This week in Other Barks & Bites: the Ninth Circuit finds that a Hong Kong-based adult website was expressly aimed at the U.S. market, overturning a dismissal of copyright claims; Senator Tillis pledges to hold a series of patent eligibility hearings with the Senate IP Committee if the Republicans take a majority this November; the Third Circuit finds no agency relationship between patent challenging firm Askeladden and members of The Clearing House, which owns Askeladden; the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) extends the public comment period on the agency’s subject matter eligibility guidance; Novo Nordisk improves its sickle cell and rare blood disease treatment portfolio with a $1.1 billion purchase of Forma Therapeutics; the Delhi High Court orders India’s messaging service Telegram to disclose the IP addresses of Telegram users engaging in copyright infringement; and the Federal Circuit rules that INVT’s patent infringement claims fail because it didn’t provide evidence of base station operations that make up part of the environment of the claimed invention.
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- UKIPO Issues New Trademark Guidance on NFTs, the Metaverse and Virtual Goods
- Other Barks & Bites for Friday, May 26: USPTO Proposes Track Three Pilot Program for Micro Entity Patent Applicants; LeBron James Joins Taco Tuesday Trademark Battle; European Commission Releases List of Countries with Concerning IP Rights Protections
- Former Copyright Office GC Tells House IP Subcommittee His Counterpart Got It Wrong on AI Fair Use
- Clause 8: Tom Irving on Litigating the First Hatch-Waxman Case and Mentoring Thousands in the Patent Field
- IP Goes Pop! – Streamlining Copyright Disputes: The Copyright Claims Board
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- UKIPO Issues New Trademark Guidance on NFTs, the Metaverse and Virtual Goods
- Other Barks & Bites for Friday, May 26: USPTO Proposes Track Three Pilot Program for Micro Entity Patent Applicants; LeBron James Joins Taco Tuesday Trademark Battle; European Commission Releases List of Countries with Concerning IP Rights Protections
- Former Copyright Office GC Tells House IP Subcommittee His Counterpart Got It Wrong on AI Fair Use
- Clause 8: Tom Irving on Litigating the First Hatch-Waxman Case and Mentoring Thousands in the Patent Field
- IP Goes Pop! – Streamlining Copyright Disputes: The Copyright Claims Board