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Federal Circuit Revives Patent Suit Against Aetna Over Health Savings Cards

Patently-O

by Dennis Crouch In AlexSam v. Aetna , the Federal Circuit recently revived the patentee's infringement lawsuit against health insurance giant Aetna over its Visa and Mastercard-branded health savings account (HSA) debit cards. AlexSam, Inc. v. Aetna, Inc., No. 22-2036 (Fed. Cir. Oct. 8, 2024). The district court has dismissed the case on 12(b)(6) for failure to state a claim of infringement.

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Piracy Shield May Reduce Illegal Sports Streaming, Traffic Analysis Suggests

TorrentFreak

Piracy Shield’s first birthday is still several months away so the appearance of a study into its effectiveness came as a surprise but not an unwelcome one. Commentary by Italian telecoms regulator AGCOM, mirrored by top-tier football league Serie A and streaming service DAZN, hasn’t been at all useful for those seeking answers to the two most important questions: 1) How effective is Piracy Shield at denying access to pirate live sports streams?

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YouTube’s Transparency Report (July 2023 – December 2023)

Kluwer Copyright Blog

Content creation on YouTube reportedly reached a new peak during the second half of 2023, meaning that the platform experienced a surge in infringing uploads on the one hand, and copyright actions by its users on the other. The platform’s automatic detection technologies have once more been put to the test, while compliance with the obligations under Article 17 of the CDSM 2019/790 undoubtedly poses a challenge.

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Why a Pirate IPTV Seller’s 4-Year Prison Sentence Means Little Without Context

TorrentFreak

Prosecutions of those involved in the sale of pirate IPTV subscriptions appear to be on the rise, not just in the UK, but also in the EU and beyond. Resources made available for these cases are in limited supply but by carefully selecting those with the best chance of success, there appears to be a high rate of conviction, despite attitudes to infringement differing in various regions.

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Software Composition Analysis: The New Armor for Your Cybersecurity

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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The Real Estate Economics of India

IP and Legal Filings

Introduction The real estate sector is one of the most recognizable in the world. It has four sub-sectors – housing, retail, tourism and trade. The growth of this sector is accompanied by the growth of corporate status and the need for office space and urban and central residential areas. The construction industry is ranked third among the 14 major sectors in terms of direct, indirect and resulting outcomes across all sectors of the economy.

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NSA monitoring program ruled unconstitutional

Likelihood of Confusion

Originally posted 2014-05-29 01:48:50. Republished by Blog Post PromoterThe ACLU reports: In the first federal challenge ever argued against the Bush administration’s NSA spying program, U.S. District Court Judge Anna Diggs Taylor rules that the program to monitor [sic] the phone calls and e-mails of millions of Americans without warrants is unconstitutional.

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Internet Access Providers Face Contributory Copyright Liability for Subscribers’ Infringements–UMG v. Grande

Technology & Marketing Law Blog

This is another lawsuit against an Internet access provider (IAP) for user-committed copyright infringement via P2P file sharing. For more background on this issue, see this rrcap and the links at the bottom of this post. My post on a pre-pandemic district court ruling in this case. Previously, a jury held the IAP, Grande, liable for willful contributory copyright infringement and awarded damages of $47M.

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Documentary Duel: Lawsuit Claims Netflix Copied Boy Scouts Abuse Film

Copyright Lately

Two documentaries, one Boy Scouts scandal—a trial lawyer claims Netflix copied his film, but the legal trail ahead looks rocky. New Jersey trial attorney Bruce Nagel is no stranger to taking on big institutions. He’s battled oil companies, insurance giants, and even the Boy Scouts of America—a fight that inspired him to produce Boy Scout’s Honor , a documentary exposing the harrowing stories of childhood abuse within the scouting organization.

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TDM Exceptions and Copyright: A German Court Decision

Barry Sookman

Is the creation of a dataset that can be used to train generative AI systems (GenAI systems) an infringement of copyright ? According to a recent decision of a German court, the activity may be covered by the text and data mining (TDM) exception in Articles 3 and 4 of the Digital Single Market Directive (EU) 2019/790. The decision is an important one.