Plagiarism Today
JANUARY 6, 2025
Anthropic reaches deal with music publishers, Illinois club sued by BMI and restaurant chain accuses former employees of trade secret theft. The post 3 Count: Paella Piracy appeared first on Plagiarism Today.
Erik K Pelton
JANUARY 6, 2025
Sellers on Amazon can take advantage of a great tool to have more control over their online store and sales. The Amazon Brand Registry allows owners of a trademark to protect their goods from counterfeiters and those infringing on the brand. There are just three basic requirements to register your brand with Amazon: A pending application or valid registration at the United States Patent and Trademark Office; The trademark must appear on the packaging of the products or on the products themselves
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Plagiarism Today
JANUARY 6, 2025
The popular browser extension Honey is being accused of robbing creators of earned commissions. It's a legal fight over attribution. The post Honey and the Importance of Attribution appeared first on Plagiarism Today.
IP Watchdog
JANUARY 6, 2025
This week on IPWatchdog Unleashed we speak with Heath Hoglund, President of Via Licensing Alliance. The conversation takes us deep into the world of audio, video, standard essential patents, patent pools, patent licensing, patent dealmaking, inevitable patent litigation that is often necessary when so much money is at stake, and much more.
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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?
JD Supra Law
JANUARY 6, 2025
Name, image, and likeness (NIL) deals are analogous to endorsement deals, where businesses contract with a person to promote a product or service, but "NIL deals" is typically used to refer to agreements with college student athletes. Since 2021, NIL deals have allowed student athletes to earn money and work with brands while in school, but they require brands to undertake additional steps above and beyond those required when working with a celebrity or influencer who is not a student athlete.
TorrentFreak
JANUARY 6, 2025
Less than a year has passed since Italy officially implemented the ‘ Piracy Shield ‘ system that aims to thwart live sports streaming piracy. Since February the system has blocked access to thousands of IP-addresses and domain names associated with unauthorized broadcasts. This massive blocking operation is seen as a major success by the authorities and many participating rightsholders.
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SpicyIP
JANUARY 6, 2025
Here is our recap of last weeks top IP developments including summaries of the posts on Indias Top IP Developments in 2024, a potential trade secret litigation at the Delhi HC and Screenwriters Rights Association of Indias registration as Copyright Society. This and a lot more in this weeks SpicyIP Weekly Review. Anything we are missing out on? Drop a comment below to let us know.
IP Watchdog
JANUARY 6, 2025
Slogans play a crucial role in branding, serving as memorable and important expressions of a companys identity. In Brazil, slogans are eligible for trademark registration, but their acceptance has historically been limited by strict requirements for distinctiveness and functionality. With the Brazilian Patent and Trademark Office (BPTO) recently updating its interpretation of the law, the landscape for protecting slogans is evolving, offering new opportunities for brand owners.
Indiana Intellectual Property Law
JANUARY 6, 2025
Delta Faucet Company , a prominent manufacturer of kitchen and bathroom fixtures, alleges that Justin and Andrew Bundrick engaged in unauthorized sales of Delta-branded products via Amazon storefronts SummitMerch (previously BunjiSolutions) and A.B.Sales . The company claims these products failed to meet their quality standards and did not include the official warranty, thereby violating trademark laws under the Lanham Act and constituting unfair competition.
IP Watchdog
JANUARY 6, 2025
The U.S, Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit (CAFC) on Monday, January 6, rejected Laboratory Corporation of America Holdings (Labcorp) argument that, among other issues, the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) erred in its motivation to combine analysis and ultimate determination that Labcorp had not proven Ravgen, Inc.s patent claims to be obvious.
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IP Law 360
JANUARY 6, 2025
An administrative patent board has issued several rulings on patents covering the use of artificial intelligence in self-driving vehicles, largely won by Elon Musk's Tesla Inc. and the subject of litigation in Delaware federal court.
JD Supra Law
JANUARY 6, 2025
In an era of content creation, social media influencers are tasked with the creative job of building a personal brand to influence the general publics purchasing decisions and lifestyle choices. Creating a brand identity online raises questions about intellectual property protections of these influencer-curated aesthetics. By: Baker Botts L.L.P.
The IPKat
JANUARY 6, 2025
Whether mopping - or dealing with default decisions in the UPC - it is best to imagine you are in a Dutch oil painting The UPCKat is covering something a little bit different this week, in the form of a default decision ( UPC CFI 193/2024 ) handed down by the LD Munich in the i-mop v Arcora proceedings on 11 October 2024. With our guest UPCKat team in the form of guest UPCKat William Mooney and members from the team at Carpmaels , this post will examine what litigants need to know when dealing w
JD Supra Law
JANUARY 6, 2025
On December 17, 2024, after a seven-day jury trial in Case No. 1:22-cv-00035 (D. Del.), the jury returned its verdict, finding Lindis Biotechs U.S. Patent Nos. 8,709,421 (claims 3, 8, and 15) and 10,071,158 (claims 1, 12, and 20) willfully infringed by Amgens Blincyto (blinatumomab).
IP Law 360
JANUARY 6, 2025
The former face of customer service for a Charlotte, North Carolina, branch of a full-service provider for companies in the logistics and transportation industries has been hit with a suit by his former employer alleging he violated his noncompete agreement by joining a rival business and enticing "significant customers" to follow him.
JD Supra Law
JANUARY 6, 2025
The USPTO has announced a significant update to its fee schedule for the 2025 fiscal year, set to take effect January 19, 2025. Across the board, fees will rise by at least 10%, with some increasing as much as 100%. The last major update to the fee schedule occurred in December 2022. By: Baker Botts L.L.P.
