Erik K Pelton

AUGUST 13, 2024

The following is an edited transcript of Chapter 7 of my book video Building a Bold Brand Chapter 7: Registration is the Keystone to Brand Protection While there are many incredible sights and millennia of history to write about in the city of Rome, one feature is central to all of the great buildings there: arches. From the first basic structures to the Colosseum, from the castles to the bridges and aqueducts, archways were central to building large and lasting structures.

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Plagiarism Today

AUGUST 12, 2024

Popular plagiarism detection service PlagScan is ending private plans, making it inaccessible to individuals and small businesses. The post PlagScan Ending Private Plans appeared first on Plagiarism Today.

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Plagiarism Today

AUGUST 7, 2024

After decades of sending DMCA notices, I began also serving as a DMCA agent. Several years later, here's what I've learned. The post 5 Things I’ve Learned Being a DMCA Agent for 100s of Sites appeared first on Plagiarism Today.

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Hugh Stephens Blog

AUGUST 11, 2024

Image: Shutterstock (with AI assist: Note AI misspelling) The sad, slow decline of professional journalism continues.

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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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TorrentFreak

AUGUST 8, 2024

Last month, Japan-based anti-piracy group Authorized Books of Japan (ABJ) ran a newspaper advertising campaign in the United States, Italy, Spain, and France. Its launch on July 17 was declared “Manga Day” and its purpose was to raise awareness of manga piracy by thanking those who pay for comics, rather than attacking those who do not pay.

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IP Watchdog

AUGUST 8, 2024

In an ongoing effort to reduce the backlog of patent applications, Brazil has introduced new appellate stage guidelines that significantly impact how applicants should respond to office actions and file appeals. These changes emphasize thorough and strategic responses to ensure all objections are properly addressed, paving the way for a more efficient patent granting process.

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SpicyIP

AUGUST 10, 2024

Recently Lupin Atlantis Holdings SA secured trademark registrations for three colour combinations for its inhalers. Highlighting some interesting bits from the prosecution of these applications and explaining the implications of these registrations on the larger access to medicines issues, we are pleased to bring to you this post by Md. Sabeeh Ahmad.

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JD Supra Law

AUGUST 8, 2024

The best athletes in the world have converged on Paris to represent their countries and showcase their ultimate sports performances — but the athletes are not the only ones going for gold. The Paris Olympics is also an arena for apparel and technology companies to represent their countries and showcase the best gear that sports and technology has to offer.

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TorrentFreak

AUGUST 11, 2024

Music piracy has been around for decades and there are no signs that it will disappear anytime soon. While legitimate subscription streaming services are commonplace today, some people prefer to download or rip music instead; particularly people with limited financial means. That’s a problem for labels and music publishers alike. According to the RIAA, the U.S. economy loses billions of dollars annually due to piracy.

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Barry Sookman

AUGUST 7, 2024

The Federal Court issued another troubling copyright decision involving Blacklock’s Reporter (BR) in the recent case, 1395804 Ontario Ltd, operating as Blacklock’s Reporter v AG Canada , 2024 FC 829. In reasons that are very difficult to follow and untangle, Justice Roy of the Federal Court held that Parks Canada did not infringe copyright or breach the Copyright Act’s legal protection of technological protection measures by circulating copies of articles and passwords to locked articles publish

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Advertiser: IPO

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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Plagiarism Today

AUGUST 8, 2024

In May 2007, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals handed down one of the most important rulings in the history of the internet, the Perfect 10 v Google ruling. The ruling established the “server test,” which allowed sites to embed copyright-protected content without infringement. Since the site wasn’t hosting the content, it wasn’t responsible for … The post The Server Test Suffers A Major Blow appeared first on Plagiarism Today.

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IP Law 360

AUGUST 9, 2024

Traditional leadership styles frequently amplify the inherent pressures of legal work, but a few simple, time-neutral strategies can strengthen the skills and confidence of employees and foster a more collaborative culture, while supporting individual growth and contribution to organizational goals, says Benjamin Grimes at BKG Leadership.

