Plagiarism Today

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

First off today, Blake Brittain at Reuters reports that Sony Music and UK fitness apparel brand Gymshark have settled their lawsuit over Gymshark’s alleged use of Sony’s music in social media posts. However, now it is being reported that the two sides have reached a confidential settlement in the matter.

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TorrentFreak

MARCH 27, 2025

. “After exchanging intelligence information, it was possible to verify that the criminals were monopolizing the sales of gas and water cylinders in communities that are influenced by the criminal organization, law enforcement officers reported last week.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

NOVEMBER 25, 2022

Why did Jonae post ZD’s confidential diagnosis on Facebook? Whatever the diagnosis was, ZD reported her consequences from the Facebook posting included: her fiancé broke up with her. The post A Hospital Mailed a Patient’s Confidential Diagnosis to a Rando. Who does that? Again, who does that? Case Citation : Z.D.

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The IPKat

MAY 12, 2024

The UPCKat trying to keep confidential information confidential in the UPC As part of our UPCKat reporting on the latest UPC developments, the IPKat brings readers a roundup of how the UPC is treating confidentiality and third party access to court documents.

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Trading Secrets

AUGUST 17, 2022

But one area where we’ve seen legislative fretting is when that principle potentially impedes reporting wrongdoing to the government. As we have previously blogged, Congress and many state legislatures are exploring (or, in some cases, already enacted) legislative protections for reporting suspected misconduct to the government.

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JD Supra Law

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

Intellectual property (IP) cases are intricate, highly confidential, massive undertakings. This means you need a court reporting agency with solid IP experience. They often involve high-profile parties, source code and international depositions. By: Planet Depos, LLC

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TorrentFreak

JUNE 29, 2022

Local media reports suggest that Dotcom hasn’t spoken to former friends Ortmann and van der Kolk for years but their recent deal to avoid extradition in the Megaupload case by pleading guilty to organized crime charges puts Dotcom in a tough spot. And he wasn’t finished there.

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Copyright Lately

OCTOBER 27, 2024

Settlements: The Risk Calculation It’s hard to directly compare default judgment awards to settlement amounts, as settlements are typically confidential. In settlement agreements, defendants can negotiate terms, including confidentiality clauses and non-admission of liability—two major benefits that a public judgment lacks.

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IP Law 360

JULY 2, 2024

The Federal Trade Commission has opened an investigation into Teva Pharmaceuticals after it refused to remove inhaler patents from a key federal database, according to a Washington Post report citing confidential agency documents.

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JD Supra Law

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

On February 18, 2022, the Court of Appeal of Quebec released its decision in Merck Canada Inc c Procureur général du Canada (2022 QCCA 240). This is the appeal of the Quebec Superior Court decision declaring price and revenue calculation provisions of the amended Patented Medicines Regulations (“the Regulations”) unconstitutional.

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TorrentFreak

MAY 7, 2023

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. A status report revealed that DISH had served requests for production on DataCamp and that the company would engage in “rolling” document production.

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SpicyIP

JANUARY 20, 2025

Deepak Gupta & Ors Do trade secrets/confidential information need to have economic or commercial value? The impugned order, which referred to Section 21 of the Patents Act, was contended as an improper refusal under Section 15, as the petitioner had not received a second examination report and had not been given a chance to respond.

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Michael Geist

APRIL 11, 2023

The bill, which reports suggest will even include age verification requirements that raise significant privacy and expression concerns, is expected to emerge as the most controversial of the government’s three-part Internet regulation plan that also includes Bill C-11 and Bill C-18. percent of responses are mixed/neutral or otherwise unclear.

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Plagiarism Today

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

First came allegations from The Guardian , which found that an article as part of his Gleeso Confidential column had copied more than 21 paragraphs from a fact sheet published by the Queensland Parliament. That amounted to approximately 62% of the entire column. A Familiar Story.

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Trading Secrets

JANUARY 24, 2024

This marks the continuation of its recent activity to enforce SEC Rule 21F-17(a), a regulation that prohibits companies from taking any action to impede or discourage whistleblowers from reporting suspected securities violations to the SEC. with respect to such communications.” with respect to such communications.”

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TorrentFreak

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

According to a report published by Synamedia last year, football is the number one gateway sport that turns fans of other sports, including Camel racing aficionados , into streaming pirates. As part of this confidential agreement, the domain names were signed over to ACE. were operated by the same person, a Moroccan resident.

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LexBlog IP

JANUARY 24, 2024

This marks the continuation of its recent activity to enforce SEC Rule 21F-17(a), a regulation that prohibits companies from taking any action to impede or discourage whistleblowers from reporting suspected securities violations to the SEC. with respect to such communications.” with respect to such communications.”

