This week in Other Barks & Bites: Senators Tillis, Whitehouse, Graham and Blumenthal reintroduce bill to prevent cybercrime amid record year for ransomware attacks; Senators Crapo and Wyden introduce the FABS Act to create a 25% tax credit in domestic semiconductor manufacturing investment; the Federal Circuit affirms a Section 101 invalidation of digital camera patent claims over Judge Pauline Newman’s dissent that the claims cover a mechanical and electronic device; the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) rules that it can institute post grant review (PGR) of patent claims that have been disclaimed by the owner; Lina Khan is sworn in as the new chair of the Federal Trade Commission (FTC); the Seventh Circuit nixes yet another appeal from Design Basics while deriding the architectural design firm as a “copyright troll”; the CJEU rules that the registration of Internet protocol addresses of Internet service provider (ISP) subscribers for submission to copyright owners seeking to enforce against infringers using BitTorrent can be permissible under EU law; and Senator Tillis issues questions for response to executives at Sonos and Amazon dealing with issues of efficient patent infringement and anticompetitive e-commerce activities.
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- Other Barks & Bites for Friday, February 3: Trump Sues for Copyright Infringement, Google Wins Transfer from TX to CA, and Nike Takes Lululemon to Court for Patent Infringement
- Revolution Rope Inventor Tells Justices She Deserves Her Day in Article III Court
- The USPTO Claims it Wants to Ensure ‘Robust and Reliable’ Patents – But Its Questions Imply Another Assault on Patent Owners
- USPTO Issues Final Rule to Eliminate CLE Certification Program
- This Week in Washington IP: IPWatchdog Event to Review the State of the PTAB; US Inventor Protests in D.C.; and the House Considers Supply Chain Challenges