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Apple has been ordered to pay $308.5 million in damages to patent licensing company Personalized Media Communications (PMC), after a jury ruled that the tech giant infringed a digital rights management patent. 22 March 2021
Copyright
Sports rights owners are hailing new laws in France which could give them the upper hand in their fight against online pirates. 22 March 2021
Patents
Cisco has been denied a new trial after it suffered a record $1.9 billion patent case loss against Virginian start-up Centripetal Networks in October 2020. 19 March 2021
Copyright
YouTube will now check videos for potential copyright infringements at the uploading stage, in a move parent company Google says will help creators “avoid surprises or worries”. 19 March 2021
Copyright
A Texas jury has awarded $152 million to US software company ResMan, after one of its clients was found liable for misappropriation of trade secrets to develop a rival product. 19 March 2021
Copyright
The much-anticipated ruling in Bild-Kunst diverged from an Advocate General’s opinion, and could herald a sea change for copyright owners. Cristina Creţu and Flavia Ștefura of Maravela, Popescu & Asociații report. 19 March 2021
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IP analytics company PatSnap has secured $300 million in new funding led by SoftBank Vision Fund 2 and Tencent Investments. 18 March 2021
Copyright
Last week’s ruling by the Court of Justice for the European Union on web linking added yet more caselaw to the complex EU copyright rules around linking on the internet. 18 March 2021
Patents
Semiconductor company SK hynix has persuaded the US Patent Trial and Appeal Board to ignore the ‘NHK-Fintiv rule’ and review a memory module patent held by a competitor, Netlist. 18 March 2021
Trademarks
Digital payment platform Wirex has secured a win over its ‘Cryptoback’ bitcoin rewards scheme, after the UK Intellectual Property Enterprise Court ruled that a rival had infringed its trademark. 18 March 2021
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