Legal Updates: Intellectual Property

Legal Updates by JD Supra December 3, 2012 Intellectual Property   Follow popular law news & updates with JD Supra on LinkedIn Today Follow JD Supra »   Premium [Video] Baseball Analogy Catches Differences in Private Equity and Venture Capital Investment Theories Scott Joachim, chair of Fenwick's Private Equity Group, discusses the different vehicles through which limited partnerships (LPs) diversify their investments...more by Fenwick & West LLP Standards of Review: Implications for Patent Challengers Originally published in Life Sciences Law & Industry Report on 11/30/2012. The standard of review is frequently cited but often overlooked as being...more by Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP Around the Virtual World - December 03, 2012 In This Issue: A weekly wrap up of interesting news about virtual worlds, virtual goods and other social media. - Social Casino Games Market Now...more by Pillsbury Social Media, Entertainment & Technology Team Fight or Flight! Anheuser-Busch and William Grant & Sons are reacting to the inclusion of their brands in the hit movie "Flight" starring Denzel Washington, which was released...more by Heenan Blaikie LLP New USPTO Dallas-Fort Worth Regional Satellite Office Finds Home in Downtown Dallas Location The US Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) recently announced that downtown Dallas will serve as the site for its Dallas-Fort Worth regional satellite office....more by Bracewell & Giuliani LLP What reach has your method claim? German Federal Court of Justice rules on scope of a patent claim covering coding and decoding method under the MPEG-2 Standard As commonly known, the protection of a patented method does not stop at the application of that method, but encompasses the product directly obtained through...more by Reed Smith Two Federal Circuit Rulings Clarify the Standard for Preliminary Injunction Motions and the Use of Online References as Prior Art In two recent cases, the Federal Circuit discussed the standard to apply in deciding whether to grant a preliminary injunction for patent infringement and when...more by Patton Boggs LLP IP Update, Vol. 15, No. 11, November 2012 IN THIS ISSUE: Patents - ..Is It Time to Take a New Look at Appellate Review of PTO Claim Construction? ..Limits on the Use of the...more by McDermott Will & Emery Exemptions to the Digital Millennium Copyright Act The U.S. Copyright Office recently issued its exemptions to the Digital Millennium Copyright Act of 1998 ("DMCA"). The exemptions, effective as of Oct. 28,...more by Pillsbury Social Media, Entertainment & Technology Team Myriad Files Responsive Brief Opposing Certiorari On Halloween, Myriad Genetics filed its brief in opposition to plaintiffs' petition for certiorari in Association for Molecular Pathology v. Myriad Genetics,...more by McDonnell Boehnen Hulbert & Berghoff LLP Early Warning - These Particular Top Level Domains May Never Get Off the Ground This year the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers ("ICANN") received over 1900 applications for new generic Top Level Domains ("gTLDs"). (A Top...more by Lewis and Roca LLP IP/Entertainment Law Weekly Case Update for Motion Picture Studios and Television Networks - November 29, 2012 In This Issue: Belair v. MGA Entertainment, Inc. - ..Second Circuit affirms summary judgment in favor of defendant on copyright infringement claim,...more by Loeb & Loeb LLP The Secret World of Copyright What do Avril Lavigne cover songs, Dish Network's AutoHop feature, celebrity sex tapes, apartment hunting websites, and ad-serving browser skinning programs...more by Greenberg Glusker Fields Claman & Machtinger LLP Jovani Fashion, Ltd. v. Fiesta Fashions: Second Circuit Finds Dress Designer's Copyright Claim Weak at the Seams On October 15, 2012, the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit issued its opinion in Jovani Fashion, Ltd. v. Fiesta Fashions , Docket No....more by Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP Business Software Alliance Shops for Whistleblowers in Chicago BSA | Business Software Alliance uses radio ads in Chicago for confidential piracy tips in exchange for potential cash rewards. The Chicago market had the...more by Scott & Scott, LLP BSA Adds Oracle to its Member List Scott & Scott, LLP attorney, Christopher Barnett, says whether Oracle's recent membership in the BSA will have an impact on future BSA software audits remains...more by Scott & Scott, LLP Federal Circuit Holds the Reexamination Door Open in In Re Baxter When the Federal Circuit denied the Request for Panel Rehearing and Rehearing en banc in In re Baxter, the court let stand its two decisions that affirmed...more by Foley & Lardner LLP Advantages Of Inter Partes Review In Hatch-Waxman Cases Originally published in Law360, New York on November 15, 2012. Signed into law by President Obama on Sept. 16, 2011, the America Invents Act represents...more by Sterne Kessler USPTO Releases Performance and Accountability Report for FY 2012 The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office recently released its Performance and Accountability Report for Fiscal Year (FY) 2012. The report notes that the Office's...more by McDonnell Boehnen Hulbert & Berghoff LLP Federal Circuit Clarifies Expanded Standing to Bring Walker Process Antitrust Claims On November 20, 2012, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit issued a decision in Ritz Camera & Image, LLC v. SanDisk Corp., No. 2012-1183, 2012 WL...more by Perkins Coie See more Intellectual Property articles » You’ve received this email because you opted to receive email updates from Legal Updates powered by JD Supra. To stop receiving this email digest, click here. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom) About Me R & S Law Associates R &S LAW Associates is a Law Firm providing broad range of legal services and facilities to our clients of all types from individuals, entrepreneurs, boards, corporations to multinational corporations. We commit ourselves to stiff standards of excellence in our legal services and extend those standard in a spirit of absolute faith and integrity. 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