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JD Supra Law

AUGUST 13, 2024

The ongoing battle between DraftKings Inc. and its former executive, Michael Hermalyn, remains contentious, with the District of Massachusetts’ decision to enforce Hermalyn’s non-compete now appealed and argued to the First Circuit.

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TorrentFreak

AUGUST 10, 2024

Receiving and imparting advice allows humans to benefit from the experiences of others, without ever having to suffer the consequences of making the same mistakes themselves. While that’s a great theory and a lovely thought, it’s a poor substitute for knowing that today’s disaster is your own work and yours alone. What’s infinitely worse than that is blindly allowing strangers on the internet to make big decisions, and then having to live with the consequences of their po

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IP and Legal Filings

AUGUST 9, 2024

White Space Analysis is a process used by companies to produce strategic inventions. In this analysis, companies usually find a white-space gap within a sector and, considering how the gap could be filled, they introduce their inventions. This is a pre-patent filing duty that needs to be performed to understand the market a company is entering, enabling them to develop their product or invention accordingly.

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Plagiarism Today

AUGUST 7, 2024

Cox attempts to get a new trial in $1 billion case, Mattel wins lawsuit against producer and Nvidia leak highlights dubious scraping. The post 3 Count: Billion Dollar Question appeared first on Plagiarism Today.

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IP Law 360

AUGUST 8, 2024

General Motors Co. says that it has come to a deal with a Chicago auto parts supplier who went all the way to the full Federal Circuit — and changed design patent jurisprudence — in a now-abandoned challenge to a patent covering the design of a front fender.

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SpicyIP

AUGUST 8, 2024

In an interesting turn of events, the plaintiff in a trademark infringement suit had to face the wrath of the Delhi High Court for submitting false evidence and got criminal proceedings instituted against them on the directions of the Court. Discussing this development in detail, we are pleased to bring to you this post by SpicyIP intern Rishabh Deshpande.

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TorrentFreak

AUGUST 9, 2024

Despite providing a range of services for free that millions have come to rely on, and others that improve security and uptime for millions more, not everyone views Cloudflare’s key products as universally positive. In Italy, where it took just a couple of weeks for the Piracy Shield blocking system and Cloudflare to start bumping heads, the reasons for conflict are on full display.

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JD Supra Law

AUGUST 13, 2024

Corporate leaders concerned about protecting the recipe for their company's success have been following the fitful path of the FTC's rule banning non-competes. Lawsuits seeking to enjoin the rule were filed in multiple courts, but preliminary rulings conflict with the rule's legality and have offered no clarity about its ultimate fate. It remains set to take effect on September 4.

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IP Law 360

AUGUST 8, 2024

Recent rulings show that counsel should engage in early discussions with clients regarding the potential of hyperlinked documents in electronically stored information, which will allow for more deliberate negotiation of any agreements regarding the scope of discovery, say attorneys at Sidley.

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The IPKat

AUGUST 7, 2024

The UPCKat on its way to enforce some orders. As part of our UPCKat reporting on the latest UPC developments, the IPKat continues its series of reports that analyze the development of preliminary injunction case law from the UPC. With our guest UPCKat team in the form of guest UPCKats Agathe Michel-de Cazotte , Hiske Roos and Laura Mikkelsen and members from the team at Carpmaels we continue the journey, again visiting the Düsseldorf Local Division last year in two decisions (22 June and 18 Octo

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TorrentFreak

AUGUST 9, 2024

The Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) has promoted mixed martial arts fights for three decades, turning the sport into a billion-dollar industry. The company is known for its aggressive stance against piracy. UFC President Dana White has repeatedly called out pirates and even got into a keyboard fight with a trolling streaming pirate. UFC has also called on lawmakers to help them address the piracy problem.

