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UGG, Wal-Mart Ordered To File More Details On Slipper Patent
A California federal judge has ordered Deckers Outdoor Corp. and Wal-Mart Inc. to submit joint briefing on claim construction for an UGG slipper design patent that [...]
Plastic Surgeon Owes $7.7M From Offshore Scheme, US Says
A now-retired plastic surgeon owes the Internal Revenue Service more than $7.7 million after he ran an offshore employee leasing scheme and he and his [...]
BREAKING: Amazon Hit With $525M Verdict Over Data Storage Patents
An Illinois federal jury on Wednesday found that Amazon infringed three patents belonging to a Chicago software company that relate to cloud data storage technology, [...]
Congress Ponders IP Protections For Human-AI Creations
A U.S. House of Representatives panel examining intellectual property rights for works made with artificial intelligence grappled Wednesday with where to draw the line on [...]
Pharmacy Gets Eli Lilly's Mounjaro Suit Tossed
A Florida federal judge has thrown out Eli Lilly & Co.'s suit accusing an online pharmacy of wrongly selling a compounded version of its drug [...]
USPTO AI Guidance Highlights Risks for Practitioners and Public
The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) today announced guidance for practitioners and the public regarding the use of artificial intelligence (AI) in the preparation [...]
Justices Asked To Ban FCA Suits Relying On Patent Reviews
Valeant Pharmaceuticals is going to the U.S. Supreme Court to argue that information cited in Patent Trial and Appeal Board reviews cannot later be used [...]
'Woodstock' Rivals Set To Test Weed-Adjacent Marks At Trial
The promoter of the famed 1969 Woodstock music fair sparred Wednesday in Manhattan federal court with an alleged usurper of its prospective right to Woodstock [...]
Moderna Says Pfizer Is PTAB 'Tea-Leaf-Reading' In Vax IP Row
Moderna Inc. asked a Boston federal judge to deny Pfizer Inc.'s bid to pause a COVID-19 vaccine patent trial while the Patent Trial and Appeal [...]
Maine Says Lobster Boat Tracking Counts As Legal Search
Maine's top fisheries' regulator is arguing that newly required electronic location tracking for some lobstering boats is a legal administrative search of commercial premises and [...]
Merchant & Gould Adds IP Team From Oblon McClelland In DC
Merchant & Gould has expanded its intellectual property services in Washington, D.C., with the recent addition of a five-person team of attorneys who moved their [...]
Why Fed. Circ. Should Resolve District Split On Patent Statute
A split exists among district courts in their analysis of when marking cannot be done on a patented article due to its character, and the [...]
The Licensing Vector: A Fair Approach to Content Use in LLMs
A spate of recent lawsuits is shining light on how some generative AI (GenAI) companies are using copyrighted materials, without permission, as a core part [...]
Practicing Law With Parkinson's Disease
This Parkinson’s Awareness Month, Adam Siegler at Greenberg Traurig discusses his experience working as a lawyer with Parkinson’s disease, sharing both lessons on how to [...]
What RFK, Jr.’s VP Pick Could Mean for IP
Independent Presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy, Jr's Vice-Presidential running mate, Nicole Shanahan, a mercurial patent analyst, intellectual property lawyer and incidentally rich entrepreneur, is in [...]
Calif. Addiction Clinic Can't Shake Off Copyright Suit
An intellectual property and false advertising feud between two rival addiction outpatient clinics in Sacramento will go on, a federal judge in California has ruled. [...]
Venable Snags Trio Of Product Liability Partners From Steptoe
Three Steptoe LLP product liability and mass torts partners have departed the firm and joined Venable LLP in Chicago and Los Angeles, according to an [...]
Why IP Attys Are Watching This $2B Trade Secrets Battle
A case of alleged corporate espionage involving two software companies that resulted in a $2 billion verdict has all the hallmarks of a legal thriller, [...]
Pfizer Cancer Drug Way Too Expensive, Biden Told
The U.S. government is being asked yet again to use patent laws to lower the price of a prostate cancer drug that was developed at [...]
Endo Sues FDA Over Generic Adrenalin Approvals
Endo has filed a lawsuit against federal health regulatory authorities, alleging that they are wrongfully giving the go-ahead for a generic version of the Adrenalin [...]
Authors of Article That Inspired Top Gun Crash and Burn in California District Court
The U.S. District Court for the Central District of California ruled on Friday that Shosh Yonay and Yuval Yonay, the widow and son, respectively, of [...]
Heirs to Author of Article That Inspired Top Gun Crash and Burn in California District Court
The U.S. District Court for the Central District of California ruled on Friday that Shosh Yonay and Yuval Yonay, the widow and son of Ehud [...]
When Trade Secret Protection And Nat'l Security Converge
The Trump administration's anti-espionage program focused on China is over, but federal enforcement efforts to protect trade secrets and U.S. national security continue, and companies [...]
Judge Sees Plot Holes In Case Against TV's 'Penny Dreadful'
A California federal judge has dismissed, for now, a writer's copyright infringement suit accusing cable channel Showtime and the makers of the show "Penny Dreadful" of ripping [...]

