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It also claims that Peloton is a "willful infringer" of copyrights.

Apple alleged that DGL was "a repeat infringer" of its intellectual property.

China claims the leading infringer spot, according to The Commission on the Theft of American Intellectual Property.

Under traditional patent law, holders of so-called "utility patents" — patents that relate to an item's functioning, like the GPS system within a smartphone — can recover from an infringer the profits lost due to the infringing activity or the amount the infringer would have paid had it licensed the technology.

"The [Copyright Alert System] structure was simply not set up to deal with the hardcore repeat infringer problem," Fabrizio says.

As soon as a record company sued one infringer, another popped up, like a nightmarish game of Whac-A-Mole.

Courts have also taken a hands-off approach to DMCA's safe harbor requirement that online services have repeat infringer policies.

Since it deems China "the world's principal IP infringer," the USTR believes China may be responsible for bulk of those losses.

If there were some indication that the infringer knew what they were doing was infringement and continued after having notice from us.

First, the ITC exists for exactly this kind of case, where a domestic manufacturer is being harmed by imports from a foreign infringer.

Value is also created when a university transfers know-how along with a patent and when an infringer copies from the patent owner.

Think of how depressing and disconcerting it is to be unable to seek vindication against an infringer irrespective of how egregious and widespread the violation.

The U.S. Supreme Court on Friday agreed to clarify whether a trademark owner must prove that an infringer acted willfully to recover the defendant's profits.

The Supreme Court reversed a lower court decision and ruled that infringement suits are to be filed in the state where the patent infringer is incorporated.

Then, the patent holder will frequently request or demand that the infringer cease and desist from the infringing activity, which often leads to licensing discussions or litigation.

Some (including the federal courts in California) concluded that a copyright claimant could sue an alleged infringer upon delivering a completed copyright application to the Copyright Office.

Many courts require the infringer only to pay the inventor the value of a license, instead of forcing them to pull products with another's technology off the shelves.

Both Halo and Stryker argued that the test allowed a willful infringer to escape punishment if it could muster any reasonable defense, even if it acted in bad faith.

Think about how frustrating it is for a small business person to struggle to pay a tuition or medical bill because an infringer refuses to pay a customary license fee.

Critics wants the court to be able to consider all relevant circumstances, arguing the current framework allows even the most malicious infringer to escape paying extra damages in some cases.

"In the context of this case, all it takes to be a 'repeat infringer' is to repeatedly upload or download copyrighted material for personal use," U.S. Circuit Judge Raymond Lohier wrote.

In Tuesday's ruling, a three-judge appellate panel rejected Pauley's narrow definition of "repeat infringer" as only covering users who upload infringing content, rather than ones who downloaded songs for personal entertainment.

It then looks for patterns that indicate a shared password, and it gives the service provider a probability score — a guess at how certain the system is that it's found an infringer.

In this flavor of copyright infringement lawsuit, the plaintiff must prove either that the new work shows "probative similarity" to the original, and also that the infringer had access to the infringed work.

The system "was simply not set up to deal with the hardcore repeat infringer problem" But the system didn't manage to substantially decrease piracy, so the parties involved are calling it off for good.

As currently constructed, CCB would have the last and final word for nearly all cases and neither the copyright holder nor the alleged infringer could appeal the board's decision in court, except in very limited circumstances.

" Qualcomm: "Two respected courts in two different jurisdictions just in the past two weeks have now confirmed the value of Qualcomm's patents and declared Apple an infringer, ordering a ban on iPhones in the important markets of Germany and China.

"Under their argument, any service that advertises having high speeds is courting pirates and therefore a contributory/vicarious infringer, and thus immediately liable if it doesn't accept rightsholder allegations of infringement at face value and terminate subscribers when asked," Rose said.

But, under the Court of Appeal's decision, holders of "design patents" — patents that relate to the external appearance of an item or in this case, specific design features — can recover all the profits the infringer made by virtue of having improperly used the patented design.

When, after a company is found to be infringing a valid patent on a technology developed by others, others step in on its behalf to argue that the infringer should be allowed to continue its behavior, that's a sign of a patent system that is eroding.

"Two respected courts in two different jurisdictions just in the past two weeks have now confirmed the value of Qualcomm's patents and declared Apple an infringer, ordering a ban on iPhones in the important markets of Germany and China," Don Rosenberg, Qualcomm's general counsel, said in a statement.

There are no exact statistics on trade secret theft ranked by nation, but China remains the world's principal IP infringer across all types of IP theft, according to a spokesman for the IP Commission, which estimates up $21 billion annually in cost to the U.S. economy from these actions.

" In a press release, Don Rosenberg, Qualcomm's general counsel and an executive vice president, said, "Two respected courts in two different jurisdictions just in the past two weeks have now confirmed the value of Qualcomm's patents and declared Apple an infringer, ordering a ban on iPhones in the important markets of Germany and China.

Some factors courts have considered in this analysis are whether a patent owner has asserted its rights against an alleged infringer in a royalty dispute, whether the owner has sued a customer of an alleged infringer, or whether an owner has made statements regarding its patents in trade magazines. If a patent owner does suggest that there is patent coverage of what an alleged infringer is doing or planning to do, the alleged infringer may bring suit. The alleged infringer, as the plaintiff in the suit, can choose the venue subject to constitutional restrictions and the state long-arm statute of the forum in question. The suit can be brought in any forum if the local federal district court can properly obtain personal jurisdiction over the alleged infringer.

Criminal penalties, in general, require that the offender knew that he or she was committing a crime, while civil copyright infringement is a strict liability offense, and offenders can be "innocent" (of intent to infringe), as well as an "ordinary" infringer or a "willful" infringer.

On the other hand, the alleged infringer could do nothing to rectify the situation if no declaratory judgment existed. The alleged infringer would be forced to continue to operate his business with the cloud of a lawsuit over his head. The declaratory-judgment procedure allows the alleged infringer to proactively bring suit to resolve the situation and eliminate the cloud of uncertainty looming overhead. Common claims for declaratory judgment in patent cases are non-infringement, patent invalidity, and unenforceability.

P10's claim that CCBill and CWIE failed to reasonably implement a repeat infringer policy was also not tenable.

When a patentee establishes literal > infringement, the accused infringer may undertake the burden of going > forward to establish the fact of noninfringement under the reverse doctrine > of equivalents. If the accused infringer makes a prima facie case, the > patentee, who retains the burden of persuasion on infringement, must rebut > that prima facie case.713 F.3d at 1123-24. See also Del Mar Avionics, Inc.

The issue before the Court was whether a fair use existed where the purported infringer published a public figure’s unpublished work on an important public event.

Intent or knowledge is not an element of infringement. Even an innocent infringer is liable for infringement. However, intent is significant in determining statutory damages and remedies.

In CCH Canadian Ltd. v. Law Society of Upper Canada,[2004] 1 SCR 339, 2004 SCC 13 at para 81. the Court held that three elements must be proven to establish secondary infringement: # a primary infringement # the secondary infringer should have known that he or she was dealing with a product of infringement, and # the secondary infringer sold, distributed or exposed for sale the infringing goodsEuro-Excellence (SCC) at para 19. However, due to s.

