The IPKat

SEPTEMBER 27, 2022

In this sense, the European Union Intellectual Property Office ( EUIPO ) published in June 2022 the practical approach taken for classification purposes (see IPKat post here ). The terms virtual goods and NFTs on their own are not acceptable, as EUIPO indicated in the practical approach for classification purposes , published in June 2022.

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IP Watchdog

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

This is the question the European Parliament addresses for the first time in its Resolution on policy implications of the development of virtual worlds – civil, company commercial and intellectual property law issues, published on October 17, 2024, in the Official Journal of the European Union.

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Velocity of Content

OCTOBER 12, 2023

In early May, CCC hosted “ Workflow of the Future: Sustainable Business Models ,” the latest event in a series designed to help facilitate important conversations on critical topics related to standards. Today, I will focus on the perspective of the standards publisher. Not a closed world based on how the world was 20+ years ago.

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TorrentFreak

JUNE 25, 2023

The IPFS project describes the system as a peer-to-peer hypermedia protocol designed to preserve and grow humanity’s knowledge by making the web upgradeable, resilient, and more open. Instead, the notices carry the names and addresses of three publishing companies; Wolters Kluwer Health (New York), Knovel, a subsidiary of Elsevier, Inc.

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TorrentFreak

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

Both Rights Alliance and Teleindustrien (Telecommunications Industry Association in Denmark) have published copies of the new Code of Conduct but neither explain how the new system will work. Another.csv file is published for gambling site domains deemed illegal in Denmark, 183 according to the latest batch. How Will The System Work?

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Plagiarism Today

DECEMBER 6, 2021

Last week, five major education publishers filed a lawsuit against Shopify alleging that the ecommerce service provider has enabled rampant commercial textbook piracy on its platform. According to the publishers, many pirate sites offer inexpensive PDF versions of their textbooks using Shopify’s platform.

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Patently-O

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

by Dennis Crouch The USPTO is officially establishing a separate design patent practitioner bar with its final rule published on November 16, 2023 and effective January 2, 2024. Currently, a single patent bar governs registration for anyone seeking to practice before the USPTO in utility, plant, and design patent matters.

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The IPKat

DECEMBER 19, 2024

Only books published in 2024 are eligible for the award. Please remember that, just as in previous years, only one vote per person is allowed.

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The IPKat

JULY 11, 2022

The EPO Board of Appeal has published its full decision on the question of whether a machine can be an inventor ( J 8/20 ). Case Background J 8/20 relates to appeals of the decisions to refuse two European patent applications ( EP3564144 and EP3563896 ) for failing to designate a natural person as an inventor.

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TorrentFreak

MARCH 4, 2024

The site’s origins reportedly trace back to the Soviet Union’s underground publishing culture ‘ samizdat ,’ which was used to bypass state censorship in the last century. In 2017, Elsevier won a court case against LibGen and Sci-Hub in a New York federal court, which awarded the publisher $15 million in damages.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

MAY 8, 2024

Try as he might to make his claims about the way Instagram is designed, his claims are inherently grounded in third-party content posted to the app. Publisher/Speaker Claims. Publisher/Speaker Claims. Publisher/Speaker Claims. May 6, 2024) The post Section 230 Preempts Product Design Claims–Lama v.

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Plagiarism Today

AUGUST 10, 2022

The reason for this is simple, the systems for organizing, registering and enforcing copyrights were, by in large, designed for large copyright holders. For example, if you publish a collection of photographs at once you only have to input one change for all the works. The system is designed to work with files that are uploaded to it.

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JD Supra Law

DECEMBER 12, 2023

Last month, the United States Patent and Trademark Office published Supplemental Guidance for examination of design patent applications related to computer-generated electronic images.

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IP.com

NOVEMBER 25, 2024

With its intuitive design, InnovationQ simplifies data analysis, enabling users to review search results and document previews side-by-side, accelerating decision-making in competitive research and defensive publishing. “With InnovationQ, we’re raising the bar for prior art search technology.

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Plagiarism Today

JANUARY 5, 2022

On January 1, 2022, works that were first published in the year 1926 lapsed into the public domain. This means that others are free to copy, publish, distribute, create new works based upon it and otherwise make use of it without a license. However, the name that’s received the lion’s share of the attention has been A.A.

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Plagiarism Today

OCTOBER 25, 2021

The lawsuit was filed by Jocelyn Susan Bundy, who claims that her grandfather created the design based on Dante’s Inferno. 3: Music Publishers Propose Higher Streaming Payments. Publishers, predictably, are seeking a higher royalty rate while streamers want a much lower one, one that, in some cases, would be below 2008 levels.

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SpicyIP

OCTOBER 21, 2024

Here is our recap of last week’s top IP developments including summaries of the posts on the DHC’s decision regarding consumer confusion in “Hush Products”, US antitrust case against numerous publishing houses, strategy to register trademarks in grayscale, and DHC’s decision on claim amendments.

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Intellectual Property Law Blog

JANUARY 11, 2023

Understanding Mask Work Mask work is a type of intellectual property protection designed to protect layout designs (topographies) of integrated circuits. Under the SCPA, a mask work is a series of related images that forms a design or part of a design used to produce an integrated circuit. In particular, Section 1213.2

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

APRIL 28, 2023

Despite the California Legislature’s blunder last year with AB 2273 (the Age Appropriate Design Code), many states, including Minnesota, are stubbornly pushing for nearly identical laws. By mandating TOS enforcement, states can effectively gain unprecedented access to an online publisher’s editorial decisions.

