Plagiarism Today
MARCH 10, 2025
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.
Hugh Stephens Blog
MARCH 10, 2025
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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Erik K Pelton
MARCH 10, 2025
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.
TorrentFreak
MARCH 12, 2025
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 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?
SpicyIP
MARCH 8, 2025
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.
Plagiarism Today
MARCH 6, 2025
Turnitin has announced Clarity, a new writing environment aimed at helping detect and prevent AI misuse. So why does it come with AI tools? The post Turnitin Announces Clarity, Aim to Make Student Writing More Transparent appeared first on Plagiarism Today.
Intellectual Property Pulse brings together the best content for IP professionals from the widest variety of industry thought leaders.
Likelihood of Confusion
MARCH 8, 2025
Originally posted 2017-09-25 12:32:49. Republished by Blog Post PromoterIt is so tiring. But that, to some extent, is what they’re counting on. Taylor Swift abusing trademark, again, of course. And everyone else not understanding that the nature of the latest version of that abuse, discussed below, is the widespread misunderstanding of what trademarks do — […] The post Not the swiftest appeared first on LIKELIHOOD OF CONFUSION.
TorrentFreak
MARCH 11, 2025
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.
The IPKat
MARCH 12, 2025
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.
SpicyIP
MARCH 9, 2025
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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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.
JD Supra Law
MARCH 10, 2025
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.
Plagiarism Today
MARCH 13, 2025
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.
TorrentFreak
MARCH 10, 2025
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.
IP and Legal Filings
MARCH 10, 2025
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.
IP Watchdog
MARCH 10, 2025
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.
JD Supra Law
MARCH 12, 2025
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.
Plagiarism Today
MARCH 13, 2025
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.
TorrentFreak
MARCH 8, 2025
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.
The IPKat
MARCH 12, 2025
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
Patent Trademark Blog
MARCH 13, 2025
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.
JD Supra Law
MARCH 10, 2025
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.
Plagiarism Today
MARCH 12, 2025
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.
TorrentFreak
MARCH 13, 2025
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.
The IPKat
MARCH 13, 2025
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
SpicyIP
MARCH 11, 2025
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.
JD Supra Law
MARCH 10, 2025
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.
Plagiarism Today
MARCH 12, 2025
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.
TorrentFreak
MARCH 10, 2025
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.
IP and Legal Filings
MARCH 11, 2025
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.
Patent Trademark Blog
MARCH 6, 2025
Can foreign applicants file US utility patent applications? Inventors located outside the US can file US patent applications. Foreign inventors, however, must be careful to follow the patent laws of the country in which the invention was made. While US patent law does not forbid foreign applicants from applying for US patents, the foreign country in which the invention was made might have strict laws about where the first patent application must be filed.
JD Supra Law
MARCH 13, 2025
There is no law or regulation instructing contractors how to mark commercial technical data delivered to the Department of Defense (DoD). Yet the DoD Federal Acquisition Regulation Supplement (DFARS) is quite clear that contractors and their suppliers must mark such data to protect them; if unmarked, the U.S. government and third parties may use and disclose data without restriction, and DoD contracts include a mandatory release of liability for such disclosure.
Plagiarism Today
MARCH 11, 2025
Jury rules Moana did not infringe, Ed Sheeran lawsuit appealed to the Supreme Court, and judge questions Miley Cyrus motion to dismiss. The post 3 Count: Moana Victory appeared first on Plagiarism Today.
TorrentFreak
MARCH 11, 2025
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
Intepat
MARCH 13, 2025
INTRODUCTION Architecture and architectural works have immense significance visually and culturally. They are created by a combination of creativity, technical skill and aesthetic qualities. Architectural designs came to be recognised as a form of intellectual property capable of protection after the 1908 Amendment to the Berne Convention, 1886. This inclusion was crucial in recognising and protecting the rights of architects over their architectural designs and works.
IIPRD
MARCH 13, 2025
Intellectual Property Rights (IPR) are like different keys for different locks. Just like every lock has its matching key, each type of IP serves a specific purpose. With so many IPs available trademarks, patents, copyrights, and more – how can you choose the right one for your work, product, or business? For that, first let us understand what are IP and IPR.
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