Canadian patent law also provides an accounting of profits made by the defendant infringer as a remedy.Teledyne Industries Inc. v. Lido Industrial Products Ltd., [1982] FCJ No 1024 (Federal Court).

Criminal copyright infringement requires that the infringer acted "for the purpose of commercial advantage or private financial gain." 17 U.S.C. § 506(a).United States v. Wise, 550 F.2d 1180, 1186 (9th Cir.

When the actual damages cannot be determined, statutory damages can be levied instead. At issue, is whether the trial judge can impose statutory damages when the actual profits of the infringer are known.

In MacLennan v. Produits Gilbert Inc.,MacLennan, par. 13 the court established a three-pronged test to determine whether there has been an inducement: #There must be an act of infringement by the direct infringer.

EMI alleged that because MP3tunes did not terminate users who had sideloaded infringing music from unauthorized websites, MP3tunes was not executing an adequate repeat infringer policy. The court disagreed, holding that because users could not know whether the source of their music files is infringing or not, the users who sideloaded music for personal use do not constitute repeat infringers. Furthermore, the court found MP3tunes' existing repeat infringer policy, under which MP3tunes terminated 153 users who illegally shared music, to be adequate for safe harbor requirements.

Thus, the Court was led to assume that sale of the blanks by an unlicensed manufacturer to an unlicensed finisher, who created the patented lenses by grounding and polishing the lenses, would be a contributory infringer.

Japanese patent law provides that patent infringement is a crime. A person who has infringed a patent right must be engaged in penal servitude for at most ten years, and/or must pay a fine of at most ten million yen (Article 196). In addition to the above penalty for an infringer, a firm that the infringer belongs to must pay a fine of at most 300 million yen (Article 201). According to statistics of the National Police Agency of Japan, however, only four people were arrested for the infringement of patent in 2003.

A defendant is liable for vicarious liability for the actions of a primary infringer if the defendant (1) has the right and ability to control the infringer's acts and (2) receives a direct financial benefit from the infringement.

The owner of mask work rights may pursue an alleged infringer ("chip pirate") by bringing an action for mask work infringement in federal district court. The remedies available correspond generally to those of copyright law and patent law.

318, 322. an assignee could bring suit against an infringer but a licensee could not.John F. Duffy, The Festo Decision and the Return of the Supreme Court to the Bar of Patents, 2002 Sup. Ct. Rev. 273, 288 n.

In U.S. patent law, a form of patent infringement liability that occurs when multiple actors are involved in carrying out the claimed infringement of a method patent and no single accused infringer has performed all of the steps of the method.

At the same time, if the patent owner is not a party to the case, the alleged infringer could be sued separately by the patent owner, and could end up having to pay two judgments for the same act of infringement.

It is directly placed on protection and executes all necessary actions to prevent content downloading by leeches and uploading by seeders. Pirate Pay operates with the technology of first uploader search in the swarm, finding the first infringer for offline legal activities.

Declaratory judgments are common in patent litigation, as well as in other areas of intellectual property litigation, because declaratory judgments allow an alleged infringer to "clear the air" about a product or service that may be a business's focal point. For example, in a typical patent-infringement claim, when a patent owner becomes aware of an infringer, the owner can simply wait until he pleases to bring an infringement suit.But see 35 U.S.C. 286 (imposing a six-year time limitation on damages). Meanwhile, the monetary damages continuously accrue – with no effort expended by the patent owner, apart from marking the patent number on products the patent owner sold or licensed.

In such a situation, a suspected infringer who has been unable to consult the text of the patent in the official language of the Member State in which he is domiciled, is presumed, until proven otherwise, not to have knowingly infringed the patent. To protect a suspected infringer who, in such a situation, has not acted in a deliberate manner, it is provided that the proprietor of the patent will not be able to obtain damages in respect of the period prior to the translation of the patent being notified to the infringer. The proposed Community Patent Regulation should also establish a court holding exclusive jurisdiction to invalidate issued patents; thus, a Community Patent's validity will be the same in all EU member states. This court will be attached to the present European Court of Justice and Court of First Instance through use of provisions in the Treaty of Nice. Discussion regarding the Community patent had made clear progress in 2003 when a political agreement was reached on 3 March 2003.

In United Kingdom patent law, a certificate of contested validity is an order usually made by the Patent Office, Patents Court (a division of the High Court) or Patents County Court after a patent infringement action in which the validity of the patent is unsuccessfully challenged. Section 65 of the UK Patents Act 1977 allows the Court to make such an order. If the patent is enforced again against another infringer, and the validity of the patent is unsuccessfully challenged again, the second infringer is penalised by way of an award of indemnity costs - i.e. legal costs above the usual scale and closer to the actual costs incurred by the patentee in defending the challenge.

Vicarious liability for trademark infringement requires "a finding that the defendant and the infringer have an apparent or actual partnership, have authority to bind one another in transactions with third parties or exercise joint ownership or control over the infringing product." Hard Rock Café Licensing Corp. v. Concession Servs., Inc.

Apotex, Inc.,531 F.3d 1372 (2008). the Federal Circuit stated that the accused infringer must establish the principle of operation of the patent, in order to show a different principle, and held that supplying an expert to opine on the principle is insufficient to defeat a summary judgment motion.Id. at 1378-79.

IO argued that Veoh should be held to a standard where they track users by their actual names or their IP Address. The Court did not agree and also noted that IO did not present any evidence that indicated that blocking users through the use of actual names or IP addresses would be any more reasonable than using the user's e-mail address. (The opinion mentions Wikipedia in FN8 as the source for information pertaining to the operation of IP addresses.) Nor was IO able to present any evidence that an actual repeat infringer had created a new account. Instead, the Court pointed out that the DMCA provisions only require that the service provider terminate the account of a repeat infringer when appropriate.

In that case, the patent covered a process in which an unpatented strip of fabric was coated with an unpatented rubber cement composition. The accused infringer supplied similarly coated strips, which were unpatented but specially adapted for use in the patented method. The patentee unsuccessfully sued for contributory infringement. This was held patent misuse.

The "safe harbour provisions" in Part V, Division 2AA of the Copyright Act limits remedies available against ISPs for copyright infringement on their networks. The Full Court rejected Justice Cowdroy's statement that iiNet internal policy was a "repeat infringer policy".Gilchrist, Sue (25 February 2011) "iiNet not liable for users’ copyright infringement ... this time". Freehills. Retrieved 20 October 2011.

Windsurfing v. AMFWindsurfing Intern. INC. v. AMF, INC 782 F.2d 995 (1986) held that a patent misuse defense must show that the patentee's behavior hurts competition. This case also clarified that if the Supreme Court had already held a particular licensing arrangement was misuse, the infringer did not have to establish that it was anticompetitive.

Since a patent right is also a kind of property right, an act of infringement of a patent right constitutes a tort, and a patentee who sustains damages as a result of an act of infringement may demand damages from the infringer in tort (Article 709 of the Civil Code). Unlike an ordinary tortious act however, in the case of the infringement of a patent right, it is often difficult to prove the amount of the loss, as well as intent or negligence on the part of the infringer. For that reason, the Patent Act contains a special provision for calculating the amount of loss (Article 102), a provision on the presumption of negligence (Article 103), and a provision permitting the determination of a reasonable amount of loss (Article 105-3).

