Hugh Stephens Blog

APRIL 3, 2023

In a political landscape where the focus is on health care, climate change and energy transition along with security challenges such as … Continue reading "Canada’s 2023 Budget and the Creative Industries: Not Much to Cheer About"

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Intellectual Property Law Blog

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

So as of early 2023, what effect have those orders had on patent filings? In January 2023, a total of 242 district court patent cases were filed nationwide, with 36 cases filed in WDTX ( representing a mere 14.9% Judge Albright was only assigned to 19 cases in January 2023. of total cases ). of the 269 total patent cases.

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Hugh Stephens Blog

DECEMBER 19, 2022

Some of the same issues I highlighted last year, such as payment to news content providers by online news aggregators (Google) … Continue reading "Looking Back on 2022 and Forward to 2023: What was and will be important to Copyright, Creators and Content Industries?"

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Copyright Alliance

JANUARY 4, 2024

In today’s post, we pick back […] The post AI and Copyright in 2023: In the Courts appeared first on Copyright Alliance. On January 3, we published part one of this blog series summarizing the biggest copyright-related AI activities that took place within the federal government.

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TorrentFreak

DECEMBER 25, 2023

HBO’s ‘The Last of Us’ is the most pirated TV show of 2023. — Below we have compiled a list of the most-torrented TV shows worldwide released in 2023 (per episode). With no dragon-themed series in the mix, it was hard to predict this year’s winner. However, the data leave little room for doubt.

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The IPKat

JANUARY 23, 2024

Thank you to readers who voted for the IPKat book of the year awards 2023! Please note: Some nominations do not appear in the list above: exclusions were made for example for not being a book about IP Law, or not being published in 2023. Patent Portfolio Management, A Practical Guide, by Ho Frattasi.

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TorrentFreak

JANUARY 1, 2024

We also received a few direct to us via email, more than usual in 2023. New Year 2023: Peaceful for 19 Days By January 19, 2023, things were looking quite promising. On April 3, 2023, we received an email from Turkey-based anti-piracy outfit DigiGuardians Inc.

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Intellectual Property Law Blog

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

This case addresses the ability of a petitioner in an IPR to present new evidence in a reply brief, particularly where the patent owner proposes a new claim construction in its patent owner response. Background Medtronic, Inc. Medtronic”) owns multiple patents relating to transcutaneous (i.e.

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TorrentFreak

MAY 14, 2024

The Australian government has released the 2023 edition of its Consumer Survey on Online Copyright Infringement. Overall Online Consumption 2023 Survey data for overall online content consumption in Australia means respondents’ consumption in total, regardless of whether the sources used were legal or illegal.

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TorrentFreak

APRIL 18, 2024

In April 2023, Uptobox received 34 million visits from users all over the world, around a third of those from France. On September 20, 2023, not even the most sophisticated techniques allowed users to connect to Uptobox servers. At several points in its dozen or so years online, Uptobox faced adversity, mostly due to copyright issues.

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IP Watchdog

DECEMBER 1, 2024

billion USD during 2023. On November 25, economist Will Page, formerly Chief Economist of streaming music company Spotify, published a report on the global value of music copyright, finding that worldwide music copyright revenues had increased 11% to reach $45.5

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Intellectual Property Law Blog

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

This case is primarily about the Daubert standard as applied to expert testimony on damages. The Federal Circuit reversed the Northern District of California’s admission of expert testimony on damages, which relied on calculations that failed to differentiate between infringing products and non-infringing products.

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TorrentFreak

MAY 15, 2024

As reported yesterday, the Australian government has just released the 2023 edition of its Consumer Survey on Online Copyright Infringement. When compared to how many citizens resorted to pirate sources in 2015, the figures for 2023 show improvement almost right across the board.

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Hugh Stephens Blog

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

On August 4, 2023, India’s Cinematograph (Amendment) Bill, 2023, received Presidential assent and became the law of the land. This legislation marks a real … Continue reading "India Government Adopts New Tool to Tackle Film Piracy and Modernizes Content Classification"

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Hugh Stephens Blog

JANUARY 3, 2024

It was the big emerging issue in 2023 and is going to be even bigger in 2024. Image:www.shutterstock.com There is no better way to start out the New Year, 2024, with a commentary on Artificial Intelligence (AI) and copyright.

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Intellectual Property Law Blog

APRIL 12, 2023

Written comments must be received on or before June 10, 2023. On March 16, 2023, the Copyright Office launched a new artificial intelligence initiative. On February 14, 2023, the USPTO published a Federal Register Notice (FRN) requesting comments regarding AI and inventorship.

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Intellectual Property Law Blog

APRIL 12, 2023

On March 16, 2023, the U. Copyright Office (USCO) launched a new AI Initiative to examine the copyright law and policy issues raised by artificial intelligence (AI), including the scope of copyright in works generated using AI tools and using copyrighted materials in AI training.

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Intellectual Property Law Blog

OCTOBER 6, 2023

This case addresses certain implications of the Laehy-Smith America Invests Act (AIA), namely whether patents with a filing date after March 16, 2013 (pure AIA patents) may be part of an interference proceeding under pre-AIA, 35 U.S.C. §

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Intellectual Property Law Blog

OCTOBER 24, 2023

This case addresses how Patent Term Adjustment (PTA) interacts with obviousness-type double patenting (ODP). Background Cellect sued Samsung Electronics, Co. for infringement of four patents.

