Trends in IP Data
You can't touch IP, most litigation devotes significant energy to even defining a right, and, by definition, any particular right is unique. So, how do you measure IP? Data on IP is scarce;...
View ArticleEuropean Court of Human Rights revisits intermediary liability
The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) has revisited the issue of liability for Internet intermediaries in the case of Magyar Tartalomszolgáltatók Egyesülete and Index.Hu v Hungary. This is the...
View ArticleThirteen Partners Join New Orrick Houston Office
The international law firm Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe announced 13 partners have joined the firm’s new Houston office. Orrick’s Texas litigation team brings proven trial and appellate skills in...
View ArticleThirteen Partners Join New Orrick Houston Office
The international law firm Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe announced 13 partners have joined the firm’s new Houston office. Orrick’s Texas litigation team brings proven trial and appellate skills in...
View ArticleBranding – Why IP Is Intrinsic To The Work
Branding involves creating Intellectual Property (IP). So, you need to know enough about IP to understand that it is intrinsic to the work. The very choices made as well as their availability involves...
View ArticleCorporate Intent and Corporate Crime: A Matter of Inference
Mihailis Evangelos Diamantis, Corporate Criminal Minds, 91 Notre Dame L. Rev. ___ (forthcoming 2016), available at SSRN. Caroline Bradley The Yates Memo emphasizes the need to fight corporate crime by...
View ArticleTTAB Renders Split Decision in MONSTER v. MONSTERFISHKEEPERS Double-Header
The Board sustained Monster Energy's opposition to registration of the M Design mark shown below left, finding it likely to cause confusion with Monster Energy's registered design mark shown below...
View ArticleComputer and Internet Updates for 2016-02-02
Adele Tells Donald Trump to Stop Using Her Music to Campaign https://t.co/uqwaz2dQBu -> How Online Piracy Hurts Emerging Artists https://t.co/NNnQPXeFd2 -> European Union describes outline of...
View ArticleFormer, current students sue Google over university-issued Gmail scanning
(credit: Cairo) Four former and current University of California, Berkeley students have sued Google in federal court in San Jose, California, claiming that the company scanned their...
View ArticleAbsurd "world record" claim isn't use of actual...
Martin v. Living Essentials, LLC, 2016 WL 374142, No. 15 C 01647 (N.D. Ill. Feb. 1, 2016) Ted Martin, who holds the world record for most consecutive kicks in hacky sack (no knees, no partner) sued for...
View ArticleNew issue of Music & Copyright with Canada country report
The latest issue of Music & Copyright is now available for subscribers to download. Here are some of the highlights. Munich court rules in favor of YouTube in GEMA damages case A court in Munich...
View ArticleCommunication Techniques to Get Prompt Client Instructions
Many of my clients are not patent specialists. Providing an opinion will help them in deciding on the action to take. Uncertainty about what to do often leads to procrastination by the client, which I...
View ArticleCommunication Techniques to Get Prompt Client Instructions
Many of my clients are not patent specialists. Providing an opinion will help them in deciding on the action to take. Uncertainty about what to do often leads to procrastination by the client, which I...
View ArticleCourt Denies Extraterritorial Appliation of Lanham Act
In a February 1, 2016 ruling, Judge Jed S. Rakoff issued a decision explaining his reasoning for the dismissal of the plaintiff’s trademark action seeking to find that the holder of a presumptively...
View ArticleExpert’s Royalty Base Apportionment Analysis Insufficient
The court deferred ruling on defendant's motion to exclude the testimony of plaintiff's damages expert regarding a reasonable royalty for unreliable apportionment and ordered plaintiff to produce a...
View ArticleConsumer Privacy Survey Results
As Socially Aware readers know, privacy presents real business risks that have the potential to negatively impact a company’s bottom line, from the legal fees associated with a data breach to revenue...
View ArticleNorth Korea plans to try again to orbit satellite (and test ICBM tech)
The Unha-3 rocket, the platform for North Korea's (sort of) successful satellite launch in 2012. Another launch has been announced for February. Watch the skies. In an alert filed with the United...
View ArticleCrean biblioteca digital que engloba 100 mil horas de audio, video e imágenes...
Investigadores de México y Francia están por concretar poderoso software que lo llevará a cabo, pues en el país no hay entidad que albergue ese saber en forma digital. Proyecto Mex Culture Estudiantes...
View ArticleRevenge of the Memes
If you use social media, you’re familiar with memes. Even if you don’t know what a meme is, you scroll by them every day on Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, and other sites and apps. Webster’s...
View ArticleGoogle and the Self-Driving Car: A Nightmare for Regulators
Imagine never losing the ability to drive due to illness, age, or disability. Think of a world where all cars drive the same, regardless of the risk-averse or risk-seeking personality of the individual...
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