Patent & IP news for July 11, 2017

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post image A film is a film is a film: at Cannes, it's not that simple from ipkitten.blogspot.com


When we think about the film industry, we usually think only about the film. Necessary, but not sufficient. After all, there is also need for paying customers and a platform to enable them to view ...

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Qualcomm's corporate structure and overseas patents: key issues in answer to FTC complaint from www.fosspatents.com

A couple of weeks ago, Judge Lucy Koh of the United States District Court for the Northern District of California denied Qualcomm's motion to dismiss the FTC's antitrust complaint. My theory is that ...

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Lessons From South Africa: Protecting Non-Expressive Uses In Copyright Reform from www.ip-watch.org

This week, the South African Parliament began accepting comments on its pending Bill proposing to amend the South African Copyright Act to align it with the digital age. http://infojustice.org/archives/38242 We and ...

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Failure to Challenge Venue in Initial Motion to Dismiss Waives Venue Challenge to Amended Complaint​ from docketreport.blogspot.com

Following the Supreme Court decision in TC Heartland LLC v. Kraft Foods Grp. Brands LLC, No. 16-341, 137 S.Ct. 1514 (May 22, 2017), the magistrate judge recommended denying defendant's motion to dismiss plaintiff ...

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Failure to Allege Direction or Control or Joint Enterprise in Complaint Precludes Evidence of Joint Infringement at Trial​ from docketreport.blogspot.com

The court granted defendant's motion in limine to preclude plaintiff from presenting evidence of joint infringement because plaintiff did not plead that theory in its complaint. "[Defendant] points out that [plaintiff's] complaint does ...

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CAFC addresses permanent injunctions in Genband. Apple III and Apple IV mentioned. from ipbiz.blogspot.com


The outcome was remand:


Appellant Genband US LLC sued Metaswitch Networks Corp. and Metaswitch Networks Ltd. (together, Metaswitch) for patent infringement. After a jury found that Metaswitch infringed various claims of several of Genband’s ...

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Privacy by Default: A Privacy and Cyber-security imperative in the IoT and Big-Data Age from www.iposgoode.ca

The rapid growth of big data technologies and Internet of Things (IoT) devices mandates the modernization of the Canadian privacy legislation, which establishes protection from both private companies and government agencies. The necessity of the ...

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Money Talk(s) and Competition Conflict: The CTS17 Regulatory Blockbuster from www.iposgoode.ca

Earlier this month, I attended the 2017 Canadian Telecom Summit and covered the Regulatory Blockbuster panel. The Regulatory Blockbuster is an annual event where regulatory representatives from telecom companies (this year, TELUS, Rogers, Bell, and ...

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The Effects of the Actavis Decision on Reverse Payment Settlement Agreements in ANDA cases -- Four Years After from www.patentdocs.org

By Kevin E. Noonan -- In 2013, the U.S. Supreme Court rendered its decision in FTC v. Actavis, finding that although so-called reverse payment settlement agreements were not per se antitrust violations in cases brought ...

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What’s Innovative About Cryptocurrency and Hayek’s “Free Market Money”? — Some Understated Obstacles in the Race for Blockchain Patents from www.iposgoode.ca

If we are going to be fair, the cryptocurrency idea dates back to almost forty years ago. In an article published in the Wall Street Journal on August 19, 1977, Friedrich Hayek — the economist and ...

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Disruptive Innovation and Digital Integration from www.iposgoode.ca

Despite persistent fears of a surveillance state and artificial intelligence, the smart device market continues to expand with little chance of collapse. Accordingly, some of the sessions at the 2017 Canadian Telecom Summit (CTS17) focussed ...

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Connecting Canadians, Empowering Inclusive Innovation from www.iposgoode.ca

Innovation is, once again, a topic of great concern for Canadian policy makers and the commentariat. And for good reason. Yet, at a time when (mainly foreign) companies – notably Alphabet (Google), Apple, Tesla, Amazon, and ...

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