• Morgan Lewis Partner Thomas Hixson Selected for San Francisco Magistrate Position

    According to Monday’s statement, the court selected Hixson due to his ”broad knowledge of federal law and practice, together with his strong foundation in intellectual property and antitrust law.” Hixson was not immediately available for comment. His selection is contingent on completing an FBI …

     
  • Adobe Atty Fees Wrongly Denied In IP Row, Fed. Circ. Hears

    Law360 (February 5, 2018, 5:00 PM EST) — A California federal judge glossed over the “most important issue” in a patent suit brought by Blue Spike LLC by failing to properly address the merits of the claims when she declined to award Adobe System Inc. attorneys’ fees for the three-year... Continue reading

     
  • Fourth Circuit Decision in Cox v. BMG Provides Some Clarity on Contributory Infringement

    Cox Communications that provided some clarity to the complicated state of the law relating to Internet service provider liability. This result emerged from a decision that …. contributory infringement: willful blindness. In support, the Fourth Circuit cited a Supreme Court patent decision, Global-Tech v. SEB.

     
  • The US’s New Ranking on the International Tax Competitiveness Index

    The enacted law made changes to both the corporate and individual income tax codes and it is expected to improve the overall ranking of the United … is called “foreign-derived intangible income,” which operates similarly to a patent box, but only applies to export-related intellectual property income.

     
  • Canadian Patent Law 2017 Year In Review

    Canadian Patent Law 2017 Year In Review. parties to the Hague System. Own views. The contentious Promise Doctrine was rejected by the Supreme Court of Canada in AstraZeneca v Apotex, the largest monetary judgment for patent infringement in Canadian history was awarded in The Dow …

     
  • IP Group Of The Year: Quinn Emanuel

    Law360 (February 5, 2018, 4:13 PM EST) — Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan LLP’s intellectual property group litigated on behalf of the world’s biggest tech giants over the last year, including Alphabet Inc.’s self-driving car company Waymo in the pending Waymo v. Uber case, securing them a spot …

     
  • 7-Year Sentence for Ex-IP Lawyer Over $2M Money Laundering Scheme

    Prosecutors said Ho—an intellectual property specialist who practiced law most recently at the boutique firm IP Law Leaders in Washington, D.C.—worked with co-conspirators who sent emails from compromised or phony addresses to solicit funds from victims. Between March 2013 and February 2017, …

     
  • Fourth Circuit Raises Bar for DMCA Safe Harbor Defense

    The ordinary legal definition of “infringer” and the way the term is used in the DMCA provided no support for an interpretation of the “repeat … SEB S.A., 563 U.S. 754 (2011)] rule developed in the patent law context, which held that contributory liability can be based on willful blindness... Continue reading

     
  • Intellectual Property Law Research Paper

    IP Law Class List of Possible Paper TopicsList of Possible Paper Topics International Intellectual Property Law 1. The draft WIPO Substantive Patent Law Treaty: Developments and IssuesIntellectual Property amp; Copyrights Research Paper Intellectual Property amp; Copyrights Research Paper …

     
  • 3Q7U-AXEL: Apple is trying to muddy design patent law in o…

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