Articles in Channel: Intellectual Property Law

Mobile Content Providers Settle Unauthorized Billing Class Action

September 02, 2010 17:00

While the FCC has taken an interest in mobile marketing by carriers -- most notably with investigations of carrier early termination fees and proceedings examining wireless consumer "bill shock" -- it also is helpful to remember that the mobile content providers are subject to...

Finally We Get to Read the Mobility Assets Sale Agreement with Darl McBride

September 02, 2010 16:46

Darl's purchase of the mobility assets was all done pretty much in the dark. We, the public were told one thing in advance, but something else after the fact. But now we get to see the final agreement. Darl and Me Inc Holdings LLC, Darl's LLC, got not only the copyrights but a patent...

Grandma Robbed by Nazis - Grandson Sues Spain to Recover Stolen Paintings

September 02, 2010 12:24

In August, 2009, the Ninth Circuit decided en banc by 9-2 that a California resident Claude Cassirer can sue Spain to recover his grandmother's oil painting "Rue Saint-Honore, apres-midi, effet de pluie," painted by the French impressionist Camille Pissarro and taken by the Nazi...

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Adam Mizera
September 02, 2010 10:39

Le USPTO a publié une nouvelle proposition de lignes directrices pour les examinateurs pour évaluer le critère d’inventivité suite à l’application de la jurisprudence après l’affaire KSR, une décision de la Cour suprême qui avait récemment redéfini les critères pour évaluer l’...

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Adam Mizera
September 02, 2010 10:20

Rapport d’un sondage effectué par Fasken Martineau, tel que rapporté par IPFontline Donnée intéressante: seulement 56% des répondants se disent propriétaires de PI sous forme de droit d’auteur – alors que la réponse devrait être proche de 100%Rapport d’un sondage effectué par...

Legal Issues on IT Outsourcing of Financial Institutions

September 02, 2010 09:13

 By Li Jinnan and Jiang Hualiang, King & Wood's Banking & Finance Practice With the recent development of the service outsourcing industry, an increasing number of financial institutions (including banks, securities companies, insurance companies and fund management companies) use...

Videx, Inc. Locks on to Medeco Security's Alleged Infringement

September 01, 2010 22:51

  Videx, Inc., a Corvalis-based manufacturer of electronic access control products, has sued lock manufacturer Medeco Security Locks, Inc., for infringement of Videx’s U.S. Patent No. D457,051, entitled “Key for Electronic Lock.”  However, Videx’s Complaint is...

Updated KSR Examination Guidelines

J. Douglas Miller
September 01, 2010 21:50

The USPTO has issued updated examination guidelines on the law of "obviousness". For details, see the press release here.The USPTO has issued updated examination guidelines on the law of "obviousness".  For details, see the press release here. 

New York's Electronic Equipment Recycling and Reuse Act

September 01, 2010 18:38

Little covered other than by environmental and waste industry trade journals, New York's legislature earlier this year passed the NYS Electronic Equipment Recycling and Reuse Act (the “Act”), which was signed into law by Governor Paterson. The Act amended various provisions of the NY...

Late-Filed Forms Update: Airband Seeks Review of FCC Denial

September 01, 2010 13:15

Last week, we posted an entry about the tough stance the FCC's Wireline Competition Bureau is taking on late-filed Universal Service Forms submitted by contributors.  One of the parties whose USF appeal was denied, Airband Communications, has filed an application for review of the...