200 This is done first by proving that the infringement falls within one of the three categories, which are liberally interpreted by the courts. The courts will not, however, give any consideration to what the infringer thought his work was for, or rely on a subjective test in any way; as in Hyde Park Residence v Yelland,[2000] EMLR 363 it is not seen as necessary "for the court to put itself in the shoes of the infringer of the copyright". Instead, a more objective test is used, to avoid providing "any encouragement to the notion that all that is required is for the user to have a sincere belief, however misguided, that he or she is criticising a work or reporting current affairs".Bently & Sherman (2009) p.

If convicted the court could assess against him whatever punishment or fine he is thought to deserve. If the punishment was a money fine, then the infringer had to go to prison until he had paid both the former debt, for which the information was laid, and whatever additional sum had been imposed on him as a fine by the court.

The Ninth Circuit disagreed with the district court in declining to consider evidence of notices and "red flags" raised by third parties other than P10. The Ninth Circuit found they are relevant and remanded to the district court the determination of whether CCBill and/or CWIE responded to notices appropriately and implemented its repeat infringer policy in an unreasonable manner in other cases.

In countries party to the Berne Convention for the Protection of Literary and Artistic Works, including the modern-day U.S., a copyright notice is not required to be displayed in order for copyright to be established; rather, the creation of the work automatically establishes copyright. The United States was one of the later accedents to Berne, implementing its adherence to the treaty with the Berne Convention Implementation Act of 1988, which became effective March 1, 1989, making the notice optional. However, the copyright notice remains material in one instance: a copyright infringer cannot claim innocent infringement as a partial defense to mitigate its damages where the infringer had access to a copy of the work that bore a copyright notice. (Evidentiary weight of notice) The majority of nations now belong to Berne, and thus do not require copyright notices to obtain copyright.

Patents can generally only be enforced through civil lawsuits (for example, for a U.S. patent, by an action for patent infringement in a United States federal court), although some countries (such as France and Austria) have criminal penalties for wanton infringement. Typically, the patent owner seeks monetary compensation for past infringement, and seeks an injunction that prohibits the defendant from engaging in future acts of infringement. To prove infringement, the patent owner must establish that the accused infringer practises all the requirements of at least one of the claims of the patent. (In many jurisdictions the scope of the patent may not be limited to what is literally stated in the claims, for example due to the doctrine of equivalents.) An accused infringer has the right to challenge the validity of the patent allegedly being infringed in a counterclaim.

IO did dispute that Veoh's application of its infringer policy was reasonable and asserted that it was a triable issue vitiating Veoh's motion for summary judgement. While the DMCA does not explicitly define what reasonably implemented means, the Court was able to look to the binding precedent set by the Ninth Circuit in Perfect 10, Inc. v. CCBill LLC, 488 F.3d 1102 (9th 2007).

The one-sided approach to copyright promoted by the Captain Copyright campaign has been ridiculed and parodied by fair use advocates. For example, The Continuing Adventures of Private Infringer was a short-lived fan fiction blog whose title character's every action was prevented by Captain Copyright. Google Blogoscoped also posted a parody depicting Creative Commons founder Lawrence Lessig as a villain who hates creativity.

However, framing does not directly reproduce or distribute any copy of the original Web page. Rather, the accused infringer simply establishes a pointer that the user's browser follows to the proprietor's server and Web page. For a pedagogically exaggerated example of the kind of framing that has incensed proprietors of copyrighted content, which "frames" a page titled Is Framing Copyright Infringement?, see Framing the 'Framing' Page.

Smuckers invested about $20 million to build a factory in Scottsville, Kentucky to produce the product. Its annual sales in 2005 were $US 60 million.The J. M. Smucker Company Announces Fourth Quarter and Full- Year Results, The J. M. Smucker Company, News Release, June 16, 2005, retrieved on www.corporate-ir.net on June 16, 2006 To enforce the patent, Smuckers filed a patent infringement lawsuit against alleged infringer, Albie's Foods.

The Nichols court held that appropriation was not improper when the alleged infringer copied only unprotectible elements of the original work. While it is appropriate to look at both protectible and unprotectible elements of a work to determine whether copying has occurred, only the protectible elements are relevant when it comes to determining improper appropriation. The Steinberg court made no attempt to separate the protectable and unprotectable elements of Steinberg's drawing.

Under the Lanham Act, an owner of a trademark is permitted to sue anyone who uses a mark that is identical or confusingly similar to the trademark owner's mark or who otherwise makes deceptive claims of origin.Cross, supra, at 103–04. The Lanham Act does not explicitly provide a cause of action for contributory infringement.Liability as Vicarious or Contributory Infringer under Lanham Act -- Modern Cases, 152 A.L.R. Fed.

The Court noted that an infringer could not defend plagiarism by pointing to how much else they could have plagiarized, but did not. # The effect of the use on the potential market for the value of the copyrighted work also weighed against a finding of fair use. The Nations infringement led to actual, particular harm, Time's cancellation of their publishing contract. Justice Brennan dissented, joined by Justices White and Marshall.

Copyright collecting societies that collect royalties as part of compulsory licensing in the European Union (EU) usually hold monopolies in their respective national markets. In Germany, case law has established the so-called ', a presumption that works are managed by the Gesellschaft für musikalische Aufführungs- und mechanische Vervielfältigungsrechte (GEMA) due to its monopoly position. As such, in Germany the burden of proof is on the accused infringer that the work is not managed by GEMA.

A patent can be found invalid on grounds described in the relevant patent laws, which vary between countries. Often, the grounds are a subset of requirements for patentability in the relevant country. Although an infringer is generally free to rely on any available ground of invalidity (such as a prior publication, for example), some countries have sanctions to prevent the same validity questions being relitigated. An example is the UK Certificate of contested validity.

Copyright collecting societies in the European Union usually hold monopolies in their respective national markets, and German law recognizes GEMA as an effective monopoly. (Copyright Administration Act), 9 September 1965 German case law has established the so-called ', a presumption that works are managed by GEMA due to its effective monopoly position. As such, in Germany the burden of proof is on the accused infringer that the work is not managed by GEMA.

In Static Control Components, Inc. v. Lexmark Int'l, Inc., the district court reconsidered its former decision in this case and granted a judgment as a matter of law (JMOL) in favor of the accused infringer. The court said that the Supreme Court's Quanta decision "has changed the landscape of the doctrine of patent exhaustion generally, and specifically" required a reversal of the judgment, so that SCCI was not liable to Lexmark for patent infringement.

Despite the fact that the Copyright Act of 1909 did not explicitly establish liability for acts committed by a party different than the direct infringer, several cases decided under this Act set forth the guidelines under which a party may be deemed secondarily liable. Examples of the gradual recognition by courts of copyright liability extending to those who contribute to or vicariously profit from the infringing acts of others are Fishel v.

The websites of daily or weekly magazines or journal such as The New York Times or Time Magazine are collective works and qualify for group registration with the Copyright Office. Electronic journals that are published one article at a time are not collective works. To defeat the "innocent infringer" rule, a collective work website must contain a copyright notice for the work as a whole. It does not need to have a copyright notice for the individual works.

