The IPKat

JANUARY 23, 2022

A friendly feline reminder to vote for your favourite intellectual property law book of the year 2021 in the IPKat Book of the Year Awards! Vote for your best IP book of 2021 by taking the survey here PLEASE, FOR THE LOVE OF IP, only complete the survey once! Only votes for books published in 2021 will count.

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IP and Legal Filings

JANUARY 2, 2025

On March 30, 2021, the Indian government modified the Copyright Rules, adding a few additional legal measures pertaining to copyright violations in social media. link] Jamir O Neil, Lowering Barriers to Entry- YouTube, Fair Use and the Copyright Claims Board, Intellectual Property, Media and Entertainment Law Journal, Vol 33 No.

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IPilogue

OCTOBER 25, 2022

On September 29th, students and staff at Osgoode Hall Law School were honoured to welcome Professor Okediji in person at Osgoode, where she delivered a lecture on ‘ The Paradox of Intellectual Property Injustice ’. . In 2021, a federal jury in Texas ordered Intel to pay an astonishing $2.18

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SpicyIP

JANUARY 2, 2022

Continuing our annual tradition of recounting the significant developments that impacted the Indian IP landscape in the year that has been, we bring you a round-up of 2021’s developments. Intellectual Property Appellate Board abolished through the Tribunals Reform Act, 2021. Patents (Amendment) Rules, 2021.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

DECEMBER 26, 2021

Welcome to the fourth and final trimester of 2021 round up of EU copyright law! We started this rubric in the beginning of 2021. The end of 2021 has been particularly busy. More than six months have now passed since the deadline to implement the CDSM Directive – 7 June 2021. Photo by Markus Spiske on Unsplash.

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Plagiarism Today

APRIL 11, 2022

Earlier this month, the ecommerce site Etsy announced that they are launching a new intellectual property portal that they hope will make it easier for brands, creators and other rightsholders to report listings that are infringing on their rights. The portal itself is fairly basic. A Very Black Friday.

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IP Watchdog

DECEMBER 30, 2021

Even as Europe and the rest of the world continued to face the unprecedented challenges of the COVID-19 pandemic in 2021, the development of 5G and other Standard Essential Patent (SEP)-enabled technology standards has continued at an unabated pace.

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TorrentFreak

NOVEMBER 29, 2024

The European Union Intellectual Property Office ( EUIPO ) regularly conducts studies to see how piracy develops over time. of the EU population used pirate IPTV services in 2021. These studies help the public to understand local piracy trends and can be used as input for future policy decisions.

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TorrentFreak

JANUARY 15, 2025

The next wave of success and the subsequent and inevitable rise of other unblocked sites kept Malaysian authorities busy; in 2019 (438 sites), 2020 (644), and in 2021 (347). The details appeared in a government presentation, Enforcement of Intellectual Property Rights in Malaysia , and were just as impressive.

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IP and Legal Filings

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

Trademark law grants legal protection of your business name, logo, or slogan against other individuals using the same with regard to protection over intellectual property. References: World Intellectual Property Organization. Retrieved October 18, 2024, from [link] Intellectual Property India.

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TorrentFreak

OCTOBER 30, 2024

“We applaud the excellent work of Egyptian law enforcement in protecting the intellectual property rights of ACE’s sports media company members,” said Motion Picture Association (MPA) Executive Vice President and Chief Content Protection Officer, Larissa Knapp. org PIR 2021-05-30 2026-05-30 ns4.films.org films.org ; ns4.films.org

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Plagiarism Today

MARCH 31, 2022

That is difficult to say, it is relatively unprecedented for a country to simply decide to ignore intellectual property laws. In 2021, the United States Trade Representative released its Special 301 , which highlights countries that it claims are not doing enough to protect intellectual property rights.

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Intellectual Property Law Blog

OCTOBER 8, 2021

This post originally appeared as an article (“Stakeholders Should Not Miss Congress’s Invitation for Feedback on Patent Eligibility”) on Law.com on October 7, 2021. September 2, 2021). The USPTO’s extended deadline for submitting comments on patent eligibility jurisprudence is October 15, 2021. 86 FR 36257. See Thaler v.

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SpicyIP

NOVEMBER 7, 2021

We’re pleased to inform you that Third World Network (TWN) and Jindal School of Government and Public Policy (JSGP) are organising a free five-week online course/workshop on ‘Access to Medicines, TRIPS and Patents’ from 18th November, 2021. The deadline for registration is 8th November, 2021.

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IP Watchdog

DECEMBER 14, 2021

Last year at this time we thought we had been through the worst of it and, with the new vaccines arriving, that life would return to normal in 2021. Hahaha, how naïve we were! But take heart; some things hold steady through the storm, such as the popular sport of trade secret litigation.

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JD Supra Law

JANUARY 6, 2022

At the end of October 2021, the UK Intellectual Property Office launched its second consultation on artificial intelligence.

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IP Watchdog

APRIL 5, 2022

Drew Hirshfeld has been operating under the title of “Performing the Duties and Functions of the Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property and Director of the USPTO” since January 2021. Vidal’s confirmation comes after more than one year with no Senate-confirmed Director or Acting Director at the agency.

