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Advisory - while suing large radio station groups, patentholder seeks 'voluntary' license fee agreements with smaller station owners
Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP - USA -
October 7 2011
In recent months, the owners of radio stations throughout the country have received letters from representatives of Mission Abstract Data, L.L.C., d/b/a DigiMedia (“MAD”), encouraging them to enter into patent license fee agreements with the company.
March Madness isn't for everyone
- Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP
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- USA
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- March 11 2011
It's that time of year again.
Patent infringement issues affecting media companies
- Davis Wright Tremaine LLP
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- USA
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- September 6 2012
Like many U.S. newspapers and television stations, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution has a website that covers local entertainment and events, which it calls accessAtlanta.com.
More patent issues for media companies - mission abstract data patent asserted in law suits against 4 radio broadcasters, and a new patent claim raised against podcasters, including public broadcasters
- Wilkinson Barker Knauer LLP
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- USA
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- March 3 2013
In the digital world, it seems that everything is reinvented, and someone claims that they have a patent on that reinvention. In the last few weeks
Is it madness to say "March madness" on the air? - the trademark issue
- Davis Wright Tremaine LLP
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- USA
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- March 6 2011
Like "Super Bowl," "Olympics" and "NASCAR," "March Madness" is also a term that is protected by trademark law, and its unauthorized use in commercials could result in legal liability.
Effective uses of reissues and reexaminations in the United States
- Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP
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- USA
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- June 30 2009
The reissue and reexamination procedures of the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) are valuable tools for businesses that want to strengthen their patent portfolio or weaken that of their competitors.
Yes, we canresolve patent cases for less
- Banner & Witcoff Ltd
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- USA
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- May 13 2009
Is this your company?
The changing attitudes toward inter partes reexamination
- Fitzpatrick, Cella, Harper & Scinto
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- USA
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- June 8 2010
One of the more striking developments in patent law is the dramatic increase in the use of inter partes reexaminations to cancel the claims of a patent.
Update on patent trolls
- Porter Wright Morris & Arthur LLP
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- USA
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- May 15 2013
The America Invents Act (AIA), which became fully implemented March 16, 2013, revised U.S. patent law but included few reforms directed to curbing
The America Invents Act post-issuance Patent Office proceedings
- Mayer Brown LLP
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- USA
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- March 26 2013
The recently enacted Leahy-Smith America Invents Act (“AIA”) marks the most sweeping change to the United States’ patent laws since the Patent Act
Strategic considerations in the parallel universe of patent reexamination and patent litigation
- Farella Braun & Martel LLP
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- USA
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- March 17 2010
Parties to patent disputes increasingly find themselves facing the complex issues that arise when a patent at issue in litigation is in concurrent reexamination proceedings before the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
Legal FAQ: introduction to patent litigation
- Fenwick & West LLP
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- USA
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- April 17 2007
Who enforces a patent?
Important dates for broadcasters in 2012
- Davis Wright Tremaine LLP
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- USA
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- December 19 2011
With the television license renewal cycle beginning in 2012, the radio renewal cycle continuing, Lowest Unit Rate windows for the upcoming Presidential and Congressional primaries and elections, and all of the normal regulatory issues that face broadcasters each year, there are a host of regulatory deadlines that broadcasters must note for the coming year.
Patent Office questions basis for patent claim against music radio stations
- Davis Wright Tremaine LLP
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- USA
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- October 25 2011
Many radio broadcasters have recently received a notice from a company called Mission Abstract Data, asking to begin discussions about royalty payments for the use of digital music storage systems, which that company claims fall under a patent they control.
U.S. trademark registrations via Madrid Protocol: use it or lose it!
- Kelley Drye & Warren LLP
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- USA
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- April 8 2013
Foreign companies that own U.S. trademark registrations based on Madrid Protocol extension rights should take care to use the marks in commerce after
Intellectual Property & Technology Update Winter 2012
- Squire Sanders
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- European Union, United Kingdom, USA
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- March 8 2012
Welcome to the Winter 2012 issue of "Intellectual Property & Technology Update," a quarterly publication prepared by the members of Squire Sanders' intellectual property and technology law practice.
Three additional respondents set to exit motion-sensitive sound effects devices investigation
- McDermott Will & Emery
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- USA
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- June 22 2011
Respondents Mad Catz, Inc. ("Mad Catz") and VTech Holdings, Ltd. ("VTech") filed motions to stay pending deadlines because a settlement between Mad Catz and Ogma, LLC and between VTech and Ogma, LLC had been reached in Inv. No. 337-TA-773, Certain Motion-Sensitive Sound Effects Devices and Image Display Devices and Components and Products Containing Same.