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Plagiarism Today

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

To help with this, many web designers, especially those that are new to it, get help in the form of themes or stock templates that can be obtained from a variety of sites. Many times, designers choose images or text based upon how it looks or reads, not whether they have permission to use it.

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JD Supra Law

DECEMBER 2, 2024

On November 14, 2024, the European Commission published the first draft of the General-Purpose AI Code of Practice (the Draft Code). The Draft Code is designed to help providers of general-purpose AI models (GPAI) and providers of GPAI with systemic risk comply with the EU AI Act. By: A&O Shearman

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

OCTOBER 16, 2023

We’ve seen a flood of terrible Internet laws in the past few years, including the California Age-Appropriate Design Code (AADC). The AADC requires all regulated content publishers to check their readers’ ages before allowing users to read the publisher’s content (i.e., I hope it was worth the wait.] their website).

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The IPKat

NOVEMBER 17, 2024

A Kat reading a new IP report Publication WIPO’s 2024 World Intellectual Property Indicators WIPO has published the 2024 edition of its World Intellectual Property Indicators (WIPI). This annual survey analyzes IP activity around the globe. Click here to learn more and to download the report. programmes: - LL.M.

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The IPKat

NOVEMBER 11, 2024

A revolution in structural biology: From protein structure to drug-design AlphaFold is a machine learning model for predicting the 3D structure of proteins. These abilities mean that AlphaFold3 will potentially be a powerful tool for in silico drug design and screening. Protein structure - and Kats! The Nature paper ( Abramson et al.

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IP Watchdog

NOVEMBER 7, 2024

Today, the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) published its annual World Intellectual Property Indicators Report, providing a snapshot of IP filing activities across the globe during 2023.

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JD Supra Law

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

Several industry organizations have recently published AI guidelines, including the Digital Medicine Society (DMS), in partnership with Google and the Mayo Clinic. The American Law Institute launched an initiative designed to provide guidance regarding the legal issues arising from the growing ubiquity of AI.

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SpicyIP

FEBRUARY 3, 2025

Once selected, the Fellow will be required to write and publish (at least) one, rigorously researched, and where possible, evidence backed blogpost of at least 1500 words, for each month of the Fellowship (i.e., Fellows are also encouraged to publicly present or publish their writings or findings in other venues where possible.

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Plagiarism Today

AUGUST 23, 2022

In that regard, The Galaxy study mirrors one by Cornell University and the Initiative for CryptoCurrencies and Contracts that was published in January. However, NFTs were never designed for this purpose. NFTs were not designed to be a copyright panacea, they were designed to create scarcity, something they failed to do.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

MARCH 30, 2025

March 25, 2025) Anthropic previously agreed to maintain its guardrails designed to prevent “output that reproduces, distributes, or displays, in whole or in part, the lyrics to compositions owned or controlled by Publishers, or creates derivative works based on those compositions.” Contributory Copyright Infringement.

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Traverse Legal Blog

MARCH 26, 2025

Publishing health-related books or products can quickly turn into a compliance nightmare. Youve poured your expertise into a book, a supplement, or a digital productsomething designed to help people feel better, live better, be better. In todays marketplace, publishing health-related content isnt just about getting noticed.

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TorrentFreak

DECEMBER 12, 2024

DNS providers should be seen as neutral location services, and Quad9 likens itself to a map publisher, which has no control over any of the locations it shows. Quad9 says its system is designed to treat every user in every country the same way. Tampering with DNS makes the internet less secure, the company argues.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

NOVEMBER 16, 2024

The defendant published a bio on Sewell and included one of McDermott’s photos–apparently sourced from an unrelated Instagram account (possibly another infringer, or perhaps that account has a fair use defense?). The defendant, Kalita Mukul Creative, ran community-focused newsletters. Case Citation : McDermott v.

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Plagiarism Today

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

Onge published a video to his YouTube Channel Art of Engineering explaining the inner workings of the Disney’s Tower of Terror thrill ride. Graphic design is credited to award-winning graphic designer Jeremy Samples, so it's disappointing they would copy instead of producing original artwork.

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IP Close Up

MAY 21, 2024

Both TikTok and Google recently joined an initiative comprised of leading content publishers and generators designed to make changes to images and other content easily Continue reading

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TorrentFreak

DECEMBER 15, 2024

As MPA member Sony attracts attention for its continued expansion into both the manga and anime markets, including its recent interest in the acquisition of publishing giant Kadokawa, synergies between the companies will likely be in focus as the weeks unfold. Acting on behalf of members Toei Animation Co., and Bandai Namco Filmworks Inc.,

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Plagiarism Today

MARCH 21, 2022

This includes the RIAA/NMPA , MPAA , Author’s Guild , the Association of American Publishers and many more. . Among that criteria is that they designate a DMCA agent to receive notices of copyright infringement and then work to remove or disable access to any works they are notified about.

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IP Watchdog

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

Chamber of Commerce’s Global Innovation Policy Center (GIPC) announced that it had joined with 30 other signatories to publish a framework of intellectual property principles designed to maintain America’s global lead in innovation. On September 13, the U.S.

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