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Steamboat Willie Sails into the Public Domain

The Barrister

Public domain is a term used for materials that are not, or are no longer, protected by intellectual property laws, such as copyrights. [1] [link] Now that “Steamboat Willie” has entered the public domain, it is important to understand what this entails for the future of the cartoon, especially the specific version of Mickey Mouse.

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Patents over Patients: How Pharmaceutical Companies use the Patent System to Keep Drug Costs High

Richmond Journal of Law and Technology

17] An example of this is seen in a 2014 deal struck by Gilead Sciences, the leading marketer of antiretrovirals used to treat HIV/AIDS. [18] 27] Under this reasoning, the court found that Gilead’s 2014 patent deal with Teva did not violate antitrust laws. [28] 7] More than half of the top 12 selling drugs in the U.S.

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Launching Today, Tangibly is First Platform to Systematically Manage A Company’s Trade Secrets

LawSites

gross domestic product, according to a 2014 report by the Center for Responsible Enterprise and Trade and PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP. Losses to businesses from the theft of their trade secrets add up to as much as three percent of the U.S.

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2023 Quick Links: IP, Keyword Ads

Eric Goldman

The rarity of … evidence [of actual confusion] makes even a few incidents highly probative of the likelihood of confusion.” * In 2014, Defendants’ executive assistant sent a LinkedIn message seeking to arrange an introduction call to KeyBank, a client of Plaintiffs. Initial interest confusion is actionable in the Third Circuit.

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2023 Internet Law Year-in-Review

Eric Goldman

Previous year-in-review lists from 2022 , 2021 , 2020 , 2019 , 2018 , 2017 , 2016 , 2015 , 2014 , 2013 , 2012 , 2011 , 2010 , 2009 , 2008 , 2007 , and 2006. Forum 183 (2023) Zauderer and Compelled Editorial Transparency , 108 Iowa L.

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Launching Today, Tangibly is First Platform to Systematically Manage A Company’s Trade Secrets

LawSites

gross domestic product, according to a 2014 report by the Center for Responsible Enterprise and Trade and PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP. Losses to businesses from the theft of their trade secrets add up to as much as three percent of the U.S.

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The Law Library of Babel: Exploring the Infinite Dimensions of Law and Technology

Colin S. Levy

In a world where the boundaries between the virtual and the real were becoming increasingly blurred, Floridi argued, we needed to develop new ways of thinking about the nature of the self, the value of privacy, and the meaning of intellectual property. Oxford University Press, 2014. Oxford University Press, 2014.

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