by Ted Sabety | Jun 28, 2021 | Media, Copyrights & the Internet, Patent, Trademark & Copyright Litigation
June 22, 2021. In a long-running case regarding Sarah Brightman’s album A Winter Symphony, the producer of the album had sued YouTube in Germany for copyright infringement, alleging that the album had been distributed by YouTube without authorization and further, that...
by Ted Sabety | Jun 28, 2021 | International Patent Protection
June 21, 2021. In the case U.S. v. Arthrex et al., No. 19-1434, the U.S. Supreme Court splintered over the question of whether USPTO administrative law judges, when issuing a patent validity decision that by statute could not be reviewed by the Director of the...
by Ted Sabety | May 27, 2021 | International Patent Protection
May 5, 2021. The U.S. and Germany are party to the Trade Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights “TRIPS” agreement among major nations that is intended to align their intellectual property laws in connection with the World Trade Organization. India and...
by Ted Sabety | Apr 5, 2021 | Information Technology & Enterprise Software Procurement, Patent, Trademark & Copyright Litigation, Software Procurement & Licensing
April 5, 2021. Google LLC v. Oracle America, Inc. 593 U.S. __(2021). We wrote last year about the ongoing legal battle between Google and Oracle over Java computer language and its potential to create copyright over a computer language. The US Supreme Court handed...
by Ted Sabety | Jan 21, 2021 | Media, Copyrights & the Internet
January, 2021. The DOJ has concluded that the ancient anti-trust consent decrees that permit ACSCAP, BMI and other Performing Rights Organizations to issue blanket song copyright licenses should be left untouched – despite the document listing all of the current...
