IP Watchdog

SEPTEMBER 22, 2024

On July 10, 2023, Senators Chris Coons (D-DE), Thom Tillis (R-NC), Dick Durbin (D-IL), and Mazie Hirono (D-HI), officially introduced S. 2220 in the 118th Congress, called the “Promoting and Respecting Economically Vital American Innovation Leadership Act,” or the PREVAIL Act. The bill is one of three patent bills that have been scheduled to be considered by the Senate Judiciary Committee in recent weeks.

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SpicyIP

SEPTEMBER 22, 2024

In June 2024, I covered some nuances regarding confidentiality and disclosures in the SB and DB orders passed in InterDigital Technology Corporation vs. Guangdong OPPO Mobile Telecommunications Corp. Ltd ( here and here ). Part I of this set of posts analyzed the SB’s 31st May 2024 decision on the disclosure of agreements between the parties and different third parties.

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TorrentFreak

SEPTEMBER 22, 2024

Pirate sites come and go, often without being noticed by the public at large. That was certainly not the case when RARBG said its goodbyes last year. The popular torrent site had millions of daily users spread across several domain names. This included RARBG’s flagship.to domain, where the usual torrent index was replaced by a farewell message, attributing the decision to personal and financial reasons.

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Likelihood of Confusion

SEPTEMBER 22, 2024

Originally posted 2012-02-09 13:59:20. Republished by Blog Post PromoterThe TTABlog writes about a recent TTAB decision rejecting “Wayback Machine” data as evidence: The Board observed that the “Wayback Machine” suffers from a serious evidentiary flaw: even Petitioner noted that the “Wayback Machine” shows “each date on which a website has undergone a significant change.” “What […] The post Going Wayback… and it’s out of her

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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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Patently-O

SEPTEMBER 22, 2024

Guest Post by Charles Macedo, David Goldberg, Thomas Hart, John Dellaportas, and Jamie Zipper, all from the firm of Amster, Rothstein & Ebenstein LLP. Disclosure – A portion of this team represented Island IP — arguing the issues discussed here. Introduction Courts of Appeal are both courts of review and subject to review. As courts of review, they have demanded of the lower courts that they provide sufficient reasoning and rationale to enable the parties and reviewing courts to

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Barry Sookman

SEPTEMBER 22, 2024

On September 5, 2024, Canada’s major trading partners including the United States, the United Kingdom, and the European Union signed the Council of Europe Framework Convention on Artificial Intelligence and Human Rights, Democracy, and the Rule of Law (CETS 225). The Convention on AI is a big deal. It is a comprehensive legal framework that aims to ensure that activities within the lifecycle of AI systems are aligned with core human rights, democratic values, and the rule of law.

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