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BLG Monthly Update

  • Borden Ladner Gervais LLP
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  • Argentina, Australia, Canada, United Kingdom, USA
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  • December 19 2012

The BLG Monthly Update is a digest of recent developments in the law which Neil Guthrie, our National Director of Research, thinks you will find

K 12 education alerts: June 2011 - June 2012

  • Franczek Radelet PC
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  • USA
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  • August 1 2012

On Monday, June 13, 2011, Governor Quinn signed into law Senate Bill 7, the sweeping education reform bill that is the product of months of negotiations between a broad group of stakeholders that included representatives from both management and labor

Upcoming cases in the United States Supreme Court’s 2010 term: Volume II

  • Larkin Hoffman
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  • USA
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  • February 15 2011

The Supreme Court's 2010-2011 term began in October, and it is expected to conclude by the end of April

The Invention Secrecy Act, 35 USC 183, does not provide a cause of action for the government's use of an invention subject to a secrecy order after the issuance of a patent on that invention

  • Winston & Strawn LLP
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  • USA
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  • April 27 2010

The inventor filed a patent application in April 1986

Postage stamp of photo depicting Korean War Memorial is not a fair use

  • Winston & Strawn LLP
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  • USA
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  • March 10 2010

Frank Gaylord sued the US government as the result of the Postal Service's decision to issue a 37-cent stamp depicting a portion of the Korean War Memorial ("Memorial"

Does another recent decision from outside Canada have implications for the rights of universities in inventions made by their academic staff?

  • Norton Rose Canada LLP
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  • Canada, USA
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  • October 26 2009

Hot on the heels of an Australian decision in September, an October 1 decision of the US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit (Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University v. Roche Molecular Systems, Inc.) gives further reason for universities to be vigilant in ensuring that the rights they hope to hold in inventions made by their academic staff are properly assigned

Lab notebook entries save the day for University of Pittsburgh in an inventorship contest

  • McDermott Will & Emery
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  • USA
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  • August 31 2009

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit upheld a district court’s finding that based on notebook entries evidencing early appreciation of the claimed inventions by two of the named inventors that five other researchers were improperly named as inventors on a patent

Judge Sotomayor’s record on copyright and First Amendment issues

  • Jenner & Block
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  • USA
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  • June 11 2009

Judge Sonia Sotomayor’s recent nomination to the United States Supreme Court has attracted substantial attention in the business community

Government employee inducement to use his copyright does not waive government's sovereign immunity

  • McDermott Will & Emery
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  • USA
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  • August 31 2008

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit affirmed the Court of Federal Claims (CFC) dismissal, on sovereign immunity grounds, of copyright infringement claim and violations of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act of 1998 (DMCA

"Running on empty"? - Jackson Browne files suit against John McCain

  • Duane Morris LLP
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  • USA
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  • August 21 2008

Singer and songwriter Jackson Browne is not amused that his song "Running On Empty" has been used in a television commercial for John McCain and against Barack Obama