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By Jorge Espinosa | May 17, 2018
Americans who have traveled to Cuba, have seen a beautiful country with crumbling buildings, unreliable electrical power and hard-to-access internet.
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By Christopher J. Buccafusco | May 14, 2018
The tactics of “legacy” interests—parties who own copyright interests in already-created songs but who won't be making any new music—are limiting the creative space for today's pop musicians
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By Rose Walker | May 14, 2018
In hiring Dagg, Kirkland delivers another blow to its Magic Circle rivals. Earlier this year, it hired Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer private equity partner David Higgins.
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By Dianne Elderkin, Jonathan Underwood and Andrew Schwerin | May 11, 2018
How should a court determine whether a patent claim is invalid for obviousness? Recent Federal Circuit decisions reveal that judges answer that question principally in two different ways, and that the difference matters to the outcome of the inquiry.
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By Nathan D. Renov | May 11, 2018
On March 27, 2018, in Oracle America, Inc. v. Google LLC, the Federal Circuit overturned a jury verdict in favor of Google from the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California. In doing so, the court revived Oracle's claim that Google's use of Oracle's open-source Java language code did not constitute “fair use.”
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By Dr. Dariush Adl | May 7, 2018
A hotly disputed legal issue between the majority and dissent in the recent, highly publicized, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit “Blurred Lines” decision in Williams v. Gaye, No. 15-56880, concerned whether Marvin Gaye's 1976 hit song “Got to Give it Up” was entitled to “broad” or “thin” copyright protection.
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By Scott D. Locke and Laura-Michelle Horgan | May 4, 2018
Recently and to the likely dismay of many foreign broadcasters, in 'Spanski Enterprises v. Telewizja Polska' the D.C. Circuit took up an issue of first impression for the federal appellate courts: whether any extraterritorial limits of the copyright law would relieve the liability of foreign content disseminators that send their content into the United States.
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By Anthony S. Volpe and Harry Vartanian | May 1, 2018
The U.S. Supreme Court's June 2014 landmark decision Alice v. CLS Bank International altered the course and viability of software patents in the United States and continues to cause uncertainty over the eligibility of software for patent protection.
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By Q. Todd Dickinson and Fabio Marino | April 30, 2018
In the most anticipated patent case of the year, the Supreme Court recently upheld the CAFC in Oil States Energy Services v. Greenes's Energy Group, supporting Congress' power to institute inter partes reviews (IPRs) in the American Invents Act's (AIA) post-grant review process.
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By David P. Miranda | April 30, 2018
After years of litigation between two of the industry's largest technology companies, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit has rendered a decision in 'Oracle America v. Google'.
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