The Bloomberg BNA Intellectual Property Blog is the home of the "Do You Copy?" podcast and offers links to selected articles by the BNA IP team, which is accessible to both subscribers and non-subscribers as well as commentary and analysis exclusive to this blog.
May 20, 2013
by Tony Dutra
Bloomberg BNA full story: Tony Dutra's story on Sen. Chuck Schumer's bill that would make permanent the current 8-year term for challenging business method patents at the PTO and expand it...
by Bloomberg BNA correspondent
Bloomberg BNA full story: Correspondent Paul Shukovsky attends the AIPLA's spring meeting in Seattle and reports on the status of a proposed patent small claims court, appearing in BNA's...
by Tamlin H. Bason
Bloomberg BNA full story: Tamlin H. Bason's writeup of the Ninth Circuit's decision affirming that "copyright troll" Righthaven lacks standing, appearing in BNA's Patent, Trademark &...
Bloomberg BNA full story: Tony Dutra's writeup of the six-opinion-with-no-precedential-value ruling by the Federal Circuit on the patent eligibility of computer method, system, and media...
Bloomberg BNA full story: Tony Dutra's writeup of the Supreme Court's unanimous decision that a farmer infringes Monsanto's seed patents by replanting seeds harvested from a first crop,...
April 30, 2013
by Guest Contributor
Bloomberg BNA full story: An outside author contribution (accessible to both subscribers and non-subscribers) to BNA's Patent, Trademark & Copyright Law Journal by Peter M. Brody and ...
April 26, 2013
Bloomberg BNA full story: Tamlin H. Bason's writeup of the Southern District of New York's decision - once again - denying Viacom's attempt to force YouTube to monitor copyright infringement...
Bloomberg BNA full story: Tamlin H. Bason's writeup of Southern Texas district court decision on trademark infringement by an ex-franchisee, appearing in BNA's Patent, Trademark &...
Bloomberg BNA full story: Tony Dutra's writeup of 2-1 Federal Circuit decision advising litigators that you'd better file a contingent cross-appeal if you lost on any ground at the lower...
by Bloomberg BNA Staff
Bloomberg BNA full story: A contribution by John T. Aquino, who writes for Bloomberg BNA's Life Sciences Law and Industry and Medical Research Law and Policy Report on a post- Myriad oral...
April 22, 2013
Bloomberg BNA full story: Tamlin H. Bason's review of a decision by the Middle District of Pennsylvania federal court related to fair use of libraries' materials, appearing in BNA's Patent,...
Bloomberg BNA full story: Tony Dutra's review of oral argument at the Supreme Court April 15 in the controversial Myriad case, appearing in BNA's Patent, Trademark & Copyright Law...
Bloomberg BNA full story: Tamlin H. Bason's writeup of the Eastern District of Louisiana's district court's trademark standing decision , appearing in BNA's Patent, Trademark & Copyright...
April 8, 2013
Tamlin H. Bason's writeup of the S.D.N.Y. district court's decision against ReDigi's music transfer business model, appearing in BNA's Patent, Trademark & Copyright Law Daily (accessible to...
Bloomberg BNA full story: BNA's correspondent in India, Madhur Singh, provided this writeup of the decision by India's top court rejecting Novartis's appeal seeking grant of a patent for...
Bloomberg BNA full story: Paul Barbagallo, who writes for BNA's Daily Report for Executives , contributed this piece on stakeholders' reactions to the Second Circuit's controversial Aereo ...
April 3, 2013
Bloomberg BNA full story: Tamlin H. Bason's writeup of a March 21 decision by the Southern New York District Court that distribution of excerpts by a news clipping service is not protected...
Bloomberg BNA full story: Tony Dutra's writeup of the March 25 oral argument at the Supreme Court on whether so-called pay-for-delay drug litigation settlements violate antitrust laws,...
Tamlin H. Bason's writeup of the Non-Disparagement of Native American Persons or People in Trademark Registration Act ( H.R. 1278 ), that would make the term "redskin" not eligible for federal...
March 18, 2013
Bloomberg BNA full story: Paul Barbagallo, who writes for BNA's Daily Report for Executives, contributed this article about the third bill introduced in the Senate intended to override the...
Bloomberg BNA full story: Tamlin H. Bason's writeup of the Sixth Circuit's reversal in a trademark case , as the court gave weight to ex-employees' testimony on its former company's...
Bloomberg BNA full story: Tony Dutra's writeup of the Solicitor General's amicus brief in the Myriad case on patenting isolated DNA, appearing in BNA's Patent, Trademark & Copyright...
Bloomberg BNA full story: Anandashankar Mazumdar and Tony Dutra combined on this writeup of Sen. Ron Wyden's effort to win the race among his colleagues in the Senate, being the first to...