Advertisements are not covered by this notice, and require a separate notice to be protected. If a website contains material from the United States government, which is in the public domain, the copyright notice should indicate to readers which parts of the content are public domain and which are not. If the notice does not do so it will be found invalid, and the innocent infringer defense may be used. Metropolitan Regional Information System, Inc. v.

Demonstrative evidence is an effective aid in infringement litigation. Whether prosecuting an infringer or defending a patent, originally filled patent drawings which are a part of most patent applications, can play an imperative part in any upcoming litigation. If the original patent drawings are not complete, accurate and exact, then the resulting output for litigation graphics is unreliable and could even hurt a case. There are many ways to convert patent drawings into effective litigation graphics.

To prove infringement of a product-by-process claim under Abbott, a patentee must show that a product meets both the product and the process elements of a product-by-process claim. To invalidate a product-by-process claim, however, an accused infringer need only show that the product elements, not the process elements, were present in the prior art. This can be compared to a "true product" claim, where all limitations must be proven to invalidate the claim.

In addition to the above basic claim types, there are also many special types of claim which are used in different circumstances. Sometimes a particular claim form is required by law if a patent is to be granted for a particular invention, such as for a second medical use of a known substance where the "Swiss-type" claim might be required. Another reason to use a particular claim might be to catch a particular class of infringer.

The court turned to the Quanta decision and found it inapplicable to the present issues. "'Quanta did not involve a patentee's sale at all, let alone one subject to a restriction or, more particularly, a single-use/no-resale restriction." Rather, Quanta involved a patentee's (LGE's) license to a manufacturer (Intel) that sold to the accused infringer (Quanta). LGE had not limited Intel's license to manufacture the patented product, although it imposed contractual obligations on Intel.

Columbia Artists Mgmt.: “one who, with knowledge of the infringing activity, induces, causes, or materially contributes … may be held liable as a contributory infringer.”Gershwin Publ’g Corp. v. Columbia Artists Mgmt., 443 F. 2d 1159 (2d Cir. 1971). Not long after the passage of the 1976 Copyright Act, the scope of contributory infringement liability was tested in a case in which the copyright owners claimed that the sale of a recording device – the VCR - illegally contributed to infringement.

Fair dealing in United Kingdom law is a doctrine which provides an exception to United Kingdom copyright law, in cases where the copyright infringement is for the purposes of non-commercial research or study, criticism or review, or for the reporting of current events. More limited than the United States doctrine of fair use, fair dealing originates in Sections 29 and 30 of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988, and requires the infringer to show not only that their copying falls into one of the three fair dealing categories, but also that it is "fair" and, in some cases, that it contains sufficient acknowledgement for the original author. Factors when deciding the "fairness" of the copying can include the quantity of the work taken, whether it was previously published, the motives of the infringer and what the consequences of the infringement on the original author's returns for the copyrighted work will be. Research and study does not apply to commercial research, and does not include infringements of broadcasts, sound recordings or film; it also has only a limited application to software.

Infringement of copyright and neighboring rights results in civil liabilities like restoration of the state existing before the infringement, prevention of further infringing actions, reimbursement of the losses (including the neglected profit), confiscation of the income obtained by the infringer or payment of just compensation (Art. 59). Counterfeit copies may be confiscated and destroyed (Art. 60). For interim measures see Art. 61. Deleting of the electronic information managing the right without the consent of the right's holder is deemed to be infringement (Art.

However, if the Supreme Court had not spoken on the licensing agreement, the infringer has to establish the agreement hurts competition. A few months later, however, the Federal Circuit retreated from Windsurfing in Senza-Gel Corp. v. Seiffhart.803 F.2d 661, 665 (Fed. Cir. 1986). In response to a certified question, the court recognized that "as the Supreme Court has said, the patentee's act may constitute patent misuse without rising to the level of an antitrust violation."803 F.2d at 668.

Consistent with the limited nature of trademark protection and the free speech guarantees of the First Amendment, U.S. law provides for a fair use defense to trademark infringement. Fair use in trademark law does not employ the same four-pronged analysis used in copyright law. The law recognizes two fair use defenses: classic fair use, where the alleged infringer is using the mark to describe accurately an aspect of its products;KP Permanent Make-Up, Inc. v. Lasting Impression I, Inc.

402 U.S. at 315-14. Blonder-Tongue appealed to the Seventh Circuit, which upheld the ruling that the Isbell patent was valid and infringed. Blonder-Tongue then appealed to the Supreme Court. Under prior law, a patentee was entitled to sue an alleged infringer, even though a different court had ruled the patent invalid: The second court was free to decide the second case on the basis of the evidence before it, irrespective of the first court's ruling, according to Triplett v. Lowell.

An accounting of profits is an equitable remedy entirely based on the idea that the defendant did not have the right to benefit from the property of the plaintiff patent holder. While considerations such as intent may have a role in damage awards, they do not in an accounting of profits. Profits are calculated using a direct cost accounting method. The infringer is liable for the net profits realized as a result of the infringement, having deducted the variable expenses associated with making the infringing product.

Since contributory copyright infringement is a secondary liability and distinguishable from direct infringement, Visa could be indicted as a contributory infringer if it had knowledge of the infringing activity of the stolen-content websites, and if it induced or materially contributed to the infringement. The court found the defendants not liable for contributory copyright infringement, because payment processing services do not constitute material contribution to the direct infringement. This is the finding of the majority, although there is much dissent as to what constitutes material contribution.

A technical measure can not stop a technically sophisticated person who wishes to infringe copyright. To use the "digital locks" analogy, there is no need to "pick the lock" as the keys necessary to decode the content are embedded within authorized access technology. Both the locked content and the technology containing the key are commercially available to an infringer. Once a single person decodes a technical measure, the decoded content can be made available to others in the same way as if the technical measure never existed.

In summary, these exclusive rights cover the reproduction, adaptation, publication, performance, and display of a copyrighted work (subject to limitations such as fair use). Anyone who violates the exclusive rights of copyright has committed copyright infringement, whether or not the work has been registered at the copyright office. If an infringement has occurred, the copyright owner has a legal right to sue the infringer for violating the terms of their copyright. The monetary value of the lawsuit can be whatever a jury decides is acceptable.

The inverse ratio rule test is an idea proposed in Nimmer on Copyright that has been accepted by a few of the Circuit Courts, notably within the Ninth Circuit which deals with many of the cases of the entertainment industry since it covers California. The inverse ratio rule holds that the more an alleged infringer had access to a work, the lower the threshold for establishing substantial similarity. The rule was enshrined by Ninth in Sid & Marty Krofft Television Productions Inc. v. McDonald's Corp.

In 2000, renewed efforts from the European Union resulted in a Community Patent Regulation proposal, sometimes abbreviated as CPR. It provides that the patent, once it has been granted by the European Patent Office (EPO) in one of its procedural languages (English, German or French) and published in that language, with a translation of the claims into the two other procedural languages, will be valid without any further translation. This proposal is aimed to achieve a considerable reduction in translation costs. Nevertheless, additional translations could become necessary in legal proceedings against a suspected infringer.