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IP Watchdog

AUGUST 14, 2021

Despite India’s progress in many areas, from science to literature to technology, protection for intellectual property rights (IPR) is a topic that has come under scrutiny. On July 23, 2021, the PSCC presented a report to the Rajya Sabha titled Review of the Intellectual Property Rights Regime in India (the Report).

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IP Close Up

JANUARY 28, 2025

The Center for Intellectual Property Understanding is pleased to announce that the Under Secretary of Commerce and United States Patent and Trademark Office Director, 2017-2021, Continue reading

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IP Watchdog

JULY 29, 2021

The patent is for “a food container based on fractal geometry,” and was accepted by South Africa’s Companies and Intellectual Property Commission on June 24. The notice of issuance was published in the July 2021 Patent Journal. .

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IP Watchdog

DECEMBER 16, 2021

As 2021 comes to an end, we look forward to what 2022 has in store.

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IP Watchdog

AUGUST 26, 2021

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

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SpicyIP

SEPTEMBER 18, 2021

We’re pleased to inform you that the DPIIT IPR Chair of the Inter University Centre for IPR Studies at the Cochin University of Science and Technology and the Third World Network are jointly organizing a free webinar on “Trade Secret and Access to Medicine ” on September 22, 2021. Trade Secret and Access to Medicine.

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IP Watchdog

NOVEMBER 26, 2022

in 2021, according to a report published November 21 by the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO). Worldwide IP filings increased by 3.6% The increase came during a turbulent time for the world economy, at the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, as well as a global economic downturn.

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IP and Legal Filings

DECEMBER 16, 2024

INTRODUCTION Trade dress protection is an important aspect of intellectual property, whereby the special visual aspect of products or packaging will identify the origin of products to consumers. 8] Herms International and Herms of Paris Inc v Mason Rothschild (2021) US District Court for the Southern District of New York. [9]

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IP Watchdog

JUNE 5, 2022

The case is Matthias Zirnsack vs. EUIPO, Case R-260/2021-G.

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IP Watchdog

DECEMBER 21, 2021

In this post (Part I), we provide a 2021 year in review update on mRNA pioneers Moderna, BioNTech and CureVac, and in Part II, we profile Sanofi and other companies in the mRNA space and offer additional conclusions and outlook for 2022 and beyond.

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The IPKat

AUGUST 10, 2021

The World Intellectual Property Organization ( WIPO ) has shared some news in connection with International Day of the World’s Indigenous Peoples , celebrated on 9 August every year. The training phase will be held online from 11 to 22 October 2021 and involve a practical workshop. The program The program consists of two phases.

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Intellectual Property Law Blog

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

Note: First published in The Intellectual Property Strategist and Law.com. The PTAB also considered claim language involving machine learning to determine subject matter eligibility in Ex parte Costello , Appeal 2021-000658 (PTAB June 7, 2021). This article is Part Two of a Three-Part Article Series.

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Intellectual Property Law Blog

JULY 25, 2023

This case addresses requirements to correct inventorship of a patent. Background Blue Gentian is an assignee of Berardi’s six patents involving a collapsible hose, where Berardi is the named inventor. Three months before filing the applications for the six patents, Ragner held a meeting to seek investors, which included Berardi.

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IP Watchdog

JANUARY 13, 2022

Today, the full Senate Judiciary Committee officially voted to confirm the nomination of Katherine Vidal by a vote of 17-5 for Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property and Director of the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

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IP Watchdog

JANUARY 26, 2025

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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The IPKat

SEPTEMBER 27, 2021

This is a review of The Intellectual Property of Nations: Sociological and Historical Perspectives on a Modern Legal Institution by Laura R. Then, in Chapter 9, Cultural Transformations: Naturalizing Intellectual Property , Ford reaches the emergence of modern intellectual property, enabled by a cultural transformation.

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TorrentFreak

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

According to a police investigation, Truth Intellectual Property Consulting Co – a company owned by Kevin Lin – obtained public transmission licenses which enabled it to distribute several films to the public. In May 2021, licenses were obtained from Vie Vision Pictures Co. Big Crimes Deserve Heavy Sentences.

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Intellectual Property Law Blog

JULY 31, 2023

UCB prevailed in the lawsuit, and was awarded an injunction against Actavis until March 2021, when one of the Muller patents expires. (“Actavis”) submitted an ANDA application for approval of a generic version of Neupro’s original formulation in 2013. In 2014, UCB sued Actavis for infringement of the Muller patents.

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TorrentFreak

DECEMBER 29, 2022

In a report to the USTR in early 2022, the International Intellectual Property Alliance used similar terms more than 130 times when calling out China, Ecuador, India, Mexico, Russia, Brazil, and other countries for not doing enough to prevent in-cinema recording ( pdf ). Camming Incidents Break Records in 2021. Arrest in the UK.

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TorrentFreak

APRIL 22, 2022

Following a complaint from local anti-piracy group APDIF (Association for the Protection of the Intellectual Property Rights of the Phonographic Industry), in January 2019 Brazil’s Federal Police shut down a private torrent site but that was just a taste of things to come. “Content is stolen and distributed illegally.

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