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Big Money in Play: NCAA Permits School Assistance with NIL Activity | BakerHostetler

On April 17, the NCAA Division I council approved a proposal that allows schools to assist with name, image and likeness (NIL) activity.[1] The rule ...
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Common Ownership Exception Leads to Petition Denial | Jones Day

The PTAB recently denied Trend Micro, Inc.’s (Petitioner) inter partes review petition against Open Text, Inc. and Webroot, Inc. (Patent Owners) challenging all claims of ...
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Celebrating World IP Day 2024 | Smart & Biggar

For World IP Day 2024, we asked three of our practitioners three questions, all related to the World Intellectual Property Organization’s 2024 theme of IP ...
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Defendants Ordered to Coordinate Pretrial Litigation in MDL Are Not Necessarily ‘Significantly Related’ to Support Discretionary Denial of IPR | Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP

The Director of the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office vacated and remanded a decision from the Patent Trial and Appeal Board discretionarily denying institution of ...
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Getting Off on the Wrong Foot: How Marketing Strategies Can Backfire | Dickinson Wright

The European Court of Justice affirmed an earlier decision of the European Intellectual Property Office (EUIPO) in a case where Puma was attempting to gain ...
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World Intellectual Property Celebrated Around the Globe; China Tops List for AI Patents Granted; EPO Releases Cleantech Study on World IP Day

Bites (noun): more meaty news to sink your teeth into. Barks (noun): peripheral noise worth your attention. This week in Other Barks and Bites: Caltech ...
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Endo Ventures Unlimited Co. v. Nexus Pharms. Inc. – Ephedrine Sulfate | Robins Kaplan LLP

Case Name: Endo Ventures Unlimited Co. v. Nexus Pharms. Inc., Civ. No. 23-cv-299-BHL, 2024 WL 1254358 (E.D. Wis. Mar. 25, 2024) (Ludwig, J.)  Drug Product and ...
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Apple Watch Patent Wars Create a Defensive Roadmap for ITC Respondents

“Apple’s tactics provide a useful roadmap for litigants who face the specter of an exclusion order threatening to bar key products from the United States ...
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Federal Circuit Affirms Obviousness of Rifaximin Polymorph Patents and Denial of Motion to Modify Judgment After Post-Trial Patented Indication Carve Out | Mintz – Intellectual Property Viewpoints

In a precedential opinion issued on April 11, 2024 in Salix Pharmaceuticals, Ltd. v. Norwich Pharmaceuticals Inc., Nos. 22-2153, 23-1952, the U.S. Court of Appeals ...