SpicyIP

SEPTEMBER 5, 2022

However, patent ownership controversy with the NIH is a separate story ( here and here ). However, as is evident, ownership over this technology and its component parts is extremely fuzzy. When ownership is itself in dispute, the process of obtaining a license from either entity becomes a risky and expensive exercise.

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IPilogue

AUGUST 17, 2022

One notable example is Meta’s (formerly known as Facebook) ownership of a wearable magnet technology that can track a user’s body poses when worn around the torso. As the patent collections of large corporations grow and products begin to materialize, one should expect an increase in patent litigation surrounding virtual reality soon.

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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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IP Law 360

MARCH 20, 2023

million, saying on Friday it appeared the litigation is an "attempt to exploit open questions of ownership in the still-developing NFT field." A New York federal judge dismissed a Canadian entity's lawsuit claiming to own Quantum, a digital artwork certified by a non-fungible token that Sotheby's sold for $1.47

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Plagiarism Today

OCTOBER 4, 2022

This case clearly illustrates how, with copyright, two different cases with nearly identical facts can have wildly different outcomes depending on the court and the litigators involved. Songwriting and Litigation. There’s not much doubt that there is more litigation around songwriting.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

FEBRUARY 22, 2025

Factual background The underlying claims relate to the ownership, exploitation and infringement of copyright and performers rights relating to the musical works and sound recordings of JHE. The Claimants claim ownership of Reddings and Mitchells shares of copyright in the Recordings and associated performers rights.

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Litigation Music Ownership Copyright 59

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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Litigation Copying Copyright Designs 143

Intellectual Property Law Blog

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

As patent litigators are well-aware, the Western District of Texas and the District of Delaware, the two most popular venues for patent litigation, each issued orders regulating litigation in their districts in 2022. The orders require extensive disclosure of entities that are related to the parties and the litigations.

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The IP Law Blog

JANUARY 5, 2023

Do defendants and the court have the right to ask who is funding a particular patent litigation? The first standing order requires non-governmental companies and corporations to disclose the name of every person all the way up the chain of ownership who has “a direct or indirect interest in the party.” .

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Litigation Patent Confidentiality Settlement 98

IP Watchdog

MARCH 31, 2022

The National Institutes of Health (NIH) is at legal odds with Moderna, claiming that Moderna neglected to add three NIH scientists to Moderna’s patent application on a principal COVID-19 vaccine.

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Ownership Business Patent Patent Application 139

IP Close Up

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

The author of a new book who was previously accused of employing junk economic science says that software ownership is damaging innovation and impeding U.S. competition. Continue reading.

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Ownership Patent Troll Litigation Patent 81

IP Law 360

OCTOBER 3, 2024

Intel is urging Delaware's chief federal judge to make VLSI Technology reveal its ownership and sources of litigation funding, saying the disclosures provided so far in their dispute over the scope of a patent license are "plainly deficient."

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IP Law 360

MARCH 17, 2023

The past week in London has seen Dechert LLP face up to yet another lawsuit over allegations of email hacking in ongoing litigation involving the Ras Al Khaimah Investment Authority, white rum maker Bacardi bring legal action against seven logistics companies in a carriage of goods claim, and an art collector fighting for legal ownership of a $7.5

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Litigation Ownership Art 75

Plagiarism Today

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

Next up today, Andy Maxwell at Torrentfreak writes that Voltage Holdings, a company best known for strongly litigating against piracy of films it holds the rights to, has begun sending out threatening letters to suspected UK pirates, seeking settlement fees for alleged illegal downloads.

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IP Watchdog

JANUARY 5, 2023

District Court for the District of Delaware’s “judicial inquisition” concerning disclosure of their owners and third-party litigation funders. Chief Judge Colm Connolly’s standing orders on initial disclosures in patent litigation cases have been the subject of much controversy and are presently being appealed at the CAFC in a separate case.

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Litigation Ownership Patent Intellectual Property 113

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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Copyright Trademark Litigation Copyright Infringement 95

Kluwer Copyright Blog

JULY 24, 2024

On the first, substantial litigation has already been launched concerning whether the data used to train these models requires payment or opt-in from creatives whose work has been ingested, often without consent. Is it a proper copyright ownership or an assigned license? If output works infringe copyright, who is responsible (e.g.

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IP Watchdog

MAY 24, 2024

Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit (CAFC) on Thursday, May 23, affirmed a Trademark Trial and Appeal Board (TTAB) decision that found a party with only a minority ownership interest in the owner of allegedly infringed marks did not have standing to seek cancellation of the marks.

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Ownership Trademark Government Intellectual Property 64

IP Close Up

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

What could be an important blockchain patent covering fractional trading of shares of multiple asset classes has been offered for sale at auction as an Continue reading.

