Recently Issued IRS Littlejohn Victim Notices May Present Challenges for...
As required by law, the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) has begun issuing notification letters to victims of a former IRS contractor who illegally accessed and stole the tax return information of...
View ArticleIntellectual Property Spurs Innovation Toward Sustainable Development on...
In the competitive landscape of modern business, intellectual property (IP) rights are a crucial safeguard to preserving innovations and investments across various sectors. Across these domains, a...
View ArticleIm-Promptu submissions on display – Supponor v AIM [2024] EWCA Civ 396
On 23 April 2024, the Court of Appeal handed down its judgment in the appeal arising from the January 2023 decision of Meade J in AIM v Supponor [2023] EWHC 164 (Pat). AIM is the proprietor of EP (UK)...
View ArticleTwisted Trust
Emilie Connolly, Fiduciary Colonialism: Annuities and Native Dispossession in the Early United States, 127 Am. His. Rev. 223 (2022). Bethany Berger During Elouise Cobell’s campaign against federal...
View ArticleTTABlog Test: How Did These Three Recent 2(d) Appeals Turn Out?
A TTAB judge once said to me that one can predict the outcome of a Section 2(d) appeal 95% of the time just by looking at the marks and the involved goods/services. Here are the three such appeals...
View ArticleIndy’s Dive into Legal Waters: FullBeauty Brands, Inc. Faces Trademark...
Indianapolis, Indiana – FullBeauty Brands Inc. has been accused of trademark infringement in a lawsuit filed by Pennsylvania-based Global Trademarks Inc. The lawsuit alleges that certain swimsuits...
View ArticleFriday’s Endnotes – 04/26/24
The Economics of Creativity: A Q&A with the Copyright Office’s Chief Economist — “In 2022, the U.S. Copyright Office welcomed Dr. Brent Lutes to serve as the Office’s first chief economist. Office...
View ArticleCurio v 10x Genomics Change of Language appeal – English as a lingua franca...
On 17 April 2024, the Court of Appeal of the UPC handed down its decision concerning the language of proceedings in the (undoubtedly ground-breaking) case of Curio Bioscience v 10x Genomics. Curio had...
View ArticleDoes the Supreme Court Conservative Majority Want to Prevent Regulatory...
Despite ample and longstanding case precedent, the Supreme Court appears ready to prevent regulatory agencies from acting when a statutory mandate is ambiguous and outdated. The Court...
View ArticleThe Politics of Looking: Post-Mortem Privacy & Ethics in Contemporary...
By Divya Srinivasan The photographic documentation of the deceased body has occurred for decades. While photographers’ intentions vary, controversy surrounds this practice, resulting in discourse about...
View ArticleTikTok owner has strong First Amendment case against US ban, professors say
Enlarge (credit: Getty Images | NurPhoto) TikTok owner ByteDance is preparing to sue the US government now that President Biden has signed into law a bill that will ban TikTok in the US if its Chinese...
View ArticleMessage-scraping, user-tracking service Spy Pet shut down by Discord
Enlarge (credit: Discord) Spy Pet, a service that sold access to a rich database of allegedly more than 3 billion Discord messages and details on more than 600 million users, has seemingly been shut...
View ArticleApple Watch Patent Wars Create a Defensive Roadmap for ITC Respondents
Late last year, , the United States International Trade Commission (ITC) announced that it would issue a limited exclusion order (LEO) and cease and desist order (CDO) against Apple, Inc. prohibiting...
View ArticleThe Coachella Festival: A Celebration of Art, Camping, Live Music and...
Photo by Vishnu R Nair on Pexels.comBy Mackenzie Kinsella The Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival The Coachella Valley Music and Arts festival is undoubtedly one of the most iconic music...
View ArticleWithout Undue Experimentation vs Without Any Experiments
by Dennis Crouch I was rereading the Supreme Court’s recent enablement decision of Amgen Inc. v. Sanofi, 598 U.S. 594 (2023) and was struck by the Supreme Court’s statement that its 19th Century...
View ArticleThe Briefing: Authors Get Mixed Results with Initial Skirmish in OpenAI Lawsuit
Delve into the complexities of vicarious infringement and DMCA violations in AI training. Scott Hervey and James Kachmar from Weintraub Tobin dissect the recent district court ruling on OpenAI’s...
View ArticleOther Barks and Bites for Friday, April 26: World Intellectual Property...
This week in Other Barks and Bites: Caltech drops a patent infringement lawsuit against HP; the world celebrates World Intellectual Property Day; GSK sues Pfizer accusing the company of infringing on...
View ArticleCourt upholds New York law that says ISPs must offer $15 broadband
Enlarge (credit: Getty Images | Creativeye99) A federal appeals court today reversed a ruling that prevented New York from enforcing a law requiring Internet service providers to sell $15 broadband...
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