In order to show that in interlocutory injunction is justified, a plaintiff must show: # a serious question to be tried; # injury that cannot be adequately compensated in monetary damages if the injunction is not granted ("irreparable harm"); # a balance of convenience favours granting an interlocutory injunctionRJR- MacDonald Inc. v. Canada (Attorney General), [1994] 1 S.C.R. 311 In the case of patent law, an interlocutory injunction would seriously inhibit the ability of an alleged infringer from developing a new invention, even if their activity did not infringe the original patent's claims.

In law, acquiescence occurs when a person knowingly stands by without raising any objection to the infringement of his or her rights, while someone else unknowingly and without malice aforethought acts in a manner inconsistent with their rights. As a result of acquiescence, the person whose rights are infringed may lose the ability to make a legal claim against the infringer, or may be unable to obtain an injunction against continued infringement. The doctrine infers a form of "permission" that results from silence or passiveness over an extended period of time.

Presently, digital versions of all publications are subject to copyright piracy since technology makes it easy to replicate perfect copies of digital materials. This is especially true when such materials are displayed on the Web where scraper sites routinely infringe the works of others. The Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) lets copyright holders protect themselves by sending online service providers "take-down notices." Digital copyright holders, however, must first spot unauthorized copies of their works and then find the original infringer, a task made challenging by the vastness of the Internet.

MercExchange, plaintiffs routinely sought, and were granted, injunctions prohibiting infringement of their patents. After 2006, injunctions were much harder to obtain, leaving plaintiffs to pursue remedies only for damages. Because patents last for many years, it is common for lawsuits to conclude before the patent term has ended. This has opened up the question of whether and to what extent a court should craft a remedy that includes a royalty for infringing activity that has not yet occurred, but which likely will occur in the immediate future if the infringer continues his infringing activity.

B.B. Chemical Co. v. Ellis. The Supreme Court then unanimously affirmed them, which White said "necessarily reject[ed]ing petitioner's position that patent misuse was limited to staple products, and did not apply when the alleged infringer went beyond selling an unpatented staple material and manufactured and sold materials useful only in the patented construct."448 U.S. at 227. White pointed out that there had been a conflict of circuits on the issue and it had been briefed by the parties and the United States as amicus curiae. Id. n.2.

On appeal, the Ninth Circuit upheld the district court's decision that the hyperlinks were not infringing on Perfect 10's copyright. It agreed with the district court's assessment that infringing websites existed before Google and would continue to exist without Google, thus it was not a contributory infringer. Furthermore, Google had no control over infringing sites and could not shut them down, so any profits it may or may not extract from users visiting those sites did not constitute vicarious infringement. The court also agreed that including an inline link is not the same as hosting the material itself.

In the context of German patent law, the Formstein defence is a well-known defense against an alleged infringement by equivalents, wherein the alleged infringer claims that the embodiment alleged to be equivalent (to the subject- matter claimed in the patent) is not patentable and therefore the doctrine of equivalents does not apply. It is similar to the UK's Gillette defense and the U.S. Wilson case. The name "Formstein" means "molded kerbstone" and comes from a landmark decision of the Federal Court of Justice of Germany (Bundesgerichtshof) issued in 1986.Schneidmesser II; GRUR 1986, p 803.

Righthaven initially entered agreements concerning old news articles from Stephens Media, publisher of the Las Vegas Review-Journal, based on a business model of suing bloggers, other Internet authors, and Internet site operators for statutory damages for having reproduced the articles on their sites without permission. An affiliate of Stephens Media owned half of Righthaven. By March 24, 2011, 255 cases had been filed. Typically, Righthaven has demanded $75,000 and surrender of the domain name from each alleged infringer, but accepted out of court settlements of several thousand dollars per defendant. approximately 70 cases had settled.

Irina D. Manta Spring 2011 The Puzzle of Criminal Sanctions for Intellectual Property Infringement Harvard Journal of Law & Technology 24(2):469-518 If the respective marks and products or services are entirely dissimilar, trademark infringement may still be established if the registered mark is well known pursuant to the Paris Convention. In the United States, a cause of action for use of a mark for such dissimilar services is called trademark dilution. In some jurisdictions a party other than the owner (e.g., a licensee) may be able to pursue trademark infringement proceedings against an infringer if the owner fails to do so.

203 If the copyright infringer can show that their use falls within one of the three categories, they must then show that the dealing was "fair". This takes into account a number of things, and due to the freedom of speech provisions under the Human Rights Act 1998 is deliberately intended not to be based on rigid and inflexible tests. Instead, as in Ashdown v Telegraph Group Ltd,[2002] Ch 149 the courts "bear in mind that considerations of public interest are paramount". Because of this, there are many different things which enhance or detract from the "fair" nature of the dealing.

Bently & Sherman (2009) p.205 The quantity of the work taken is also taken into account. If the infringer uses the majority of a copyrighted work, or all of it, they reduce the expected returns of the copyright owner and compromise "the role that copyright plays in encouraging creativity". As such, the fair dealing defence usually only applies when part of a work has been taken, although some judicial comments, such as those of Megaw LJ in Hubbard, state that there are a few cases in which the work is so short that reproducing it in its entirety may be acceptable.

YouTube complied after six weeks, rather than the two weeks required by the Digital Millennium Copyright Act. Lenz then sued Universal Music in California for her legal costs, claiming the music company had acted in bad faith by ordering removal of a video that represented fair use of the song. On appeal, the Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit ruled that a copyright owner must affirmatively consider whether the complained of conduct constituted fair use before sending a takedown notice under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, rather than waiting for the alleged infringer to assert fair use. 801 F.3d 1126 (9th Cir. 2015).

On remand, the Federal Circuit considered the matter en banc (all active judges of the circuit) and modified its rule. It now held that a patent could also be directly infringed if "an alleged infringer conditions participation in an activity or receipt of a benefit upon performance of a step or steps of a patented method and establishes the manner or timing of that performance." On that basis, the Federal Circuit reinstated the $40 million jury verdict. It said that "Akamai presented substantial evidence demonstrating that Limelight conditions its customers' use of its content delivery network upon its customers' performance of" the steps that Limelight does not itself perform.

However, pre-grant protection is available under (d), which allows a patent owner to obtain reasonable royalty damages for certain infringing activities that occurred before patent's date of issuance. This right to obtain provisional damages requires a patent holder to show that (1) the infringing activities occurred after the publication of the patent application, (2) the patented claims are substantially identical to the claims in the published application, and (3) the infringer had "actual notice" of the published patent application. In the US there are safe harbor provisions to use a patented invention for the purposes of gathering data for a regulatory submission.Pradip K. Sahu and Shannon Mrksich.

P10 referenced a single page from CCBill and CWIE's "DMCA Log," and showed some missing webmaster names in the spreadsheet. P10 argued that CCBill and CWIE failed to keep track of repeatedly infringing webmasters, thereby preventing the implementation of their policies. However, the remainder of the log, which contains email addresses and/or names of webmasters and a chart included in the interrogatory responses (December 11, 2003), indicated that CCBill and CWIE did largely keep track of the webmaster for each website. The Ninth Circuit upheld the district court's finding that P10 had not proved CCBill's and CWIE's failure to implement a repeat infringer policy.

