Footage ordered released of Guantanamo Bay detainee being force fed
Footage of US military officials force feeding a Guantanamo Bay detainee could soon be public. That's according to two rulings by a federal judge, the latest on Friday, ordering the US government to...
View ArticleVersata II: District Court has No Jurisdiction to Hear Challenge to CBM...
Versata v. Lee (Versata II) (Fed. Cir. 2015) In this follow-up to Versata v. SAP (Versata I), the Federal Circuit holds that a district court has no jurisdiction over a direct challenge the PTO’s...
View ArticleTop Nazi’s estate owed copyright royalties by biographer, German court rules
The diary of Joseph Goebbels, Adolf Hitler's minister of propaganda, is a unique look inside the Nazi war machine. It's also copyrighted, and a German court ruled on Thursday that his estate must be...
View ArticleQuote of the day: on trademark harm
Ralph Sharp Brown knew his stuff with respect to trademark theories of harm that go beyond lost sales: “Judge Frank has already pointed out that the defendant ought to have an opportunity to prove that...
View ArticleAt the End of this Hypothetical Day I Might Be Destroyed
...or so opines Stan Muller in Crash Course - Copyright, Part 3. In his thought experiment he goes through a day of what we'd consider pretty normal activities - retweeting, taking and posting a video...
View Article#AliceStorm: July is Hot, Hot, Hot…and Versata is Not, Not, Not
By: Robert R. Sachs Part I: #AliceStorm and Versata July invokes images of hot days, cool nights, and fireworks. When it comes to #Alicestorm, the fireworks are happening in the courts, with the...
View ArticleCopyright Compendium 3.0
Elizabeth Lauderback If you’re a multi-disciplinary intellectual property attorney like me, you’re required to keep abreast of multiple administrative manuals. For example, the Trademark Manual of...
View Article2015 Pioneer Award Nominations Are Now Open
Nominations are now open for EFF's 24th Annual Pioneer Awards, to be presented this fall in San Francisco. EFF established the Pioneer Awards in 1992 to recognize leaders who are extending freedom and...
View ArticleState Bar of California Webinar on “Hot Topics in Trade Secret Law”
Webinar: Hot Topics in Trade Secret LawTuesday, July 14, 2015, 12:00 p.m. – 1:00 p.m. PT Presented by the Trade Secrets Interest Group of The Intellectual Property Law Section of The State Bar of...
View ArticleBecause landlines are dying, VoIP providers must sell 24-hour batteries
As phone providers like AT&T and Verizon seek to phase out copper telephone networks in favor of fiber- and wireless-based VoIP (Voice over Internet Protocol) services, the Federal Communications...
View ArticleSpeaking at the US-China Innovation Dialogue
The final outcomes aren't public yet, but I thought this would be okay to share - I was invited by the White House to speak to the leaders of the United States and China’s innovation policies at the...
View ArticleFox News Hit With $4.5 Million Lawsuit for Walking Away From Reality TV Show
The producers of 'Pawn Stars' say they had a deal for Fox Business's first reality TV series.read more
View ArticleOnce again, Adobe releases emergency Flash patch for Hacking Team 0-days
Adobe Systems has issued an emergency update for its Flash media player to patch two critical zero-day vulnerabilities that allow attackers to surreptitiously install malware on end-user computers. The...
View ArticleU.S. Patent No. 6,748,326: Information processing apparatus and method for...
U.S. Patent No. 6,748,326: Information processing apparatus and method for displaying weather data as a background for an electronic pet in a virtual spaceIssued June 8, 2004, to SonySummary:The ‘326...
View ArticleAuthors Guild demands ISPs monitor, filter Internet of pirated goods
The Authors Guild, one of the nation's top writer's groups, wants the US Congress to overhaul copyright law and require ISPs to monitor and filter the Internet of pirated materials, including e-books....
View ArticleUSPTO News
Ex Parte Appeals: PTO Deputy Director Russ Slifer writes on the new expedited appeal program. Slifer writes that the “current average pendency of an ex parte appeal at the PTAB is approximately 30...
View ArticleNFL's $12 Billion Deal With DirecTV Faces Major Antitrust Lawsuit
A class action proposes to represent bars and restaurants who pay for broadcasts of out-of-market football games.read more
View ArticleCincinnati tells fans: No drones at tonight’s All-Star Game
No drones will be allowed at the Major League Baseball All-Star Game held in Cincinnati, Ohio, on Tuesday evening. “The rise in recreational drone use creates security challenges," according to a...
View ArticleRedskins Lose Trademark Battle
IPNews® - The Washington Redskins and the NFL lost a battle in court, resulting in six of the team’s Trademark registrations being cancelled. A district court ruled that six Redskins’ Trademark...
View ArticleNo, the UK government is not about to ban Whatsapp
My social media timeline has been inundated in the last week with headlines warning that Whatsapp is about to be banned in the UK by the government. The UK’s mainstream media knows a good scandal when...
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