A recent decision from a California federal district court should make patent prosecutors and their clients more alert when looking at recent prior art references: they may refer to patent applications filed by competitors...more
3/28/2025
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California ,
Intellectual Property Litigation ,
Inventions ,
Patent Applications ,
Patent Litigation ,
Prior Art ,
Semiconductors ,
Statute of Limitations ,
Summary Judgment ,
Trade Secrets
The Corporate Transparency Act (CTA) requires most small companies doing business in the United States to disclose information about their beneficial owners to the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN), by January 1,...more
On March 1, 2024, a federal district court ruled in National Small Business United v. Yellen that the Corporate Transparency Act (CTA), about which we wrote earlier, is unconstitutional. The U.S. Treasury Department has...more
The Patent Act allows anyone to try to initiate an inter partes review (IPR), which is a proceeding before the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) challenging one or more claims of a patent. Any such challenge may be based...more
4/21/2020
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Denial of Institution ,
Inter Partes Review (IPR) Proceeding ,
Patent Act ,
Patent Litigation ,
Patent Trial and Appeal Board ,
Patents ,
Precedential Opinion ,
Printed Publications ,
Prior Art ,
Section 325(d)
One key aspect of the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) is its aim of streamlining the regulatory process by providing “one-stop shopping”: the opportunity to deal with a single regulator with respect to all data...more
4/17/2019
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CNIL ,
Consent ,
Data Protection Authority ,
Enforcement Actions ,
EU ,
France ,
General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) ,
Google ,
Ireland ,
One-Stop Shop ,
Popular ,
Privacy Laws ,
Privacy Policy ,
Statutory Violations
A purchaser of an article of commerce expects to be able to freely sell it regardless of any intellectual property rights that it may embody.
The resale of digital files, however, runs into a special barrier that ReDigi...more
2/20/2019
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Copyright ,
Copyright Infringement ,
Digital Downloads ,
Digital Goods ,
Fair Use ,
First Sale Doctrine ,
Intellectual Property Protection ,
Music ,
Music Industry ,
ReDigi Inc ,
The Copyright Act