CASL gets Rogers Media
The CRTC announced yesterday that it bagged another CASL pelt – this time Rogers Media. The company agreed to an undertaking with the CRTC and to pay $200,000 to avoid expensive enforcement...
View ArticleNo Estate Tax, No Worries?
Will I Owe Estate Tax? You may have read recently a great deal about the debate regarding estate tax making it appear as if avoiding estate tax is the most important reason why individuals and couples...
View ArticleActivision patents social networking for AI characters, online harassment...
The social aspects of video gaming have been a recent focus of Activision research and development activity, as is reflected by the issue of U.S. Patent No. 8911296, entitled Social Network System and...
View ArticleActivision patents social networking for AI characters, online harassment...
The social aspects of video gaming have been a recent focus of Activision research and development activity, as is reflected by the issue of U.S. Patent No. 8911296, entitled Social Network System and...
View ArticleApple pays no damages in Pendrell/ContentGuard Holdings case
A Reuters report beginsA U.S. jury on Friday found Apple Inc did not infringe five antipiracy patents owned by a Pendrell Corp subsidiary at trial in a Texas federal court.The jury also found that...
View ArticleIntroduction to Domain Name Dispute Resolution
World Intellectual Property Organization Author Melaatron Creative Commons licence This is the first of series of articles on domain name disputes. Schemes for the rapid resolution of domain name...
View ArticleFox, Time Warner, Comcast Dragged Into Legal Mess Surrounding Daily Fantasy...
The media companies — backers of DraftKings and FanDuel — are among the defendants in a new racketeering lawsuit.read more
View ArticleColleen Chien and ED Texas
An opinion piece in the Washington Post about venue titled A patent reform we can all agree on is authored by Colleen Chien and Michael Risch.Note a previous IPBiz post about Chien (and ED...
View ArticleOne Year on, the Private Copying Exception is now Dead
Following the CJEU's decision in the Reprobel case (reported here and here), it is perhaps not surprising that the UK Intellectual Property Office has announced that it is to abandon the UK's...
View ArticleWebinar on Double Patenting
Strafford will be offering a webinar/teleconference entitled "Double Patenting: Defeating Double Patenting Rejections and Avoiding Terminal Disclaimers" on November 23, 2015 from 1:00 to 2:30 pm (EST)....
View ArticleUSPTO Program on Efficient Patent Prosecution
The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office's Dallas Office will be hosting a program on efficient patent prosecution on December 1, 2015 from 2:30 to 5:30 pm (CT) at the Dallas USPTO, Terminal Federal...
View ArticleAIPLA Webinar on Inventor Interviews and Patent Searching
The American Intellectual Property Law Association (AIPLA) will be offering a webinar entitled "Searching, Inventorship, & the Inventor Interview: Practical Legal & Business Considerations" on...
View ArticleWebinar on Duties of Candor and Disclosure
Strafford will be offering a webinar/teleconference entitled "Duty of Candor, Fixing Mistakes, Ex Parte Communications, Sanctions & Professionalism Before the PTAB in Contested Proceedings" on...
View ArticleIn the face of growing e-commerce fraud, many merchants not prepared for...
As card-present transactions become less susceptible to fraud because of the shift to EMV chip card technologies, it’s expected that more fraud will shift to online platforms where it’s still...
View ArticleMunch ado about nothing? Oslo City Council seeks iconic registrations
Last Monday, in "Night Watch, Why Not? The art of trade mark application", this weblog hosted an amusing guest piece by Bas Kist on his firm's decision to apply to register the Rembrandt masterpiece...
View ArticleCBS Sunday Morning on November 22, 2015
Charles Osgood, with a red handkerchief, introduces the food issue.Mark Strassman does the cover story on homegrown food. A beautiful day in the agrahood.Susan Spencer, then Jane Pauley. Story on the...
View ArticleLincoln loved our patent system, Let’s not tear it down
Abraham Lincoln once called the patent system one of the three greatest advances in human history, along with the discovery of America and the printing press... The result is a patent system in crisis,...
View ArticleLincoln loved our patent system, Let’s not tear it down
Abraham Lincoln once called the patent system one of the three greatest advances in human history, along with the discovery of America and the printing press... The result is a patent system in crisis,...
View ArticleStartup Weekend Fort Worth 2015 Wrapup
Congratulations to Team Nimble! Team Nimble has been awarded a provisional patent application from the Damon R. Hickman Law Firm for their work at Startup Weekend FW 2015 hosted by incubator Idea...
View ArticleDigital files "property", says court in "female...
From Katfriend Ken Moon (IP/IT consultant to AJ Park, Auckland, New Zealand) comes this most helpful analysis of Jonathan Dixon v The Queen [2015] NZSC 147, a New Zealand Supreme Court ruling that goes...
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