Intellectual Property Law Blog

AUGUST 30, 2023

Background Amgen produces and markets apremilast, a medication for the treatment of certain types of psoriasis and psoriatic arthritis, under the brand name Otezla. Sandoz submitted an Abbreviated New Drug Application (ANDA) seeking approval to market a generic version of apremilast. Thus, citing Genentech, Inc. Sandoz Inc. ,

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Indiana Intellectual Property Law

DECEMBER 13, 2024

My Market, LLC, (Plaintiff) an Indiana-based convenience store operator, has initiated legal proceedings against Batth Markets, Inc. My Market, LLC has been operating as a convenience store in Fort Wayne, Indiana , and holds a federal trademark for the service mark “MY MARKET FISH CHICKEN SANDWICHES SHRIMP” (U.S.

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TorrentFreak

MAY 22, 2024

Law Firm Seeks Rightsholder-Like Rights In an application submitted to Finland’s Market Court on March 15, 2024, the law firm Hedman Partners Oy sought a court order to compel an unnamed internet service provider to provide the personal details of an unspecified number of subscribers.

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Michael Geist

APRIL 19, 2022

After obtaining hundreds of millions in taxpayer support with programs such as the Local Journalism Initiative (made permanent in Budget 2022), the Journalism Labour Tax Credit, and the Digital Subscription Tax Credit, the organization set its sights on the Internet platforms. 2022-04-14. 2022-04-13. 2022-04-11.

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Intellectual Property Law Blog

JANUARY 18, 2024

2022-1194, 2022-1208, and 2022-1246 (December 7, 2023) , the Federal Circuit held that generic pharmaceutical companies may continue to use skinny labels to avoid infringement of method of treatment claims as long as they do not engage in advertising or promotional activities that encourage infringement of the patents. . §

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TorrentFreak

OCTOBER 30, 2024

While players such as StreamEast currently receive twice as many monthly visits, Livehd7 sites are mostly presented in Arabic so are directly relevant to the MENA market. net MarkMonitor 2022-01-14 2026-01-14 ns3.films.org com MarkMonitor 2022-10-14 2027-10-14 ns3.films.org net MarkMonitor 2022-09-11 2026-09-11 ns3.films.org

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TorrentFreak

MAY 17, 2023

Hovering a cursor over the blacked-out area revealed what should’ve been hidden and click led directly to the site considered most damaging to the home market in Japan. The slide with the unredacted text above covers the period June-July 2022. The slide below is from a more recent report covering September-October 2022.

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JD Supra Law

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

Since the public release of ChatGPT in November 2022, generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) has quickly emerged as a potentially transformative technology. By: Hutchison PLLC

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IP Watchdog

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) made its initial offers to pharmaceutical companies pursuant to the Biden Administration’s Inflation Reduction Act of 2022 (IRA), which allows the U.S. Government to “negotiate” Medicare drug prices under a set framework based upon the amount of time a drug has spent on the market.

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TorrentFreak

OCTOBER 25, 2024

Sony Pictures, Paramount, and Universal left the Russian market, some celebrated their exit as a positive for local cinema. By the end of 2022, amid a lack of Hollywood premieres, the revenues of the largest Russian cinema chains had fallen by almost half, with losses quickly reaching several billion rubles. When Disney, Warner Bros.,

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The IPKat

OCTOBER 29, 2024

The IPKat has received and is pleased to host the following guest post by Katfriends Jean-Sébastien Mariez and Laura Godfrin (both Momentum Avocats), discussing a very recent ruling of the French Supreme Court regarding second-hand markets for digital goods. Here is what they write: UFC-Que Choisir v.

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TorrentFreak

JANUARY 4, 2024

In 2022, a platform called Pirate Library Mirror appeared on the scene, courting controversy right from the start after obtaining a full copy of Z-Library before the site’s legal troubles began. “We deliberately violate the copyright law in most countries. . “We deliberately violate the copyright law in most countries.

