This piece is cross-posted on Patent Progress. “Intellectual property,” as a term, is a problem.  It groups together areas of […]

Josh Landau · March 24, 2022

Today, the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) and European Union Intellectual Property Office (EUIPO) released a controversial “Study […]

Mathilde Adjutor · March 17, 2022

Update: On February 24, 2022, Justice Breyer wrote the opinion for the Court in Unicolors v. H&M in favor of the […]

Jonathan Band · January 28, 2022

Recent decisions in the Southern District of New York have rejected the Ninth Circuit’s “server rule,” which authorizes web content […]

Jonathan Band · August 11, 2021

This is a cross-post from Patent Progress by Joshua Landau. Joshua Landau is the Patent Counsel at the Computer & […]

Josh Landau · April 26, 2021

In policy discussions, rightsholders often claim that the fair use right, 17 U.S.C. § 107, undermines the incentive to create […]

Jonathan Band · April 13, 2021

The software industry issued a collective sigh of relief after this week’s Supreme Court decision in Google v. Oracle finding […]

Jonathan Band · April 7, 2021

Today the Supreme Court decided the long-running Google v. Oracle copyright case, which began more than a decade ago.  Supreme […]

Matt Schruers · April 5, 2021

Singapore’s Ministry of Law and Intellectual Property Office have released a draft of a Copyright Bill that will repeal and […]

Jonathan Band · February 10, 2021

The omnibus spending bill just passed by Congress contains two provisions relating to copyright law—one largely unobjectionable, the other highly […]

Jonathan Band · December 22, 2020