Flirtey Wins a New Patent Critical to the Safety of Drone Delivery

The pioneer of the commercial drone delivery industry, Flirtey, has quite recently won a new patent critical to the safety of drone delivery. The newly granted patent presents the safety-enhancing technologies like landing a drone safely in case of failure with the help of a parachute, which steers the drone towards a safe location.

The Founder and CEO at Flirtey, Matthew Sweeny, said that the company is indeed thrilled to receive another patent, which is vital to the safety of drone delivery. The US Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) granted the patent to Flirtey recently when it was the time to celebrate the Fifth Anniversary of the

‘Kitty Hawk Moment’ on 17th July 2020. The day marks Flirtey’s first drone delivery on the US soil, in Wise County, Virginia, on 17th July 2015.

Previously, Flirtey had unveiled its next-generation delivery drone, known as Flirtey Eagle, at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C. Now, the company is actively pursuing a Type Certificate for the Flirtey Eagle.

Flirtey’s unique technology is protected by even more than 1,000 issued and pending Patent Claims in the US and other nations across the globe as well.

As an aerospace technology company, Flirtey specializes in providing full-stack drone delivery technology solutions. The company has a mission of saving lives and improving the lifestyle by making delivery instant for everyone worldwide. In 2015, the company first made history by conducting the first-ever FAA-approved drone delivery. In the following years, Flirtey successfully proceeded towards becoming the first unmanned aircraft system company, capable of performing an autonomous drone delivery to a home, and pioneering an AED drone delivery service in the US. The company has efficiently worked alongside NASA, the City of Reno, emergency medical services provider REMSA, Johns Hopkins University of Medicine, and several other commercial partners to come up with the fastest and most effective customer-centric logistics technology around the world. For view source: https://www.trademarkmaldives.com/blog/flirtey-wins-a-new-patent-critical-to-the-safety-of-drone-delivery/

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EU Court Adviser Says YouTube is not Liable for User Copyright Breaches

A European Court of Justice (ECJ) adviser has quite recently stated that YouTube (an American online video-sharing platform) and other online platforms are not at all liable for the users who upload Copyrighted works illegally on their platforms; however, in this scenario, the copyright holders can indeed ask for injunctions against such users. The EU judges, who have followed such opinions in four cases out of five, shall rule on this matter in the coming months.

For quite a while now, the owners of the social media channels and online platforms have found themselves stuck in an issue corresponding to how much responsibility they all should bear for the hateful or illegal content posted on their platforms. The European Commission is now actively looking forward to addressing these issues and concerns by coming up with new rules and regulations, known as the Digital Services Act, at the end of the year.

In a non-binding opinion concerning two cases before the court, Advocate General Henrik Saugmandsgaard Øe said that the present EU rules exempt YouTube and other online platforms from such a responsibility when they are informed of violations and remove them. He mentioned that because of the current EU law, the online platform operators, including YouTube, aren’t directly liable for the illegal uploading of protected or copyrighted works by the users of their platforms. According to him, if the platforms are made directly liable, then there would be a risk of the platform operators becoming the judges of the matter of online legality. Additionally, he said that there would also be a risk of ‘over-removal’ of content by the platforms at the request of the users, which would also lead to the removal of legal content.

The first case before the court revolves around a music producer, Frank Peterson, who sued Google and YouTube in Germany for uploading several phonograms (for which he holds the rights) on YouTube in 2018.

The second case revolves around the publishing group Elsevier’s lawsuit against Cyando in Germany for illegally uploading quite a few of Elsevier’s works on its file-hosting and file-sharing platform, known as Uploaded, in 2013. For view source: https://www.trademarkmaldives.com/blog/eu-court-adviser-says-youtube-is-not-liable-for-user-copyright-breaches/

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ProStar Wins Patent For Method That Prevents Damages While Excavating

ProStar, a Grand Junction-based company specializing in the development of precision mapping solutions, has quite recently received a patent for its computer-implemented method, which avoids damages in an excavation area. To be specific, the company has successfully secured a patent for a method, which helps significantly in preventing damages to the environment and utilities during maintenance, construction, and groundbreaking activities along with the damages caused by severe conditions, such as earthquakes, fires, and weather.

The Chief Executive Officer and President of ProStar, Page Tucker, is the co-inventor of the newly-granted patent. In a recent statement delivered, he said that the company is indeed pleased to add another exclusive patent to its Intellectual Property (IP) portfolio. He further mentioned that ProStar’s mobile and cloud precision mapping solutions are recognized as the world’s most advanced utility mapping solutions, and the issuance of another patent in this scenario proves the fact that the company is leading the industry across the globe in terms of research, development, and innovation.