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Hugh Stephens Blog

AUGUST 10, 2023

Among the models she has been looking at is the Toyota Prius, so when I saw a review of the 2023 Prius in the Driving section of my local paper, the Victoria Times-Colonist, … Continue reading "Google Blocked My News Search—So I Used Bing and Got the Information I Needed, Instantly!"

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Hugh Stephens Blog

JANUARY 11, 2023

Canada’s Online Streaming Act, (Bill C-11) the draft legislation that will bring online streaming content under the purview of the Broadcasting Act, will continue its slow progress through Parliament in 2023. Review in the Senate last year led to a number of amendments, one of which dealt with the definition of Canadian content (Cancon).

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Intellectual Property Law Blog

OCTOBER 24, 2023

This case addresses the validity of two patents asserted against wireless communications technologies. In particular, this case discusses claim construction and post-issuance claim amendments that broaden the scope of challenged claims.

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Intellectual Property Law Blog

OCTOBER 6, 2023

This case addresses whether patents relating to methods and systems for connecting users based on their answers to polling questions claim patentable subject matter under 35 U.S.C. § Background Trinity sued Covalent for patent infringement of U.S. Patent 9,087,321 (“the ’321 patent”) and U.S.

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Intellectual Property Law Blog

MAY 2, 2023

On April 21, 2023, the Secretary of Homeland Security, Alejandro N. Additionally, on January 23, 2023, the National Institute of Standards and Technology (“NIST”) released the first version of its “ Artificial Intelligence Risk Management Framework ” (“AI RMF 1.0”). Patents On February 14, 2023, the U.S. Both the U.S.

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TorrentFreak

MARCH 9, 2024

New Report Delivers Positive News for the Industry Published in French, the latest edition of ‘ Audience For Illicit Sites Dedicated to Video Consumption in France ‘ covers the period December 2021 to December 2023. million in December 2023, roughly half the size they were five years earlier. in 2019 to 6.3

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Hugh Stephens Blog

NOVEMBER 23, 2023

Image by Greg Altmann/Pixabay This blog post appeared first in Open Canada, the journal of the Canadian International Council, on November 20, 2023.

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IP Watchdog

SEPTEMBER 26, 2024

Copyright Office published a final decision denying registration of Allen’s work in September 2023. District Court for the District of Colorado asking the court to find that his work is eligible for copyright registration. The Review Board of the U.S.

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Michael Geist

OCTOBER 4, 2023

It added that it did not think the various proceedings were connected, stating it “is of the view that the issues and questions covered in BNC 2023-138 [broader regulation] are distinct from the issues and questions in BNC 2023-139 [registration] and BNC 2023-140 [digital media exemption].”

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TorrentFreak

APRIL 17, 2024

A few hours ago, the company released its latest transparency report detailing the actions it took in the second half of 2023. In the first half of 2023, rightsholders requested the removal of nearly a million items, which was an all-time record. That said, the company does signal a significant increase in copyright-related user bans.

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JD Supra Law

MARCH 5, 2024

Originally published in Law360 - March 4, 2023. Despite regulatory trends toward greater transparency of AI models, federal policy acknowledges, and perhaps endorses, trade secret protection for AI information. By: Rothwell, Figg, Ernst & Manbeck, P.C.

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JD Supra Law

MARCH 5, 2024

On 27 December 2023, The New York Times filed a lawsuit against OpenAI and Microsoft alleging copyright infringement in connection with OpenAI’s popular ChatGPT technology.

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TorrentFreak

JUNE 6, 2024

In the last six months of 2023, 7,791 partners had access to Content ID, down from over 8,900 partners in the first half of the year. Between July 2023 and December 2023, a total of 1,016,137,305 potential infringements were flagged. According to YouTube’s latest transparency report , the group is shrinking.

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JD Supra Law

AUGUST 6, 2024

In the first quarter of 2023, the U.S. In March of 2023, the Office published a Policy Statement to clarify its practices for examining and registering works that contain material generated by the. Copyright Office on July 31, 2024.

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JD Supra Law

JULY 3, 2024

1, 2023 through April 30, 2024) stands at 66% (427 instituted, 230 denied). This rate remains flat compared to the previous two fiscal years (67% in FY 2023 and 66% in FY 2022), but remains significantly increased from the two fiscal years prior to that (58% in FY 2021 and 56% in FY 2020).

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TorrentFreak

JUNE 18, 2024

French telecoms/audiovisual regulator Arcom has released its annual report covering 2023. Change of Spec Boosts Accuracy, No Fall in Prosecution Rates 2023 was an unusual year for detecting alleged infringers. Arcom says this change produced a significant increase in the average detection rate; from 56% in 2022 to 77% in 2023.

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JD Supra Law

AUGUST 28, 2024

In our 2023 PTAB Year in Review article, we noted that In re Cellect, 84 F.4th 2023) had the. Patent Owners should carefully review ODP rejections to ensure they are proper Obviousness-type double patenting (ODP) is a legal doctrine intended to prevent the unjustified extension of a patent term through prosecution gamesmanship.

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JD Supra Law

JULY 1, 2024

On February 28, 2024, following the European Commission's four 2023 proposals, the European Parliament adopted a legislative resolution on the amended proposal to create a Unitary Supplementary Protection Certificate ("USPC") and recast the existing Supplementary Protection Certificate ("SPC") regulations for medicinal products.

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