Patent & IP news for May 28, 2011

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New trademark trend: QR CODES as trademarks? from ipelton.wordpress.com

Advertisements (billboards, magazine ads, business cards) are more and more frequently featuring QR codes on them. A QR code directs users with a camera equipped mobile device (and a free code reader application) to a ...

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Netflix Is The Largest Source Of Internet Traffic In North America At 30% from www.iposgoode.ca

Kalen Lumsden is a JD candidate at Osgoode Hall Law School.   According to a report released last week by Sandvine, 29.7% of all downstream internet traffic during peak hours in North America is from ...

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Entrepreneur Magazine a Trademark Bully… to Entrepreneurs from tacticalip.com

By: Mark R. Malek I came across a story on the Businessweek Magazine Website that rang my trademark bully alarm.  It seems as though Entrepreneur Magazine, which publishes a magazine geared towards the interests of ...

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Legal “Hangover” For Warner Bros. Over Mike Tyson Tattoo from www.iposgoode.ca

Brent Randall is a JD candidate at the University of Ottawa. On May 24, 2011, in Missouri, US District Court Judge Catherine D. Perry denied an injunction requested by tattoo artist S. Victor Whitmill against ...

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The Festival Formerly Known As Caribana from www.iposgoode.ca

Amelia Manera is a JD candidate at Osgoode Hall Law School. Toronto’s Caribana festival, currently operated by the Festival Management Committee (FMC), has been ordered to give the festival a different name as part ...

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Therasense v. Becton Dickinson: Rethinking the Status of Patents as Technical Documents from holmansbiotechipblog.blogspot.com

Earlier this week the Federal Circuit issued its en banc decision in Therasense v. Becton Dickinson, which essentially made it more difficult to establish inequitable conduct. The decision has been reported and analyzed widely over ...

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Bollywood Wars: Multiplex Owners v. Film Producer/Distributors from spicyipindia.blogspot.com

In this post, I will cover the recent order of the Competition Commission of India concerning the dispute between the film producers and multiplex owners in India, with a focus on the intellectual property issues ...

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Oral Argument of the Month: AllStar Tire and Wheel, Inc. v. Wheel Pros, Inc. from www.717madisonplace.com

The oral argument of the month for the month of May is AllStar Tire and Wheel, Inc. v. Wheel Pros, Inc., 2011-1015 (Fed. Cir. May 12, 2011).  This oral argument raised interesting issues concerning functionality ...

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