JD Supra Law

FEBRUARY 13, 2025

On February 11, 2025, the European Commission withdrew its longstanding, and much debated, proposal for standard essential patent (SEP) regulation. The withdrawal of the proposed regulation means that the existing framework for SEP licensing and enforcement within the EU remains unchanged.

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JD Supra Law

MARCH 11, 2025

The Ninth Circuit previously reversed the FTCs victory in a parallel lawsuit alleging federal antitrust violations over the same. By: A&O Shearman

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The IPKat

MARCH 4, 2025

Katfriend Paul England (Taylor Wessing) discussed the current state of Supplementary Protection Certificates (SPCs) in the UK, questioning whether the system needs reform, by reviewing the recent English Court of Appeal decision in Merck Serono SA v Comptroller-General of Patents, Designs, and Trade Mark s [2025] EWCA Civ 45 (28 January 2025).

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IP Close Up

OCTOBER 1, 2024

The Center for Intellectual Property Understanding (CIPU) has announced that it is holding the 2025 IP Awareness Summit (IPAS 2025) on April 24th at Dolby Continue reading

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

MARCH 4, 2025

In the past two years, tech giants such as Meta and OpenAI released their AI models under self-certified open licenses. Restrictive licensing terms. By the same token, the OSAID is incompatible with RAIL terms and other restrictive licensing terms; it also departs from the more modular approach adopted by the Model Openness Framework.

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Traverse Legal Blog

FEBRUARY 24, 2025

Reasons Why Nonprofit Trademarks Are Essential in 2025 Nonprofit trademarks are essential because they safeguard a group’s unique brand, build public awareness, boost donor confidence, and provide legal protection against brand theft, all contributing to the organization’s stability and fundraising success.

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JD Supra Law

JANUARY 16, 2025

In a long-standing copyright dispute on its second visit to the US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, the Court affirmed the modest damages award from the US Court of Federal Claims, ruling that a hypothetical negotiation between the parties would have resulted in a license in the amount awarded by the claims court. 23-1506 (Fed.

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The IPKat

MARCH 31, 2025

The first is the Summer Course on European Intellectual Property Law , which will take place in person in Trier (Germany) between 30 June and 4 July 2025. The second is the Summer Course on EU Digital and Information Technology Law , which will take place online between 15 and 16 September 2025.

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SpicyIP

MARCH 9, 2025

[Sponsored] CRISP (BITS Law School) Invites Applications for Innovation Law and Policy Fellowship (1 April 2025) Centre for Research in Innovation Law for Shared Prosperity, BITS Law School is inviting applications for their Innovation Law and Policy Fellowship. The last day to send your applications is April 1, 2025.

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JD Supra Law

FEBRUARY 11, 2025

This post is part of MoFos 2025 Intersection of AI and Life Sciences blog series. Stay tuned for expert insights regarding the impact of AI on intellectual property, licensing, contracts, regulatory policy, enforcement, privacy, and venture markets in life sciences.

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JD Supra Law

JANUARY 9, 2025

3G Licensing, S.A., Honeywell International Inc., 2023-1354, -1384, -1407 (Fed. PTAB) Jan. Opinion by Dyk, joined by Chen. Dissenting opinion by Stoll. By: Alston & Bird

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JD Supra Law

JANUARY 7, 2025

3G Licensing, S.A., 2, 2025) In this weeks Case of the Week, the Federal Circuit reversed an inter partes review finding of the Patent Trial and Appeal Board, which had upheld the patentability of challenged claims of appellee 3G Licensings U.S. Honeywell International Inc. Appeal Nos. 2023-1354, -1384, -1407 (Fed.