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Ownership Patent Non-Fungible Tokens Technology 104

JD Supra Law

JUNE 7, 2023

Next, we turn to the legal issues, most certainly to be raised in any NFT litigation. NFT’s Intellectual Property Rights- Patent, copyright, trademark ownership, and individual publicity rights are all IP rights that subsist in the underlying asset comprising the NFT. By: Fox Rothschild LLP

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Intellectual Property Ownership Litigation IP 106

Technology & Marketing Law Blog

AUGUST 5, 2022

This is a case focusing on ownership of social media accounts. See “ Social Media Ownership Disputes Part II: Bridal Wear Company Takes Back Control of Instagram Account from Ex-Employee ” and “ Another Confused Entry in the Social Media Account Ownership Jurisprudence–JLM v. (See We blogged this case twice before.

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Social Media Ownership Business Branding 119

IP Law 360

JANUARY 2, 2023

The continuing fallout from a decision that changed how patent cases are assigned to Western District of Texas judges, and a Delaware judge's investigation into the funding and ownership of patent plaintiffs are set to continue commanding the patent world's attention in 2023.

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Litigation Ownership Patent 75

IP Watchdog

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

On the application, Thaler listed Creativity Machine as the author of the work and indicated himself to be the claimant, with a transfer statement explaining he acquired ownership of the work because of his “ownership of the machine.”.

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JD Supra Law

MARCH 31, 2023

Third-party litigation financing (TPLF) is an arrangement by which plaintiffs finance litigation costs through a non-party, typically a private firm that obtain funds from other investors. The commercial goal for a funder is a share of any damage award or licensing revenue generated as a result of the lawsuit. By: Haug Partners LLP

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Litigation Ownership Licensing Patent 52

Intellectual Property Law Blog

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

As patent litigators are well-aware, the Western District of Texas and the District of Delaware, the two most popular venues for patent litigation, each issued orders regulating litigation in their districts in 2022. The orders require extensive disclosure of entities that are related to the parties and the litigations.

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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. when the mask work is involved in litigation. It is recommended for the applicant to keep an unredacted version of the design along with the redacted version used for registration.

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IPilogue

DECEMBER 10, 2021

District Judge Fischer granted the defendant’s motion , stating, “Given that one of the core disputes in this case concerns ownership of the copyright in the Illustration, which is governed by U.K. While Bundy’s lawyers are disappointed with the decision, it looks like further litigation is In Bloom. The Outcome. law, the U.K.

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IP Tech Blog

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

If a secret is stolen, or the ownership or its proper apportionment are disputed, or if a third party is trying to copy software containing AI algorithms, the right holders must not shy away from taking proper enforcement measures. This will help avoid surprises from the application of unfamiliar Chinese laws and regulations.

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Velocity of Content

MARCH 16, 2023

After all, while we are pondering the weighty issue of future ownership, we are not focusing on the fundamental issue of wholesale copying of works to train AI in a wide variety of situations. Each of these cases is unique, fact dependent, and likely, if fully litigated on the merits, to shed light on different aspects of copyright law.

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Litigation Fair Use Copying Derivative Work 98

Plagiarism Today

OCTOBER 4, 2022

However, the important thing to know is that there was no doubt that Take-Two did copy the tattoos in question and there was no question of Alexander’s ownership of them. Instead, this case was litigated for over four years in regular federal court, at great expense to both sides. That board has a maximum total damages of $30,000.

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IP Watchdog

DECEMBER 14, 2022

Intel claimed that VLSI “has repeatedly failed to disclose its full ownership as required,” and the company’s “opaque ownership structure is an entrenched feature of hedge fund-driven patent litigation.” Intel Corp. has asked the United States District Court for the District of Delaware to throw out a $4.1

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Ownership Patent Litigation Technology 78

IPilogue

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

Moderna and Pfizer battle’s over the inventive process of their respective mRNA COVID-19 vaccines revisit the negative associations of profit, monopolies, and optics in patent litigation. Currently, no court decisions have been rendered regarding Moderna’s patent infringement claim against Pfizer.

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IAM Magazine

AUGUST 27, 2022

The chief judge of the US District Court for the District of Delaware has taken action against two patent plaintiffs who did not comply with recent standing orders

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IAM Magazine

AUGUST 27, 2022

The chief judge of the US District Court for the District of Delaware has taken action against two patent plaintiffs who did not comply with recent standing orders

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Ownership Litigation Patent 52

JIPEL Copyright Blog

APRIL 15, 2022

However, new ownership creates new incentives, which leads to anticipated changes in copyright litigation. However, new ownership creates new incentives, which leads to anticipated changes in copyright litigation. At a gut level, it makes sense that litigation will increase. Consider the case of Stevie Nicks.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

JANUARY 24, 2024

However, the appellate court seems to invalidate that six-factor test: “Determining he ownership of social-media accounts is indeed a relatively novel exercise, but that novelty does not warrant a new six-factor test.” The next step is to determine whether ownership ever transferred to another party.

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The IPKat

JANUARY 1, 2025

The Court also dismissed Wright's claims of passing off, which was based on his assertion of ownership of goodwill in the name "Bitcoin". extended passing off) and argued that "that such a claim does not require him to assert authorship or ownership," so it would not be a breach of the earlier injunctions.

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