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Copyright, Yearbooks and the Internet

Plagiarism Today

A school photographer has filed a pair of claims with the Copyright Claims Board over alleged infringement of his yearbook photos. The post Copyright, Yearbooks and the Internet appeared first on Plagiarism Today.

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How AI Can Destroy Local Journalism

Hugh Stephens Blog

Image: Shutterstock.com We all know that local journalism is under extreme pressure. Long established regional newspapers are closing or are being turned into little more than franchise operations where a bare bones local newsroom contributes a modicum of local news to a newspaper fleshed out with filler from national wire services or mother publications.

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Sign my petition: Encourage US Agencies to do more to combat trademark scams

Erik K Pelton

I recently created a petition to gather support to encourage the USPTO and other agencies to do more to fight trademark scams. The scams are a scourge on our trademark system, and they are getting worse and worse. Every year, many individuals and businesses fall victim to trademark scams. Fraudulent entities send deceptive notices and make scam telephone calls demanding unnecessary fees or posing as official government agencies, preying on trademark applicants and registrants.

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Early Pirate Bay Backer Carl Lundström Dies in Plane Crash

TorrentFreak

Yesterday, Carl Lundstrm stepped into his Mooney M20 propeller-driven plane, heading from Zagreb to Zurich in a solo flight. Not long after takeoff, the plane reportedly crashed into a mountain cabin located in the Slovenian Big Pasture Plateau. Lundstrm, who was 64 years old, did not survive. The crash of Lundstrm’s plane was picked up by both Slovenian and Swedish media.

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Software Composition Analysis: The New Armor for Your Cybersecurity

Speaker: Blackberry, OSS Consultants, & Revenera

Software is complex, which makes threats to the software supply chain more real every day. 64% of organizations have been impacted by a software supply chain attack and 60% of data breaches are due to unpatched software vulnerabilities. In the U.S. alone, cyber losses totaled $10.3 billion in 2022. All of these stats beg the question, “Do you know what’s in your software?

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Striking the Right Chord: How the New MoU and Proposed Standard Agreement Aim to Give Screenwriters, Lyricists, and Composers Their Due Credit

SpicyIP

Images from here and here [This post has been co-authored with SpicyIP Intern Suhani Chhaperwal. Suhani is a third year law student at NLSIU who loves to write on IP and tech issues.] The recently signed Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) between the Screen Writers Association (SWA) and the Music Composer Association of India (MCAI), along with the talks of a standardised agreement for screenwriters give a huge impetus to the cause of due recognition and fair remuneration to these authors.

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2025 J.S. Held Global Risk Report: Artificial Intelligence, Data & Digital Regulations

JD Supra Law

Artificial Intelligence (AI) has been touted as the answer to a multitude of business challenges. However, AI along with machine learning and large language models (LLMs) is still fraught with technical and regulatory challenges as the technology evolves. Threat actors use AI to create deepfake videos, text, and audio; craft convincing phishing emails; bypass security measures; and automate malicious activities prompting national and international security concerns.

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One trade mark to rule them all? LORD OF THE RINGS loses opposition in Australia

The IPKat

Normally a decision of a delegate of the Australian Trade Marks Registrar wouldn't attract much attention from the IPKat. But the subject matter of this decision has piqued some international interest: last week, an Australian fast food business successfully defended itself against an opposition brought by the owners of the IP related to The Lord of the Rings novels, in the matter of Middle-earth Enterprises v Lord of the Fries IP Pty Ltd [2025] ATMO 48.

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Authors Put a Spotlight on Meta’s BitTorrent Leeching Activity

TorrentFreak

In the race to build the most capable LLM models, several tech companies sourced copyrighted content for use as training data, without obtaining permission from content owners. Meta is among a long list of companies now being sued for this allegedly infringing activity, including a class action lawsuit filed by authors including Richard Kadrey, Sarah Silverman, and Christopher Golden.

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Finding the Real “Burger King”: Identical Marks & Prior Use in the Pune Eatery Case

SpicyIP

Who doesnt love burgers? While burgers in the trademark case Burger King Co. v Anahita & Shapoor Irani excite us for the spicy IP discussions involved, courts in India also seem to express their love for whoppers by taking more than 14 years to settle the dispute. Last week, the Supreme Court bench comprising Honble Justices BV Nagarathna and SC Sharma stayed an order of the Bombay High Court restraining a Pune-based eatery named Burger King (petitioner) from using its tradename, on a suit f

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The Federal Circuit Expands Scope of Domestic Industry Requirement in Lashify

JD Supra Law

In Lashify v. ITC, the Federal Circuit held that the economic prong of the domestic industry requirement, which is a precondition for obtaining International Trade Commission Section 337 relief, can be satisfied with investments in sales, marketing, warehousing, or related activities alone, even if those activities do not relate to or are not accompanied by manufacturing and development expenditures.

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IPO Diversity in Innovation Toolkit

Women and diverse employees have the technical skill and knowledge, yet their contributions are not patented at the same rate as those of their male counterparts.This toolkit can help organizations move the needle on achieving gender parity in innovation.

