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View ArticleMBBP Attorney Robert Finkel Judges Case Competition
MBBP Attorney Robert Finkel was one of several judges in TAMID’s First Annual National Case Competition for TAMID at Boston University. TAMID is a comprehensive, multi-phased program that connects...
View ArticleTech Round-Up: Anonymous Takes on ISIL, Square IPO Beats Estimates and a...
From tech developers trying to take a stand against tech-savvy terrorists to a pair of highly anticipated initial public offerings of stock for tech start-ups, there’s been plenty of news to cover in...
View ArticleTech Round-Up: Anonymous Takes on ISIL, Square IPO Beats Estimates and a...
From tech developers trying to take a stand against tech-savvy terrorists to a pair of highly anticipated initial public offerings of stock for tech start-ups, there’s been plenty of news to cover in...
View ArticleIncentive Auction Homework – Long-term Assignment: How to Reap Repack Repayment
The Broadcast Incentive Auction reimbursement process begins to take shape. We have reported on the FCC’s efforts to alert all would-be reverse auction participants to the ins and outs of Form 177. A...
View ArticleNever Too Late: if you missed the IPKat last week ...
Last week was another phenomenally busy one for the IPKat blogging team, a week in which we received over 60,000 casual visitors and a whole hatful of new email subscribers. To help you help navigate...
View ArticleJudge sides with Rightscorp, says DMCA doesn’t protect Cox
(credit: Aurich Lawson / Thinkstock) Nearly a year after two music publishers and online copyright cop Rightscorp initiated a high-stakes lawsuit against Cox Communications, a judge has made a ruling...
View Article'London Fields' Producer Now Facing Investor's Fraud and...
Chris Hanley is accused of diverting money meant for the film and never intending to make promised payments.read more
View ArticleMeeting the Legal Needs of the Creative Industries: an intensive course
"Copyright Law: Meeting the Legal Needs of the Creative Industries in the 21st Century" is the title of a forthcoming course at University College London (UCL). Running from Monday 18 to Friday 22...
View ArticleMonday miscellany
In "Jumpin' through hoops? A copyright claim that never got off the ground", this Kat hosted a guest contribution from Kevin Winters on a copyright infringement action brought by Jacobus Rentmeester...
View ArticleNotes from the PPAC Meetings
Global Dossier has now been released (November 2015). USPTO Collected over $3 billion in user fees in FY2015. That figure was below budget. Spending limit is around $3.5 billion, but is limited by...
View ArticleThe Sorry Tale of PECB, Pakistan's Terrible Electronic Crime Bill
It is a truth universally acknowledged that a government, in the wake of a national security crisis—or hostage to the perceived threat of one—will pursue and in many cases enact legislation that is...
View ArticleCable, Cord Cutting, Retransmssion, Costs and Copyright Board: “It Was Twenty...
On Tuesday, November 24, 2015 at 10:00 a.m. in the Copyright Board's hearing room at 56 Sparks St. in Ottawa with the Board’s new Chair, the Copyright Board will hear the first contested retransmission...
View ArticleTexas A&M v Indianapolis Colts re Use of 12th MAN
Texas A&M sues the Indianapolis Colts re use of the mark 12th MAN.
View ArticleKickstarter has no clue how drone startup raised $3.4M then imploded
(credit: Change.org) Less than a week after Torquing Group announced that it was dissolving, Kickstarter said it is mystified as to how the British startup and its Zano drone raised $3.4 million in...
View ArticleComcast's Ad Sales Investigated by Justice Department
The focus of the inquiry is whether the cable giant is bullying other rival pay TV providers into using its sales force.read more
View ArticleSupreme Court to Review the Federal Circuit’s Test for Willful Patent...
Julie Langdon At the end of October, the Supreme Court announced that it will review the issue of when enhanced damages may be awarded to a patentee with a finding of infringement. Stryker Corp. v....
View ArticleIdentifican empresas y gobierno tres áreas de desafío a la propiedad...
Tecnologías de la información, biotecnología y desarrollo de nuevos materiales son las tres áreas de investigación científica y desarrollo tecnológico en las que la velocidad de nuevos hallazgos y...
View ArticleStupid Patent of the Month: Infamous Prison Telco Patents Asking...
Plenty of businesses rely on third-party payers: parents often pay for college; insurance companies pay most health care bills. Reaching out to potential third-party payers is hardly a new or...
View ArticleFacebook Seeks Dismissal in Illinois Facial Recognition Biometric Privacy Suit
As we have previously noted, Facebook has been named as a defendant in a number of lawsuits claiming that its facial recognition-based system of photo tagging violates the Illinois Biometric...
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