Patently-O

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

Stroud is General Counsel at Unified Patents – an organization often adverse to litigation-funded entities. [1] litigation finance boom of the past 20 years—as has been widely reported, private equity now undergirds huge swaths of U.S. Guest post by Jonathan Stroud. Patent assertion finance today is a multibillion-dollar business. [2]

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The IPKat

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

In mid-2022, the UK Intellectual Property Office (IPO) announced that Government would consider broadening the scope for unlicensed TDM activities and introduce a new E&L that would allow TDM for any purpose (including commercial TDM), subject to a lawful access requirement to the relevant copyright works and other protected subject-matter.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

OCTOBER 7, 2023

Her latest trash lawsuit claimed that social media, the government, and Procter & Gamble were all doing the RICO against her. I’m sure this ruling won’t the last one in this case or in Loomer’s broader litigation campaign. The post Laura Loomer Loses Litigation (Again)–Loomer v. The complaint.

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SpicyIP

MARCH 18, 2023

Registrar General, High Court of Judicature of Madras , where the court directed the government to notify the inauguration of the Intellectual Property Division (IPD). Therefore, the court reiterated that the litigants will not be made to suffer because of the delay on the part of the Respondents.

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IP Watchdog

MAY 4, 2022

government on the questions presented. At that time, we believed Amgen had a slim chance of its petition being granted—mainly because the Supreme Court denied a similar petition from Idenix in 2021 (No. 20-380, January 19, 2021). The Supreme Court’s likelihood of granting cert.

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Erik K Pelton

FEBRUARY 11, 2025

A case at the TTAB is a type of litigation before an administrative agency court. Another type of procedural thing that may come up in that discussion is the protective order governing confidentiality or attorney’s eyes only, and whether the standard protective order needs to be modified. The possibility of settlement.

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IP Watchdog

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

Twenty-five intellectual property luminaries sent a letter today to several members of Congress asking them to beware of misleading and inaccurate assertions by “activists and academics” that government price controls on drugs will lead to lower costs for consumers.

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The IPKat

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

Katfriends Adrian Aronsson-Storrier and Oliver Fairhurst from Lewis Silkin report on recent litigation in the UK against the developers of AI generation software. This litigation has arisen amongst a flurry of recent interest in AI generated works. What is AI image generation software?

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SpicyIP

FEBRUARY 3, 2025

(This post has been co-authored with SpicyIP Intern Aditi Agrawal and Bharathwaj Ramakrishnan) Here is our recap of last weeks top IP developments including summary of the posts on taking stock of ANI vs OpenAI copyright litigation (Part I and II), and Machine Unlearning and the ANI vs OpenAI case. Anything we are missing out on?

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SpicyIP

JANUARY 20, 2024

While there are various factors affecting the issue of knowledge governance, understanding when IP became an academic discipline in India can be a useful point of inquiry. Moreover, as the 1987 report notes, IP litigation was very limited at that time, except for trademark law. See also here ). Anything else?)

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IP Watchdog

MARCH 8, 2023

That statement argued that Moderna should be released from infringement liability under the terms of a government contract that “authorize[d] and consent[ed] to all use and manufacture” of any U.S. 1498, the statute governing remedies for patent infringements by government use. . patented invention.

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SpicyIP

SEPTEMBER 5, 2022

As disclosed by KEI and The Intercept , the US government gave companies special authority to use another person’s technology, without permission, to produce Covid 19 vaccines. Moderna had six mRNA candidates for infectious diseases in clinical trials by the time COVID-19 arrived.

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SpicyIP

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

underscored that there is a need to supervise or govern patent and trademark agents. This post discusses the case and argues that there already exists a mechanism under the Patent and trademark laws that govern and supervise such agents. Image from here The Delhi High Court recently in Saurav Chaudhary Vs Union Of India & Anr.

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JD Supra Law

MARCH 7, 2025

Effective February 3, the US International Trade Commission (ITC) amended its Rules of Practice and Procedure governing Section 337 investigations. While some of these amendments make technical corrections and clarifications, others substantively revise a number of rules for amending complaints, discovery limitations, and litigation funding.

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Michael Geist

APRIL 14, 2023

Using the Access to Information Act, I have now obtained a copy of the government’s internal estimates for the economic and production impact of Bill C-11 ( methodology , memorandum , PPT ), which confirm many of my suspicions. This conclusion raises both the economic and cultural impact of the bill.

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IP Watchdog

MARCH 30, 2023

Solicitor General on Wednesday filed an amicus brief with the United States Supreme Court advising it to grant Teva Pharmaceuticals’ petition for writ of certiorari relating to generic manufacturers’ liability for infringement through the use of “skinny labels” on generic drugs. The SG’s brief said that the U.S.

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Intellectual Property Law Blog

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

Whether companies are building their own AI technology and training their own AI models, or leveraging third party tools, there are significant legal issues and business risks that directors need to consider as part of their fiduciary obligations and corporate governance. A wave of litigations and enforcement actions has swelled.