Raymond Tabandeh, who is a partner with the Lewis Roca Rothgerber Christie law firm (specializing in providing an enhanced and expanded range of services in IP, litigation, business transactions, to name a few), prepared and prosecuted ProStar’s newly granted patent. Quite recently, he stated that it is always gratifying to play a crucial role in the issuance of a patent for a client. He further said that the damages to buried utilities during excavation lead to a critical problem in both the United States and Canada, and in every other scenario where excavation is involved – the damage is primarily caused by the lack of availability of qualified data. According to Tabandeh, ProStar’s newly granted patent efficiently addresses all these concerns and issues.

ProStar combines mobile and cloud technologies with patented processes for creating geospatial intelligence software, which helps the government agencies, companies, and organizations in managing underground infrastructure.

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Huawei Files Trademark Application for Mate Watch Brand

Despite all the ongoing issues at hand, the Chinese Multinational Technology Company, Huawei, doesn’t seem to stop at all. The company refuses to give up at no cost and has efficiently begun its preparations to expand the Huawei Mate lineup with a brand new category of devices.

The Chinese tech giant has quite recently filed a Trademark Application for a new smartwatch known as “Mate Watch.” The trademark is filed under the international trademark classification 9, which includes PCs and various other electronic gadgets. The trademark application is found in the database of authority for registration of trademarks. At present, the Huawei Mate line consists of flagship smartphones, laptops, and tablets.

This year in January, Huawei also successfully registered the MatePod brand, under which the company can effectively begin its production of wireless headphones. As per various reports and speculations, the Chinese tech giant is very much likely to release its new smartwatches under the Huawei Mate Watch brand name. However, it is still not evident as to how the Huawei Mate Watch shall be different from the Watch GT series’ devices. Many experts believe that it may either be a completely new flagship watch series or a simplified continuation of the Watch GT series.

Last year in April, the company came up with the brand new version of the Watch GT2e in the market; however, its top model, Watch GT 2, was released at a later stage in October 2019 in two different sizes – 42mm and 46mm. Therefore, the upcoming smartwatch has only two aspects associated with it – it will be an entirely new, premium device, which will, in turn, either complement the current versions or replace the already existing Watch GT series.

As of now, Huawei has not officially put forward any comments on this matter. Hence, any specific details of the upcoming smartwatch are way too scarce at the moment. It may be possible that the Chinese tech giant has registered its proposed name “Mate Watch” as a trademark only to prevent the other brands in the market from using the same. Besides, it is very much likely for the new Mate smartwatch to make its debut alongside Huawei’s upcoming Mate 40 series later this year. For view source: https://www.trademarkmaldives.com/blog/huawei-files-trademark-application-for-mate-watch-brand/

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The US Supreme Court Holds That Georgia Can’t Claim Copyright Over Its Annotated Code

The US Supreme Court has quite recently ruled that Georgia, a state located in the southeastern region of the US, can’t claim the Copyright over its annotated code.

The ruling held by the Supreme Court is a victory for Carl Malamud, who is an American author, technologist, and open government activist. In 2013, he had posted Georgia’s annotated code online. For more than a decade now, Malamud and his corporation, Public.Resource.Org (publishes and shares the public domain material in the US and all across the globe), have been working efficiently to liberate the state laws and regulatory codes digitally.

State governments and related authorities quite often claim that they must copyright the works and creations to recoup the expenses involved in the research and print of voluminous editions. Georgia has a contract with LexisNexis (a corporation specializing in providing business research, legal research, and risk management services) to govern the research work and distribution of the annotated codes. LexisNexis, in turn, gets the exclusive rights corresponding to publishing the codes, while the state gets a cut of any sales made. The non-annotated codes are available at no cost; however, the hardcover annotated set costs $412. The copyright clash stemmed from Georgia’s lawsuit against Public Resource when the non-profit corporation tried to publish the code on its own.

Malamud and other transparency groups say that law can never be copyrighted. They believe that under the “Government edicts doctrine,” the same holds for legislative statutes, judicial opinions, and any other writing corresponding to the force of law. They always say that as per the public policy, people must be able to inspect all the laws that are bound by, and no one can ever claim the ownership or authorship of such laws. To be specific, what they mean to say is that the laws belong to the people.

