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When gossip site posted a photo of pregnant looking Beyonce, it probably didn’t anticipate much fallout. A major copyright decision that could imperil the sites business model and undermine legal defense used by other websites that depend on use content. The decision handed over ny the federal appeal court in California, came as a [...]
DC comics and Marvels, jointly owned the trademark word “superhero”, by joint trademark ownership, they are referring to two separate entities owning one single mark in same geographical region over same kind of product and services. In this article, it was expected to discuss the split between these two entities; instead we would discuss [...]
Google, Bing, the British Phonographic Industry (BPI) and the Motion Pictures Association (MPA), in collaboration with the Intellectual Property Office (IPO) have recently entered into what is considered a ‘landmark agreement’- the ‘Code of Practice on Search and Copyright’ (The Code), – towards curbing piracy and promoting the use of copyrighted content from legitimate [...]
The provision of the America Invents Act, 35 U.S.C, was touted originally as a check against patent challenges using inter partes review (IPR), proceeding to attack patent serially on same or similar ground. That provision precludes an IPR petitioner, or the real party in interest or privy of the petitioner, from asserting invalidity challenges [...]
How long should proceedings before EPO ideally take? Admitted this is a tricky question because various stakeholders’ will usually have different interests and thoughts so as to what the “right” or ideal “speed” is. Let us tackle this question by beginning with a simple distinction. In ex-parte proceedings, the main stakeholder is the applicant [...]
On the heel of reports that forever 21 is offering lookalike version of Rihanna Fenty’s for Puma, the German sport wear giant had slapped the copyright retailer with a design patent, trade dress, copyright infringement lawsuits. According to Pumas suit which was filed in district US court for the central district of California, the [...]
The United States was once again the top ranked country for intellectual property protection in the U.S. Chamber of Commerce’s annual Global IP Index for 2017, but the rankings were closer than ever. Indeed, in 2017 the U.S., UK, Japan, and European Union (EU) economies ranked more closely together than ever before, which was no [...]
On Wednesday, March 22nd, Redmond, WA-based consumer hardware and software company Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ:MSFT) announced that the company had entered into a new patent licensing agreement with Japanese automaker Toyota Motor Corporation (NYSE:TM). The licensing agreement, which covers patents directed at connected car technologies, is the latest partnership between these two companies seeking to increase entertainment and autonomous tech [...]
Plano, TX-based security tech provider Uniloc USA recently filed a pair of patent infringement suits in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Texas (E.D. Tex.) in which Uniloc asserts a series of patents directed at conference call and voice over Internet (VoIP) technologies. The defendants, Alphabet Inc. (NASDAQ:GOOGL) Internet services subsidiary Google and e-commerce giant Amazon.com (NASDAQ:AMZN), are the latest [...]
On Monday, March 20th, American pharmaceutical companies Sanofi-Aventis US, a subsidiary of France-based Sanofi S.A. (NYSE:SNY), and Regeneron (NASDAQ:REGN) were listed as plaintiffs in a suit filed to seek declaratory judgment of non-infringement of a patent held by American biopharma firm Amgen (NASDAQ:AMGN). Sanofi-Aventis and Regeneron are hoping to protect their market interest in a treatment developed to help patients [...]