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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 14, 2022

Copyright Office issued a pair of final rules to establish various procedures governing proceedings at the Copyright Claims Board (CCB), a small copyright claims tribunal within the Copyright Office. Last week, the U.S. district court covering their own copyright claim.

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SpicyIP

JULY 26, 2023

Companies like Novex Communications, who are the watchdogs for big music label companies against unauthorised use of their music, are also responsible for challenging the powers of the government and validity of such clarifications.

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SpicyIP

APRIL 15, 2025

She is interested in pursuing IP and tech litigation. ] She is interested in pursuing IP and tech litigation. ] The roll is required to be updated every year and serves as an important support to the Indian courts in complicated patent litigation. Advika is a third-year law student at Symbiosis Law School, Noida.

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JD Supra Law

AUGUST 21, 2024

Public companies should take note of several recent developments, including: Reversal of the Pegasystems trade secrets lawsuit that nevertheless preserves guidance to take care when describing litigation as “without merit”.Recent

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IP Watchdog

MAY 2, 2022

federal government to address patent quality, abusive litigation and forum shopping. On April 28, Google’s General Counsel Halimah DeLaine Prado authored a post published on Google’s official blog to voice concerns felt by one of the world’s richest corporations that the U.S. patent system is currently in a state of growing crisis.

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Hugh Stephens Blog

JANUARY 15, 2024

Image: [link] The extended period set by the Canadian Government (through Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada, ISED) for response to its consultation paper on Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Copyright closed on January 15.

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IP Watchdog

DECEMBER 20, 2021

Despite the statute saying that patents are to be treated as property rights, the Supreme Court has ruled that patents are merely government franchises that can be stripped at any point in time during the life of the patent regardless of how much time or money has been invested by the patent owner. patent system must be questioned.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

FEBRUARY 22, 2025

Sonys Grounds of Appeal Sony appealed the High Court decision arguing that Green J made the following two errors of judgment: First, the judge was wrong to reject Sonys argument that the Claimants claim for infringement of performers property rights is precluded by certain transitional provisions in the legislative framework governing performers rights, (..)

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SpicyIP

MARCH 29, 2025

In doing so, the essay highlights the paradoxical stance of companies on training other ML systems using the output generated by their own ML systems and discusses the copyrightability of ML system-generated output, if any.

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IP Watchdog

JULY 30, 2024

Strong intellectual property rights are a cornerstone of the modern American economy. When inventors and creators know that their work will be protected, they are more likely to invest time, money, and resources into developing new ideas and technologies.

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IP Watchdog

OCTOBER 15, 2024

There are two distinct procedures available to parties for resolving patent infringement matters in China: an administrative procedure before the IP office and a civil procedure before the courts.

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Plagiarism Today

MARCH 30, 2022

Note: The case is being litigated in Iran. According to the original THR report , many in the country are upset he doesn’t use his international platform to more openly criticize the government. What all this adds up to is a dispute over the ethics of filmmaking, with potentially dire consequences for everyone involved in it.

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IP Watchdog

FEBRUARY 12, 2025

The draft rules were purportedly meant to repair a system that has suffered from a lack of transparency, predictability, and lengthy disputes and litigation. The Commission officially announced the proposal in April 2023, although it was leaked well before that. Communication on standard-essential patents.

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The IPKat

DECEMBER 7, 2021

FRAND litigation. The government will then assess and summarise the received responses it receives, which will be published and inform the government’s decision on any next steps and action that may be required. whether there is an imbalance?between between the licensor and licensee. ?? Transparency?in in the SEPs ecosystem.

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IP Law 360

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

Courts dealing with the current, and likely growing, onslaught of intellectual property litigation concerning artificial intelligence will determine whether certain common forms of AI training constitute IP violations, while the government works to determine whether AI-generated output is itself protectable under the law, say Robert Hill and Kathryn (..)

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Copyright Lately

OCTOBER 20, 2024

He dismissed American’s claims for breach of user agreement, conditions of carriage (the rules governing air travel), and tortious interference with contract, ruling they were barred by the statute of limitations. A good example comes from a case I litigated years ago on behalf of Costco.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

AUGUST 10, 2022

The affirmative defense (which partially negates liability if a government-designated censor approves the service offering) is miscalibrated. And most importantly, giving a government-motivated “auditor” the power to veto the functionality of online publishers is deeply and unconstitutionally censorial.

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Intellectual Property Law Blog

JANUARY 11, 2023

During litigation, the unredacted version may be used as evidence to support the ownership of the redacted portions in the registered mask work. government. when the mask work is involved in litigation. In particular, Section 1213.2 of the compendium provides for redacted deposits containing trade secrets. Id, section 2407.1(D)(2).

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JD Supra Law

JUNE 30, 2023

A recent decision from Judge Alston in the Alexandria Division is a good example of the speed in which the court acts in the context of the unique circumstances of a private litigant seeking a preliminary injunction against the U.S. government. CACI, Inc. United States Navy, Civil Action No. 1:23CV478 (RDA/IDD), 2023 U.S.

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