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1 week ago | 
ipwatchdog.com | Gene Quinn |Raymond Van Dyke |Steve Brachmann |Eileen McDermott
“IP has been a collaborative effort, and the business is global. Global business is good for IP and good for business. Global IP is good for business and vice versa.” ~ Sonja LondonThis week on IPWatchdog Unleashed, we speak with Sonja London. Sonia has been general counsel at TactoTek and before that spent 14 years working for Nokia, where she oversaw Nokia’s consumer electronics licensing, global licensing program for connectivity and video codecs, and was responsible for standardization.
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ipwatchdog.com | Eileen McDermott |Gene Quinn |Steve Brachmann
“Mr. Messier has not alleged that he or his family make, offer for sale, or sell any products or services using a fleur-de-lis design.
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1 week ago | 
ipwatchdog.com | Gene Quinn |Steve Brachmann
“If you want to build a reputation as an authority and you want people to actually find and read your articles, you need to be publishing with IPWatchdog.com!”IPWatchdog.com has been publishing online continuously since 1999. As a result, we enjoy excellent search engine ranking and placement, with articles immediately becoming indexed by the major search engines, including Google.
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2 weeks ago | 
ipwatchdog.com | Eileen McDermott |Drew Berweger |Gene Quinn
“The Federal Circuit panel said SAP correctly argued that the lower court ‘expressed an overly demanding standard in criticizing SAP for failing to specifically identify individuals as trial witnesses,’ and yet the district court did not clearly abuse its discretion in finding the factor neutral.”The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit (CAFC) issued a precedential, per curiam order on Thursday denying a mandamus petition brought by SAP America Inc.
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2 weeks ago | 
ipwatchdog.com | Eileen McDermott |Gene Quinn |Steve Brachmann
“According to a press release by the Recording Industry Association of America today, the updated bill ‘takes a measured approach to protecting Americans from invasive deepfakes while reducing litigation and promoting American AI development.'”Today, Senators Marsha Blackburn (R-TN), Chris Coons (D-DE), Thom Tillis (R-NC) and Amy Klobuchar (D-MN) reintroduced the NO FAKES Act, which would create a federal IP right to an individual’s voice and likeness.
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2 weeks ago | 
ipwatchdog.com | Eileen McDermott |Gene Quinn |Steve Brachmann
“While the Lanham Act says that registration should generally follow when an opposition fails, as it did here, ‘the stated precondition is that the mark at issue be a ‘mark entitled to registration,’ said the CAFC.” The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit (CAFC) issued a precedential trademark decision Tuesday affirming the Trademark Trial and Appeal Board’s (TTAB) dismissal of an opposition to registration of the marks iVoters and iVoters.com, while also indicating the U.S. Patent...
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2 weeks ago | 
ipwatchdog.com | Gene Quinn |Eileen McDermott
“Ownership has to come with creativity.
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2 weeks ago | 
ipwatchdog.com | Eileen McDermott |Gene Quinn |Austin Padgett |Christopher Close
“According to the C4IP report, large majorities of both Democrats and Republicans think lawmakers should ‘continue protecting IP standards to promote future innovation and competition.’”The Council for Innovation Promotion (C4IP) released a report Monday urging the Trump Administration and Congress to take 18 key steps to strengthen the U.S. IP system. This is the second edition of C4IP’s report, titled, Reaffirm and Refine: A Government Agenda for Intellectual Property.
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2 weeks ago | 
ipwatchdog.com | Steve Brachmann |Gene Quinn |Eileen McDermott
“Judging these circumstances through the lens of public notice, Azurity’s unilateral and belated statement carries no weight.” – CAFCToday, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit (CAFC) issued a precedential decision in Azurity Pharmaceuticals, Inc. v. Alkem Laboratories Ltd. affirming the District of Delaware’s ruling that Alkem’s generic drinkable antibiotic product did not infringe patent claims owned by Azurity Pharmaceuticals.
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2 weeks ago | 
ipwatchdog.com | Gene Quinn |Steve Brachmann
“Today the Federal Circuit is saying that laches can occur even when the patent applicant follows all statutory and rule-based timelines. This is as wrong as it is absurd.”Last month, the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit held oral argument in Hyatt v. Stewart, which should be on everyone’s radar.
