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This week in Other Barks & Bites: Senator Tillis tells Becerra not to fall for march-in rights petitions; the U.S. Supreme Court asks the Solicitor General to brief the court on the views of the U.S. federal government regarding the Article III standing issues in Apple v. Qualcomm; Sen. Grassley asks DHS Secretary Mayorkas to dispel concerns that the OPT STEM program is expanding beyond its original mission of aiding the U.S. high tech workforce; the United States remains top ranked in the Global IP Index despite ongoing issues regarding the certainty of patent validity under current U.S. law; the Supreme Court sides with Unicolors in ruling that its innocent mistake of law in filing a copyright registration does not require the district court to inquire about the registration’s validity with the Register of Copyrights; and more....
https://www.ipwatchdog.com/2022/02/25/other-barks-bites-february-25-tillis-urges-becerra-resist-calls-use-march-in-rights/id=146378/
The U.S. Chamber of Commerce’s Global Innovation Policy Center (GIPC) today revealed its 2022 International IP Index, “Compete for Tomorrow,” which is now in its tenth edition. Last year, the report focused on the role of effective intellectual property (IP) frameworks in helping economies to combat and recover from the COVID-19 pandemic and identified several emerging economies that had made significant improvements. This year, the report analyzes ten years of data, which reveals that the global IP environment has steadily improved overall, including in the last two years of turmoil, and that emerging economies are particularly making a conscious decision to bolster their IP regimes....
https://www.ipwatchdog.com/2022/02/24/gipcs-tenth-international-ip-index-reasons-hopeful-more-work/id=146314/
You may have heard that on January 1, 2022, Winnie-the-Pooh and the other characters from the Hundred Acre Wood are now in the public domain. But did you know that not all of Christopher Robin’s friends are treated the same in the eyes of copyright law? The characters have multiple authors, including A.A. Milne who first published Winnie-the-Pooh in 1926, and The Walt Disney Company, which brought the stories to the screen. Milne’s characters from his 1926 books entered the public domain at the beginning of this year, but Disney’s iteration remains copyright protected for now....
https://www.ipwatchdog.com/2022/02/22/public-public-domain-winnie-pooh-illustrates-copyright-limitations-public-domain-works/id=146207/