Plagiarism Today

JANUARY 13, 2022

According to a 1999 report by Washington City Paper , she first found herself dealing with accusations of plagiarism, something she blamed on copy and paste errors. Any errors in it were either extremely minor or were made deliberately to protect a confidential source. However, almost from the beginning, she was beset by controversy.

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TorrentFreak

MARCH 18, 2022

MarkMonitor believes that the requested information is confidential and asks the court to keep it out of the public’s view. While it is totally understandable that MarkMonitor and the record labels don’t want to share proprietary or confidential information in public, singling out TorrentFreak is completely unnecessary.

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TorrentFreak

JANUARY 17, 2022

Confidential Settlement. The full details of the settlement agreement are confidential. “Pursuant to the confidential settlement agreement, Plaintiffs have requested and Defendant KeepSolid has agreed to use commercially reasonable efforts to block BitTorrent traffic,” the joint dismissal stipulation reads.

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Trading Secrets

AUGUST 17, 2022

Specifically, the rule provides that “[n]o person may take any action to impede an individual from communicating directly with the Commission staff about a possible securities law violation, including enforcing, or threatening to enforce, a confidentiality agreement. with respect to such communications.”.

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TorrentFreak

DECEMBER 20, 2022

With the orders in hand, a search party was permitted to enter several buildings and search, copy, or remove evidence including any computers and documents that were linked to the alleged offenses. After the early fireworks, the case proceeded quietly in the background, while confidential filings kept the general public out of the loop.

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LexBlog IP

DECEMBER 2, 2021

A settlement agreement was reached where Elation could inspect the software developed by Shi and prevent the use of any trade secrets or confidential information. Elation is an important decision for California companies suing to recover and prevent the use of confidential information in violation of confidentiality agreements or NDAs.

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Patent Trademark Blog

OCTOBER 26, 2022

If you have a simple product that others can easily copy, you wouldn’t be thinking about keeping anything confidential. And if you have powerful knowledge that is confidential, will others be able to be able to figure it out after breaking apart your product? Can you keep your US patent application confidential?

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TorrentFreak

SEPTEMBER 3, 2024

Last October, attorneys for the alleged pirate site offered to confidentially settle all copyright infringement claims with PCR. The proposed terms of the agreement are unknown, but PCR declined and insisted that nHentai should take down pirated copies of their works.

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SpicyIP

SEPTEMBER 2, 2024

Image by storyset on Freepik Recently, the Delhi High Court (DHC) issued an interim injunction in a lawsuit concerning trade secrets and confidential information. The first, is if there is a contract between both parties that contains a specific obligation to protect confidential information. 1 who then shared it with defendant no.

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TorrentFreak

MAY 7, 2023

DISH said it sent “hundreds of notices” requesting removal of content under the DMCA, along with copies of lawsuits and judgments relating to pirate IPTV services. Confidentiality Agreement After a couple of weeks of relative calm, the parties agreed on a confidentiality order and from there, nothing but silence until December 2022.

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The IP Law Blog

JANUARY 13, 2022

A trade secret protects a business’s confidential and proprietary information. However, if the trade secret can be copied or reverse-engineered (without unlawful conduct), or independently created, then there is no longer any protection. The answer is: It depends. What Can Be Protected? . A patent protects an invention.

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TorrentFreak

AUGUST 15, 2022

“The transcript contains information and reference to MarkMonitor’s source code that is private, proprietary, confidential and commercially sensitive trade secret information regarding its antipiracy detection system,” MarkMonitor writes. Accordingly, this exhibit should be destroyed or permanently sealed.”

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IP Law 360

MARCH 15, 2023

Former Proskauer Rose LLP Chief Operating Officer Jonathan O'Brien asked a New York federal judge on Tuesday to throw out trade secret misappropriation and conversion claims from a suit accusing him of stealing Proskauer's confidential information, arguing that the firm has not shown that he used the secret documents he allegedly copied.

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LexBlog IP

OCTOBER 19, 2023

A debate is growing within the trade secret community about the scope of information that should be protected–specifically, confidential information that does not rise to the level of a trade secret. On October 12, 2023, in Hanneman Family Funeral Home & Crematorium v.

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IPilogue

JULY 21, 2021

assembled a digital two-way radio business largely deploying Motorola’s research and development, such as source code and confidential technical documents. copyright laws by copying their source code, it also complained that Hytera infringed the federal Defend Trade Secrets Act. Hytera Corp.

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TorrentFreak

MAY 15, 2024

For example, the data is classified as “highly confidential” and should be destroyed 30 days after the proceedings conclude. — A copy of the stipulation and order, issued by the U.S. As mentioned earlier, rightsholders are not allowed to “harass” the customers either.

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TorrentFreak

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

Columbia’s policy not to send takedown requests for copied movie trailers, despite the fact that these are often copied without permission. “This confidential information reflects broad policy decisions Columbia has made regarding its copyright enforcement priorities and remains true today.

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Indiana Intellectual Property Law

MARCH 11, 2024

The dispute arises from Valcrum’s allegation that Dexter, a manufacturer and distributor of axle and trailer accessories, has copied Valcrum’s hubcap design, including the distinctive red hex bezel, to market its own product called the “Fortress” hubcap.

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Patently-O

AUGUST 13, 2021

The court relied upon additional facts not found in the question presented–noting that the document in question was distributed to hundreds of customers over a span of years and without any confidentiality restrictions; and that product advertisements were designed to attract persons of skill in the art. Centripetal Networks, Inc.

