TNS/Kantar v. TiVo at CAFC
Tivo Research and Analytics, Inc. dba TRA, Inc.(“TRA”) appeals a judgment of the district court grantingsummary judgment in favor of TNS Media Research, LLCdba Kantar Media Audiences and Cavendish...
View ArticleBeijing: now Moldova commits
By Beijing Notification No. 9 ("Beijing Treaty on Audiovisual Performances: Ratification by the Republic of Moldova") we learn that The Director General of the World Intellectual Property Organization...
View Article3 Count: Go Joe!
Have any suggestions for the 3 Count? Let me know via Twitter @plagiarismtoday. 1: G.I. Joe Inventor Sues to Break Hasbro’s Kung-Fu Grip on Toy’s Copyright First off today, Tim Kenneally at TheWrap...
View ArticleLabor Attorney Ivy Kagan Bierman Honored as Entertainment Lawyer of the Year
Family and friends celebrated Bierman’s accomplishments Wednesday night.read more
View ArticleRelativity Bankruptcy: Not Enough Celebrities Are Drinking Evian
The studio had a deal worth up to $8.75 million to promote bottled water products in TV shows, at film premieres and during press junkets.read more
View ArticleArthromobil (+)
Der Umstand, dass der Fachverkehr sowie fachlich interessierte Teile wie hier bei Arthromobil den Sinngehalt der Elemente eines Zeichens verstehen und einen beschreibenden Bezug zu den beanspruchten...
View ArticleCourt of Appeals Rejects Attempt to Use Copyright To Censor Online Speech
Today, the Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit issued an opinion blocking the use of copyright to censor unwanted online criticism. The decision, Katz v. Chevaldina, is important because although...
View ArticleHow Often Do We Register SaaS Software Copyright?
Dear Rich: I can't seem to find any recommendations for how to handle copyright registration of software that is changing frequently. Now that SaaS (software as a service - ed) software companies are...
View Article"Overt mischaracterizations" of facts by counsel result in stricken...
Intellectual Ventures II LLC v. BITCO / Great West Casualty, 6:15cv059/060-JRG (9/14/15) These are a pair of orders on motions to transfer venue in a case where the defendant's websites are accused of...
View Article17 Seconds #16
Bite-sized patent and trademark goodness. There are about 30 million companies in the US, but there are only about 4 million trademarks in the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO)...
View ArticleAviation Innovation
We recently published an article about the pursuit of green aviation technologies on IPWatchdog.com. In researching for that article we found a number of interesting aviation innovations that did not...
View ArticleUnderstanding the Ad Blockers
It’s early in the morning and the alarm on my Pebble is letting me know it’s time to get up. I roll over, not quite ready to get up fully, and grab my phone on the nightstand. I open up one of my news...
View ArticleAU Fair Use event: Best Practices in Fair Use/the Future
Jaszi: DMCA left us somewhat bruised; the next time we set out to do something useful, we asked what could be done without requiring congressional authority? Go back to 1991, when film scholar Kristin...
View ArticleCourt hears why deal that ok’d kids’ images in Facebook ads is illegal
Maria Elena SAN FRANCISCO—A number of advocacy groups forcefully argued before the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals on Thursday that an earlier settlement that effectively continues the use of minors’ data...
View ArticleBroadcast Contest Rule Moves Online
Long-pending Entercom proposal adopted … finally. If you’re a broadcast station that conducts contests and promotes those contests on the air, the FCC has just ushered you into the 21st Century. Soon...
View ArticlePatent Office Creates New Automated Interview Request (AIR) Tool
The USPTO AIR is a new online interview scheduling tool that allows Applicants to request an interview with an Examiner for their pending patent application. The USPTO AIR form is available here. This...
View ArticleAppeals court grants injunction to Apple, bans some features from Samsung phones
Flickr user Kārlis Dambrāns The nation’s top patent court has said that Samsung should be banned from selling some of its older phones due to its infringement of Apple’s patents. The 2-1 ruling from...
View ArticleBear Deterrent
Ann Robl The above image is Figure 1 from the patent publication for a “Pop-Up Device for Deterring an Attacking Animal Such as a Bear.” Sadly, now abandoned. The device can be carried in a backpack...
View ArticleBear Deterrent
Ann Robl The above image is Figure 1 from the patent publication for a “Pop-Up Device for Deterring an Attacking Animal Such as a Bear.” Sadly, now abandoned. The device can be carried in a backpack...
View ArticleTTABlogger Article: "The Top Ten TTAB Decisions of 2014-2015" -...
Here is a link to my chapter in the 2015 edition of The IP Book, published by The Midwest Intellectual Property Institute and Minnesota Continuing Legal Education: "The Top Ten TTAB Decisions of...
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