Other Barks & Bites for Friday, July 15: Ninth Circuit Says Discovery Rule Survived Petrella, CJEU Rules Against Denmark in ‘Feta’ PDO Case, and WIPO Director Tam Calls on IP Specialists to Provide Jobs Catalyst

This week in Other Barks & Bites: the Ninth Circuit holds that public policy arguments cannot overturn claims to monetary damages stemming from a French copyright proceeding; the Ninth Circuit also affirmed that the discovery rule still applies to copyright claims despite the application of laches to the Copyright Act’s statute of limitations in Petrella v. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer; Judge Newman dissents from the Federal Circuit’s ruling that an error in asserted prior art is merely typographical and would have been overlooked by a person of ordinary skill in the art; WIPO Director Tam calls on attendees of the WIPO Assemblies to use IP as a “powerful catalyst for jobs”; TSMC posts record quarterly net income as the company provides optimistic guidance on supply chain issues in the chip market; and the CJEU rules that “Feta”-branded cheese sold by Danish cheese makers violates EU law on protected designations of origin even when that cheese is sold outside of the EU.Read More