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District court continues to prohibit the "reflashing" or "unlocking" of cellular devices

  • Fenwick & West LLP
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  • USA
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  • December 19 2012

The U.S. District Court, Southern District of Florida recently ruled that the unauthorized "unlocking" or "reflashing" of cellular devices, a process that

Top appeals of 2012: the appeals monitor looks back

  • McCarthy Tétrault LLP
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  • Canada
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  • December 21 2012

As the year draws to a close, we thought it appropriate to look back at the most significant civil appeals of 2012, and to look forward to the appeals in

Can watching YouTube be the basis for arrest under the Copyright Act?

  • Nishimura & Asahi
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  • Japan
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  • December 17 2012

On June 20 2012 the Diet passed a bill to amend the Copyright Act containing a provision on penalising illegal downloading. Somewhat surprisingly, this

Court grants summary judgment based upon no likelihood of confusion

  • Holland & Knight LLP
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  • USA
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  • January 11 2013

Judge Nolan granted defendant E. Mishan & Sons (“EMS”) motion for summary judgment on plaintiff Hearthware’s copyright, Lanham Act and related state law

When is a work "original" under the Copyright Act?

  • Gómez-Acebo & Pombo Abogados
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  • Spain
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  • August 24 2011

The Copyright Act protects human creations only when these are “original” that is, when they meet the requirement of originality

Copyright law amendments shut down litigation options for proprietary drug owners

  • Watermark Patent & Trade Marks Attorneys
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  • Australia
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  • June 1 2011

Following approval of the Therapeutic Goods Legislation Amendment (Copyright) Bill 2011 by the Senate, Australian consumers and health professionals will have more ready access to generic drugs, but proprietary drug companies will have fewer options in the twilight years of patent protection for shutting down access to Australian markets by generic medicines

Implied licenses in software licensing

  • Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP
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  • USA
  • -
  • May 31 2010

In Numbers Licensing LLC v. bVisual USA Inc. 91 U.S.P.Q.2d 1946 (E.D. Wash. July 15, 2009), the United States District Court for the Western District of Washington addressed the implied license defense in the software licensing context

U.S. Supreme Court applies “first sale” copyright doctrine to allow import and sale of gray goods

  • Carlton Fields PA
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  • USA
  • -
  • March 26 2013

On March 19, the United States Supreme Court in Kirtsaeng v. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2013 WL 1104736, held that the "first sale" doctrine, as

The Supreme Court holds that the first-sale doctrine applies to copyrighted work lawfully manufactured abroad and subsequently sold in the United States

  • Alston & Bird LLP
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  • USA
  • -
  • April 9 2013

On March 19, 2013, in a case closely followed by buyers and sellers alike, the Supreme Court reversed the Second Circuit’s decision that the

Quirk v. Sony Pictures Entertainment, Inc.,

  • Loeb & Loeb LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • April 11 2013

District court grants motions for summary judgment dismissing copyright and implied contract claims alleging that defendants copied plaintiff’s novel