IP Watchdog

DECEMBER 1, 2024

billion USD during 2023. On November 25, economist Will Page, formerly Chief Economist of streaming music company Spotify, published a report on the global value of music copyright, finding that worldwide music copyright revenues had increased 11% to reach $45.5

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Hugh Stephens Blog

APRIL 3, 2023

In a political landscape where the focus is on health care, climate change and energy transition along with security challenges such as … Continue reading "Canada’s 2023 Budget and the Creative Industries: Not Much to Cheer About"

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Intellectual Property Law Blog

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

So as of early 2023, what effect have those orders had on patent filings? In January 2023, a total of 242 district court patent cases were filed nationwide, with 36 cases filed in WDTX ( representing a mere 14.9% Judge Albright was only assigned to 19 cases in January 2023. of total cases ). of the 269 total patent cases.

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Hugh Stephens Blog

DECEMBER 19, 2022

Some of the same issues I highlighted last year, such as payment to news content providers by online news aggregators (Google) … Continue reading "Looking Back on 2022 and Forward to 2023: What was and will be important to Copyright, Creators and Content Industries?"

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SpicyIP

NOVEMBER 30, 2024

Image from here IP Court watchers will be pleased to know that the Delhi High Court’s IP Division has published the 2023-24 edition of its Annual Report ! Praharsh had written about the first report published in April 2023. appeals per 6 months) and 2023 (143/2=71.5 appeals per 6 months). Some Observations 1.

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The IPKat

JANUARY 28, 2025

In Plant-e v Bioo the UPC provided its first decision addressing the doctrine of equivalents in patent infringement proceedings ( UPC_CFI_239/2023 ). Case details: Plant-based fuel cells The dispute in UPC_CFI_239/2023 concerned EP2137782 , owned by Plant-e Knowledge B.V.

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Copyright Alliance

JANUARY 4, 2024

In today’s post, we pick back […] The post AI and Copyright in 2023: In the Courts appeared first on Copyright Alliance. On January 3, we published part one of this blog series summarizing the biggest copyright-related AI activities that took place within the federal government.

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TorrentFreak

DECEMBER 25, 2023

HBO’s ‘The Last of Us’ is the most pirated TV show of 2023. — Below we have compiled a list of the most-torrented TV shows worldwide released in 2023 (per episode). With no dragon-themed series in the mix, it was hard to predict this year’s winner. However, the data leave little room for doubt.

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Intellectual Property Law Blog

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

This case addresses the ability of a petitioner in an IPR to present new evidence in a reply brief, particularly where the patent owner proposes a new claim construction in its patent owner response. Background Medtronic, Inc. Medtronic”) owns multiple patents relating to transcutaneous (i.e.

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TorrentFreak

JANUARY 1, 2024

We also received a few direct to us via email, more than usual in 2023. New Year 2023: Peaceful for 19 Days By January 19, 2023, things were looking quite promising. On April 3, 2023, we received an email from Turkey-based anti-piracy outfit DigiGuardians Inc.

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TorrentFreak

APRIL 18, 2024

In April 2023, Uptobox received 34 million visits from users all over the world, around a third of those from France. On September 20, 2023, not even the most sophisticated techniques allowed users to connect to Uptobox servers. At several points in its dozen or so years online, Uptobox faced adversity, mostly due to copyright issues.

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Intellectual Property Law Blog

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

This case is primarily about the Daubert standard as applied to expert testimony on damages. The Federal Circuit reversed the Northern District of California’s admission of expert testimony on damages, which relied on calculations that failed to differentiate between infringing products and non-infringing products.

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The IPKat

FEBRUARY 21, 2025

The Paris Local Division of the Unified Patent Court (UPC) first substantive decision on patent validity in DexCom v Abbott ( UPC_CFI_230/2023 ), provides some interesting commentary on how much the description should be taken into account when interpreting the claims. quoting UPC_CoA_335/2023 ).

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TorrentFreak

NOVEMBER 29, 2024

The latest report finds that in 2023 the piracy numbers have somewhat stabilized in the EU. 2023 Piracy in the EU The chart also reveals the most popular content categories per country. Last year’s study, for example, revealed after years of declining piracy volumes, there was a small uptick of 3.3%

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Hugh Stephens Blog

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

On August 4, 2023, India’s Cinematograph (Amendment) Bill, 2023, received Presidential assent and became the law of the land. This legislation marks a real … Continue reading "India Government Adopts New Tool to Tackle Film Piracy and Modernizes Content Classification"

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IP Watchdog

OCTOBER 15, 2024

Supreme Court’s ruling in June 2023 in Jack Daniel’s Properties, Inc. By now, most IP practitioners are familiar with the U.S. VIP Products, Inc. The highly publicized ruling came after almost a decade of litigation between the parties over VIP’s “Bad Spaniels” parody dog toy designed to mimic a bottle of Jack Daniel’s.

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TorrentFreak

OCTOBER 30, 2024

ACE Has Been Here Before Early September 2023, ACE announced the dismantling of three piracy rings in Egypt. Around September 18, 2023, various Livehd7-branded domain names began diverting to the ACE anti-piracy portal, including the following: livehd7i.com, livehd77.net, films.org livehd7xc.com MarkMonitor 2023-03-16 2027-03-16 ns3.films.org

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Intellectual Property Law Blog

APRIL 12, 2023

Written comments must be received on or before June 10, 2023. On March 16, 2023, the Copyright Office launched a new artificial intelligence initiative. On February 14, 2023, the USPTO published a Federal Register Notice (FRN) requesting comments regarding AI and inventorship.