After Public Resource posted Georgia’s annotated code online for free, the state sued Malamud and his corporation in 2015 in federal court. In 2017, a US District Court judge rendered a decision in favor of Georgia by stating that the annotations only had pieces of commentary and didn’t focus on the force of law. However, after some time, the US Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit reversed the district court’s ruling, which led to a showdown at the US Supreme Court.

In the US Supreme Court’s majority decision, Chief Justice John Roberts stated that the officials empowered to speak with the force of law can never claim authorship of the works, which they create in due course of their official duties. He further said that even if the annotated codes were non-binding, they were still very much created in the official capacity by the legislative branch, which doesn’t enable the same to seek Copyright Protection.

In a recent statement delivered, Malamud mentioned that he and his corporation are happy with the US Supreme Court’s decision and are now looking forward to making the Official Code of Georgia readily accessible and usable for the citizens. ✅  For view source: https://www.trademarkmaldives.com/blog/the-us-supreme-court-holds-that-georgia-cant-claim-copyright-over-its-annotated-code/

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Commvault Sues Cohesity And Rubrik Alleging Patent Infringement

Commvault (a publicly-traded data management and data protection software company headquartered in New York) has quite recently filed Patent Infringement lawsuits against Rubrik (a California-based cloud data management company) and Cohesity (a privately held IT company headquartered in San Jose, California) in federal court in Delaware. Commvault has stated that the companies have altogether infringed upon its seven patents, which correspond to a plethora of widely used data management technologies such as data deduplication, cloud, security, snapshots, virtualization, and search. To be specific, Commvault has claimed that both Cohesity and Rubrik have appropriated its patented technologies to short-circuit their development processes and reduce the investment needed, corresponding to building competitive products.

The Vice President and Chief Intellectual Property (IP) Counsel at Commvault, Marcus Muller, has said that the lawsuits hold the responsibility of safeguarding a company’s employees and investors, and also bring about fairness when it comes to competing in the global market. He further mentioned that for over two decades now, Commvault has been successfully delivering solutions to its customers and has become the pioneer in this space. By investing even more than $1 billion in its innovations and inventions, Commvault, at present, owns 900 patents across the globe and over 350 pending patents.

Commvault’s General Counsel, Warren Mondschein, mentioned in a recent statement that Commvault is not at all a litigious company; however when companies like Cohesity and Rubrik commit willful patent infringement, then it is the company’s responsibility to file such lawsuits and take a stand for the protection of its innovations and IP assets.

Lynn Lucas, the Chief Marketing Officer at Cohesity, has said that it is not unusual for legacy vendors to come forward and disrupt the market by filing frivolous lawsuits in an attempt to suppress sales and innovation. Coming to this matter, he stated that Cohesity came to know about the patent infringement lawsuit, not by Commvault’s representatives but through the media. He believes that there is no merit to the lawsuit filed as it is only an attempt to slow down Cohesity’s rapid growth and obstruct its accelerating success.

In an unattributed statement, Rubrik only stated that it doesn’t comment on any pending litigation.

When Commvault was asked why it is filing patent infringement lawsuits against Rubrik and Cohesity corresponding to widely implemented storage software capabilities such as cloud, search, virtualization, to name a few, Muller said the company is not claiming on all the aspects in these technologies and is looking at specific patents. He further declined to speculate about whether the company would file similar lawsuits against other such competitors in the market or not.

Commvault, Cohesity, and Rubrik compete vigorously for data protection and management business in the market. On the one hand, Commvault is a long-established vendor, while Cohesity and Rubrik, on the other hand, are well-funded and rapidly emerging new companies on the block. For view source: https://www.trademarkmaldives.com/blog/commvault-sues-cohesity-and-rubrik-alleging-patent-infringement/

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Music Companies Including Universal Threaten To Sue TikTok Over Copyright Infringement

The to-the-point definition of the term blockchain defines it as an anonymous online ledger that efficiently keeps a growing list of records, known as blocks, which are, in turn, linked using cryptography, where every single block contains a cryptographic hash of the previous block, transaction data, and a timestamp. As a Peer-to-Peer Electronic Cash System, blockchain was invented by an inventor with the pseudonym Satoshi Nakamoto back in 2008. The blockchain technology is a concept that is too simple on the one hand and much complex on the other. It is exceedingly diverse in all of its uses. Many experts across the globe believe that the blockchain phenomenon is quite similar to the revolution brought by the Internet and the online world. When it comes to the industrial application of blockchain technology - Finance is undoubtedly one of the leading areas where it is traversing its roots.

