This week in Other Barks & Bites: the U.S. Department of Justice announces a two year prison sentence for trade secret theft; a new Lex Machina report shows that the District of Delaware receives the most patent suits among any U.S. district court during 2019; the U.S. Supreme Court declines to hear Apple’s appeal of $440 million patent ruling for VirnetX; a divided Federal Circuit declines a petition for en banc rehearing in a patent case involving the definiteness requirement under Section 112; Microsoft revises its quarterly guidance due to supply chain issues related to the coronavirus; the European Union’s highest court finds that the trademark “Fack Ju Göhte” is not morally unacceptable to German speakers; and an inventors’ class action lawsuit against the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office’s Sensitive Application Warning System (SAWS) proceeds past a motion to dismiss.
Copyright
- Computer Law
- Fair Use
- First Sale Doctrine
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- Why the Supreme Court Should Weigh in on CMI Violations Under the DMCA
- New SEP Regulatory Framework and AI Copyright Legislation Advance in the European Union
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- Newman Dissents from CAFC View that SAS Failed to Show Copyrightability of Nonliteral Elements of Software Programs
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