Patent & IP news for March 27, 2018

Right of publicity not a right to control one's own image by censoring disagreeable portrayals, says appeals court in de Havilland case from ipkitten.blogspot.com

Olivia de HavillandDoes one have the power to control how his/her own image is portrayed? To what extent do third parties’ free speech rights prevail over the rights of the person portrayed?
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Google cannot hide behind its algorithms, German court finds from ipkitten.blogspot.com

The Higher Regional Court of Cologne had to decide upon a rather peculiar case that involved statements ‘made’ by Google’s search engine.

The plaintiff in this case was born in 1945 and was convicted ...

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Global Health Funding Flows As WHO, Gavi, Global Fund Benefit from www.ip-watch.org

Actions by governments in recent days show funding for global health continues to be a priority for some countries. Geneva-based institutions and their programs around the world are among the beneficiaries.

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Blockchain patent applications doubled in 2017 to over 1,200 from ipcloseup.com

1,240 blockchain patent applications were filed worldwide in 2017, up from 594 in 2016 and 258 in 2015.  Among the leading filers were Bank of America, MasterCard, Goldman Sachs, Walmart, JPMorgan, and IBM. According ...

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Are We Running out of Trademarks? College Sports Edition from writtendescription.blogspot.com

As I watched the Kansas State Wildcats play the Kentucky Wildcats in the Sweet Sixteen this year, it occurred to me that there are an awful lot of Wildcats in the tournament (five, to be ...

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Oracle v. Google: The Federal Circuit goes all-in on copyright and software from patentlyo.com

By Jason Rantanen Oracle America, Inc. v. Google LLC (Fed. Cir. 2018) Read opinion Panel: O’Malley (author), Plager and Taranto* This is a huge decision on multiple levels, and the latest exchange in the ...

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