JD Supra Law

MARCH 18, 2025

For space, defense, and industrial technology companies, securing government contracts is often a major growth milestone. But without a clear IP strategy, working with agencies like NASA or the Department of Defense (DoD) can put a startups long-term technology ownership at risk. By: Fenwick & West LLP

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TorrentFreak

JANUARY 22, 2025

To effectively tackle live sports piracy, broad blocking powers aim to block piracy-related domain names and IP addresses within 30 minutes. However, they argue that the ‘blunt’ DNS and IP blocking measures represent a threat to other companies and the public.

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SpicyIP

OCTOBER 17, 2024

Recently, the Calcutta HC also notified its IPR Division Rules ( here ) and a new roster ( here ) that created specialised benches for IP matters. In fact, recently the government had announced its plan to establish a Bulk Drug Park accompanied by subsidies on land and electricity to attract more investments.

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IP Watchdog

OCTOBER 28, 2024

As artificial intelligence (AI) technology continues to evolve at an unprecedented pace, it brings with it numerous questions regarding the application of intellectual property (IP) laws.

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IIPRD

MARCH 13, 2025

Just like every lock has its matching key, each type of IP serves a specific purpose. With so many IPs available trademarks, patents, copyrights, and more – how can you choose the right one for your work, product, or business? For that, first let us understand what are IP and IPR. It is governed by the Patent Act, 1970.

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SpicyIP

NOVEMBER 11, 2024

Here is our recap of last week’s top IP developments including summary of the posts on the repudiations against personality rights, Govt. Tejaswini Kaushal analyzes this in light of the evolving jurisprudence surrounding rare diseases and the implications of the government’s measure.

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TorrentFreak

MARCH 3, 2023

New Domains Switched For IP Addresses For years pirate sites have deployed new domains to defeat ISP blocking. A more recent trend in some regions has seen pirate sites dump domains entirely and rely on IP addresses instead. ” Using IP addresses instead of domain names has another potential upside too. .”

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IP Watchdog

DECEMBER 5, 2023

Nearly 50 former government officials and other well-known figures in the IP space signed onto a letter today penned by the Council for Innovation Promotion (C4IP) urging President Biden to oppose the World Trade Organization’s (WTO’s) proposed extension of the COVID-19 IP waiver to therapeutics and diagnostics.

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IP Watchdog

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

Are trademark rights in the Metaverse as intangible as the world itself, or are they as real as in the ‘real’ world?

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TorrentFreak

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

The complaint identified several YTS domains, which were blocked in May after IPOPHL’s IP Rights Enforcement Office completed its review. These include DNS, URL, and IP address blocking. The review concluded that yts.mx, yts.rs, yts.do, ytsuproxy.to, yts.dirproxy.com, yts.unblocked.love, ytssss.jamsbase.com, yts.lt, yts.ag, yts.am

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IP Watchdog

OCTOBER 20, 2024

The deadline for comments on the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office’s (USPTO) updated subject matter eligibility guidance was October 16, and the Office received 24 total submissions.

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Intepat

MARCH 13, 2025

As such, the United Nations Treaty on Principles Governing the Activities of States in the Exploration and Use of Outer Space, Including the Moon and Other Celestial Bodies, 1967 (Outer Space Treaty) specifically establishes that outer space, and the celestial bodies present in it cannot be subject to any national jurisdiction.

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OCTOBER 4, 2024

Experts say most of the laws governing extraterrestrial IP are as unexplored as space itself. The rapidly expanding space tourism industry is raising a vast universe of potential intellectual property issues.

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The IPKat

FEBRUARY 17, 2025

by Adrian Aronsson-Storrier and Sam Berriman IPKat-approved scraping As regular readers of the IPKat will be aware, the UK government is currently undertaking a consultation on AI and copyright , previously covered here and here. This can include information such as the name, address or the IP address of a person, their appearance or voice.

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IP Watchdog

DECEMBER 9, 2024

Government Accountability Office (GAO) published a report reflecting the agencys investigation into third-party funding of patent litigation in the United States. On December 5, the U.S.

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TorrentFreak

JANUARY 12, 2024

The UK government’s Criminal Justice Bill had its first reading in the House of Commons on November 14, 2023, followed by its second reading on November 28. “Law enforcement agencies will have extended powers to suspend domain names and IP addresses used for fraudulent purposes or other serious crimes,” Cleverly said.

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TorrentFreak

NOVEMBER 7, 2024

This includes millions of organizations, including 30% of Fortune 500 companies, as well as various government agencies. Internet infrastructure company Cloudflare provides a range of connectivity and security services to customers around the globe.

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SpicyIP

AUGUST 23, 2024

She is incredibly passionate towards IP laws and its workings. As reported ( here , here , here and here ) these scammers through fake email ids, whatsapp numbers, etc are contacting people, impersonating these law firms and are coercing them to pay money for supposedly infringing IP rights of these firms/ their purported clients.

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IP Watchdog

OCTOBER 9, 2023

This might sound well and good—until you think about what it actually means for IP owners. Indeed, the foundational premise of the repair movement is that there is something inherently wrong when an IP owner exercises its right to exclude and imposes a repair restriction.

