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Why Foreign Copyright Holders Should Register in the US
Registering works With the copyright office Confers benefits Copyrights are protected by both national and international law. US copyright law, for example, is set forth in title 17 of the United States Code. Under 17 US Code § 102, copyright protection subsists in...
Jury Orders Cox to Pay $1 Billion for Copyright Infringement by Users
Cox users infringe, So Cox must pay one billion; Says it will appeal A federal jury in Virginia has ruled that Cox Communications should pay copyright infringement damages of $1 billion. As Deadline reported, EMI, Warner Music Group, Sony Music and Universal Music...
Error-Detection Software Found Patent-Eligible
Federal Circuit Finds software patent isn’t Too abstract to stand The US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit has ruled that claims related to software for error-checking are patent-eligible. In the case of Koninklijke KPN N.V. v. Gemalto M2M GMBH, Plaintiff...
Patent Owners Can Be Stopped from Asserting Doctrine of Equivalents
Patent applicants Aren’t allowed to narrow claims And then expand them In the recent case of Pharma Tech Solutions Inc v Lifescan Inc., Pharma Tech sued LifeScan for allegedly infringing its patents for blood glucose monitoring for at-home use by people with diabetes....
Federal Circuit Reverses PTAB on Wireless Patent Invalidity
Federal Circuit Says wireless patent owner Gets chance to rebut The Federal Circuit has reversed a decision of the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB or Board) that one claim of a wireless communications patent was unpatentable as obvious. The court found that the...
Senate Bill Would Let Customs Enforce Design Patents
US Senate bill Would allow Customs to seize Infringing designs A bill introduced in the US Senate would authorize US Customs and Border Protection (“Customs”) to take action against imported products that infringe US design patents. At the moment, 19 USC...
Formula Patent Doesn’t Destroy Trade Secret Status
Formula patent Doesn’t destroy trade secret Rules Court of Appeal The California Court of Appeal has held that disclosing a formula in a patent doesn’t destroy the formula’s trade secret status as long as the patent doesn’t disclose the process for how the trade...
Nirvana Blocks Motion to Dismiss IP Infringement Claims
Nirvana happy: Judge refuses to dismiss Infringement complaint A California federal court has declined to dismiss copyright and trademark infringement claims brought by the Seattle alt/grunge rock band Nirvana. Nirvana claims ownership of the copyright for a “happy...
USPTO Issues More Subject Matter Eligibility Guidelines
USPTO Issues new patent guidelines And improves training On October 17, the US Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) issued new patent eligibility guidelines. These new guidelines elaborate on the guidelines issued in January, and were issued in response to public...