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JD Supra Law

AUGUST 13, 2024

After almost 2 years of negotiations over a new interactive media agreement with video game industry giants such as Activision, Electronic Arts, Warner Bros. and Walt Disney Co., video game performers voted to strike as of Friday, July 26, 2024. The crux of the issue being negotiated surrounds artificial intelligence (“AI”) and performers’ fears that its unbridled use could provide game makers with a means to replace them by training AI to replicate an actor’s voice, or to create a digital.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

AUGUST 12, 2024

Photo by Chen via Pixabay In the aftermath of the 2024 ATRIP Annual Congress , recently held in Rome and entirely dedicated to doctrinal developments on “Intellectual Property, Ethical Innovation and Sustainability”, we share our preliminary takeaways on this ongoing debate. The interplay between IP and Sustainability is well-known and hardly contested at global scale.

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IP Law 360

AUGUST 7, 2024

The U.S. Supreme Court's recent decision to dismantle Chevron deference also effectively overrules its 2005 decision in National Cable & Telecommunications Association v. Brand X, greatly diminishing agencies' ability to change regulatory course from one administration to the next, says Steven Gordon at Holland & Knight.

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Patently-O

AUGUST 7, 2024

by Dennis Crouch The Federal Circuit’s recent decision in Impact Engine v. Google has again raised the issue of over the proper treatment of means-plus-function (MPF), this time regarding patent eligibility and infringement analyses. Appeal No. 22-2291 (Fed. Cir. July 3, 2024). I had skipped a write-up of the non-precedential decision, but now Impact Engine has petitioned for en banc review, arguing that MPF claims having specific corresponding structure should be deemed per se eligible

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TorrentFreak

AUGUST 8, 2024

The Canadian Government is no stranger to having its copyright policies critiqued. The Office of the US Trade Representative (USTR), for example, has repeatedly placed its northern neighbor on a “ watch list ” because it fails to properly deter piracy, and then the EU followed suit. To tackle copyright concerns, Canada has made several changes to its laws in recent years.

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JD Supra Law

AUGUST 12, 2024

Heartland, Inc. filed a lawsuit against Povolny Specialties, Inc., accusing them of infringing on patents related to commercial lighting control technology. The patents in question, U.S. Patent Nos. 9,788,391 B1 and 10,390,400 B1, were central to Heartland’s claims.

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The IPKat

AUGUST 12, 2024

What is a "plant" for the purposes of patent law? The answer depends: in the United States, for example, fungi and macroalgae are considered "plants" under the Plant Patent Act of 1930. The latest answer to this question has come from the Hague Local Division of the Unified Patent Court (UPC) in a case concerning the patentability of mushrooms (i.e. fungi).

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IP Law 360

AUGUST 8, 2024

A company suing football helmet manufacturer Certor for patent infringement took aim Wednesday at its rival's interpretations of the disputed patent, accusing it of trying to sidestep the court's earlier construction of a term with "no change in the law, no new facts to consider, nothing.

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Copyright Alliance

AUGUST 13, 2024

This week we’d like to introduce you to Nedislav Dragnev, a young performer and songwriter. He became popular in Europe and Asia and has accomplished impressive achievements in global entertainment, performing in shows and commercial projects. […] The post Creator Spotlight with Singer/Songwriter Nedislav Dragnev appeared first on Copyright Alliance.

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TorrentFreak

AUGUST 12, 2024

It’s no secret that Russia would like to have credible alternatives to the world’s most popular websites, software, and operating systems. Having to rely on the United States for software including, Windows and Photoshop, is painful enough. However, Russia’s relationship with YouTube appears to be much more complicated. Having avoided the fates of Facebook and Instagram, which found themselves labeled “extremist” and banned from Russia, this summer YouTube began fee

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JD Supra Law

AUGUST 12, 2024

In her recent decision in Caporaso Pty Ltd v Mercato Centrale Australia Pty Ltd [2024] FCA 138 (Caporaso v Mercato), the Honourable Justice Charlesworth of the Federal Court of Australia has demonstrated how Australian courts approach the use of non-English words as trade marks in Australia.

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Cogency Global

AUGUST 8, 2024

What this is : Preparing to merge 2 companies requires a great deal of effort and activity before and after the acquisition, negotiation, due diligence, filing the merger documents, post-merger re-organization, etc. With everything going on, the important step of “post-merger cleanup” (that is, ensuring that the merger is properly reflected in every state where the acquired company was registered to do business) is sometimes forgotten.

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