The appellate court supported the Netcom decision as "a particularly rational interpretation of § 106 [of the Copyright Act]." The court reasoned that similar to a copying machine, an ISP who owned an electronic facility that responded automatically to users' input was not a direct infringer. The court also reasoned that temporary electronic copies made during the transmission were not "fixed" because such copies were used to automatically transmit users' material and they were not "of more than transitory duration." In response to CoStar’s argument that the DMCA made the Netcom case irrelevant, the court held that the DMCA was not exclusive and that the Netcom case was still a valid precedent.

But this estoppel, for manifest reasons, > does not prevent him from denying infringement. To determine such an issue, > it is admissible to show the state of the art involved, that the court may > see what the thing was which was assigned, and thus determine the primary or > secondary character of the patent assigned, and the extent to which the > doctrine of equivalents may be invoked against an infringer. The court will > not assume against an assignor, and in favor of his assignee, anything more > than that the invention presented a sufficient degree of utility and novelty > to justify the issuance of the patent assigned….Westinghouse, 266 U.S. at > 351.

The French HADOPI law or Creation and Internet law (, ; or, loosely in English, "Supreme Authority for the Distribution and Protection of Intellectual Property on the Internet") was introduced during 2009, providing what is known as a graduated response as a means to encourage compliance with copyright laws. HADOPI is the acronym of the government agency created to administer it. The part of the HADOPI law that allowed for suspension of Internet access to a repeat infringer was revoked on 8 July 2013 by the French government because that penalty was considered to be disproportionate. The power to impose fines or other sanctions on repeat infringers remains in effect.

Once a case is finally decided, any issues decided in the previous case may be binding against the party who lost the issue in later cases, even in cases involving other parties. For example, if a first case decides that a party was negligent, then other plaintiffs may rely on that earlier determination in later cases, and need not reprove the issue of negligence. For another example, if a patent is shown to be invalid in a case against one accused infringer, that same patent is invalid against all other accused infringers—invalidity need not be reproven. Again, limits and exceptions on this principle exist.

While the United States Patent Act does not directly distinguish "direct" and "indirect" infringement, it has become customary to describe infringement under (a) as direct infringement, while grouping (b) and (c) together as "indirect" ways of infringing a patent., Sec. 17.01 Unlike direct infringement, which does not require knowledge of the patent or any intent to infringe, indirect infringement can only arise when the accused indirect infringer has at least some knowledge and intent regarding the patent and the infringement. (b) creates a type of indirect infringement described as "active inducement of infringement," while (c) creates liability for those who have contributed to the infringement of a patent.

207 The limited nature of the exception is criticised by Burrell and Coleman, who argue that it "fails to reflect the increasing importance of non-textual media for both study and research".Burrell & Coleman (2005) p.116 The exception also has only a limited application to things such as software. For this defence to apply, the infringer must show that the dealing is for non-commercial research or private study, private study being defined by Section 178 as excluding any study directly or indirectly for commercial purpose; it therefore covers most academic purposes, but not things such as the use of a database in market- testing of new drugs.

Under U.S. patent law, when a patent owner sells supplies to customers with the understanding that they will use the supplies to practice the patent, the customers get an implied license to use the patent. " On the other hand, the Barber Company sues as a contributory infringer a competing manufacturer of this unpatented material who sells it to a road builder for such use."302 U.S. at 460-61. Leitch used Stulz-Sickles Company as a jobber to sell bituminous emulsion to the Standard Bitulithic Company, which used the patented process in road construction, and Barber and Stulz-Sickles knew that Standard would so use it.

AF1 colorway Nike has vigorously defended the Air Force 1 in U.S. courts. In one case, it sued an alleged infringer of its trademark in the Air Force 1, who responded by filing a counterclaim to invalidate the Air Force 1 trademark. Several months later, apparently fearful that the defendant's counterclaim could succeed, Nike dismissed all its claims with prejudice and gave the defendant a "Covenant Not To Sue". The issue that went up on appeal was whether Nike's tactics had thereby rendered the entire dispute moot (meaning there was no longer an active case or controversy), so that the U.S. federal courts had been deprived of jurisdiction to hear the defendant's counterclaim.

The majority's second point—"that there is no misuse unless the accused infringer shows that the technology was, or would probably have become, commercially viable is contrary to established patent misuse doctrine [which] . , , recognizes that antitrust violations may constitute misuse; that a presumption of anticompetitive effect flows from an agreement not to compete; and that the burden rests on the patent holder to justify such an agreement."616 F.3d at 1343. Addressing the majority's position that wrongful conduct in regard to the Lagadec patent is irrelevant to determining misuse because the patents in suit are the Raaymakers patents, the dissent disagrees that the proper concept of misuse is extension of the scope of the patent in suit.

Veoh is a Flash video site relying on user contributed content. IO Group argued that since Veoh transcoded user uploaded videos to Flash format it became a direct infringer and the materials were under their direct control, thereby disqualifying them for DMCA safe harbor protection. The ruling judge disagreed with the argument, stating that > Veoh has simply established a system whereby software automatically > processes user-submitted content and recasts it in a format that is readily > accessible to its users. Veoh preselects the software parameters for the > process from a range of default values set by the thirdparty software... But > Veoh does not itself actively participate or supervise the uploading of > files.

Trademark infringement is a violation of the exclusive rights attached to a trademark without the authorization of the trademark owner or any licensees (provided that such authorization was within the scope of the licence). Infringement may occur when one party, the "infringer", uses a trademark which is identical or confusingly similar to a trademark owned by another party, in relation to products or services which are identical or similar to the products or services which the registration covers. An owner of a trademark may commence civil legal proceedings against a party which infringes its registered trademark. In the United States, the Trademark Counterfeiting Act of 1984 criminalized the intentional trade in counterfeit goods and services.

Statutory damages for copyright infringement are available under some countries' copyright laws. The charges allow copyright holders, who succeed with claims of infringement, to receive an amount of compensation per work (as opposed to compensation for losses, an account of profits or damages per infringing copy). Statutory damages can in some cases be significantly more than the actual damages suffered by the rightsholder or the profits of the infringer. At least in the United States, the original rationale for statutory damages was that it would often be difficult to establish the number of copies that had been made by an underground pirate business and awards of statutory damages would save rightsholders from having to do so.

A person is a secondary infringer where he knows or should have known that a work either a) infringes a copyright or, b) would infringe a copyright had it been made in Canada (hypothetical infringement test) and, without the consent of the copyright owner he does anything set out in S. 27(2) of the Copyright Act [see below]. If a person turns a blind eye or honestly but mistakenly believes the goods are non- infringing, he will still be presumed to have the requisite knowledge. There can only be secondary infringement if there has been a primary infringement.David Vaver, Intellectual Property Law: Copyright Patents Trade- Marks, 2d ed (Toronto: Irwin Law Inc.

And yet we have been given no reliable demonstration of > widespread problems not being solved in the marketplace. Given General > Talking Pictures, the only question is about patentees' ability to do for > their own sales what they already can do by contracting out their > manufacturing and sales. Regarding the specific scenario we are addressing > today—in which the patentee has sought to preserve its patent rights by > conditioning its first sale on a single-use/no-resale restriction of which > the accused infringer had adequate notice at the time of purchase—we have > been given no proof of a significant problem with enforcing patent rights. Furthermore, the Federal Circuit maintained, the conduct challenged here can have benefits.

