FBI Breaks into iPhone. We Have Some Questions.
The FBI has successfully accessed data on an iPhone that has been the subject of a legal battle between the Justice Department and Apple, according to a court filing. EFF is pleased that the Justice...
View ArticleApple likely can’t force FBI to disclose how it got data from seized iPhone
(credit: Bwana McCall) The US government isn't saying whether it will divulge to Apple the method it used to access the locked iPhone seized by one of the San Bernardino shooters. The iPhone has been...
View ArticleThe Attacks in Brussels Up the Ante in the Dispute between Apple and the FBI:...
The Apple-FBI dispute involves our right to privacy and our concern for national security. In a recent development in the case on Monday, March 21, the Justice Department’s request to postpone its...
View ArticleDon’t Bet On It: Daily Fantasy Sports Sites Facing Legal Challenges
March Madness may be in full swing, but don’t put your money on the daily fantasy sports (“DFS”) sites DraftKings and FanDuel. New York Attorney General Eric Schneider dealt the online betting sites a...
View ArticleBlake Shelton Accused of Giving False Testimony in Defamation Lawsuit
According to the singer's camp, a photograph showing him at a Cancun hotel hardly is much evidence at all.read more
View ArticleFederal Circuit Limits Estoppel Provision of the AIA
On March 23, 2016, the Federal Circuit addressed the scope of the estoppel provision for inter partes reviews (“IPRs”) contained in Section 315 of the American Invents Act. The Court relied on the...
View ArticlePTO Brief – Looking for Supreme Support for its AIA Trial Regime
Oral arguments in Cuozzo v. Lee are set for April 25, 2016 addressing two particular questions: Whether the PTO may require that, during an inter partes review, the claims in a patent will be given the...
View ArticleIndiana Trademark Litigation: Numerous Defendants Accused of Misusing...
South Bend, Indiana - An Indiana trademark attorney for Plaintiffs National Association of Forensic Counselors, Inc. ("NAFC") and American Academy of Certified Forensic Counselors, Inc. d/b/a American...
View ArticleCreó investigador mexicano un topógrafo corneal de alta competitividad
FUENTE: AGENCIA ID * Evalúa de manera precisa deformaciones de la superficie de la córnea y posibilita la detección de enfermedades Con el fin de detectar enfermedades oculares como el queratocono,...
View ArticleT.T.A.B. Emphasizes the Fame of the Movie ‘Jaws’ in Its Refusal to Register a...
On March 16, 2016, the TTAB affirmed the refusals of an applicant’s mark, JAWS DEVOUR YOUR HUNGER, for online streaming cooking shows, holding that it is confusingly similar to the registered mark from...
View ArticleBook Review: Trade Marks Law by Glen Gibbons
Having been sent for review the second edition of "Trade Marks Law", by Glen Gibbons (ISBN: 978-1-905536-80-1), this being a book on trade mark law written from an Irish viewpoint, this Kat was...
View ArticleTuesday This and That
FRAND IN JAPAN--A March 23rd client alert from Louise Stoupe and Chihiro Tomioka of Morrison & Foerster reports on recent revisions to guidelines published by the Japan Fair Trade Commission...
View ArticleEvans observes "It's ok to steal"
About ten years ago, IPBiz recounted the story of the Harvard Business Review publishing an article including the text "plagiarize with pride" [See Harvard Business Review article: Plagiarize with...
View ArticleA Milestone: IPKat's 10,000th Post!
The IPKat has surpassed 10,000 posts on the wonders and frustrations of intellectual property law and practice (this post makes it 10,001). That makes our blogging rate, since the IPKat's birth in...
View ArticleVietnamese Bloggers Sentenced to Prison in a Renewed Crackdown on Free...
A prominent Vietnamese blogger and his assistant were sentenced to prison last week in Hanoi for their work on a popular web site, read by millions of Vietnamese, that reported on human rights and...
View ArticleAutotrasplante de células madre posibilita a pacientes con diabetes tipo I...
FUENTE: AGENCIA ID * El Hospital Universitario en NL es el primero a nivel mundial en llevarlo a cabo de forma ambulatoria y con una reducción en costo de hasta el 80 por ciento Gracias a un...
View ArticleLawbreaking In Photography
What a wonderful idea for an exhibition. From the Met Fifth Avenue: Since the earliest days of the medium, photographs have been used for criminal investigation and evidence gathering, to record crime...
View ArticleExitoso connacional en el MIT ingresa a la Academia de Ingeniería de México
FUENTE: AGENCIA ID * A los 40 años, Alvar Sáenz Otero es director del Laboratorio de Sistemas Espaciales y labora en proyecto en el que participa la NASA El joven científico mexicano Alvar Sáenz...
View ArticleU.S. Patent No. 8,591,332: Video game video editor
U.S. Patent No. 8,591,332: Video game video editorIssued Nov. 26, 2013, to Activision Publishing, Inc.Summary:The ‘332 patent describes a video editor that displays game play clips created while the...
View ArticleOracle will seek a staggering $9.3 billion in 2nd trial against Google
In a second go-round of its copyright lawsuit against Google, Oracle is hoping to land a knockout blow. A damages report filed last week in federal court reveals that the enterprise-software giant will...
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