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Federal Circuit Rejects “Once Generic, Always Generic” Rule in Trademark Dispute Between Whiskey Makers

Patently-O

by Dennis Crouch Bullshine Distillery LLC v. Sazerac Brands, LLC , 2023-1682 (Fed. Cir. March 12, 2025) In an interesting trademark decision, the Federal Circuit has clarified that terms once considered generic do not necessarily remain permanently unregistrable. provides important guidance on genericness timing and addresses a question of first impression in trademark law.

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Bulldozer Justice: Landmark Ruling on Property Demolitions

IP and Legal Filings

Bulldozer justice means demolishing one’s property for the only reason that he is allegedly accused of some crime without following proper legal procedure. It has become a national trend in the states of Uttar Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh, Gujarat, Delhi, Maharashtra and Assam. Recently, in a suo-motu writ petition of 2020, the Supreme Court ordered to pay Rs. 25 lakhs as compensation for demonstrating the house of Manoj Tibrewal Akash, a senior journalist in UP by state government.

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Police Shut Down Pirate Streaming Network That Cost Broadcaster ‘Millions’

TorrentFreak

For what appears to be operational reasons, police in Germany have only just revealed details of a massive law enforcement operation carried out against a pirate streaming operation last month. In a joint statement on Monday, the Police Headquarters of Upper Franconia and the Central Office for Cybercrime Bavaria, revealed the culmination of a two-year investigation into what is being described as an ‘illegal streaming network’ In June 2023, a major pay-TV broadcaster filed a crimina

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SpicyIP Weekly Review (March 3 – March 9)

SpicyIP

Keep up with the ever changing world of IP with SpicyIPs Weekly Review! A quick glance at last week analysis of wrongful obtainment in the Indian patent landscape, discussing Delhi High Courts jurisdiction in ANI vs OpenAI, and the implications of a MoU between screen writers and music composers. This and much more in this weeks SpicyIP Weekly Review.

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Considerations for K-12 Schools When Using Generative Artificial Intelligence Tools

JD Supra Law

Artificial intelligence or AI traces its roots to Alan Turings work in the 1950s. While its a current hot topic, AI is far from new. Students and teachers have been using AI in some form for years in everyday life, such as when they use a smart phones search feature to find a photo of their cat, listen to Spotify playlists, or use Duolingo to learn a new language.

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Farheena Rasheed to Serve as Acting Vice Chief Administrative PTAB Judge

IP Watchdog

IPWatchdog has learned that Farheena Rasheed has been asked by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) to serve as one of the Acting Vice Chief Administrative Patent Judges (APJs) at the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB). Rasheed will immediately move to the PTAB. Until this move Rasheed served as Deputy General Counsel for Intellectual Property Law and Solicitor, which made her the chief litigator for the USPTO.

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Beyond the process: Securing robust IP protection for cell therapies

The IPKat

Cell therapy represents one of the most exciting fields of innovation, with the potential to provide long-term cures for previously incurable diseases. However, unlike traditional pharmaceuticals, these "living medicines" present unique IP challenges that can make or break a biotech's future. Whilst conventional pharmaceuticals benefit from straightforward composition of matter patents that protect their chemical structure or biological sequence, cell therapies are vastly more complex and hetero

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Pirate Streaming Site Malware Campaign Infected One Million Devices

TorrentFreak

Public pirate sites accessible by anyone with an internet browser have been under financial pressure for years. Rightsholder-led campaigns urged mainstream advertisers to boycott the platforms to cut off their revenue streams. This was supposed to put sites out of business but in many cases that simply meant the deployment of lower quality ads from any entity still prepared to place them.

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AI Search Fails at Citation

Plagiarism Today

AI search is a major trend in the space. However, a new study claims that AI search bots fail at citation and honoring publishers' wishes. The post AI Search Fails at Citation appeared first on Plagiarism Today.

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[Audio] Building a Business at the Intersection of Neurodata and Innovation With Rob Cooley

JD Supra Law

What if the key to advancing brain health and neuroscience lies in harnessing neurodata in ways never thought possible? On todays episode of Founder Shares, Robert S. Cooley Jr., founder and CEO of Nuream, discusses how his company is revolutionizing the way we capture and analyze brain activity. With cutting-edge smart-sensing materials, Nuream is creating new possibilities for early intervention in conditions like dementia, improving sleep health, and expanding our understanding of cognitive.

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Plagiarism and PMLA: Taking a look at the ED’s involvement in the Shankar- Tamilnandan “Enthiran” Copyright Saga

SpicyIP

Image from here [ This post has been co-authored with Anjali Tripathi. Anjali is a fourth-year law student at JGLS with an interest in IP rights, access to education, and the creative arts. Her previous post can be accessed here. ] In a big relief to movie director Shankar, the Madras High Court today stayed the Enforcement Directorate (ED)s decision to provisionally attach his assets worth 10.11 crore under the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA), 2002.

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Is your design patent taking too long?

Patent Trademark Blog

How long does it take to get a design patent? On average, a design patent application can take about 16 months for the initial examination. Strip out the fast-tracked design applications from the equation, and the average wait time for non-expedited design applications would certainly be longer. In fact, we have seen design patent applications take two to three years for the initial review by the examiner.