Section 512(c) protects service provider from being liable for monetary relief if it does not know of infringement, or if it acts "expeditiously to remove, or disable access to, the material" when it has actual knowledge, is aware of facts or circumstances from which infringing activity is apparent, or has received notification of claimed infringement meeting a list of requirements outlining the elements should be included in a notification (17 U.S.C § 512(c)(3)). P10 claimed that CCBill and CWIE unreasonably implemented their repeat infringer policies by tolerating flagrant and blatant copyright infringement by its users despite notice of infringement from P10, notice of infringement from other copyright holders (not a party in this case) and "red flags" of copyright infringement.

An injunction issued by a court prior to a final determination of the merits of a legal case, in order to restrain a party from going ahead with a course of conduct or compelling a party to continue with a course of conduct until the case has been decided. In patent law, a preliminary injunction typically allows a patent to be enforced against an infringer prior to a final decision on the merits, i.e. while the infringement proceedings are pending. Depending on the jurisdiction, a number of requirements may have to be met for the court to grant a preliminary injunction, such as: urgency (to prevent imminent harm to the patentee's business), clear infringement, and a sufficient likelihood that the patent is valid.

A meme, as long as it is a parody or a criticism of the original work would be protected under the exception but once an element of commercialization comes in, they would no longer be exempted and because the purpose no longer falls under the those mentioned in the section . When the Indian comedic group, All India Bakchod (AIB) parodied Game of Thrones through a series of memes, the primary purpose was to advertise products of companies that have endorsed the group and it would not be fair dealing. Memes generally do not have an effect on the potential market for a work. There must be no intention on part of the infringer to compete with the original owner of the work and derive profits from it.

All other means of proof certainly remain effective in theory, but in practice, they are far from being as efficient as the saisie- contrefaçon, to the extent that the failure of the saisie-contrefaçon often means that the infringement action will fail. Considering the decisive nature of the saisie-contrefaçon, the dispute with relation to its being valid or void is very significant. The alleged infringer, in addition to arguing that the intellectual property right at issue is invalid, will naturally tend to put forward any and all arguments supporting the nullity of the saisie- contrefaçon, in order to destroy such a decisive item of evidence against it. The ex parte and restrictive nature of the saisie-contrefaçon, which makes it so efficient, can also be perceived as a possible source of abuse.

After that it was easier." As the jury instructions stated that jurors can make decisions based solely on the law as instructed and "not based on your understanding of the law based on your own cases," controversy was consequently generated. Hogan also told the Reuters news agency that the jury wanted to make sure the message it sent was not just a "slap on the wrist" and wanted to make sure it was sufficiently high to be painful, but not unreasonable. His remark does not corroborate with jury instructions that state: "the damages award should put the patent holder in approximately the financial position it would have been in had the infringement not occurred" and "it is meant to compensate the patent holder and not to punish an infringer.

Exclusive jurisdiction under Article 22(4) applies irrespective of whether a patent proprietor is sued for revocation or whether an alleged infringer asserts invalidity in inter partes proceedings. In 2012, nearly six years after its rulings on cases C-04/03 and C-539/03, the ECJ decided on case C-616/10 (Solvay/Honeywell).Solvay SA v Honeywell Fluorine Products Europe BV, Honeywell Belgium NV, Honeywell Europe NV, (European Ct. of Justice 12 July 2012) The court held that "Article 22(4) of Regulation No 44/2001 must be interpreted as not precluding, in circumstances such as those at issue in the main proceedings, the application of Article 31 of that regulation". Since Article 31 is about provisional measures, a court may issue a cross-border injunction where an action aims for such measures.

It can take place on the premises of the alleged infringer, but also at a trade fair for instance. Art. L. 615-5. of the French IP code reads as follows (excerpt only): : The owner of a patent application or the owner of a utility certificate application or the owner of a patent or of a utility certificate shall have the possibility of furnishing proof by any means whatsoever of the infringement of which he claims to be a victim. :He shall further be entitled, on an order given by the President of the First Instance Court of the place of the presumed infringement, to direct any bailiffs, accompanied by experts of his own choice, to proceed with a detailed description, with or without effective seizure, of the allegedly infringing articles or processes.

Beyond the master-servant context, however, courts have extended liability to those who profit from infringing activity when an enterprise has the right and ability to prevent the infringement. Under Dreamland Ball Room v. Shapiro, Bernstein & Co., > “[T]he owner of a dance hall at whose place copyrighted musical compositions > are played in violation of the rights of the copyright holder is liable, if > the playing be for the profit of the proprietor of the dance hall. And this > is so even though the orchestra be employed under a contract that would > ordinarily make it an independent contractor.” By contrast, courts did not extend liability to landlords who leased premises to a direct infringer for a fixed rental and did not participate directly in organizing or soliciting the infringing activity.

In that case, the Ninth Circuit defined Reasonable to mean "if, under 'appropriate circumstances,' the service provider terminates users who repeatedly or blatantly infringe copyright."District Court opinion, page 13 (citing Perfect 10, Inc. v. CCBill LLC, 488 F.3d at 1109). The Court found that Veoh had put forth evidence of a working notification system that adequately addressed infringement notices because Veoh had identified a designated Copyright Agent to receive notifications of claimed infringement; Veoh had generated and utilized digital fingerprints; Veoh terminated user accounts after a single warning; Veoh disabled all content uploaded by the infringing user; Veoh blocked the infringing user's email address from opening a different account; Veoh had terminated 1,096 users under its repeat infringer provision; and Veoh had often responded to takedown notices on either the day it was received or shortly thereafter.

Copyright misuse is an equitable defence to copyright infringement in the United States based upon the doctrine of unclean hands. The misuse doctrine provides that the copyright holder engaged in abusive or improper conduct in exploiting or enforcing the copyright will be precluded from enforcing his rights against the infringer. Copyright misuse is often comparable to and draws from the older and more established doctrine of patent misuse, which bars a patentee from obtaining relief for infringement when he extends his patent rights beyond the limited monopoly conferred by the law.Motion Pictures Patents Co v Universal Film Mfg Co., 243 U.S. 502 (1917); Morton Salt Co. v G.S. Superego Co., 312 U.S. 488 (1942) The doctrine forbids the copyright holder from attempting to extend the effect or operation of copyright beyond the scope of the statutory right.

Common factors that may be relevant to fanfiction include: #How well known and distinctive the mark allegedly being infringed is; #How similar the infringing mark is to the original mark; #How similar the allegedly infringing goods or services are to the markholder's goods or services; #Whether the infringer intended to deceive the purchasing public or to trade on the good will of the markholder; #The level of sophistication of those persons or groups likely to be the consumers of the mark; #Whether consumers were actually confused as to the source of the goods or services. The courts can weigh the factors in individual cases, and may consider additional factors as they please. To the extent that fanfiction uses source- identifying characters, settings and such, the marks are often well known are identical to the original, and are used in similar types of goods (i.e., written fiction).