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SpicyIP

MARCH 16, 2025

A quick glance at last week finding the real Burger King saga continues now at the Supreme Court, EDs involvement in the Shankar-Tamilnandan copyright case, right to health and compulsory licensing for rare disease medicine Risdiplam. vs Clubramada Hotels And Resorts Private Limited on 9 March, 2025 (Delhi High Court) Image from here.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

MARCH 30, 2025

March 18, 2025) This case involved the completely AI-generated work, “A Recent Entrance to Paradise”: The copyright applicant, Thaler, disclaimed any human involvement in the work’s creation. Anthropic PBC 1) Opinion denying a preliminary injunction , 2025 WL 904333 (N.D. Perlmutter , No. 23-5233 (D.C.

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Velocity of Content

MARCH 3, 2025

Licensing offers rightsholders an immediate and impactful way to safeguard rights, generate revenue, and maintain influence over how their content is managed and used not just in traditional markets but in emerging AI-driven applications.

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Velocity of Content

FEBRUARY 11, 2025

The following is an excerpt from the ebook, 2025 Copyrighted Content Usage Trends, which draws on data from the 2025 Information Seeking and Usage Study to offer insights into how employees think about, use, and share copyrighted content today, including with AI tools. Since 2007, CCC has partnered with Outsell, Inc.

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SpicyIP

MARCH 30, 2025

CRI Guidelines 2025 is out for Public Consultations! The Draft Guidelines for Examination of Computer-Related Inventions (CRI), 2025, has been published for public consultation. Interestingly, several recent cases such as Ferid Allani, Microsoft Tech Licensing, and others find mention in the “notable jurisprudence” section.

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SpicyIP

MARCH 2, 2025

Other Posts Amazon Owns Your E-Books and Wants More As of 26th February, 2025, Kindle users will no longer be able to use the feature Download or Transfer via USB, for Kindle Purchased books, as Amazon is discontinuing the feature. on 25 February, 2025 (Delhi High Court) Image from here. Case Summaries Lifestyle Equities Cv & Anr.

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The IPKat

MARCH 1, 2025

Events 13 March 2025: A Better Way To Unlock AI Transparency Than Open Source Mandates Join 4iP Councils webinar to find out how AI system openness can be classified beyond traditional open-source models. Picture is by Francesco Ungaro and used under the licensing terms of pexels.com. Find out more information and register here.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

FEBRUARY 13, 2025

He orally licensed the beats to Rivers for a 50% royalty and a promise to keep booking live performances for White. White alleges that Rivers stopped booking live performances and thereby abrogated the beats license. ” After the alleged license breach, White took down the album, but Rivers reuploaded it.

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The IPKat

DECEMBER 22, 2024

The submission deadline is 31 March 2025. The application deadline is 2 March 2025. Then hurry to meet the application deadline of 20 January 2025. The picture is by Jessica Lewis and used under the licensing terms of Pexels.com. For further information please click here. Further information is available here.

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SpicyIP

JANUARY 26, 2025

Case Summaries Guddu Gupta Trading as Ms Leela vs Suraj Gupta Trading As Ms Devi Leela … on 18 January, 2025 (Delhi District Court) The plaintiff, trading as Leela Cosmetics, alleged that his brother operating under Devi Leela Cosmetics, infringed upon his trademarks ROOP LADY and ROOP LEELA, as well as the design of his sindoor stick bottles.

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The Trichordist

OCTOBER 14, 2024

The fight over frozen mechanicals continues to pay off as songwriters log another cost of living increase for physical/downloads while streaming falls farther behind.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

MARCH 4, 2025

At issue in this case is whether Viral DRM obtains ownership or exclusive licensing rights to the third-party videos it syndicates. The court says that Viral DRM’s exclusive “management” rights is not the same as ownership or an exclusive license to the copyright. 2025 WL 660250 (N.D. Seven West Media Ltd.,

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Copyright Lately

FEBRUARY 2, 2025

January 27, 2025 email from Tintinimaginatio to Duke Law’s Center for the Study of the Public Domain. I covered all of this last December in my 2025 public domain roundup. law, while later-added elements remain protected. for using Tintin, you would lose.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

FEBRUARY 15, 2025

In 2016, the defendant licensed the plaintiff’s Equine Boarding Forms Package, consisting of form releases for adults and minors. The license permitted the defendant to “copy, email and otherwise distribute the” forms but not post them to the web. 2025 WL 485493 (D. The defendant runs a Florida horse ranch.

