Crumbs! Bake Off parody goes off-air
The Great British Bake Off has turned out to be a most popular television production from the BBC. Maybe it's not quite in the same league as the lately controversial Top Gear, but it has its own...
View ArticleProgram formats and copyright
Channel 7 has lost its bid to get an interlocutory injunction against Channel 9's show Hotplate on the basis of My Kitchen Rules.
View ArticleA premature requiem? Proving acquired distinctiveness of shape marks
Tibby tries to get to the bottom of this problemThe fate of the Kit Kat chocolate wafer biscuit finger shape in Europe remains in the balance, as the judges in the Court of Justice of the European...
View ArticleSpaniard fatally gored while trying to film bull run on smartphone
While the Spanish town of Pamplona hosts the world's most well-known running of the bulls, other cities in Spain, Portugal, and nearby nations host their own annual runs where bulls run through city...
View ArticleBRR 50-State Noncompete Chart Updated
The BRR 50 State Noncompete Chart has been substantially updated to reflect numerous developments in statutory or case law since the last draft, as well as clarifications of existing laws. Click here...
View ArticleEthicon v. Covidien: Cut to the Marrow on Indefiniteness
Tomorrow I’ll write about the design patent functionality questions in Ethicon Endo-Surgery v. Covidien, Appeal No. 14-1370 (Fed. Cir. 2015) (medical shears). Today, the focus is on the Federal...
View ArticleThere Oughta Be A Law….
I’ve been at this privacy thing for a while now. While many things have changed, such as technology, what hasn’t changed is the general lack of public awareness of what laws are on the books protecting...
View ArticleTrade School’s Domain Name Lawsuit Drops Like a (Granite) Rock
Photo credit: “Vintage stamp with text The Granite State written inside and map of New Hampshire” // ShutterStockI don’t often blog cases where New Hampshire figures so prominently, so this is a...
View ArticleWashington State Court Refuses to Unmask Anonymous Online Reviewer
In a precedent-setting ruling, the Washington Court of Appeals in Thomson v. Doe refused to grant a motion to compel brought by a defamation plaintiff who had subpoenaed the lawyer-review site Avvo.com...
View ArticleFile sharers could face 10 years in jail in the UK
The Open Rights Group (ORG) has sent us a communication regarding a new proposal in the UK to criminalise copyright infringement beyond the current limits to up to 10 years. I reproduce their statement...
View ArticleAnother Attempt at a Federal Trade Secrets Law
by: Kelly A. Williams, a shareholder at Picadio Sneath Miller & Norton, P.C. A bill was introduced on Wednesday, July 29, 2015, in the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives by a bipartisan group...
View ArticleWhat happens when there is no publication agreement?
Scholarly communication discussions and debates usually focus, quite obviously, on the terms of publication agreements and the licenses those agreements often give back to authors to use their own work...
View ArticleVideo: Kentucky drone only hovered for about 22 seconds before being shot down
The pilot of the drone that was recently shot down over a Louisville, Kentucky, suburb has posted a new video showing the device's short flight. The film doesn’t even last 90 seconds. The video depicts...
View ArticleOET Digging Deeper Into LTE-U Standard-Setting Questions
Justifications for possible U.S.-only standard, other details, questioned The FCC’s Office of Engineering and Technology (OET) appears to have assigned a high priority to the issue of the use of...
View ArticleDrew Hirshfeld Appointed New Commissioner for Patents
Yesterday, the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) announced that Drew Hirshfeld has been appointed as the new Commissioner for Patents. Hirshfeld, who was previously the Deputy Commissioner for...
View ArticleIndiana Patent Litigation: Lilly Files New Lawsuit Alleging Patent...
Indianapolis, Indiana - An Indiana patent attorney for Eli Lilly and Company of Indianapolis, Indiana, in conjunction with Washington, D.C. co-counsel, sued for patent infringement in the Southern...
View ArticleDVD Distributor Columbia House Files Chapter 11 Bankruptcy
The story of a company that went from $1.4 billion in annual revenue to $17 million as the entertainment industry transformed.read more
View ArticleDrone Even Go There, Redux: The FAA, Drones and Newsgathering
Interim update on interim FAA policy As we reported earlier this year, the National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) has opened a proceeding looking at “best practices” for the...
View ArticleDisheartening article on patent reform in Fortune
The title of the Fortune piece was promising Hey lawmakers, patents and innovation aren't the same – here's a reminder but the content was sadly pathetic.A commenter got to some of the problems in the...
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