CAFC analyzes "exceptional case" of 35 USC § 285 ; Newegg loses...
Mark Lemley argued for the unsuccessful defendant-appellant in the caseSFA v. Newegg. Richard Frenkel was also on the appellant team. Newegg argues that the district court erred in finding that this...
View ArticlePredictability
Obviousness in patent law goes to predictability. Baseball is not predictable.Of a Yankees/Red Sox series beginning on July 10:“Should be a good series,” said right-hander Clay Buchholz, who will pitch...
View ArticleCRISPR – Will This Be the Last Great US Patent Interference?
On 9 November 2014, Berkeley Professor of Chemistry Jennifer Doudna and her collaborator Emmanuelle Charpentier, currently at the Helmholtz Center for Infection Research in Germany, attended an awards...
View ArticleOPM got hacked and all I got was this stupid e-mail
My data was hacked, and I'm mad as hell. As anyone who reads Ars no doubt knows by now, the federal Office of Personnel Management (OPM) has been hacked hard—losing data on some 21.5 million people....
View ArticleThe Pirate Bay Four acquitted in Belgium
Gottfrid Svartholm, Fredrik Neij, Peter Sunde and Carl Lundström, the four original key Pirate Bay founders, have been acquitted by a Belgian court on charges of criminal copyright infringement and...
View ArticlePatent Searching 101: A Patent Search Tutorial
Inventors and entrepreneurs who are looking to cut costs frequently want to do their own patent search. This is a wise first move, but inventors need to be careful. It is quite common for inventors to...
View ArticleOverreaching: Priority of Rights to Domain Names
Complainants whose trademarks postdate domain name registrations continue to misunderstand the law as it applies to their rights under both the Uniform Domain Name Dispute Resolution Policy (UDRP) and...
View ArticleA Journey into the Interior
On 18 June 2015 the British Institute of Interior Design (BIID) awarded the well-known CEO of the campaigning organisation Anti-Copying In Design (ACID) Dids Macdonald OBEwith a Fellowship. This was in...
View ArticleMadonna hacker gets 14 months
Adi Lederman whpo hacked and released a number of unfinished and demo tracks from Madonna's Rebel Hart album in December 2014 when it was a work in progress has received a 14-month jail sentence from...
View ArticlePublisher must pay for using Goebbel'd diaries
The Estate of the Nazi propaganda minister Joseph Goebbels has won its lawsuit against Random House publishing company in the case the 1709 Blog first flagged up in AprilPeter Longerich, professor of...
View ArticleFTC exploring whether Apple’s 30% cut from music streaming apps is legal
Reuters reported on Friday that the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) is looking into whether it's legal for Apple to continue taking a 30 percent cut from sales within rival music streaming apps now that...
View ArticleAIPLA Webinar on Ex Parte Reexamination and Reissue Applications
The American Intellectual Property Law Association (AIPLA) will be offering a webinar on "Navigating Ex Parte Reexamination and Reissue Applications -- The Mechanics of Preparation and Interplay with...
View ArticleArizona makes deal with ACLU, won’t enforce bad law on “revenge porn”
A lawsuit filed in September by the American Civil Liberties Union, along with a group of booksellers and publishers, has put a stop to Arizona's "revenge porn" law. The lawsuit argued that the Arizona...
View ArticleWieso Trojaner nicht in die Hände des Staats gehören
Nachfolgender Meinungsbeitrag erschien ursprünglich unter dem Titel «Wer heute schon Trojaner einsetzt, verspottet unseren Rechtsstaat» in der NZZ am Sonntag vom 12. Juli 2015. Das italienische Hacking...
View ArticleComputer and Internet Law Weekly Updates for 2015-07-11
Why East Texas is ground zero for settling patent cases http://t.co/ewmIJ6U7fP -> Did you RT a © today? Photographer Sues Infringers and Retweeters http://t.co/0XSOZtyjHa -> Understanding the...
View ArticleNew York State Still Does Not Recognize Post Mortem Right to Publicity
A New York Senate bill, S560-2015, introduced in May by State Senator John A. DeFrancisco, would provide a post mortem right of publicity to deceased New Yorkers’ estates for seventy years after their...
View Article"Make it last forever": the enduring legacy of the Beckham brand?
"Make it last forever": these words form part of the lyrics of Wannabe, a song made popular in the dying years of the previous century by the Spice Girls girl band. They could well be the family motto...
View ArticleTrends in Subject Matter Eligibility for Biotechnology Inventions
The USPTO continues to issue patents related to biotechnology and organic chemistry inventions despite the Supreme Court rulings and USPTO guidelines implementing the ruling related to the scope of...
View ArticleLesenswerte juristische Weblinks #123
Ausgewählte Weblinks zu lesenswerten juristischen Inhalten: Anwaltsporträt: «Bernard Rambert, eine wichtige Figur der radikalen Linken, räumt Ende Juli sein Zürcher Anwaltsbüro.» Geistiges Eigentum:...
View ArticleKrukenform
Der in Rede stehende weiß-rot gefärbte zylindrische Behälter ist mangels Unterscheidungskraft selbst dann nicht als 3D-Marke in das Gemeinschaftsmarkenregister einzutragen, wenn er eine innovative Form...
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