Intellectual Property
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The Federal Circuit ruled Thursday that Microsoft Corp. can’t challenge the U.S. Patent Trial and Appeal Board’s decision in February to deny the technology giant’s petitions for review of several patents, saying the grounds for the denials are not appealable… Read this piece in its entirety at Law360.
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The First Circuit on Monday handed a victory to Ricky Martin, largely backing a lower court’s decision to let the Puerto Rican pop star out of a case accusing him of stealing a songwriter’s music after it was entered in a FIFA World Cup-themed contest… Read this piece in its entirety at Law360.
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A California federal judge ruled on Friday that musical performers and composers can go ahead with a class action claiming a pair of websites have been violating their intellectual property rights by streaming bootleg audio and video recordings of live rock shows… Read this piece in its entirety at Law360.
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Gilead Sciences Inc. urged the Federal Circuit on Thursday to nix a Merck & Co. subsidiary’s bid for the full court to review a panel decision that wiped out a $2.5 billion verdict in a patent dispute, calling the Merck unit’s “attacks” on the panel’s ruling “an exercise in selective omission”… Read this piece in…
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A coalition of entertainment goliaths including Disney, Amazon, Columbia and Universal teamed up in an anti-piracy suit filed Friday in California federal court, alleging a “brazen” internet-based streaming service called Nitro TV is stealing their copyrighted content… Read this piece in its entirety at Law360.
Mike LaSusa 