In a judgment this week, the European Court of Justice ruled that “the sale of multimedia player which enables films that are available illegally on the internet to be viewed easily and for free on a television screen could constitute an infringement of copyright. In the case referred to the Luxembourg Court from the [...]
The new trademark rule 2017 allows any trademark owner to file a request to file a request in form of TM-M requesting the registrar to declare a trademark ‘well-known’. Once a trademark is declared well-known by a registrar of trademark, or a court of law, the trademark registry is bound under law to not [...]
The global economic survey report 2016, ranked cyber crime as the second most reported economic crime during the year. But some questions remain to about how under reported cyber crime is particularly hacking. In some instances companies do not seem to even know they were hacked until well after the fact, and in other [...]
A Blockchain is a subtype of distributed ledger data structure, in which transaction are grouped into “blocks”. Technologies are developing that implement Blockchains to solve all sort of problems related to transaction, privacy, security, data integrity, double spending, payments, interoperability etc. Blockchain technologies are red-hot investment and development space right now will be for [...]
Unified Patents is a relatively new form of patent troll that works as a “Troll of Trolls” or “ToT.” They file IPRs (inter-partes reexamination requests) to kill patents. While they purport to only attack “bad patents,” their definition of a “bad patent” is simply any patent asserted against their clients. So who are their [...]
By Executive Order dated February 24, 2017, President Donald J. Trump proclaimed: “It is the policy of the United States to alleviate unnecessary regulatory burdens placed on the American people.” In this Executive Order, President Trump ordered the heads of each agency to designate a Regulatory Reform Officer (RRO) within 60 days. The Executive [...]
