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Copyright
The Professional Golfers’ Association has been granted a permanent injunction against a California-based man running a YouTube account that allegedly featured copyrighted golf tournament footage. 3 November 2017
Patents
The Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit affirmed three quarters of inter partes reviews (IPR) and covered business method (CBM) decisions made by the Patent Trial and Appeal Board up to October 15, 2017. 3 November 2017
Jurisdiction reports
The Brazilian Patent and Trademark Office has built up a tremendous patent backlog that is hampering the functioning of the patent system. Recent official data shows that a patent application would take 11 years before reaching a final decision. The prospect is bleak: IT inventions may take more than 14 years to get examined. In a rapidly changing field such as this, protracted examination renders most patents unusable. 3 November 2017
Jurisdiction reports
The high rates of obesity among children in Chile is a problem that the health authorities have tried to tackle through different measures during the last few years. One of the most relevant actions was the modification of the food labelling regulation. Andrés Grunewaldt and Luis Felipe Opazo of Silva report. 3 November 2017
Copyright
Sports broadcaster ESPN has been told it cannot be excused from a jury trial following accusations of copyright infringement over a documentary it made on the late college football player Chucky Mullins. 2 November 2017
Copyright
Leason Ellis has appointed two partners and one of counsel in its office in New York. 2 November 2017
Patents
Fish & Richardson has hired a former partner of Patterson + Sheridan as principal in its litigation group in the firm’s Houston office. 2 November 2017
Trademarks
Less than a week after settling its trade dress and design patent infringement case with rival Lululemon, clothing company Under Armour has asked a US court to declare it has not infringed two trademarks. 2 November 2017
Patents
The US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit has backed a lower court in finding that patents owned by technology company Two-Way Media are invalid under the Alice v CLS Bank test. 2 November 2017
Jurisdiction reports
One of the requirements for a trademark to be registered in Malaysia is that the mark or device has to be used ‘in the course of trade’. A clarification of this definition was raised in the case of Mesuma Sports v Majlis Sukan Negara (2015). Kelvin Ganesan of Henry Goh reports. 1 November 2017
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