TorrentFreak

JANUARY 26, 2025

Nearly a decade ago, the US Navy was sued for mass copyright infringement and accused of causing hundreds of millions of dollars in damages. The lawsuit was filed by the German company Bitmanagement. It’s not a typical piracy case in the sense that software was downloaded from shady sources. Instead, it deals with unauthorized installations. It all started in 2008 when the US Navy began testing Bitmanagement’s 3D virtual reality application ‘BS Contact Geo’ After some tes

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IP Watchdog

JANUARY 26, 2025

The U.S. 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. In its 2021 decision, the CAFC found in part that Intel satisfied Article III standing requirements for appealing from the PTAB but remanded the case on a number of issues.

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Copyright Lately

JANUARY 26, 2025

After a two-week trial, a California jury found that Apple TV+s Servant didnt infringe the copyright in Francesca Gregorinis The Truth About Emanuel because the defendants lacked sufficient access to her film. Its no I see dead people, but as far as copyright infringement jury trials go, its a pretty good twist ending for M. Night Shyamalan, Apple, and the nine other defendants in Gregorini v.

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IP Watchdog

JANUARY 26, 2025

On January 25, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit (CAFC) issued a precedential decision in Steuben Foods, Inc. v. Shibuya Hoppman Corp., reversing-in-part the District of Delaware's post-trial rulings of judgment as a matter of law (JMOL) of noninfringement in favor of Shibuya. The Federal Circuit reversed noninfringement findings made under the reverse doctrine of equivalents (RDOE), declining to declare the doctrine subsumed by the 1952 Patent Act, but finding that Steuben Foods

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Speaker: Blackberry, OSS Consultants, & Revenera

Software is complex, which makes threats to the software supply chain more real every day. 64% of organizations have been impacted by a software supply chain attack and 60% of data breaches are due to unpatched software vulnerabilities. In the U.S. alone, cyber losses totaled $10.3 billion in 2022. All of these stats beg the question, “Do you know what’s in your software?

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SpicyIP

JANUARY 26, 2025

(This post has been co-authored with SpicyIP Intern Aditi Agrawal) Here is our recap of last weeks top IP developments including summary of the post on the analysis of Delhi HCs judgment in Master Arnesh Shaw, a letter by MP Haris Beeran to the Government urging to invoke Section 100, Patents Act for rare disease medicine, and the statutory duty under Section 151 of Patents Act.

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Patently-O

JANUARY 26, 2025

by Dennis Crouch The Supreme Court will soon consider whether to hear an important case about fraud on the court (and the USPTO) and the judiciary's obligation to address it. Marco Destin, Inc. v. Levy , Case No. 24-787. The issue now before the Court asks whether it was proper for the lower court to overlook fraud that affects the judicial process itself in favor of finality of judgment.

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SpicyIP

JANUARY 26, 2025

In the wake of Anurag Chaurasia’s (paywalled) Nature piece cautioning Indian scientists to conduct due diligence before using CRISPR gene editing tools, Prashant Reddy T looks closely at the patent issues raised by Chaurasia in his paper. Prashant Reddy T is one of our most prolific bloggers (his posts can be accessed here ). He is also the co-author of two books- Create, Copy, Disrupt: Indias Intellectual Property Dilemmas (OUP, 2017) and The Truth Pill: The Myth of Drug Regulation in Ind

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