Puma Vs CAT: The Full Federal Court settles a catfight!

Background On 21 October 2016, Puma SE (‘Puma’) filed a trade mark application for “PROCAT” in class 25 (footwear and headgear) and class 18 (bags and accessories). Subsequently, Caterpillar Inc. (‘Caterpillar’) opposed the trade mark on various grounds (s52, ss42(b), s44 and s60). Caterpillar owned registered trade marks for CAT in classes 18 and 25 […]

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Franchising Code of Conduct Amendments

The Australian Government has made changes made to the Franchising Code of Conduct (the Code) in an effort to balance the powers between franchisees and franchisors. These changes are a result of the recommendations of the Fairness Franchising Report, an Exposure Draft of the proposed changes to the Code, and subsequent to the Parliamentary Inquiry […]

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Pokémon Battle: The Pokémon Company International v Pokémon Pty Ltd

Pokémon is perhaps one of the biggest and long-running franchises in the gaming world. Anyone born in the digital age has heard of or even played a Pokémon game. Pokémon is a Japanese media franchise founded by Nintendo, Game Freak, and Creatures, originally a series of video games and a trading card game. Pokémon is […]

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Google’s New AI Model: Who is MUM?

Google LLC is an American multinational technology company which provides search engine technology, online advertising, cloud computing, computer software, quantum computing, e-commerce, and artificial intelligence. Its current headquarters are in Mountain View, a city in Santa Clara County, California which is located in the heart of Silicon Valley. Over the years, Google has updated many […]

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Stripe: Delving into Its Dispute Resolution Mechanism

Modernization inevitably induces various forms of paradigm transformation. Among these is payment. Countries around the globe are transitioning from traditional forms of payment to digitized ones and are evolving into cashless societies. Consequently, third-party payment platforms are evolving. One of the most notable payment gateway providers is Stripe, an online payment processing and commerce solution […]

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Telstra and OneWeb’s Partnership: Providing Internet Access Even to The Most Rural Areas

The buzz in the digital industry is that low-earth orbit (LEO) satellites will revolutionize the delivery of Internet services. A satellite constellation will create a connecting bridge to allow extensive coverage of mobile network. In this way, the Internet will be accessible in most rural of places. Telstra and OneWeb have made an early move […]

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Microsoft, Phasing out Emotion Identification AI

AI tech is one of the most notable technological innovations of the 21st century. However, it remains flawed. While potent, AI still lacks flexibility and accuracy compared to human cognition. That is perhaps the biggest flaw that tech giants identify and affects the decision-making process when introducing new AI tech to the public. That was […]

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Delving into eLearning and IP protection

Due to the pandemic, many interactions nowadays have become digital. Online learning has also become increasingly popular due to the pandemic, making it a new norm. Educational institutions have adapted to online learning modality. Many universities and schools worldwide now host their course outlines and modules online and these institutions use LMS or learning management […]

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Artificial Intelligence may diagnose dementia in a day

Artificial intelligence has already been used to spot eye diseases, generate medical diagnoses, and discover early signs of any cancer. Now an artificial intelligence system is presently undergoing clinical testing by scientists for its potential to diagnose dementia after a single brain scan. It may also be able to provide information to conclude whether the […]

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Apple’s M1 Chip Has a Fascinating Flaw

A developer discovered a flaw in Apple’s New M1 CPU. This flaw creates a hidden medium by which two or more previously installed malicious apps can exchange information with each other. According to developer Hector Martin, the concealed communication is still possible even without the use of computer memory, sockets, files, or any other operating […]

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