Proponents of the bill argued that it may even the playing field by removing the tricks a well-funded infringer can currently use against a startup owning patented technology. Proponents of the bill suggested that technology companies are subject to an unprecedented wave of patent lawsuits, stifling innovation and creating an overburdened and lethargic patent system. Advocates for the America Invents Act argued that it will create jobs, bolster innovation, streamline the patent system, reduce patent litigation, and keep the U.S. competitive globally. Opponents of the Bill contended that it will lead to results similar to other nations' patent systems on which the bill is modeled — market incumbents will become further entrenched, the rate of startup formation will fall to levels in other countries, and access to angel and venture capital will fall to the levels of other countries, as described in the Impact of the Changes section below.

According to section 34(4) of the Copyright Act, specific penalties will be decided by the court. Section 35(1) states that an infringer is liable for the financial gain made through infringement, and "such damages to the owner of the copyright as the owner has suffered due to the infringement" A copyright holder can instead elect to protect his/her copyright under section 38.1, which allows for "a sum of not less than $100 or more than $5,000 as the court considers just." for all non- commercial infringement, and $500 up to $20,000 for each commercial infringement. In addition to the civil penalties described above, Section 42(1) of the Copyright Act sets out a number of criminal offences. These primarily deal with infringement that involves sale or rental of copyrighted materials, and can result in fines of up to $1,000,000 or prison sentences of up to 2 years for indictment.

LaMacchia suggested that then-existing criminal law simply did not apply to non-commercial infringements (a state of affairs which became known as the "LaMacchia Loophole"). The court suggested that Congress could act to make some non-commercial infringements a crime, and Congress acted on that suggestion in the NET Act. The NET Act amended the definition of "commercial advantage or private financial gain" to include the "receipt, or expectation of receipt, of anything of value, including the receipt of other copyrighted works" (17 USC 101), and specifies penalties of up to five years in prison. In addition, it added a threshold for criminal liability where the infringer neither obtained nor expected to obtain anything of value for the infringement – "by the reproduction or distribution, including by electronic means, during any 180-day period, of 1 or more copies or phonorecords of 1 or more copyrighted works, which have a total retail value of more than $ 1,000" (17 USC 506(a)(1)(B)).

The court moved to the other issue, whether clicking "yes" to MRIS's TOU operated as an assignment of copyright in the photographs under . > A transfer of one or more of the exclusive rights of copyright ownership by > assignment or exclusive license is not valid unless an instrument of > conveyance, or a note or memorandum of the transfer, is in writing and > signed by the owner of the rights conveyed or such owner's duly authorized > agent The court noted that was intended to solve a dispute between owners and transferees, not for the benefit of a third party infringer. E-SIGN Act defines an electronic signature means that: "...an electronic sound, symbol, or process, attached to or logically associated with a contract or other record and executed or adopted by a person with the intent to sign the record." A click on the website could be regarded as signature under the E-SIGN Act.

The federal court of appeals referenced to determine contributory infringement. Specifically, the patent owner must show: "1) that there is direct infringement, 2) that the accused infringer had knowledge of the patent, 3) that the component has no substantial non-infringing uses, and 4) that the component is a material part of the invention". To determine direct infringement, the court stated "if an accused product operates in accordance with a standard, then comparing the claims to that standard is the same as comparing the claims to the accused product"; however, the court softend their statement with the following "We acknowledge, however, that in many instances, an industry standard does not provide the level of specificity required to establish that practicing that standard would always result in infringement". However, Netgear's customer service records that had recommended end-users enable fragmentation on four models (WPN111, WG511, WPN824, and WG311T) was accepted as a viable evidence.

The Assistant Attorney General of the Antitrust Division, however, arguing for the Government as amicus curiae, urged the Court to overrule Triplett partially—to permit or preclude relitigating patents on a case-by-case fact-specific basis. A preliminary question was whether it was proper for the Court to overrule Triplett when both party litigants were unwilling to urge its being overruled. Under intense questioning by the Court in oral argument, however, counsel for the accused infringer (who initially sought to argue that the patented antenna structure should have been held obvious over the prior art) receded to the position that in the particular circumstances of the case (the trial court had forced Blonder-Tongue to go to trial without its witnesses) the evidence from the Winegard case in Iowa should have been considered. No party argued for so- called in rem invalidity, and neither did the United States as amicus curiae.

In response to Therasense, the USPTO rewrote its definition of materiality to say that information is material if :(1) It establishes, by itself or in combination with other information, a prima facie case of unpatentability of a claim; or :(2) It refutes, or is inconsistent with, a position the applicant takes in: ::(i) Opposing an argument of unpatentability relied on by the Office, or ::(ii) Asserting an argument of patentability. The misrepresentation or omission can include: :(a) failure to submit material prior art known by the applicant; :(b) failure to explain references in a foreign language or submit pre-existing full or partial translations of the references; :(c) misstatements of fact, including misstatements in affidavits concerning patentability; and :(d) mis-description of inventorship (authorship). The party asking the court to decline to enforce the patent, usually the alleged infringer, bears the burden of proving inequitable conduct to the court. The moving party must show by clear and convincing evidence that the patentee intentionally withheld or misrepresented information, and that the information was material.

The great practical effectiveness of the saisie-contrefaçon also lies in its restrictive nature, since the judge, by granting an order to perform a saisie-contrefaçon, authorises the requesting party to call upon a bailiff to enter the premises of the targeted person or even of third parties (if evidence is likely to be found there) to perform the saisie-contrefaçon investigations, regardless of whether or not the premises are normally open to the public. The saisie- contrefaçon is generally decisive in the success or failure of the action for infringement. If it is correctly performed and cannot be challenged or remains unchallenged, it will provide evidence of an infringement for which the judge ruling on the merits in the infringement proceedings cannot but pronounce civil or criminal sanctions, thereby ensuring the success of the holder of the intellectual property right over the infringer. If it is incorrectly performed, challenged and declared void, it generally leads to the failure of the infringement action on the merits as it fails to produce evidence of the infringement.

A claimant for infringement may be awarded a range of remedies (under section 61), depending on the facts of the particular case. Damages may be awarded to rectify financial harm suffered, an injunction may be granted to prevent further action by the infringer, an account of profits may be ordered, an order for the delivery up or destruction of infringing items may be made or a declaration that the patent is valid and infringed may be granted to the patentee. Both damages and an account of profits may not be ordered in respect of the same infringement.The Patents Act 1977 (as amended), section 61(2) Limitations on damages or costs may apply under certain circumstances, for example if the defendant was unaware of the patent's existence damages may not be awarded The Patents Act 1977 (as amended), section 62, or where the patent was subject to a transaction that was not registered at the Patent Office within 6 months an award of costs to the successful party may not be awarded.

Section 30(1) of the 1988 Act provides that the fair dealing exception is valid if the material is being copied for criticism or review. For it to apply, the infringer must be able to show that the dealing was for criticism or review, that the infringed work was previously made available to the public, that the dealing was fair, and that the dealing was accompanied by an acknowledgement. The first step requires the defendant to show that the copying was done to criticise or review the work in question, the performance of the work, or, as in Beloff v Pressdram,[1973] 1 All ER 241 another work. The courts will interpret "criticism or review" liberally, as in Newspaper Licensing Agency v Marks & Spencers plc, and as such the criticism or review can include the thought or philosophy of the work, as in Time Warner v Channel 4,[1994] EMLR 1 or the social and moral implications of the work, as in Pro Sieben Media v Carlton Television.