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IP and Legal Filings

JANUARY 2, 2025

The emergence of social networking sites has presented new difficulties for the government in defending the owners’ copyrights. The need for copyright regulations governing social networking sites has been recognised by the political community in recent years.

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TorrentFreak

OCTOBER 30, 2024

This time, however, the group highlights concerns with overbroad blocking efforts, such as court orders and government-imposed blocking measures. This includes an incident where a blocked Cloudflare IP-address rendered many legitimate websites inaccessible. More recently, the anti-piracy system blocked access to Google Drive.

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IP Watchdog

JANUARY 31, 2025

Mylan; Judge Holte of the Federal Court of Claims grants-in-part motions to compel the government and third-party defendant Idemia in a patent infringement case over e-passport reader technology; and more.

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IP and Legal Filings

JANUARY 16, 2025

Recently in an interview with Thomas Piketty, he has argued that ultra rich in India must be taxed more to address rising inequality and raise more resources for Government. Wealthy individuals may choose to move their assets to jurisdictions with lower or no heritage taxes, resulting in a loss of taxation for the Indian government.

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IP Watchdog

JANUARY 11, 2024

The bill seeks to provide for intellectual property (IP) rights in an individual’s voice and likeness as well as remedies including statutory damages and disgorged profits.

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IP and Legal Filings

JANUARY 27, 2025

New Categories of IP Protection: Perhaps the development of specific rules governing IPRs of AI-generated content can help to shed light on ownership and cases of infringement.

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IP Watchdog

DECEMBER 24, 2023

Another year of IP is behind us, and it is time to reflect on what mattered most—what decisions will affect practice for years to come and/or continue to play out in the courts as we move into 2024? Below are reflections on milestones from this past year—some positive, some negative, and some neutral--at least for now.

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TorrentFreak

FEBRUARY 24, 2025

. “This case in France is part of a broader global trend of regulatory overreach, where governments attempt to control encrypted services under the guise of content regulation. ” In Malaysia, South Korea, and Australia, IP-filtering and blocking efforts involving VPNs have also resulted in overblocking, Dawson notes.

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Plagiarism Today

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

In particular, they allege that they have sent over a thousand notices against a single IP address on the AT&T network without a single response. The lawsuit accuses AT&T of contributory copyright infringement for its failure to act against piracy on its network. 3: MPLC Joins the Copyright Society.

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SpicyIP

DECEMBER 30, 2023

As 2023 comes to an end, in line with our annual tradition, we take stock of the top IP developments that occurred this year. The decisions in the second category, i.e., Top 10 IP Cases/Judgements (Jurisprudence/Legal Lucidity) reflect those that we thought showed a fair bit of jurisprudential rigour and/or legal lucidity. Nataraj, Ms.

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IP Watchdog

JULY 23, 2024

The House Judiciary Committee’s Subcommittee on Courts, Intellectual Property and the Internet today held a hearing, titled “IP Litigation and the U.S. Issa said these voices claim the forum is being leveraged in ways that distort the IP system.

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TorrentFreak

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

One of RIPE’s most important roles is to allocate IP addresses to promote connectivity. Piracy Shield has spent months attempting to render thousands of IP addresses useless. This admittedly comes in handy when Cloudflare and other innocent IPs are blocked in error.

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Intellectual Property Law Blog

DECEMBER 1, 2021

In the first phase of the litigation, the government admitted infringement at ten airports, but challenged the validity of the patent, arguing that it was obvious over the prior art. The government’s failure to come forward with any evidence rebutting infringement was a factor that weighed in favor of the Court’s infringement finding.

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IP Watchdog

MARCH 25, 2024

After a year-long process involving 38 state organizations and dozens of individual representatives, IP rights has been selected as the topic for the 2024-2025 debate competition by The National Federation of State High School Associations (NFHS). Should the U.S.

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JD Supra Law

FEBRUARY 12, 2025

This is Part 2 of a summary of Ward and Smith Certified AI Governance Professional and IP attorney Angela Doughty'scomprehensive overview of the potential impacts of the use of Artificial Intelligence (AI) for in-house counsel. By: Ward and Smith, P.A.

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The IPKat

JANUARY 18, 2025

It's a new year and a fresh start to IP news, events and opportunities. geographical indications), designs, best foreign language/non-English IP book and IP in general (books covering diverse IP rights). The themes conference is Turning IP Ambitions into Action: Creating Connections, Collaborations and Communities .

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IP and Legal Filings

MARCH 26, 2025

At this moment, the bill emerges in a world where governments grapple throughout the world to provide a balance in unleashing innovation in the financial technologies sector with the imperatives of financial stability and security. It includes norms related to customer protection, anti-money laundering, and know-your-customer.

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SpicyIP

OCTOBER 14, 2024

Here is our recap of last week’s top IP developments including summary of the posts on the lack of participation by academics in court proceedings, Patent Controller’s order on patent of addition, and Delhi High Court’s decision on latching and passing off. Whither Indian IP Academics’ Engagement with the Judiciary?:

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