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		<title>A Bittersweet Victory: The Ninth Circuit Reaffirms DMCA Protection</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Dec 2011 21:04:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In 2007, Universal Music Group (UMG) brought a lawsuit against Veoh Networks (Veoh), a video hosting website, alleging that Veoh facilitated copyright infringement by providing a website that hosted videos containing music owned by UMG. On December 20, 2011, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals upheld a summary judgment in favor of Veoh and held [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=maxeyiplaw.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3971001&amp;post=254&amp;subd=maxeyiplaw&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Excess Baggage: The Hangover’s New Woes</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Dec 2011 21:01:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The first lawsuit was brought by a tattoo artist for copyright infringement. A second lawsuit was brought by a stunt man for damages he suffered while shooting a scene. A third lawsuit was brought by a man who alleged the movie was based on a script chronicling his Asian excursion. Continuing this string of lawsuits, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=maxeyiplaw.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3971001&amp;post=250&amp;subd=maxeyiplaw&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Tootsie Roll Tells Footzyroll to Roll Over</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Dec 2011 22:32:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[While consumers are not likely to confuse a rollable ballet slipper with candy, Tootsie Roll Industries contends that Rollashoe is trying to profit from the goodwill it has worked to establish since 1908. The lawsuit, which was filed in Illinois federal court, alleges that Rollashoe&#8217;s Footzyrolls brand infringes on the Chicago-based Tootsie Roll brand and [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=maxeyiplaw.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3971001&amp;post=244&amp;subd=maxeyiplaw&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Intellectual Property Protection at the Border</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Dec 2011 22:29:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The United States Customs and Border Protection (CBP), a bureau of Homeland Security, is a powerful ally in the fight against trademark and copyright infringement. Because intellectual property is a &#8220;negative right,&#8221; allowing right holders to prohibit others from making or copying without permission what has been created, it is the right holders&#8217; responsibility to [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=maxeyiplaw.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3971001&amp;post=241&amp;subd=maxeyiplaw&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Cyber Monday Seizures</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Dec 2011 22:26:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Monday after Thanksgiving, on November 28, better known to us as &#8220;Cyber Monday,&#8221; federal authorities seized 150 domain names for commercial websites that allegedly sold and distributed counterfeit goods and copyrighted works in an operation dubbed &#8220;In Our Sites.&#8221; Before seizing a domain, law enforcement officers purchased a variety of counterfeit products including DVDs; [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=maxeyiplaw.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3971001&amp;post=240&amp;subd=maxeyiplaw&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The &#8220;Dutiful&#8221; China: A Proposal to Impose Duties on Merchandise from China</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Nov 2011 22:46:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>S. Yang</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Congressman Steve King (R-IA) introduced legislation last week, H.R. 3375, that aims to punish China for failing to protect the holders of United States intellectual property rights.  The legislation would accomplish this by directing the President to impose duties on merchandise from China in an amount equivalent to the estimated annual loss of revenue to [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=maxeyiplaw.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3971001&amp;post=227&amp;subd=maxeyiplaw&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Constitutionality of the ACTA</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 26 Oct 2011 18:47:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[On October 1, 2011, in Tokyo, representatives from eight governments, including: the United States; New Zealand; Canada; Singapore; South Korea; Australia; Japan; and Morocco, signed the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA).   Proponents began negotiations back in 2008 with the hope of establishing international standards on the enforcement of intellectual property rights, particularly in response to the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=maxeyiplaw.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3971001&amp;post=219&amp;subd=maxeyiplaw&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Congress’ New Target After Patent Law Reform: Legal Sites &amp; Copyrights</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 26 Oct 2011 15:24:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>S. Yang</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[With the recent and, perhaps hasty, overhaul of the patent law system in the United States through the America Invents Act signed into law by President Obama on September 16, 2011, it appears that Congress has now shifted its focus from patent legislation to copyright legislation.  The shift to copyrights comes in the form of [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=maxeyiplaw.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3971001&amp;post=209&amp;subd=maxeyiplaw&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>America Invents Act Enacted into Law</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Sep 2011 21:41:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>S. Yang</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[On September 16, 2011, President Barack Obama signed the Leahy-Smith America Invents Act into law. The U.S. Senate voted on September 8, 2011, to reform U.S. patent laws by approving the Leahy-Smith America Invents Act, with identical provisions to H.R. 1249, which was met with overwhelming approval by the House of Representatives on June 23, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=maxeyiplaw.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3971001&amp;post=200&amp;subd=maxeyiplaw&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Patent Milestones</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Sep 2011 20:53:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[On August 16, 2011, the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) issued patent number 8,000,000!  The patent was granted to Second Sight Medical Products, Inc., whose invention was for a visual prosthesis apparatus that is able to enhance visual perception for people having gone blind due to outer retinal degeneration.  The invention, the Argus® [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=maxeyiplaw.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3971001&amp;post=196&amp;subd=maxeyiplaw&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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