IP Watchdog

AUGUST 10, 2021

March 16, 2013 marked a watershed date in the practice of patent law as the effective date of the Leahy-Smith America Invents Act (AIA). Not surprisingly, there were a number of patent applications filed that bridged the March 16, 2013 AIA effective date.

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IP and Legal Filings

SEPTEMBER 4, 2024

After Companies Act, 2013 and the SEBI (Substantial Acquisition of Shares and Takeovers) Regulations, 2011 came into force, the Merger and Acquisition has experienced a major changes. 1] The Companies Act, 2013. [2] 2] [link] [3] The Companies Act, 2013, s.230. 4] The Companies Act, 2013, s.230(1).

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JD Supra Law

OCTOBER 4, 2024

On September 28, 2024, California Governor Gavin Newson signed into law AB-2013, requiring developers of generative artificial intelligence (AI) models, under certain conditions, to make specific disclosures regarding those models by January 1, 2026.

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Plagiarism Today

SEPTEMBER 14, 2022

Earlier this week, the journal BMC Medicine announced that it will not retract a controversial 2013 paper authored by botanist Steven Newmaster. The paper, originally published in 2013, brought Newmaster to prominence in the field of botany and led to massive amounts of not just academic success, but also entrepreneurial success.

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The IPKat

NOVEMBER 24, 2022

On October 30, 2013, a German company applied to the German Trade Mark Office (DPMA) for a word mark “Black Friday”. On December 20, 2013, the trade mark was registered for a large number of goods and services in classes 9, 35 and 41. However, continued the Federal Patent Court, the wording of Sec.

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JD Supra Law

SEPTEMBER 23, 2024

The California legislature recently passed Assembly Bill 2013 (AB 2013) on August 27, 2024, a measure aimed at enhancing transparency in AI training and development.

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TorrentFreak

SEPTEMBER 25, 2021

They include the resurrected Demonoid , EZTV ( first blocked in 2013 ) plus additional sites operating under familiar brands such as Primewire ( 2013 ), Solarmovie ( 2013 ), and Putlocker ( 2016 ).

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Plagiarism Today

AUGUST 9, 2021

The lawsuit is the second the group has filed against Charter, with one being filed in 2019 that looked at Charter’s alleged activities between March 24, 2013 and May 17, 2016.

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JD Supra Law

DECEMBER 4, 2024

California is making waves with its new AI law, Assembly Bill 2013 (AB 2013), set to take effect in 2026. AB 2013 demands transparency, requiring AI companies to disclose detailed information about the data they use to train their generative models, shedding light on a previously hidden layer of machine learning.

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Plagiarism Today

MAY 19, 2022

The case dates back to 2013 when Basil filed a notice of copyright termination on the album and her song. First off today, Pamela Chelin at Variety reports that the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals has granted a significant victory so singer Toni Basil, granting her sole copyright in her 1981 debut album, which included the hit song Mickey.

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Plagiarism Today

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

Parrott created an app named iDiversicons in 2013 that created a series of emoji with various skin tones. First off today, Blake Brittain at Reuters reports that Apple has emerged victorious in a lawsuit filed against them over racially diverse Emoji that were included in various Apple products.

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Plagiarism Today

MARCH 14, 2022

First off today, Mark Savage at the BBC reports that Katy Perry has emerged victorious once again in the lawsuit over her 2013 song Dark Horse. Let me know via Twitter @plagiarismtoday. 1: Katy Perry Wins in Dark Horse Copyright Appeal. Originally, a jury sided with Gray and awarded him $2.8 million in damages.

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IP Watchdog

JUNE 25, 2024

Just one year into the AIA, Chief Judge Randall Rader famously referred to the PTAB as a “death squad” at the 2013 American Intellectual Property Law Association (AIPLA) annual meeting because the invalidation rate was so high.

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JD Supra Law

DECEMBER 2, 2022

As first reported in our December 2013 newsletter, the first new generic top-level domains (gTLDs, the group of letters after the "dot" in a domain name) have launched their "Sunrise" registration periods.

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SpicyIP

AUGUST 13, 2024

In this post, apart from discussing the background and arguments raised in the case, I will discuss how the court, relying upon the now scrapped draft 2013 guidelines , applied the technical effect test to decide the patentability of the invention. demonstrate technical effect. demonstrate technical effect.

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Plagiarism Today

MAY 23, 2022

UMG has been the distributor for Disney music since 2013. Specifically, the claim deals with the song Are You Ready for the Ride? which users claim is completely different from the song UMG is actually claiming. However, users are still seeking removal of the blocks as the song is not one that can be commercialized by UMG or anyone else.

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Patently-O

DECEMBER 12, 2022

The America Invents Act became law in September 2011, but the first-to-invent provisions only took effect for patent applications filed after March 16, 2013. We apply pre-AIA status so long as every claim within the chain-of-priority has an effective filing date prior to the March 2013 date. AIA § 3(n).

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Plagiarism Today

JULY 26, 2022

Through discovery, Starz learned that these infringements went all the way back to 2013. However, Starz was unaware of the infringements and only learned about them in August 2019.

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TorrentFreak

JANUARY 30, 2024

The Pirate Bay, for example, started accepting bitcoin donations in 2013. The site surprisingly shut down in the spring of 2013. Pirate sites were early adopters of cryptocurrency. At the time, a single bitcoin was worth roughly $120, just a fraction of today’s price of $43,000.

