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TPAC slides from meeting March 12, 2021

Erik K Pelton

The post TPAC slides from meeting March 12, 2021 appeared first on Erik M Pelton & Associates, PLLC. TTAB filing increases have moderated some lately, but they always lag a year or more; given the increased applications and record number of registrations, a rise in TTAB filings seem inevitable to me in the near future.

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Some Copyright Highlights in 2021-Around the World and in Canada?

Hugh Stephens Blog

It seems as if it was only a few weeks ago that I was writing a similar summary for 2020, the “annus horribilis” when COVID first hit us, but in fact it was 51 weeks ago yet many of the same pandemic and copyright-related issues that I wrote about last year are still with us, … Continue reading "Some Copyright Highlights in 2021-Around the World (..)

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Singapore Inhibits Rightsholders Ability to Use Contracts to Prevent Unlicensed Text and Data Mining of Content

Hugh Stephens Blog

These provisions were introduced back in 2021 when … Continue reading "Singapore Inhibits Rightsholders Ability to Use Contracts to Prevent Unlicensed Text and Data Mining of Content"

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Book Release: Second Edition of “Imperfect Recollections: The Indian Supreme Court on Trade Mark Law” by Eashan Ghosh

SpicyIP

The first week of August 2021 was a critical hinge in the modern history of Indian trade mark law. The Tribunals Reforms Act, 2021 sailed through Parliament. All of it was blown to bits by this singular, decades-long week in August 2021. It is also linked on the IP Books section of this blog.

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Federal Circuit Affirms PTAB Decisions for Intel Based on Qualcomm Prosecution History

IP Watchdog

court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit (CAFC) on Friday, January 24, affirmed the Patent Trial and Appeal Boards (PTABs) decisions for Intel in three inter partes reviews (IPRs), on appeal following previous remands back to the Board in December 2021.

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Livehd7 Sports Piracy Network Shut Down By ACE, But Not For the First Time

TorrentFreak

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USPTO Patent Grant Rate and Growing Backlog

Patently-O

Since Director Kathi Vidal’s confirmation in April 2022, the grant rate has shown a modest decline from its peak levels of around 80-85% during 2020-2021. More recent data points to subtle but noteworthy changes in USPTO practice.

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