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Plagiarism Today

OCTOBER 19, 2022

pic.twitter.com/sqpOThi8nf — Tim Davis (@DocSparse) October 16, 2022. — Alex Graveley (@alexgraveley) October 16, 2022. One of the key reasons the Supreme Court cited in deciding the way that it did was that Oracle had not made any effort to enter the mobile market, thus Google’s version was not a direct competitor.

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TorrentFreak

JUNE 21, 2024

They alleged that between August 20, 2020, and May 17, 2022, J.E. Suspect Arrested in May 2022 On May 5, 2022, Swedish police arrested J.E. Patent and Market Court Convicts In its judgment handed down in April 2023, Sweden’s Patent and Market Court found J.E. guilty of violating the Copyright Act.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

JULY 4, 2022

Pyrotechnics wants to control the market for every component of its system. XFX Pyrotechnics LLC , 2022 WL 2336477 (3d. June 29, 2022). XFX appeared first on Technology & Marketing Law Blog. .” The sequencing and organization of the messages follows standard programming norms, so they lack creativity too.

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TorrentFreak

MAY 19, 2024

In the Scandinavian pirate market, Viking IPTV is a well-known brand and according to Rights Alliance, business appears to have been brisk. Rights Alliance reports that all plaintiffs were awarded damages by the Patent and Market Court (PMD), with the TV companies appearing to take the lion’s share.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

MAY 10, 2022

Case citation : In re State , 2022 Tex. May 9, 2022). The post Court Explains How Smileys Are “Prone to Multiple Interpretations”–In re State appeared first on Technology & Marketing Law Blog. Garfield Tenzer & Ashley Cangro, An Emoji Legal Dictionary. LEXIS 3119 (Tex.

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TorrentFreak

JANUARY 20, 2024

Russian media outlets are reporting that the volume of pirated content on the internet doubled between 2022 and 2023. million links is a notable uplift over the 485,000 reported in 2022, removal or blocking of links to allegedly-infringing content is just that. ” So have other market players in Russia drawn similar conclusions?

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Patently-O

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

Government Accountability Office, Third Party Litigation Funding: Market Characteristics, Data, and Trends, GAO-23-105210 (Dec. 2022), available at [link] Patrick Wingrove, Litigation Funders See ‘Huge and Sustained Uptick’ in IP Business , ManagingIP (Mar. 17] At least, that’s as far as can be pieced together. 2] See generally U.S.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

Marketing fast Internet is evidence that the service is trying to profit from copyright infringement…? RCN Telecom Services, LLC , 2022 WL 6750322 (D.N.J. 2022 WL 7560395 (D. RCN appeared first on Technology & Marketing Law Blog. UGH… Case citation : Bodyguard Productions v. Private Internet Access, Inc.

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TorrentFreak

OCTOBER 29, 2022

Whether they will be branded ‘notorious markets’ remains to be seen, but it’s interesting to see which platforms could face unexpected pressure in the months and years to come. Lalastreams / istream2watch.com is a family of Streaming Websites that have amassed almost 60 million global visits so far in 2022.

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TorrentFreak

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

Copyright holders operating in Denmark, where just six million people speak Danish, view private torrent sites as unfair competition in what is already a relatively small market. By March 2022, four prosecutions had led to criminal convictions. – Man, 43: 3 months in prison (conditional) plus community service ( February 2022 ).

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TorrentFreak

FEBRUARY 11, 2022

With torrent sites remaining fairly popular, Swedish authorities have also been attempting to disrupt the pirate IPTV subscription market, services that allow users to access premium live TV channels (plus movies and TV shows) at a fraction of the official market rate. The verdict can be appealed until February 18, 2022.

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IP Watchdog

DECEMBER 19, 2023

Scott Hargis is an architectural photographer who sued Pacifica Senior Living Management LLC in September 2022 for damages and injunctive relief related to infringement of 43 of Hargis’ photos that Pacifica used to advertise and market its senior living facilities.

