Recently, the US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit (CAFC) has sided with Meta Platforms, Inc., formerly Facebook, Inc., and its subsidiary WhatsApp, LLC over Uniloc 2017, LLC in cross-appeals from two IPRs (inter partes reviews). The issue revolved…
Introduction According to the current trend, any new product which is being launched in the market has some sort of distinct packaging as it is considered imperative for the purposes of distinguishing their products from others and it also helps…
Introduction Recently, a new trend of merging blockchain technology with the creative intellectual property via non-fungible tokens ("NFTs") had taken place. The idea has spread across all market sectors, and now luxury fashion retailers have joined the tokenization bandwagon. The…
INTRODUCTION Understanding the breadth of protection granted by a registration (which is crucial in selecting what should be registered), dealing with claim restrictions for derivative works, and the deposit required are all part of the Software Copyright Protection procedure. Although…
Introduction: The 2012 Amendment to the Copyright Act imposed onerous obligations on "providing or giving license" in respect of the above-mentioned works [in addition to the obligations imposed by the Copyright (Amendment) Act, 1994 (1994 Amendment)]. Section 33 of the…
Non-Fungible Tokens are primarily digital files of various physical and digital products and works that may be easily traded and saved as tokens. The major draw of NFTs is their individuality; each digital file has a special worth and status.…
Recently, Acacia Research Corporation (“Acadia”), announced that its subsidiary, Atlas Global Technologies LLC, has granted a license to Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., and Samsung Electronics America, Inc. (“Samsung”) related to Atlas Global’s Wi-Fi 6 standard essential patents and resolved patent…
Introduction An integrated circuit (IC) layout design is the three-dimensional arrangement of the components and interconnections that make up the IC. An integrated circuit (IC) is an electronic circuit in which the circuit's parts are integrated into some media and…
SPOTIFY Spotify is an on-demand music streaming service that allows users to browse a database of music licensed through different record labels, as well as create and share playlists with other Spotify users. It has 70 million songs on its…
INTRODUCTION ‘Enforcement of IP rights is crucial to the viability of online Information-based goods markets’ - (Bockstedt, Kauffman, & Riggins, 2005) As a result of technological improvements,…