March 7, 2013
Bloomberg BNA full story: Tony Dutra's writeup of the latest development in the battle between Apple and Samsung in the Northern California District Court, appearing in BNA's Patent,...
Bloomberg BNA full story: David McAuley, who writes for BNA's E-Commerce Law Report, contributed this piece on the Western District of Washington's ruling in favor of Amazon in a copyright...
Bloomberg BNA full story: Amy E. Bivins, who writes for BNA's E-Commerce Law Report, wrote this story on the England and Wales High Court of Justice's ruling in EMI v. British Sky...
Bloomberg BNA full story: Tony Dutra's writeup of a Federal Circuit decision , in the wake of its en banc Akamai ruling, requiring that a district court conduct an inducement analysis as an...
February 28, 2013
Bloomberg BNA full story: Tony Dutra's writeup of the Supreme Court's grant-vacate-remand order asking the Federal Circuit to revise its view on jurisdiction over patent attorney malpractice...
Bloomberg BNA full story: Tony Dutra's writeup of a cert petition filed hoping the high court will resolve discrepancies between two Federal Circuit opinions on the Hatch-Waxman safe harbor for...
Bloomberg BNA full story: Tamlin H. Bason's writeup of a White House memorandum to agencies that publicly-funded research - including papers published in peer-reviewed journals owning a...
February 25, 2013
Bloomberg BNA full story: Europe-based BNA correspondent Rick Mitchell provided this writeup of Google's deal with the French government to create an $81.3 million fund to help French newspaper...
February 24, 2013
Tony Dutra's writeup of oral argument at the Supreme Court in a case challenging exhaustion of patent rights under the first-sale doctrine when the patented item is self-replicating, like seeds,...
Bloomberg BNA full story: Tony Dutra's writeup of the reintroduction in Congress of the "Fair Access to Science and Technology Research Act," which would force free access to copyrighted...
February 15, 2013
Bloomberg BNA full story: Tony Dutra's writeup about the three new nominations for a seat on the Federal Circuit bench, appearing in BNA's Patent, Trademark & Copyright Law Daily...
Bloomberg BNA full story: Tony Dutra's writeup of arguments on whether the Federal Circuit has jurisdiction over appeals between the two parts of a bifurcated patent infringement trial,...
Bloomberg BNA full story: Tony Dutra's writeup of arguments for and against patent eligibility of software before the Federal Circuit, sitting en banc, appearing in BNA's Patent, Trademark...
February 7, 2013
Bloomberg BNA full story: Tony Dutra's writeup of a farewell party held for PTO Director David J. Kappos, who resigned Feb. 1, appearing in BNA's Patent, Trademark & Copyright Law Daily...
Bloomberg BNA full story: Tamlin H. Bason's writeup of the appointment of Karyn Temple Claggett to serve as director of policy and international affairs at the Copyright Office, appearing in...
Bloomberg BNA full story: Tony Dutra's writeup of a PTO request for comments and hearing announcement, based on international patent harmonization efforts of the so-called Tegernsee Group,...
January 31, 2013
by Anandashankar Mazumdar
Bloomberg BNA full story: Anandashankar Mazumdar's writeup of the District of Connecticut's Jan. 29 ruling that copyright law makes certain information exempt from public disclosure under a...
Bloomberg BNA full story: A guest contribution - published as a "BNA Insight" - from Ropes & Gray IP attorneys and appearing in BNA's Patent, Trademark & Copyright Law Daily (accessible...
Bloomberg BNA full story: Tamlin H. Bason's writeup of an Eastern District of Michigan ruling on trade dress for a pizza parlor, appearing in BNA's Patent, Trademark & Copyright Law Daily...
January 24, 2013
Bloomberg BNA full story: Anandashankar Mazumdar's writeup of the First Circuit's Jan. 7 ruling that a movie's recreation of an actual photograph was not a copyright infringement, appearing...
Bloomberg BNA full story: Amy E. Bivins, who writes for BNA's E-Commerce Law Report, contributed this story on a Jan. 16 decision by the Northern District of Illinois on likelihood of...
Bloomberg BNA full story: Tamlin H. Bason's writeup of the Federal Circuit's Jan. 17 ruling that a finding of mootness in a patent infringement case is not altered by an appeal contingency...
January 15, 2013
Bloomberg BNA full story: Tony Dutra's notes on the Senate and House legislators who will be responsible for intellectual property legislation in the 113th Congress, appearing in BNA's Patent,...
Bloomberg BNA full story: Anandashankar Mazumdar's writeup of a Southern District of New York decision on trademark rights on the name of jazz band leader Cab Calloway, appearing in BNA's...