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IP Watchdog

JANUARY 14, 2025

According to the report, AI-related patent applications are up 33% since 2018 and appeared in 60% of all technology subclasses in 2023.

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Hugh Stephens Blog

JANUARY 3, 2024

It was the big emerging issue in 2023 and is going to be even bigger in 2024. Image:www.shutterstock.com There is no better way to start out the New Year, 2024, with a commentary on Artificial Intelligence (AI) and copyright.

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JD Supra Law

NOVEMBER 26, 2024

The Unified Patent Court ("UPC") and the unitary patent—which came into force in June 2023—were created at the request of European industry in order to benefit from a single title (the unitary patent) covering the territory of several European Union Member States (18 states to date), and a unified jurisdiction (the UPC) competent to sanction infringement (..)

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Intellectual Property Law Blog

APRIL 12, 2023

On March 16, 2023, the U. Copyright Office (USCO) launched a new AI Initiative to examine the copyright law and policy issues raised by artificial intelligence (AI), including the scope of copyright in works generated using AI tools and using copyrighted materials in AI training.

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Intellectual Property Law Blog

OCTOBER 6, 2023

This case addresses certain implications of the Laehy-Smith America Invests Act (AIA), namely whether patents with a filing date after March 16, 2013 (pure AIA patents) may be part of an interference proceeding under pre-AIA, 35 U.S.C. §

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TorrentFreak

MARCH 24, 2025

Danish Crackdown on The Scene The authorities note that the alleged “Scene” member was active from November 2021 until his arrest in November 2023. The November 2023 arrest sparked rumors of a broader Danish crackdown on The Scene, which reportedly involved several arrests.

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TorrentFreak

OCTOBER 28, 2024

Often subject to intense planning and strict media embargoes, we simply stumbled across the live campaign website early October 2023. The main campaign video (above) was uploaded to YouTube on September 12, 2023, and when we spotted it early October, it had already been viewed 484,000 times.

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Hugh Stephens Blog

AUGUST 10, 2023

Among the models she has been looking at is the Toyota Prius, so when I saw a review of the 2023 Prius in the Driving section of my local paper, the Victoria Times-Colonist, … Continue reading "Google Blocked My News Search—So I Used Bing and Got the Information I Needed, Instantly!"

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Hugh Stephens Blog

JANUARY 11, 2023

Canada’s Online Streaming Act, (Bill C-11) the draft legislation that will bring online streaming content under the purview of the Broadcasting Act, will continue its slow progress through Parliament in 2023. Review in the Senate last year led to a number of amendments, one of which dealt with the definition of Canadian content (Cancon).

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TorrentFreak

OCTOBER 25, 2024

By the end of 2023, analysts claimed that Hollywood movies made available via ‘shadow distribution’ accounted for 20% of all box office revenues ; others believed it could’ve been as much as a third. However, what really catches the eye are the revenue increases when compared to the first half of 2023.

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IP Watchdog

JANUARY 13, 2025

In June 2023, as is widely known, more than 50 years of efforts to create a pan-European patent jurisdiction were finally successful and the Unified Patent Court opened its doors.

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Intellectual Property Law Blog

OCTOBER 24, 2023

This case addresses the validity of two patents asserted against wireless communications technologies. In particular, this case discusses claim construction and post-issuance claim amendments that broaden the scope of challenged claims.

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TorrentFreak

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

It’s possible that GoDaddy doesn’t even know that it’s being blocked, but that’s no surprise when transparency becomes a thing of the past.

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TorrentFreak

JANUARY 19, 2025

“The number of users post piracy shield in 2024 is the same as 2023. The number of hours watched in 2024 is the same as 2023, again no gain. There was little data crunching involved, as the bar charts clearly show that the number of DAZN subscribers didn’t go up in 2024.

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JD Supra Law

FEBRUARY 21, 2025

In response to the increased use of sophisticated artificial intelligence (AI) technologies capable of producing expressive material, the U.S.

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JD Supra Law

MARCH 24, 2025

2023-1245, Opinion (Mar. International Trade Commission, the Federal Circuit opened the door for patent owners to include expanded categories of domestic investment to satisfy the economic prong of the domestic industry requirement under Section 337(a)(3)(B).

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JD Supra Law

NOVEMBER 26, 2024

Patent owners generally look to secondary indicia to bolster their nonobvious defenses when prior art and/or knowledge of a person of ordinary skill in the art (“POSA”) seem to make the obviousness decision a close call. This trend is just as common in Hatch Waxman litigation. By: Womble Bond Dickinson

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JD Supra Law

JANUARY 23, 2025

As we predicted in our 2023 report, 2024 was a banner year for design rights in the U.S. and elsewhere. In last years report, we noted that the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit (CAFC) agreed to consider en banc whether the long-standing design patent obviousness test required modification.

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TorrentFreak

OCTOBER 31, 2024

“Between January 2023 and February 2024, the men transcribed detailed information about the entire story, including the names of characters, lines, actions, scenes, and scene developments depicted in the film Godzilla 1.0 ,” CODA reveals.

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