Intellectual Property
Hollywood guilds representing actors, directors and writers have filed amicus briefs, asking the Supreme Court to take up a copyright […]
The Supreme Court’s decision in Alice Corp. v. CLS Bank International, which denied patent eligibility to an abstract idea, revealed […]
The Supreme Court ruled unanimously today, in Alice Corporation v. CLS Bank International, that software based on an abstract idea […]
Tesla’s announcement that it would not exclude others from using its electric car patents in most cases means that there may be more value in the future for the Tesla design and the Tesla brand, rather than the underlying technology.
The U.S. Patent Office has waded into the politics of the National Football League, declaring the Washington Redskins trademark “disparaging […]
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.
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