IP Law 360
JANUARY 6, 2025
A federal judge ruled Monday that a lawyer and law firm who supposedly misused a Texas company's jury pool research can't keep a jury from hearing certain detailsabout their defense of Proud Boys who took part in the Jan. 6, 2021, assault on the U.S. Capitol.
JD Supra Law
JANUARY 6, 2025
Cette newsletter prsente quatre dcisions de jurisprudence rendues au cours des derniers mois: Lemployeur peut utiliser le contenu de cls USB personnelles pour prouver une faute grave (Cass. soc., 25 septembre 2024, n 23-13.992).
IP Law 360
JANUARY 6, 2025
A Seattle federal judge has awarded The Black & Decker Corp. $8 million and Amazon $5.2 million in a default judgment against two individuals using 17 different accounts to peddle counterfeit DeWalt-branded batteries through Amazon's online marketplace.
JD Supra Law
JANUARY 6, 2025
A new exemption to the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) allows McDonalds employees, franchise owners, and others to fix McDonalds often out-of-order ice cream machines. Prior to this exemption, most McDonalds ice cream machines could be fixed only by the copyright or license holder to the code embedded in the ice cream machines.
IP Law 360
JANUARY 6, 2025
A Texas federal judge has found that a jury will have to decide a trademark infringement claim launched by USA Football in a feud over the national leadership of flag football within the U.S., but said the organization's marks were valid.
JD Supra Law
JANUARY 6, 2025
The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) has announced significant changes to trademark filing fees, which will take effect on January 18, 2025. The changes impact both new applications and post-registration maintenance fees, as well as several specific fees related to petitions, protests, and statements of use, and includes new fees related to insufficient application information and failure to prepare an application using the USPTOs pre-approved identifications from its Trademark.
IP Law 360
JANUARY 6, 2025
Google asked a Florida federal court on Monday to dismiss antitrust claims from web development company Greenflight over the search giant's reverse phone number lookup, saying the newly amended suit does not rectify the pleading problems already pointed out by the court.
JD Supra Law
JANUARY 6, 2025
The United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) finalized its fee schedule for 2025, which will take effect on January 19, 2025. This schedule includes significant increases to fees for design patent applications.
IP Law 360
JANUARY 6, 2025
Technology startup Xockets has slammed Microsoft's bid to separate itself from patent infringement claims against it and Nvidia concerning computer chips used for generative artificial intelligence, telling the Western District of Texas that the company is trying to "slow the case" and "inundate the court with threshold motion practice.
IP Close Up
JANUARY 6, 2025
For IP CloseUp and its related podcast, Understanding IP Matters, 2024 was a year of new highs and significant breakthroughs.
IP Law 360
JANUARY 6, 2025
While a California artist acknowledged to the U.S. Supreme Court that his work of art was just "a stupid banana taped to a wall," he still thinks it deserves copyright protection after an appeals court ruled that it wasn't "strikingly similar" to a more famous banana taped to a wall that debuted at Art Basel Miami over a decade later.
JD Supra Law
JANUARY 6, 2025
It has been a remarkable feature of the Federal Circuit's suspension of the Honorable Judge Pauline Newman that few have taken a stand publicly on the propriety of the suspension (something the Judge herself recently mentioned;see"An American (and Entirely Unnecessary) Tragedy"). That has now changed, with the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals receivingamicusbriefs from four separate groups submitted in support of Judge Newman's challenge.
IP Law 360
JANUARY 6, 2025
A California federal judge has ordered a new punitive damages trial on how much a former Skye Orthobiologics LLC employee owes in a case where he was found to have breached his fiduciary duties by leveraging Skye's proprietary information, after ruling last year there wasn't enough evidence to support an earlier $25 million award.
The IPKat
JANUARY 6, 2025
The IPKat has learned and wishes to inform interested readers about the upcoming IQPC Global IP Exchange Europe , taking place in Berlin on 11 and 12 March 2025. The Exchange is especially, though not exclusively, for those working in-house. An invitation-only event, the Global IP Exchange Europe Exchange will provide access to 70 top leaders within patent, trade mark and brand protection.
IP Law 360
JANUARY 6, 2025
A former Minerva Surgical Inc. sales representative who says he was mistreated after raising concerns about the safety of certain medical devices wants the U.S. Supreme Court to take up his challenge to an arbitration award given to his former employer in whistleblower proceedings.
BYU Copyright Blog
JANUARY 6, 2025
No Way, Pro Se University,Academic Publishing,Self-Representation,Popular Culture Joshua Potter January 06, 02:50 PM January 06, 02:50 PM On November 16th, 2024, Ralph W. Baker, Jr. ("Baker") filed a Pro Se lawsuit against almost 100 defendants at the same time. Twenty eight of these defendants are institutions of higher learning ("the Universities").
IP Law 360
JANUARY 6, 2025
An Illinois federal judge shouldn't wait to enforce his order blocking Little Caesars from marketing its latest pizza muffin appetizer as "pizza puffs" because the chain won't convince the Seventh Circuit the term is generic, the company behind the trademarked fried pizza product argued Monday.
Stock Legal Blog
JANUARY 6, 2025
Most dental practices are unaware of the many, and often unthought of, items that need to be continually addressed for maintenance of the dental entity. However, before practices address upcoming maintenance requirements, it is essential that they also review their current documents that probably havent looked at in years or decades (for older practices).
IP Law 360
JANUARY 6, 2025
Sun Pharmaceutical Industries has asked a New Jersey federal judge to recuse himself from a case alleging the company's alopecia drug infringes an Incyte patent, saying Incyte's attorneys hired the judge's former law clerk and put him on the case, creating "an indelible appearance of impropriety.
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