The early birds that filed a patent on the blockchain include some of the widely known financial institutions such as Goldman Sachs, Mastercard International, and Bank of America. In India as well, people have filed a few Patent Applications on the blockchain technology. Other than blockchain, shared economy, smart contracts, file storage, governance, identity management, Internet of Things (IoT), stock trading, data management, e-commerce, healthcare, life sciences, pharmaceuticals, luxury and consumer goods, and automotive, are some of the fields in which technology is gaining immense pace and momentum.

It is a matter of fact that yes - Intellectual Property Rights (IPRs) and the blockchain technology go hand-in-hand. On one side, IPRs protect blockchain, and blockchain, on the other side, can efficiently serve to strengthen the already existing Intellectual Property (IP) regime. Without any doubt, the world, at present, is realizing the enormous potential that blockchain holds, and IPRs are indeed going to play an integral role in coming up with a protected environment for the development of the technology. While taking into account the other side's aspect, we can observe that the security and reliability offered by blockchain can very well strengthen every phase of the lifecycle of the IPRs including creating licensing agreements, resolving disputes over ownership, identifying counterfeit products, or creating an IP register to keep a record for all forms of IPRs.

Initiatives Taken by the Indian Patent Office

Many nations across the globe have started realizing the true potential of blockchain technology, and India is no exception in this case. The Indian Patent Office (IPO) is doing its best to stay at par with the technological advancements. It expects to be able to predict the timelines for users corresponding to the different actions to be taken by the office.  A scientifically-handled workload-based allocation of patent applications to the examiners shall result in making optimal use of human resources available.  Automated checking against all the formal requirements, including attachments, application formats, amongst many others, can speed up the entire process by reducing the manual intervention required.  With reduced manual intervention, there shall also be an impact on the accountability and transparency procedures in an optimistic way. For achieving all the above measures, the IPO is efficiently establishing a legal framework for a blockchain-based IP registry to commercialize ideas and further protect them.

Final Thoughts

The use of blockchain technology for the benefit of the IP industry is indeed significant. However, like other emerging technologies, blockchain technology has a few setbacks as well. At present, such setbacks include the need for massive processing power and restrictions on the number of transactions per hour. The reality is far away from simple when it comes to the ultimate notion of a method for connecting the IP registries around the world via a single distributed ledger. Remember, successful and proactive management of IPRs using blockchain requires having a standardized platform that is adopted internationally. For more visit: https://www.trademarkmaldives.com

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Solaria Corp Sues Canadian Solar Inc Alleging Patent Infringement

A US-based solar technology company, Solaria Corporation, that specializes in designing, developing, and manufacturing crystalline solar modules has quite recently filed a Patent Infringement lawsuit against Canadian Solar Inc., (a publicly-traded company specializing in manufacturing solar PV modules and running large scale solar projects) in Federal District Court for the Northern District of California.

The lawsuit has claimed that with operations primarily in China and elsewhere in Asia, Canadian Solar has infringed upon Solaria’s US patent. The patent covers a process corresponding to separating the photovoltaic (PV) strips from the solar cells for use in tiled or the widely-known shingled solar modules, which are way more efficient than the conventional solar modules and have higher power as well. Solaria has further asserted in its lawsuit that it had first introduced its high-efficiency, high-density module technology to Canadian Solar in 2014. At that time, the representatives of Canadian Solar had analyzed Solaria's next-generation shingling technology for a potential licensing contract. After the subsequent collaborations between both the companies over the ensuing year, in which Solaria has disclosed its business strategies and proprietary technology to Canadian Solar under a non-disclosure agreement, there wasn't any licensing deal made in the end.

In a quite apparent reference to Solaria's proprietary HDM technology, Canadian Solar came up with its "HiDM" shingled modules in 2019 and started marketing and selling them in the US. Solaria has stated in its complaint filed that Canadian Solar's HiDM shingled modules infringe its patent, for which, it is now looking forward to seeking injunctive relief and damages. 

Suvi Sharma, the CEO at Solaria Corporation, has said that the company has invested even more than $200 million over the last decade in developing its technology for creating the most advanced solar panels across the globe. He further mentioned that if foreign companies like Canadian Solar ignore the value of American patents and violate Solaria's core Intellectual Property (IP), the company would always take action to enforce and protect the technology that required so much investment and effort to develop.

Solaria Corp has indicated that it may bring some additional claims, including a claim for misappropriation of trade secrets and additional patent infringement claims, if warranted.

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