Tag Archives: patent

IPSC: Remedies and Creativity

Posted on August 12, 2021 by rtushnet

Panel 24 – Remedies: Thomas F. Cotter, Nominal Damages—and Nominal Damages Workarounds—in Intellectual Property Law TransUnion v. Ramirez—FCRA case where D allegedly failed to use reasonable care and people were falsely identified as potential terrorists; sought statutory damages, but most … Continue reading →

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IPSC Panel 9 – Crosscutting IP

Posted on August 5, 2021 by rtushnet

Derek E. Bambauer, Everything You Want: The Paradox of Tailored IP Regimes Customized IP has benefits (avoids lowest common denominator [or highest] problem), but also costs: manipulation to shift from one regime to another; colleciton of information by decisionmakers. Standard … Continue reading →

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WIPIP SESSION 8.A. — IP Theory (partial)

Posted on February 22, 2021 by rtushnet

Ester van Zimmeren, University of Antwerp Exploring Trust Building Mechanisms for Specialized Intellectual Property Courts CJEU patent court hasn’t entered into force, but there are local and regional bodies. Question: will users trust a new court? Trust in the court … Continue reading →

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WIPIP SESSION 6.A. Competition and Antitrust

Posted on February 19, 2021 by rtushnet

BJ Ard, University of Wisconsin Law School Competition With and Without IP in the Video Game Industry Negative space; a number of lessons. Character protection is meaningful: Pac-Man/combination of elements. Patents can cover some elements/game rules, but most gameplay won’t … Continue reading →

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WIPIP: PLENARY SESSION 3 — Why American WIP’ers Should Care About International Law

Posted on February 18, 2021 by rtushnet

Jerome H. Reichman, Duke Law School, Duke University Until 1994, there weren’t many options when a nation didn’t comply with IP treaties: complaints and retaliation against that country’s nationals. Then came TRIPS. Arbitration, including damages, became available; winner can also … Continue reading →

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IP writing competition for law students

Posted on February 17, 2021 by rtushnet
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intentional misleadingness obviates need for deception evidence

Posted on December 11, 2020 by rtushnet

Aoki v. Gilbert, 2020 WL 6741693, No. 11-cv-02797-TLN-CKD (E.D. Cal. Nov. 17, 2020) The court explains: “Put most succinctly, at trial Plaintiffs contended Defendants infringed Dr. Aoki’s patents for his pulsed insulin diabetes treatment method; infringed Dr. Aoki’s copyrighted slides; … Continue reading →

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failure to disclose influencer payment/review connections is misleading

Posted on December 7, 2020 by rtushnet

EIS, Inc. v. Wow Tech Int’l GMBH, 2020 WL 7027528, No. 19-1227-LPS (D. Del. Nov. 30, 2020) The parties make vibrators. EIS sued defendants for violations of the Lanham Act, Delaware common law on unfair competition, the Delaware Deceptive Trade … Continue reading →

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it’s difficult to show injury from false patent marking

Posted on September 30, 2020 by rtushnet

John Bean Technologies Corporation v. Morris & Associates, Inc., 2020 WL 5666898, — Fed.Appx. —-, 2020-1035, 2020-1081 (Fed. Cir. Sept. 24, 2020) District court ruling that false patent marking doesn’t presumptively cause injury even in a two-player market discussed here. … Continue reading →

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patent publication privilege mostly protects licensee against licensor’s false advertising claims

Posted on August 17, 2020 by rtushnet

 AU New Haven, LLC v. YKK Corp., No. 15-cv-3411-GHW, 2020 WL 4366394 (S.D.N.Y. Jul. 30, 2020) Summarizing only a few key issues: YKK entered into an exclusive licensing agreement (the ELA) with the owners of a recently issued patent. The … Continue reading →

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