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• Alt Legal IP News – Issue #231

  Bri Van Til  |  March 17, 2021 2 min read

  When is it best to settle patent litigation to avoid the "patent litigation money pit"? If you file lawsuits, make sure your actions aren't "vexatious and wanton," or you...

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• Alt Legal IP News – Issue #230

  Bri Van Til  |  March 10, 2021 2 min read

  When authorship is shared (as it often is in open-source and copyleft projects), what IP can you protect? Join us for our webinar this Thursday, where Hopkins & Carle...

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• To the Left, to the Left: An Introduction to Copyleft and Open Source Software

  Massy Vainshtein  |  March 03, 2021 8 min read

  Copyleft may sound like a dad joke, but it is more than just clever wordplay. Rather, it is a bold challenge to copyright law’s utilitarian theory that creation only ha...

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• Alt Legal IP News – Issue #229

  Bri Van Til  |  March 03, 2021 2 min read

  The Federal Circuit ruled that a patent for software plus hardware was not infringed by technology that's just software. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit...

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• Alt Legal Webinar: Open Source: The Trademark Awakens

  Alt Legal Team  |  March 01, 2021 2 min read

  Open-source software is widely utilized to develop new products and enhance existing products, as well as offer an alternative or complement to proprietary offerings by i...

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• Alt Legal IP News – Issue #228

  Bri Van Til  |  February 24, 2021 2 min read

  Barclays has become the first major European bank to join the Open Invention Network. The future of 5G might be open source if Linux has anything to say about it. Is this...

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