Blurred Lines Verdict Affirmed - How Bad is It? from writtendescription.blogspot.com The Ninth Circuit ruled on
Gaye v. Williams today, the "Blurred Lines" verdict that found infringement and some hefty damages. I've replied to a few of my colleagues' Twitter posts today, so I figured ...
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Controversy looming for this year's pre-EQE from ipkitten.blogspot.com The pre-examination European Qualifying Examination ("pre-EQE") was introduced in 2012 as an entrance exam to the main EQE for European Patent Attorneys. Only after passing the pre-EQE is a European patent attorney trainee allowed to ... Share via E–mail | Twitter | Facebook
They Invented What? (No. 40) from anticipatethis.wordpress.com Originally posted on
Anticipate This!™ | Patent and Trademark Law Blog:
U.S. Pat. No. 4,873,928: Nuclear-sized explosions without radiation. JW Note: Many thanks to Dr. Bill Ziehler for bringing this one to our ...
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US Perspectives: ISPs In US Face New Copyright Challenge from www.ip-watch.org Online firms don’t do enough to combat copyright infringement. That, at least, is what US copyright owners have been saying for years. They recently received some good news from the US Fourth Circuit Court ...
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GAO on covered business method program from ipbiz.blogspot.com
From September 2012 through September 2017, entities facing patent infringement lawsuits filed 524 petitions challenging the validity of 359 patents under the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office's (USPTO) covered business method (CBM) program ... Share via E–mail | Twitter | Facebook
Does Facebook function like Cambridge Analytica? from ipbiz.blogspot.com From a CBS news report quoting Jennifer Grygiel, a social media expert and assistant professor of communications at Syracuse University, on the Cambridge Analytica matter:
Grygiel said Facebook functions "in similar ways" to Cambridge Analytica ... Share via E–mail | Twitter | Facebook
CEPN report mentions "an almost dysfunctional research environment" in lab in Sweden from ipbiz.blogspot.com An article in The Scientist notes that Sweden’s Central Ethical Review Board (CEPN) has concluded that eight papers coauthored by Suchitra Sumitran-Holgersson, a professor of tissue engineering at the University of Gothenburg, may show ...
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Internal Invention Disclosure Document Protected by Attorney-Client Privilege from docketreport.blogspot.com The court denied plaintiff's motion to compel the production of a clawed back deposition exhibit and found the document was privileged. "[Senior in-house counsel] confirmed that [the exhibit] is consistent with the format required ...
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Kafka's The Trial infiltrates patent law blog from ipbiz.blogspot.com In a post on IPBiz in the year 2005, LBE quoted from a law review article on judicial citations to the work of
Kafka:
Parker B. Potter, Jr., Ordeal by Trial: Judicial References to the ... Share via E–mail | Twitter | Facebook
Means-Plus-Function and Attorney Fees from patentlyo.com by Dennis Crouch Sarif Biomed v. Brainlab (Fed. Cir. 2018) [SarifBiomed] Sarif’s patent is directed to a “computer-assisted microsurgery installation” couples position sensors with images to place the location of a tool within a ...
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AIA Trials and the Sunsetting of Covered-Business-Method Review from patentlyo.com by Dennis Crouch In the America Invents Act (AIA), Congress created two primary new forms of challenging issued patents in an administrative trial setting before the Patent Trial and Appeal Board. The more popular form ...
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AI for Social Good: Becoming Aware of Different Interests from www.iposgoode.ca On February 2, 2018, IP Osgoode along with its partners, the York Centre for Public Policy & Law and the Zvi Meitar Institute for Legal Implications of Emerging Technologies, hosted a conference entitled “Bracing for Impact ...
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Can Legislation Restrain the Looming ‘Beast’ of Artificial Intelligence? from www.iposgoode.ca Amidst the unprecedented number of cyber-attacks in recent years, we have quickly transitioned into an Artificial Intelligence (AI) Era in which Intel predicts more than 200 billion Internet enabled devices by 2020. The use of ...
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AI <span class="amp">&</span> Industries — An Interplay That Hints at the Way to Governance from www.iposgoode.ca Virtually every industry resorts to artificial intelligence (“AI”) technologies to streamline processes, enhance performance, and improve service provision. As AI becomes ubiquitous in our everyday lives, it is necessary to create guidelines to help us ...
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The (R)evolutionary Impact of AI-Generated Work and Big Data on Intellectual Property Law and Commercialization from www.iposgoode.ca Who should own the Intellectual Property (IP) rights for Artificial Intelligence (AI)-generated work? The current global legal regime does not allow for patents and copyright protection of AI inventions and works, and some argue ...
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Are invention disclosure documents protected by attorney-client privilege? from ipspotlight.com A common first step in the patent filing process is the completion of an invention disclosure form. The form asks the inventors to provide basic details about the invention, including who invented it, what problem ...
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Available Now! Video and Audio Recordings of Bracing for Impact: The Artificial Intelligence Challenge Conference #IPOzAIChallenge from www.iposgoode.ca IP Osgoode would like to thank everyone who attended “Bracing for Impact: The Artificial Challenge (A Roadmap for AI Governance in Canada)” on February 2, 2018 at Osgoode Hall, Law Society of Ontario. Organized by ...
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More research, regulation needed to handle artificial intelligence, academics say from www.iposgoode.ca This article was originally published by The Lawyer’s Daily (www.thelawyersdaily.ca), part of LexisNexis Canada Inc. Artificial intelligence (AI) can create inherent benefits for all sectors, but governance of the technology is lagging ...
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Irrepressible Rise Of China In International Patent Applications, Developing Countries Lagging from www.ip-watch.org If the United States remains the champion of international patent applications at the World Intellectual Property Organization, China is now on its heels, and knocked Japan off the second place in 2017, according to numbers ...
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Patent negotiations in the 1980s from ipbiz.blogspot.com The episode of "Murder, She Wrote" that first aired on 23 Nov. 1986, titled " Magnum on Ice, " was a cross-over involving characters from both Murder and Magnum, PI.
The decade of the 1980's was ...
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Gaye family survives appeal of "Blurred Lines" copyright case from ipbiz.blogspot.com From Reuters:
A federal appeals court on Wednesday upheld a $5.3 million judgment against Robin Thicke and Pharrell Williams for copying a Marvin Gaye song to create their 2013 smash “Blurred Lines.”
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Drug Costs Continue to Rise from www.patentdocs.org By Kevin E. Noonan -- Increased drug costs have been a political and economic target for more than the past generation, being one of the motivations for the Hatch-Waxman Act in 1984. Drug costs were a ...
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