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Business Development: When the Road Is Bending

Sheila Murphy

2020 and 2021 have not just been bends in your business development road — it has been more like the road has been placed on top of a roller coaster where you cannot see what the next curve holds.

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A Unique Solution to COVID-19-Related Delays At the U.S. International Trade Commission

Robert Angle & Brittanee Petrik

In the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, the ITC was forced to suspend in-person hearings and halt its fast-paced schedules while it explored existing technological resources and reliable and secure options available for video conferencing that would protect parties' confidential business information (CBI).

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Litigation Over Tom Clancy Works Involves Fundamental, But Complex Copyright Elements Image

Litigation Over Tom Clancy Works Involves Fundamental, But Complex Copyright Elements

Stan Soocher

Current copyright litigation in the U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland involving Clancy's widow Alexandra and his former wife Wanda King is complex, but involves fundamental issues of copyright ownership.

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Patent Litigation Growth In 2020 Points to Sustained Activity In 2021

Rob Maier

Despite the recession — or partly as a result of it — 2020 was also a year of growth for patent litigation in the United States. This article provides a look back at patent litigation filing statistics in recent years across district courts in the United States, with an eye toward current trends that in all likelihood will continue deep into 2021.

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'Stranger Things' Copyright Claim Survives Motion to Dismiss

Alan R. Friedman

In response to a copyright claim in the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California that the Netflix series Stranger Things infringed on Irish Rover Entertainment's unpublished screenplays, Netflix and the other defendants filed a Rule 12(b)(6) motion to dismiss, arguing that the works were not substantially similar as a matter of law.

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Licensing Audits from Licensees' Perspective

David Schnider

The audit clause is a necessary means for the licensor to protect its interests and to guard against unscrupulous licensees. But it is a mistake to think that the clause is there solely to prevent malfeasance.

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New COVID Relief Bill Brings Changes to Trademark and Copyright Practice

Eugene Y. Mar, Nate A. Garhart & Ashleigh Nickerson

The new, more than 5,000-page spending bill, which includes the latest COVID-19 relief, had a few surprises under its cover. Two of those surprises focus directly on intellectual property and amount to sea changes in the trademark and copyright infringement realms.

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Copyright and Internet Content

Jonathan Bick

Online publication impacts the duration of copyright protection among other purposes, including optimizing creative and ownership rights and the availability of statutory damages and attorney fees. Thus, it is important to determine when Internet distribution constitutes publication.

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New Small Claims Procedure for Copyright Disputes

Scott Graham

The CASE Act fulfills the longstanding goal of the U.S. Copyright Office to establish a small claims court. The measure tasked the office with establishing the Copyright Claims Board and adopting governing regulations.

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Shareholders' Suit Over Video Game Developer's IPO

Ellen Bardash

Two former shareholders allege in federal court that an auto-racing video game creator swindled them out of more than $200 million in stock.

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