Apple Inc has been denied a third trial by an East Texas court after the tech giant was hit with a $300 million verdict for violating Optis Wireless Technology LLC’s wireless-standard patent rights. Last year, Apple told the court that it was entitled to a new damages trial or a ruling erasing Optis’ damages completely. […]
On Friday, a federal jury in Texas awarded financial services company United Services Automobile Association (USAA) around $218 million from PNC Bank NA, ruling that PNC’s mobile-banking technology violated USAA’s patent rights. USAA filed a lawsuit against PNC in 2020, in which it said it developed its “Deposite@Home” technology to enable overseas military persons to […]
The pub’s landlord, Mark Graham, received a letter from Condé Nast demanding that he change The Star Inn at Vogue’s name or face legal action. The media company said they were "concerned that the name which you are using is going to cause problems because as far as the general public is concerned a connection […]
Nike Inc has told a Manhattan federal court that e-commerce site StockX has been offering counterfeits of its footwear. The claim adds to an already existing lawsuit against StockX which claims the site has been violating Nike’s trademarks by selling digital images of its footwear in the form of non-fungible tokens (NFTs). On Tuesday, Nike […]
Facebook owner Meta Platforms Inc is being sued by a non-profit blockchain developer that claims Meta’s new logo will cause consumer confusion with its own infinity-symbol logo. Swiss non-profit organisation Dfinity claims that being associated with Meta’s “sordid” history of poor user privacy could damage its efforts to attract users to its blockchain platform. Dfinity […]
According to mediakix.com, there are between 3.2 million and 27.8 million influencers on Instagram, YouTube, and/or TikTok who profit by posting their “opinions” on products. Influencer marketing is now a $13.8 billion global industry. One reason influencer marketing has become such a staple in marketing techniques is the accessibility of influencers to any company of […]
Sheeran had been accused of plagiarising the 2015 song “Oh Why” by Sami Chokri, who claimed the “Oh I” hook in Sheeran’s “Shape of You” was strikingly similar to an “Oh Why” refrain on his own track. Sheeran said he did not remember hearing “Oh Why” before the legal case. On Wednesday, Judge Antony Zacaroli […]
We recently reported on G 2/21, the EPO referral to the Enlarged Board of Appeal (EBA) on the question of whether post-published evidence can be used to support inventive steps (see the previous discussion here). Post-published evidence can be crucial to establishing patentability, especially in the fields of Pharmaceutical and Biotechnology. It has been established […]
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