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JD Supra Law

DECEMBER 2, 2021

Intellectual Property cases are intricate, highly confidential, massive undertakings. This means you need a court reporting agency with solid IP experience. They often involve high-profile parties, source code, and international depositions. By: Planet Depos, LLC

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JD Supra Law

MAY 8, 2024

According to published reports, George Carlin’s estate settled right of publicity and copyright claims relating to an AI-scripted comedy special using a “sound-alike” of George Carlin which performed the generated script. By: Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP

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Indiana Intellectual Property Law

FEBRUARY 21, 2025

Specifically, RestoPros alleges that the Baileys used its registered trademark RESTOPROS and confidential business information to launch a competing business, Restore and Renew Professionals , after leaving the RestoPros franchise.

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SpicyIP

JUNE 13, 2022

While the Joint Parliamentary Committee ( JPC ) released its much-awaited report on a sparkling new data protection legislation late last year, as reported , the bill may be scrapped for a completely new law. Only a narrow set of information related to the technology should be protected as confidential. Image from here.

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TorrentFreak

MARCH 25, 2025

The Premier League, UK broadcaster Sky, plus global anti-piracy coalition Alliance for Creativity and Entertainment, are reporting the conclusion of a ‘landmark’ pirate IPTV case in the Middle East. Similar claims featured in subsequent submissions to the EC and the USTR’s Notorious Markets Report.

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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. “Plaintiff or its agents sent DMCA compliant takedown notices identifying infringing works on Defendants’ website to the email address provided for reporting abuse.

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JD Supra Law

OCTOBER 25, 2022

Life science companies are increasingly turning to international arbitration as a preferred dispute-resolution mechanism due to its confidentiality, comparative cost-effectiveness, and nearly universal enforceability.

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The IPKat

SEPTEMBER 4, 2023

The AmeriKat loves a good EU report - excellent summer nap time fodder Another week, another trade secrets update. To answer this and related questions, the Directive instructed the EUIPO to periodically produce reports on the effects of the harmonization effort.

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LexBlog IP

MARCH 18, 2024

The use of an AI tool to, for example, record a meeting that discusses company confidential information, can give rise to claims of trade secret misappropriation. The complaint alleges the former employee, among other things, used Otter to record and transcribe confidential meetings. Plaintiffs West Technology Group LLC and CX360 Inc.

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IP and Legal Filings

JULY 16, 2024

In such cases there are some factors that essentially set the company apart, such factor has to be kept confidential and requires protection. According to the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) , “trade secrets are intellectual property rights on confidential information which may be sold or licensed.”

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TorrentFreak

MARCH 31, 2023

A report on general compliance was the overriding theme. Report Satisfied Judge, New Injunction Awarded Before Rogers, Bell, TVA, and the other plaintiffs were able to renew their injunction, the Court reviewed the experts’ report to ensure that its instructions had been followed.

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Nelligan Law

FEBRUARY 3, 2025

Courts have interpreted this broad legal obligation to include specific duties such as protecting confidential information and avoiding conflicts of interest. The OBCA and ONCA also provide for reliance in good faith on a report or advice of an officer or employee of the corporation, where it is reasonable to do so in the circumstances.

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SpicyIP

FEBRUARY 23, 2025

A quick glance at last week – Madras HC accepts a US District Court’s Letter Rogatory to furnish confidential information, a look at Functional Fallacies in Thomson Reuters vs Ross Intelligence and many more. We also have the initiation of our attempt to bring IP conversations to wider audiences through multilingual writing!

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The IPKat

MARCH 28, 2022

The IPKat reports on some of the trends and topics from the conference below. The conference lasted almost three days and with a large number of topics having been discussed. The original conference program (which was only slightly amended due to some covid-related absences).

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The IPKat

JANUARY 31, 2023

The AmeriKat ignoring you after being told "no" A few weeks ago, the IPKat reported on the decision in Oxford University Innovation v Oxford Nanoimaging [2022] EWHC 3200 (IPKat report here ). Of the most interesting to this Kat was the treatment of costs (well, some of them), confidentiality and permission to appeal.

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TorrentFreak

JULY 4, 2024

The company has refused to share reporter’s notes and other information, as this would be overbroad and too burdensome. In addition, the Times pointed out that much of the information sought by OpenAI is protected by the reporter’s privilege. The New York Times is not happy with this approach.

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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

MARCH 8, 2023

The 2022 Canadian Internet Registry Authority (CIRA) Cybersecurity Survey found that the number of breaches involving customer and employee information nearly doubled after the pandemic, and more businesses are reporting loss of customers from cyberattacks.

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TorrentFreak

APRIL 9, 2024

“Journalists Have Overlooked a Fundamental Fact” Something on which Capitanio and De Siervo both agree is the importance of reporting the numbers. As reported in January, Sky TV in the UK faces the same issue. A 2021 report published by the EUIPO estimated there were 5,000 sites offering live sports in Europe alone.

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TorrentFreak

APRIL 5, 2023

The parties did participate in an ADR (Alternative Dispute Resolution) session but according to the mediator’s report early May, the case did not settle. When that date disappeared into history with no further docket activity, the court issued an order for the parties to file a status report by April 3.

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