Welcome to IP News This Month, your monthly round-up of intellectual property developments, culled from news reports around the globe. Please send any comments toJeff—and tell your friends to subscribe here! Top 3 Stories The U.S. is on the cusp of creating a “small claims court” overseen by the Copyright Office with maximum damages of $30,000; critics […] Read more
Welcome to IP News This Month, your monthly round-up of intellectual property developments, culled from news reports around the globe. Please send any comments toJeff—and tell your friends to subscribe here! Top 3 Stories French publishers accuse Google of “blackmail” after search giant says it will remove news snippets to avoid new copyright royalties Pot patents going […] Read more
Welcome to IP News This Month, your monthly round-up of intellectual property developments, culled from news reports around the globe. Please send any comments to Jeff—and tell your friends to subscribe here! PS Into running? Join the CIPP gang—see them here—every Thursday at 4:30pm. Top 3 Stories A new meaning to “patent war”: the Pentagon announces an “intellectual property […] Read more
Top 3 Stories A copyright small claims court for the USA? As CASE Act moves forward, creative guilds cheer but public interest groups warn law is ripe for abuse ECJ rules in Metall auf Metall case that unauthorized use of a music sample—even a two second, unoriginal one—is infringement unless the sample is unrecognizable Disney’s new remake marks 25 years of […] Read more
Welcome to IP News This Month, your monthly round-up of intellectual property developments, culled from news reports around the globe. Please send any comments toJeff—and tell your friends to subscribe here! Top 3 Stories Who owns the law? SCOTUS to settle long-simmering fight between legal non-profits and states claiming copyright over codes, safety manuals and other regulations that have […] Read more
Happy New Year, readers! Here’s this year’s final installment of IP News This Month. Thanks as always for reading, and here’s wishing you a great 2019 from everyone at CIPP. We’ll be back in January. Please tell your friends to subscribe here! Top 3 Stories The year 2019 brings a book bonanza to the U.S. as works […] Read more
Welcome to IP News This Month. Here’s your 5-minute guide to all things intellectual property, culled from news reports from around the world. Tips or comments: jeffjohnroberts AT gmail.com. Know someone who likes IP News? Tell them to sign up here! Top 3 Stories Is there a badge for IP litigation? Girl Scouts of America file trademark suit against Boy Scouts after the latter […] Read more
Welcome to IP News This Month. Here’s your 5-minute guide to all things intellectual property, culled from news reports from around the world. Tips or comments: jeffjohnroberts AT gmail.com. Know someone who likes IP News? Tell them to sign up here! Top 3 Stories The IP Cold War is heating up: VP Pence used a major speech to blast China over ruthless technology theft, […] Read more
Welcome to IP News This Month. Here’s your 5-minute guide to all things intellectual property, culled from news reports from around the world. Tips or comments? Send them direct to jeffjohnroberts AT gmail.com. Tell your friends to subscribe here! – Jeff Top 3 Stories Europe strikes back: EU passes copyright directive to counter North American approach to the Internet. Supporters say it will mean […] Read more
Welcome to IP News This Month. Here’s your 5-minute guide to all things intellectual property, culled from news reports from around the world. Tips or comments: jeffjohnroberts AT gmail.com. Know someone who likes IP News? Tell them to sign up here! Top 3 Stories Who killed the promise doctrine? Prof Gold’s whodunnit exposes how Eli Lilly subverted Canadian patent law with phony legal doctrines […] Read more