Bloomberg BNA full story: Tony Dutra's review of a brief filed by the solicitor general recommending that the Supreme Court deny the cert petition in GlaxoSmithKline v. Classen...
January 4, 2013
Bloomberg BNA full story: Tony Dutra's writeup of Congress's approval of H.R. 6621 , a bill that mostly makes technical corrections to the 2011 patent reform bill, the America Invents...
Bloomberg BNA full story: A contribution from BNA's E-Commerce Law Report, this is Amy E. Bivins's writeup of the Ninth Circuit's ruling on streaming TV content to mobile devices in Fox v....
Bloomberg BNA full story: Tamlin H. Bason's writeup of the ping-pong passage in Congress of H.R. 6029 , a bill that would stiffen penalties for foreign, economic espionage...
December 27, 2012
Bloomberg BNA full story: Tamlin H. Bason's writeup of a Western Washington district court Dec. 13 decision that detailed pre-draft grades of National Football League prospects are...
Bloomberg BNA full story: Anandashankar Mazumdar's writeup about legislation introduced Dec. 13 in the House that would permit customs officials to share information about imported goods...
Bloomberg BNA full story: "Is there a constitutional limit to the statutory damages that can be imposed for downloading music online?" Anandashankar Mazumdar's writeup of the cert petition ...
Bloomberg BNA full story: Tony Dutra's writeup of the Supreme Court's Dec. 7 cert grant on the question of whether a "pay-for-delay" settlement--in which a patent-owning brand name drug...
Bloomberg BNA full story: Tony Dutra's writeup of President Obama's signing into law Dec. 18 of the Patent Law Treaties Implementation Act of 2012 , S. 3486, amending the Patent Act to...
Bloomberg BNA full story: Tony Dutra's writeup of a " technical amendment " to the America Invents Act, introduced in the House Nov. 30 that would go beyond the scope of the AIA to force...
Bloomberg BNA full story: Anandashankar Mazumdar's writeup of the Trademark Trial and Appeal Board's Nov. 16 decision that the designs for Procter & Gamble Co's Scope Outlast...
Bloomberg BNA full story: Are human genes patentable?" Tony Dutra's writeup of the Supreme Court's Nov. 30 cert grant regarding the patent eligibility of claims on isolated DNA in Association...
Bloomberg BNA full story: Tony Dutra's writeup of a Licensing Society meeting in Washington, D.C., at which Federal Circuit Chief Judge Randall R. Rader and his predecessor, Paul R....
Bloomberg BNA full story: Tamlin H. Bason's writeup of David J. Kappos's decision to step down as director of the Patent and Trademark Office in January, appearing in BNA's Patent, Trademark...
Bloomberg BNA full story: Anandashankar Mazumdar's writeup of a Nov. 19 decision by the Maryland district court that the use of an infringing Baltimore Ravens logo in the “throwback...
November 21, 2012
Bloomberg BNA full story: Tony Dutra's writeup of PTO Director Kappos's defense of software patents for...
November 20, 2012
Bloomberg BNA full story: Tamlin H. Bason's writeup of a ruling that the Betty Boop character is aesthetically functional, based on a portion of a Ninth Circuit decision that the Ninth Circuit had withdrawn for...
November 14, 2012
Bloomberg BNA full story: Tony Dutra's writeup of a webinar discussion about the scope of the Hatch-Waxman Act's safe harbor for...
November 13, 2012
Bloomberg BNA full story: Tony Dutra's writeup of amicus briefs supporting the ACLU in the Myriad case for...
Bloomberg BNA full story: A writeup on a notice of appeal in the HathiTrust case for...
November 8, 2012
Bloomberg BNA full story: Tony Dutra's writeup of the opposing brief in the Myriad case for...
Bloomberg BNA full story: A writeup on the settlement of a dispute over Google's use of Rosetta Stone's trademarks as keywords for advertising for...
Bloomberg BNA full story: Tony Dutra's writeup of a ruling in a case over patents on automated voting devices for...
Bloomberg BNA full story: Tamlin H. Bason's writeup of oral arguments before the Supreme Court in the Yums case for...
October 30, 2012
Bloomberg BNA full story: Anandashankar Mazumdar's writeup of a decision rejecting trademark infringement claims against a movie set in a famous, purportedly haunted house for...
Bloomberg BNA full story: Tony Dutra's writeup of a Federal Circuit decision that a patent application was properly rejected...
October 26, 2012
Bloomberg BNA full story: Anandashankar Mazumdar's writeup of the formation of a new group promising to pressure Congress to support stronger rights under the first sale doctrine for...
October 24, 2012
Bloomberg BNA full story: Tamlin H. Bason's writeup of a decision in a service mark infringement case applying the doctrine of progressive encroachment for...
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