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Plagiarism Today

JUNE 29, 2022

s 38-page 2013 dissertation from the National Defense University in Bucharest were plagiarized from outside sources. In January 2022, just months after taking the role of Prime Minister in Romania, Nicolae Ciuc? faced a significant plagiarism scandal. According to reporter Emilia ?ercan ercan (link in Romanian), some 42 pages of Ciuc?’s

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The IPKat

MARCH 8, 2023

In accordance with the national laws of civil procedure, in January 2013, the court requested the plaintiff to pay the court fees in advance. The court repeated this request and asked the plaintiff to submit the originals of the complaint in March 2013. By now, you can guess what happened: The plaintiff did not respond.

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Plagiarism Today

APRIL 19, 2022

Though a relative upstart in this field, being founded in 2013, Copyleaks has been making steady progress both in their product and their business. Earlier today, the Israeli-based plagiarism detection service Copyleaks announced a new $6 million round of funding to help them further develop their product.

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IP Watchdog

AUGUST 3, 2022

2107 (2013) and Mayo Collaborative Services v. Today, Senator Thom Tillis (R-NC), the Ranking Member of the Senate IP Subcommittee, released the first draft of the Patent Eligibility Restoration Act of 2022, which if enacted would, at a minimum, overrule the Supreme Court’s decisions in Ass’n for Molecular Pathology v. Myriad Genetics, Inc.,

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The IPKat

OCTOBER 9, 2023

The EU commissioned two exhaustive studies, in 2013 and in 2021 , discussing various legal mechanisms that could be used for non-agri GIs. For a scholarly perspective on the various national systems that led to the EU-wide one, see here.

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IP.com

JUNE 19, 2023

After legislation passed in 2013 prohibited patents on naturally occurring genes and invalidated previously issued patents, the process for gene patenting has become much more regulated.

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Likelihood of Confusion

OCTOBER 20, 2024

Originally posted 2013-09-28 21:24:28. Republished by Blog Post PromoterAnother not-safe-for-work story is out there about a trademark registration denied under Section 2(a) of the Lanham Act as “immoral or scandalous.” ” John Welch and Marc Randazza address the issue brilliantly here and here.

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Likelihood of Confusion

AUGUST 31, 2024

Originally posted 2013-02-20 14:00:09. Republished by Blog Post Promoter [Editor’s note: When this was first posted, I — not Matthew, I, Ron Coleman — failed to utilize the drop-down box and make sure that MDB showed as the author of this piece, probably thinking that the picture at left would do the trick.

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JD Supra Law

JANUARY 10, 2025

In 2013, the United States Supreme Court significantly changed the landscape of patent settlements in the pharmaceutical industry with its FTC v. Actavis, Inc.

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Plagiarism Today

AUGUST 17, 2021

Next up today, the BBC reports that Eurovision 2021 contestant James Newman has secured a major court victory against Kelly-Marie Smith, who claimed that a song Newman co-wrote in 2013 was an infringement of a 2006 track she wrote. According to the lawsuit, Smith penned a track named Can You Tell Me.

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Likelihood of Confusion

SEPTEMBER 21, 2024

Originally posted 2013-10-15 11:38:13. Republished by Blog Post PromoterYou’ve heard the tale in one form or another: A bar plays a recorded song over its sound system (without permission), then gets sued for violating the public performance right of the musical composition’s copyright holder. But it’s just an urban legend, right?

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JD Supra Law

MARCH 2, 2023

Over the past 10 years, the Commission’s 100-day program has evolved from a pilot program launched in 2013 to codification under Rule 210.10(b)(3). Rule 210.10(b)(3)

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The Illusion of More

NOVEMBER 25, 2023

During Thanksgiving break 2013, when this blog was still new, I wrote a post in response to the techno-exceptionalism expressed by then Google Chairman Eric Schmidt and co-author Jared Cohen.

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TorrentFreak

JUNE 1, 2022

Since the company’s launch in 2013, nearly 150,000 users have lost their accounts. Since Mega’s launch in 2013, hundreds of thousands of people have been booted from the platform after sharing objectionable content. This ironically included its founder Kim Dotcom, whose account was later restored.

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SpicyIP

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

This is considerable progress from when it was ranked 66th in 2013 , making India one of the top climbers of the decade 2013-2023. It has also scored the highest rank in the lower middle-income group, followed by Vietnam and Ukraine. India’s Chapter of the GII Rankings has determined India’s output rank as 35 and input rank as 45.

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IP Watchdog

APRIL 21, 2022

On several occasions since 2013, including most recently with Commissioner Andrew Hirshfeld, the USPTO has adopted a modality for filling a vacancy in the office of the Director, not with an Acting Director as the VRA requires, but with a non-PAS official “designated” to “perform the functions and duties” of the Director.

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Christopher Roser

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

When I first posted on September 1, 2013, I never though that it would go on this long. It has been ten years since I started this blog. But it has. Now there are 525 blog posts (or 663 if you include the Chinese and German translations) and a total of 765 000 words with.

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Likelihood of Confusion

AUGUST 6, 2024

Republished by Blog Post PromoterMatthew David Brozik wrote here about the December 2013 Holmes copyright expiration decision out of the U.S. Originally posted 2014-06-16 19:39:18. District of Illinois shortly after it came out. Go there to understand what the case is about, as I did.

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