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43(B)log

FEBRUARY 4, 2025

Fresh Bourbon, LLC, 2025 WL 366626, No. 31, 2025) After dealing with a motion to dismiss , the court now grants summary judgment in this case brought by one African American-owned bourbon seller against another. The statements at issue didnt claim to have a distillers license and permit. Victory Global, LLC v. 5:21-62-KKC (E.D.

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SpicyIP

MARCH 24, 2025

In a recent judgment on February 25, 2025, the Delhi High Court (DHC) in Lifestyle Equities CV & Anr. The Court noted that the Trademark License Agreement between the Plaintiffs and major brands provided a sufficient basis for damage calculation (Para 103). Vishno is a third-year B.A., Amazon Technologies, Inc. &

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Velocity of Content

FEBRUARY 5, 2025

The following is an excerpt from the ebook, 2025 Copyrighted Content Usage Trends, which draws on data from the 2025 Information Seeking and Usage Study to offer insights into how employees think about, use, and share copyrighted content today, including with AI tools. Since 2007, CCC has partnered with Outsell, Inc.,

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JD Supra Law

FEBRUARY 10, 2025

3G Licensing, S.A., In Honeywell International Inc. 23-1354, the Federal Circuit held that under the obviousness standard of 35 U.S.C. 103, the motivation to modify prior art does not need to be the same as the patentees motivation. By: Knobbe Martens

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Copyright Lately

JANUARY 20, 2025

Keep in mind that none of this uncertainty over platform licensing policies would matter out west. The court determined that YouTubes Terms of Service grant the platform a broad license when users upload videos, which includes a sublicensable right that extends to embedding. Lynk Media v. For publishers, the stakes are high.

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IP Law 360

FEBRUARY 5, 2025

2025 promises to continue an exciting trajectory for the life sciences industry, with major trends ranging from global harmonization of intellectual property to cross-border licensing activity and an increase of nontraditional financial participants in the mergers and acquisition space, say attorneys at Morgan Lewis.

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The IPKat

MARCH 19, 2025

Envy launched in the Chinese market in late 2023, thanks to a 2018 licensing deal with the Joy Wing Mau fruit company. The matter then escalated to the Supreme Peoples Court, which upheld the ruling on 26 February 2025. The variety is marketed under the trade mark Envy or . Photo by Jocelyn Bosse. million (319,000).

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IP Watchdog

MARCH 10, 2025

This week on IPWatchdog Unleashed we present my fireside chat with Judge John Holcomb of the United States Federal District Court for the Central District of California, which took place March 4, 2025, at IPWatchdog LIVE.

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Velocity of Content

AUGUST 5, 2024

Licensing solutions such as direct and collective licensing meet the needs of technology companies, users of copyrighted works, authors and publishers.” Armstrong concluded her speech by expressing her excitement about the 2025 IFRRO Asia Pacific Committee (APC) meeting, which will be hosted by IRRO in New Dellhi.

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SpicyIP

FEBRUARY 21, 2025

On January 8, 2025, the Delhi High Court, presided over by Hon’ble Justice Amit Bansal, delivered a significant ruling in the case of Syngenta Limited and Anr. However, employees directly involved in commercial licensing negotiations are more likely to misuse or inadvertently disclose confidential information.

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Nelligan Law

MARCH 25, 2025

Foreman turned his name into a powerful brand, protected by an extensive network of trademarks and licensing agreements. He didnt just lend his name to productshe licensed it with care. George Foreman passed away on March 21, 2025, at the age of 76. Behind that success was a masterclass in intellectual property.

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