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Plagiarism Today

OCTOBER 18, 2022

The report will stay confidential, but I've been allowed to share the following text: pic.twitter.com/ZEsdGJ70UM — Kevin M. Plagiarism findings such as this are often warning signs of additional copying in the work. Thankfully, that process has concluded too. Kruse (@KevinMKruse) October 7, 2022.

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TorrentFreak

MARCH 13, 2022

Earlier this month, both parties agreed to end the legal dispute with a confidential settlement agreement. — A copy of the joint stipulation, mentioning the dismissal and the blocking intent, is available here (pdf). There is no evidence that any money will change hands and both sides have agreed to cover their own costs.

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TorrentFreak

OCTOBER 8, 2021

Both parties agreed on a confidential settlement agreement. — A copy of the stipulation to dismiss the claims against defendant Sharktech is available here (pdf). Last month, they indicated to the court that an agreement was being finalized. This week the movie companies and Sharktech filed a stipulation to dismiss the case.

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TorrentFreak

JULY 4, 2024

“[T]he Times cannot pursue a claim for infringement over any part of a copyrighted work that is not original to the Times, as would be the case if the Times copied another’s work or elements in the public domain,” OpenAI writes. This also includes other disputed requests.

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TorrentFreak

AUGUST 1, 2022

“The confidential settlement agreement does not obligate VeePN to implement any kind of measures in order to store log records of the IP addresses tied to servers in the United States under VeePN’s control and retain said log records,” Rozum notes. In another lawsuit that was resolved last year, VPN.ht

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IP Law 360

MARCH 10, 2025

The Philadelphia Inquirer has confidentially settled its infringement suit against a company that sold framed copies of its articles and front pages, according to filings in Pennsylvania federal court.

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TorrentFreak

NOVEMBER 25, 2021

“Plaintiffs should not be permitted to use information properly designated Confidential or Highly Confidential outside of this case, or specifically to file lawsuits against Defendant’s customers,” the ISP writes. The issue now rests with the court which is expected to decide on these matters in the weeks to come.

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Copyright Lately

AUGUST 19, 2024

The plaintiffs allege that Ross hired a third-party contractor to unlawfully copy Westlaw content—including its proprietary Key Number System and case headnotes—in order to train Ross’s own AI-driven natural language legal search engine. Sorry, future jurors.)

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TorrentFreak

AUGUST 21, 2021

After the apparent demise of Area 51 but in advance of the settlement being finalized, it’s alleged that Tusa launched a close copy of Area 51 called SingularityMedia, which scooped up Area 51’s customers. In response, ACE contacted Tusa again and demanded that the new service was shut down. It later disappeared.

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The IP Law Blog

MARCH 14, 2024

The plaintiffs alleged that OpenAI copied their published books, which are protected by copyright law, and used them in a training dataset for its LLM. To allege a valid copyright infringement claim, a plaintiff must show that: (1) that he or she owns a valid copyright; and (2) that the defendant “copied aspects of his [or her] work.”

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SpicyIP

JULY 5, 2021

The appellant sought a copy of a PhD Thesis titled “Studies on some nitrogen fixing genes of Azotobacter vinelandi” from Jamia Millia Islamia, a central university and public authority for the purposes of RTI Act. What makes it more ‘non-confidential’ is the university is bound by clause 14(b) of the ordinance, as well as by Section 13.1

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TorrentFreak

OCTOBER 15, 2024

” After the parties got together, an agreement was reached to confidentially disclose basic subscriber information related to 64 Discord User IDs. Discord was clearly hesitant to cooperate but, faced with a motion to compel, it eventually chose to do so. This isn’t just an isolated issue that affects these two companies.

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TorrentFreak

APRIL 5, 2023

The company’s claims included damages for “willful and malicious” copyright infringement due to the illegal copying, adaption and distribution of GTA source code and other protected content. For good measure, Take-Two also demanded damages for alleged misrepresentations in the defendants’ DMCA counternotices.

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The IPKat

AUGUST 23, 2023

Confidential Information Image by Riana Harvey Annsley Merelle Ward discussed the recent decision Mimo Connect v Burley & Ors [2023] EWCA Civ 909 and in particular the fact that facts are everything in confidential information cases. Here is a brief recap of the topics covered last week on The IPKat.

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IP Tech Blog

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

Employment or cooperation agreements must ensure confidentiality and include proper non-compete-clauses to avoid risk of theft by employees or other unauthorized parties. Additional software and technical measures are also encouraged to track and monitor flow of information and data.

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Trading Secrets

DECEMBER 3, 2021

For the company executive, in-house counsel, or HR professional, we hope this guide will provide a starting point to answer your questions about restrictive covenants and protecting your company’s most valuable and confidential assets. Request a Copy. If you have any questions, please contact Colleen Vest at cvest@seyfarth.com. .

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The IPKat

MAY 12, 2023

When one hears the claims of copyright infringement, confidential information and employment claims one can readily assume that this is an employer/ex-employee dispute. US proceedings were filed by PQ against CyberMetrics in October 2017, Mr Aughton was deposed in October 2021 and the proceedings then settled on confidential terms.

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TorrentFreak

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

“This [VPN ban] has had a particularly dire effect on foreign businesses, which routinely use VPN services to connect to locations and services outside of China, and which depend on VPN technology to ensure confidentiality of communications,” the USTR wrote. ACT hopes that the USTR will continue to press this issue.

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