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Disqus is Deleting Pirate Site Communities on Short Notice

TorrentFreak

When peer-to-peer file-sharing was in its heyday, communities were the glue that held everything together, but not in the global sense evident today. File-sharing communities typically gathered on various forums. Operating in isolation, most embraced a central theme – file-sharing – everything else was a footnote. Embracing anyone and welcoming any topic of conversation, fancy high-tech social media platforms made short work of file-sharing communities.

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3 Count: French Front

Plagiarism Today

French publishers sue Meta over AI training, Turbo wins lawsuit over tag and Carl Lundstrm, Pirate Bay founder, dies in a plane crash. The post 3 Count: French Front appeared first on Plagiarism Today.

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IP Myths vs. Reality: What You Don’t Know Could Cost You

JD Supra Law

Intellectual property (IP) is often misunderstood, leading to costly mistakes for businesses and individuals alike. Many assume that once they create something, they automatically own the rights everywhere, or that patents and trademarks offer blanket protection. In reality, IP is a complex legal landscape governed by factors like value, ownership, jurisdiction and timing.

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The UPC's approach to added matter and functional claims (Abbott v. Sibio Technology, UPC_CoA_382/2024)

The IPKat

The recent decision in Abbott v Sibio Technology ( UPC_CoA_382/2024 ) offers valuable insights into the UPC's approach to the interpretation of functional claim language and the ever-contentious topic of added matter. On both issues, the UPC broadly appears to have followed the EPO approach. However, the lack of any explicit indication from the Court of Appeal that it was following EPO case law, particularly on the issue of added matter, raises the question of whether there was nonetheless some

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Balancing Justice And Order: Interplay Of Section 47, 57, And 124 Of The Trademarks Act, 1999.

IP and Legal Filings

Trademarks are not just marks or labels, they carry value and encourage commerce and signifies credibility and quality in the market. But what happens, however, when these trademarks become the focus point of contingent legal battles? The Trademarks Act, 1999 intends to interfere and offer some remedies so disputes can be sorted either on the ground of registration or infringement or even grounds of validity.

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Ad-Funded Piracy’s ‘Biggest Open Secret’ Revealed By Researcher

TorrentFreak

Tranco publishes an updated ranking list of a million domains every day. In today’s report the usual suspects dominate the top slots – google.com, microsoft.com, mail.ru and facebook.com. After scrolling through a 22mb.cvs, monosurveys.com eventually completes the million. Zonatmo.com can be found at #1576 but, until this week, the domain had yet to appear on our radar.

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How a Scam Publisher Stole a Video Game

Plagiarism Today

A video game publisher allegedly stole a game from a solo dev and published it on all the major consoles. Here's how it happened. The post How a Scam Publisher Stole a Video Game appeared first on Plagiarism Today.

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Federal Circuit Concludes Sales and Marketing Expenses Are To Be Included In Economic Prong Analysis At The ITC

JD Supra Law

Last week, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit lowered barriers that one must overcome to enforce patents at the U.S. International Trade Commission (ITC). The ITC often proves to be an effective forum to enforce claims for patent infringement by products that are imported into the United States because, when proper claims are proven, the ITC will issue remedial orders that prevent infringers from further importation of infringing products.

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CAFC: Prior Art Requires Written Support for Jepson Claim

IP Watchdog

The Federal Circuit says that you must disclose and describe the prior art, or your Jepson claim is invalid. Obviously, this means that pretty much every Jepson claim in existence is now invalid. It also ensures that Jepson claims will never be used again. It is also truly a mystery why the Patent Office would ever defend this PTAB decision and advocate in favor of requiring the prior art to be disclosed, discussed and supported.

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U.S. A.I. Patent Grant Data Reveal Surprising New Players and Possible Strategies

IP Close Up

Thousands of artificial intelligence patents have been granted worldwide over the past decade with little clarity as to their meaning, value or validity when tested Continue reading

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Oscar Winner ‘Anora’ Sees Massive Surge in Pirate Downloads

TorrentFreak

Almost two decades ago, The Pirate Bay supported the “ OscarTorrents ” project, which aimed to be a pirates’ counterweight to Hollywood’s annual awards show. At the time, mass movie piracy was still a relative fringe activity, with no instant streaming options available. Nonetheless, more than 100,000 people voted for their own movie favorites.

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3 Count: Funky Lawsuit

Plagiarism Today

George Clinton sued former business partner, Meta must face CMI claims, and Pensacola venue sued for unlicensed music. The post 3 Count: Funky Lawsuit appeared first on Plagiarism Today.

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Leveraging USPTO Delays To Maximize Patent Term

JD Supra Law

Before the USPTO was subject to a hiring freeze, it assumed it would onboard 400 new examiners between fiscal year 2025 and fiscal year 2026, and still predicted an increase in the backlog of unexamined patent applications. With a hiring freeze in place, the current backlog at nearly 838,000 unexamined patent applications, and the wait for initial examination already over 20 months, applicants can expect the time required to obtain a patent to increase.

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