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Copyright References in the Budget: Good Intentions Are Welcome but Early Action is Needed

Hugh Stephens Blog

Last week I discussed the copyright needle buried in the 2022 Canadian budget haystack, a reference to impending legislation to amend the Copyright Act to fulfill Canada’s obligation under the USMCA/CUSMA to extend its term of copyright protection from the life of the author plus 50 years to “life plus 70”.

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Later-Filed, Earlier-Expiring Patent Not an ODP Reference

JD Supra Law

2023) and held that the later-filed, earlier-expiring continuation patents were not available as ODP references against the earlier-filed, later-expiring patent. Allergan USA, Inc. MSN Labs Private Ltd., 24-1061 (Fed. 13, 2024) (Lourie, Dyk, Reyna JJ.). By: McDermott Will & Emery

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Federal Circuit Affirms PTAB’s Ruling of Swearing Behind a Prior Art Reference

Intellectual Property Law Blog

Medtronics filed five IPR petitions using the ’355 patent as the primary prior art reference under pre-AIA 35 U.S.C. § (“VSI”), asserted that the claimed invention of the challenged patents was conceived in early 2005.

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Federal Circuit Provides Guidance on What Claims Can Properly Serve As Obviousness-Type Double Patenting References

JD Supra Law

Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit held that a first-filed, first-issued, later-expiring claim cannot be invalidated by a later-filed, later-issued, earlier-expiring reference claim having a common priority date. By: Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati

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‘Meta Torrented over 81 TB of Data Through Anna’s Archive, Despite Few Seeders’

TorrentFreak

terabytes of data from LibGen,” the plaintiffs state in the unsealed document, referring to an email where Anna’s Archive is referred to by the initials “AA” Unsealed email The email, shown above, mentions the Internet Archive as a key source as well, although it’s not a typical shadow library. .”

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District Court: Incorporation by Reference for Purposes of Anticipation Requires More than a Parenthetical

JD Supra Law

In a series of rulings on a motion in limine, the District of Delaware recently distinguished between what qualifies as being incorporated by reference and what does not for the purposes of an anticipation defense. In short, a parenthetical citation was held to be insufficient, while three passages discussing a cited reference met the test.

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Australia’s Proposed Streaming Cash Grab is Risky for Australian Consumers and Production Jobs: It’s Time to Dial it Back

Hugh Stephens Blog

Screen Australia Drama Report At a time when streaming services (also referred to as subscription video on demand, or SVOD) are growing internationally at a frenzied pace, various countries are pondering how to deal with this phenomenon, particularly when it comes to local production.

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