JURIST

APRIL 25, 2022

Russia’s Justice Ministry Friday designated popular activist Vladimir Kara-Murza as a “foreign agent,” which means he will have to file elaborate financial disclosures and add a disclaimer to all his public messages on social media or otherwise. ” The term carries Cold War-era connotations of espionage.

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JURIST

FEBRUARY 24, 2022

Titled the “Guidelines for Advertising of Virtual Digital Assets and Linked Services,” the guidelines prefer the term “Virtual Digital Assets” (VDAs) over crypto assets. Most importantly, the guidelines require a disclaimer to prominently accompany all advertisements for VDAs and VDA exchanges.

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The Fashion Law

JANUARY 16, 2022

Hermès has filed a lawsuit against the individual behind the collection of 100 MetaBirkins non-fungible tokens (“NFTs”) that include images depicting furry renderings of its famous Birkin bag. OpenSea “agreed with Hermès” and removed the NFTs, the company claims.

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Patently O

APRIL 10, 2022

Courts continue to struggle with their use of evidence for claim construction. 1, 2022), shows us subtle dividing lines between applicant statements (1) that create a disclaimer compared with those (2) that are merely helpful for interpretation. Similarly, a patentee may disclaim or disavow claim scope. Nintendo Co.,

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LawTechnologyToday

AUGUST 2, 2021

One prevalent scheme is to discover a person’s name, phone number, place of employment, then use this information to file a fake unemployment claim. Zoom meeting usage increased so quickly during the pandemic that the software outgrew its rudimentary security. Zoombombing. Sale of Data. Attorney-client privilege.

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MyCase

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

We’ll also review the benefits of using templates and provide tips for improving your legal billing system. Disclaimer: The templates in this post are for educational purposes only and are not guaranteed or implied to meet compliance or deliver specific results. The Thomson Reuters’ 2023 State of U.S.

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The Fashion Law

MAY 11, 2021

Your favorite social media influencer could be connecting you to illicit and potentially dangerous products. You read that correctly. In one sample video, which has racked up more than 35.4 million likes on TikTok, a dupe influencer boasts to her followers, “I got two things from Prada … just kidding! These are dupes.”.

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Patently O

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

These do not rise to the level of ‘disclaimer’ but we’re never entirely sure whether the specification-forward approach of Phillips v. The courts tend to strongly oppose importing limitations into the claims absent a disclaimer, but claim-language hook can often lead to interpretative narrowing. Patent Nos.

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Patently O

JANUARY 21, 2023

How should the USPTO facilitate an applicant’s submission of prior art that is not accessible in the Patents End-to-End Search system ( e.g., “on sale” or prior public use)? [link] Topics : The USPTO invites written responses to the following questions and requests. Commenters are welcome to respond to any or all of the questions.

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JANUARY 24, 2025

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Patently O

JUNE 1, 2021

Patent terms generally last for 20-years from filing. Since the prosecution process typically takes about three years, the result is roughly 17 years of effective patent term. Applications filed prior to that date were treated under the old rule that patent terms last for 17-years from the issue date. Hyatt , 566 U.S.

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The Fashion Law

JANUARY 20, 2022

Around the same time as Hermès first spoke out about the MetaBirkins, Darden Restaurants lodged an IP Takedown Request with NFT platform OpenSea to get NFTs linked to images of 880 physical outposts of its Olive Garden chain removed from the platform, with Darden arguing that the NFTs violate its trademarks and OpenSea’s anti-infringement terms.

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SCOTUSBlog

SEPTEMBER 29, 2023

Share The Supreme Court will kick off its 2023-24 term on the traditional first Monday in October. And although the court did not make an official announcement, its website indicates that it plans to continue to provide live audio of oral arguments this term, allowing anyone interested in a case to listen from home.

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Broadcast Law Blog

JANUARY 27, 2022

Here is an updated version of my prior posts, which may be particularly useful to potential advertisers and broadcasters who may be asked to carry their ads. In addition, the NFL receives hundreds of millions of dollars from licensing the use of the SUPER BOWL trademark and logo. The Super Bowl means big bucks.

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Patently O

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

The basic rule is that it is improper for a patent owner to extend the term of a first patent by simply obtaining a second patent that is an obvious extension. Evergreening via continuation used to be much more of a potential problem in days of yore when the 17-year patent term only began running at the the patent issue date.

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Patently O

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

by Dennis Crouch In August 2023, the Federal Circuit decided an important case questioning how obviousness-type double patenting (OTDP) is impacted when the terms of two family-member patents that would otherwise expire on the same day are separated by patent term adjustment (PTA) added to the term of one of the patents.

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Blackstone Career Institute

DECEMBER 26, 2024

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The Fashion Law

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

District Court for the Northern District of Texas sided in large part with Rolex, finding that by making unauthorized use of Rolex marks on goods covered by federal trademark registrations, BeckerTime and its owner are on the hook for trademark infringement and counterfeiting. . Considering the various likelihood of confusion factors (i.e.,

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Strictly Business

DECEMBER 21, 2023

Overview An LOI is a document that is typically used in an M&A transaction. LOIs are typically entered into after discussions regarding a potential business acquisition have reached a threshold stage where both the prospective buyer and seller wish to memorialize the high-level terms of the proposed transaction.

