Intellectual Property
The Second Circuit Court of Appeals upheld most of a district court’s determination that an academic consortium’s digital archiving project […]
The final step in Canada’s efforts to modernize its copyright law was announced this week: Implementation of the “Notice and […]
Sherlock Holmes is in the public domain, the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals has ruled, dealing a loss to the […]
The Hershey Company filed a lawsuit against a Washington marijuana dispensary alleging its “Reefer’s Peanut Butter Cups” violated the company’s copyright. That suit may be the tip of the iceberg for the marijuana industry, as increased scrutiny is bound to come with its skyrocketing value, which some estimates put at as much as $10 billion within five years.
In a unanimous ruling, the Supreme Court found that a defendant cannot be liable for inducing infringement unless the induced party directly infringed the patent, meaning there is no induced infringement of a method patent unless every step of the method can be attributed to a single actor.
The “Trade Protection Not Troll Protection Act,” introduced by U.S. Congressmen Blake Farenthold (R-Texas) and Tony Cárdenas (D-Calif.), aims to reduce the ability of patent trolls to initiate ITC investigations.
Microsoft told government regulators that going forward with a search warrant seeking customer information stored abroad “would violate international law […]
Patent assertion firm VirnetX may be on the cusp of winning a major lawsuit – worth as much as $340 […]
Tesla CEO Elon Musk first told a shareholder’s meeting he was planning on doing something “kind of controversial with respect […]
After the Supreme Court’s unanimous reversal of the Federal Circuit in Nautilus, Inc. v. Biosig Instruments, Inc., Vera Ranieri of […]
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