Patent Board Issues Decision on CRISPR Patents
June 16th, 2022
The Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) has issued a decision awarding inventive priority to the Broad Institute (Broad), MIT, and Harvard over the University of California (UC), University of Vienna, and Emmanuelle Charpentier on an invention cover…
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Categories: Patents
$2 Billion Awarded in Trade Secret Theft Case
June 13th, 2022
Appian Corp. was awarded more than $2 billion in damages after a Virginia jury found that its competitor, Pegasystems Inc., had stolen its trade secrets. As The Motley Fool reported, The Appian case centers around a government contractor working as a…
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Categories: Trade Secrets
The 5 Key Intellectual Property Developments and Trends in 2022
June 9th, 2022
Intellectual property is a critical part of the research and development strategies of companies across all industries. It is also instrumental in the invention and innovation stages of different products and services, as well as the economic develop…
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Categories: Patents
Patent Claims and Climate Change
June 6th, 2022
IAM reports that: Toyota continues to dominate US patent filings for green technologies, while other companies with strong portfolios include General Electric, Panasonic, Hyundai and LG, according to a recent patent analysis. According to Anaqua, the…
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Supreme Court Holds that Ignorance Can Excuse Inaccuracy in Copyright Registration
May 19th, 2022
The US Supreme Court has held that lack of either legal or factual knowledge can excuse inaccuracy in copyright registration. In Unicolors, Inc. v. H&M Hennes & Mauritz, L.P., Unicolors owned copyrights in fabric designs. It sued H&M for…
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Categories: Copyright
Does America’s Patent System Need to Be Saved?
May 10th, 2022
The New York Times recently ran an editorial with the headline “Save America’s Patent System.” But why does the Times think that the patent system needs to be “saved”? The editorial board initially focuses on the use (and arguably the abuse…
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Supreme Court Takes on Warhol Copyright Case
May 5th, 2022
The US Supreme Court has agreed to hear an appeal in one of the most important copyright cases in recent years. On March 25, the Court agreed to consider whether Andy Warhol’s “Prince Series” of prints, based on a 1981 photograph of the late mu…
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Categories: Copyright
Coordinating Patent Filings in the US, Japan, and Korea
April 26th, 2022
The US Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) has extended the Expanded Collaborative Search Pilot (CSP) program, originally running from November 2017 through October 2020, for an additional two years. As of March 29, the USPTO, the Japan Patent Office…
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Dua Lipa Sued for Alleged Copyright Infringement
April 20th, 2022
Musical artist Dua Lipa has been sued twice in one week for alleged copyright infringement related to her 2020 single Levitating. The song was a hit, reaching number two on Billboards’ Hot 100. It was also reportedly the longest-running top-10 song…
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Categories: Copyright
NFT Piracy and the Digital Millennium Copyright Act
April 15th, 2022
As we’ve explained in previous blogs, An NFT is a type of cryptocurrency asset wherein each item, or token, is unique. It is not easily exchangeable for another value or item. An NFT is also a digital certificate of ownership for any designated dig…
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Categories: Patents