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Patently O

JANUARY 1, 2024

The key dispute is over the meaning of “barcode” and whether there was any prosecution disclaimer. The district court granted summary judgment of non-infringement to Nespresso, finding that its accused coffee capsules use a code identical to Jarisch’s bit codes. A recent Federal Circuit opinion, K-Fee v.

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Patently O

DECEMBER 14, 2023

Because of the standard 20-year patent term calculation, both would ordinarily expire on the same day. However, the because of patent term adjustment (and PTE), the earlier ‘740 patent actually expires years later. This will be an interesting appeal to watch. ” In re Cellect , No. 2022-1293, 2023 WL 5519761 , at *10 (Fed.

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SCOTUSBlog

DECEMBER 1, 2022

The dispute involves the Forest Service’s decision to permit general public use of a road near the Bitterroot National Forest in Montana. Larry Wilkins and his neighbor Gene Stanton (who live near the road) filed suit under the federal Quiet Title Act, arguing that general public use exceeds the terms of the easement that authorizes the road.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

Loss and damage, the term for the detrimental impacts of climate change that cannot be addressed through mitigation or adaptation, will be a central point of discussion at COP27. Credit: Flickr. For the first time in thirty years, delegates have agreed to formally add the topic to the agenda for the annual convening. In the U.S., In the U.S.,

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Patently O

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

In December 2021, the Federal Circuit sided with the accused-infringer Mylan on claim construction of the term “0.001%” — vacating the judgment of infringement. The case does not tell us the accused concentration, but Mylan admitted that it was within the standard rounding error, i.e., between 0.0005% and 0.0014.

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Patently O

APRIL 10, 2024

By Dennis Crouch In a recent unpublished decision, the Georgia Court of Appeals affirmed summary judgment in favor of CPA Global Support Services, LLC (“CPA”) (now part of Clarivate) against a claim of negligent misrepresentation brought by inventor James C. Robinson, M.D. and his patent holding company (Spectrum Spine). Robinson v.

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Patently O

MAY 20, 2024

The key issue is whether ODP can cut short the patent term extension provided by the Patent Term Adjustment (PTA) statute, 35 U.S.C. § Although the patents were related, the original examiner did not require the patentee to file a terminal disclaimer that would require the patents to all have the same term-ending date.

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Patently O

JUNE 21, 2024

The case concerns the interplay between the Patent Term Adjustment (PTA) statute, 35 U.S.C. § No terminal disclaimer was filed during examination. On appeal, the Federal Circuit affirmed the cancellation on ODP grounds – holding that the patentee had improperly extended its patent term via PTA. Vidal , No.

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The Process Street

APRIL 9, 2021

Ironic yes, but not unlikely. In 2019, Airbnb hosted 272 million bookings globally. And, in 2020, despite a global pandemic restricting travel, Airbnb suffered relatively minimal losses of only 22%. 2020 was also the year Airbnb decided to go IPO, despite the global pandemic, a significant drop in revenue, and global travel restrictions. in revenue.

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SCOTUSBlog

APRIL 26, 2022

Castro-Huerta , will be argued on Wednesday, the final argument of the 2021-22 term (and the final argument of Justice Stephen Breyer’s career). Castro-Huerta , will be argued on Wednesday, the final argument of the 2021-22 term (and the final argument of Justice Stephen Breyer’s career). The case, Oklahoma v.

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Patently O

APRIL 14, 2024

by Dennis Crouch The Federal Circuit’s August 2023 decision in In re Cellect, LLC has set-up a significant question regarding the interplay between the patent term adjustment (PTA) statute, 35 U.S.C. § Patentees often receive PTA due to USPTO delays that otherwise eat into the 20-year patent term. In Novartis AG v.

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The Process Street

NOVEMBER 30, 2020

Let’s take a closer look at some of these advantages: Qualitative research is useful for finding out more about complex situations. Qualitative data can be used to interpret how people interact with constructs like IQ or fear (both of which are hard to quantify). A closer look at qualitative research.

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Patently O

MAY 31, 2024

– DC 6/1/24] by Dennis Crouch As I have previously discussed on Patently-O, the USPTO recently issued a notice of proposed rulemaking that could significantly impact patent practice, particularly in the realm of terminal disclaimers filed to overcome non-statutory double patenting rejections. . 102 or 103). See 35 U.S.C. §

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SCOTUSBlog

APRIL 28, 2021

Guam used it as a municipal waste dump after taking over responsibility for it in 1950. He observed that “response action” is “a well known CERCLA term of art.” Guam is appealing a ruling by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit that the territory is time-barred from seeking contribution from the U.S.

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SCOTUSBlog

DECEMBER 10, 2020

Duguid , is whether the Telephone Consumer Protection Act’s ban on robocalling or robotexting cellphones using an “automatic telephone dialing system” includes using a device that can store and automatically dial telephone numbers without using a “random or sequential number generator.”.

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The Crime Report

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

On a hot summer evening in 2020, I had driven to the home of my long-term boyfriend, Dan, to return his phone. Just as protests spread across the country in response to the killing of George Floyd, I was arrested—a white, middle-class, suburban mom with no criminal record. A Phoenix Story. And when I knocked, it broke.

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MyCase

DECEMBER 12, 2024

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Blackstone Career Institute

OCTOBER 10, 2024

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