness, LLC v. ICON Health & Fitness, Inc. , Allcare Health Mgmt.

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