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TorrentFreak

MARCH 15, 2023

In the wake of similar operations in previous years, including action reported in August 2022 , a new phase of Brazil’s ‘Operation 404’ anti-piracy initiative was announced on Tuesday. Earlier this year, ANATEL said that its work to disrupt the pirate TV market would continue using various means.

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TorrentFreak

JUNE 19, 2023

Corporations are rarely considered worthy recipients of sympathy votes, but tearing down a patiently-built market that had overcome many piracy challenges over the previous decade won’t have been easy, even if it was necessary. It appears that price-cutting and piracy quickly took their toll on a collapsing market.

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TorrentFreak

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

It would take another three years but in August 2022, seemingly out of nowhere, local media began reporting the sudden demise of both sites. On August 24, 2022, Georgia’s Communications Commission (ComCom) suggested that warnings from the United States were the driving force behind recent events. With around 6.7

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TorrentFreak

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

On January 1, 2022, France launched the Audiovisual and Digital Communication Regulatory Authority (ARCOM), which swallowed Hadopi and took on a number of challenges, fighting piracy being just one of them. However, since January 1, 2022, success rates have reportedly gone through the roof.

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The IPKat

NOVEMBER 25, 2024

It seems obvious that trade mark rights regarding goods placed on the Turkish market by the trade mark owner are not exhausted under Art. The defendant is a German food wholesaler, who imported coffee placed on the Turkish market by the plaintiff (shown below) into Germany without the plaintiff's consent. 22(1) Protocol. 21 Protocol.

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TorrentFreak

JUNE 14, 2023

Late 2021, Hollywood and Netflix obtained a High Court injunction to block Soap2Day domains in the UK along with a similar order early February 2022 in Australia and an expansion a few months later. In October 2022, Hollywood reported Soap2Day to the United States government.

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Olartemoure Blog

DECEMBER 14, 2023

This growing trend reflects a broader effort to closely examine and mitigate the market power held by these corporate giants. Abuse of dominant position, in the context of antitrust and competition law, refers to the improper and anti-competitive practices undertaken by a company that holds a dominant market position.

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TorrentFreak

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

Steep Rise in Manga Consumption Since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, discussion of copyright protection in Russia has trended towards the chaotic. Manga Companies Target Pirate Manga Sites Manga platform My Comics was launched in November 2022 by South Korean company MStoryLink. ” Manga site Yaoilib.me

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

But if not… (emphasis added): On November 2, 2022, ID Tech told the court that it had voluntarily dismissed ID Tech II, the copyright infringement action filed in connection with the DMCA notices that are the subject of this action, and represented that it had notified Shopify that it was withdrawing its recently filed DMCA takedown notices.

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TorrentFreak

JANUARY 10, 2023

The idea that the transitory nature of streams qualified for protection under Article 5 of the InfoSoc Directive was also dismissed, in part because the pirate movies and TV shows were (surprise) pirated and therefore undermined the legitimate market. And with that, BREIN had the authority to target all players in the pirate IPTV market.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

DECEMBER 13, 2022

2022 WL 17578247 (C.D. Likee appeared first on Technology & Marketing Law Blog. The court closed the door on that bypass–as it should. Case Citation : BMG Rts. The post Another Copyright Owner Learns Why It’s Better to Send DMCA Takedown Notices Before Suing–BMG v.

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TorrentFreak

AUGUST 8, 2024

Yet, based on the sheer scale of piracy, none have experienced anything close to that taking place in the manga market. trillion yen (estimated as of February 2022) • 2022 – ~506.9 The first, “expedited measures” to remove links to pirated content from Google search results, which began during the fall of 2022.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

DECEMBER 11, 2022

2022 WL 17416664 (D. Letgo appeared first on Technology & Marketing Law Blog. Meanwhile, Brown was convicted of murder. Case citation : Roland v. Letgo, Inc. The complaint. The post Messaging App Isn’t Liable for an Offline Murder (Even Without Section 230)–Roland v.

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