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5 Copyright Stories to Watch in 2025

Plagiarism Today

2025 is shaping up to be a banner year for copyright news. Here are five stories to watch over the next 12 months. The post 5 Copyright Stories to Watch in 2025 appeared first on Plagiarism Today.

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NFL punts in “Big game”

Likelihood of Confusion

Originally posted 2014-11-17 17:55:38. Republished by Blog Post PromoterThe NFL is a lot of things, but I never thought it was stupid. It turns out that it isn’t. The Sports Blog reports: Remember that stupid effort by the NFL to trademark the phrase “Big Game,” even though everyone knows the phrase has, for more than […] The post NFL punts in “Big game” appeared first on LIKELIHOOD OF CONFUSION.

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3 Count: Helpless Not Hopeless

Plagiarism Today

Indian action star pleads for fans to avoid piracy, Indonesian song removed from Spotify and study aid channels removed from TikTok. The post 3 Count: Helpless Not Hopeless appeared first on Plagiarism Today.

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Potential Concerns With Copyrighted Characters Entering the Public Domain

JD Supra Law

Celebrated on the first day of every year, Public Domain Day marks the day works with copyrights that expired the year prior enter the public domain. While the calculations to determine copyright expiration can be complicated by the availability (or lack thereof) of renewals, authorship/ownership, and publication information, works from 1929 can generally be expected to enter the public domain on Jan. 1, 2025.

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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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Screenwriters Rights Association of India Gets Registered as a Copyright Society

SpicyIP

[ This post has been authored by SpicyIP intern Aditi Agrawal. Aditi is a final-year B.A., LL.B (IPR Hons.) student at The ICFAI University, Dehradun. ] After years of advocacy by screenwriters seeking better protection and management of their creative rights, the Screenwriters Rights Association of India (SRAI) has been finally registered as a Copyright Society (Reg.

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Are Reference Product Sponsors Asserting More Patents in BPCIA Litigation?

JD Supra Law

On October 24, 2014, Amgen initiated the first litigation under the Biologics Price Competition and Innovation Act (BPCIA), asserting infringement of two patents. Over the last two calendar years, Amgen, Biogen, Genentech, and Regeneron have all filed BPCIA complaints (sometimes several) asserting 20 or more patents.

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Advertisers Beware: Falsely Advertising Products as “Patented” and “Proprietary” Can Violate the Lanham Act, Says the Federal Circuit

JD Supra Law

On October 3, 2024, in Crocs v. Effervescent, the Federal Circuit ruled that falsely advertising that a product feature is patented can constitute a violation of the Lanham Act. All the way back in 2006, Crocs sued several competitor shoe distributors for patent infringement.

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Legal Analysis Of Copyright Issues In YouTube And Other Social Media Content

IP and Legal Filings

ABSTRACT Technology advancements are linked to copyright, which gives authors of original works of literature, music, drama, or art, as well as audio recordings and cinematic films, a legal claim over their creations. The emergence of social networking sites has presented new difficulties for the government in defending the owners’ copyrights.

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APEX – An Alternative Patent Resolution Procedure on Amazon

JD Supra Law

APEX Amazons Solution to Patent Dispute Resolution - With the traffic Amazon generates, the e-commerce giant has become an essential, and perhaps even mandatory, marketplace for many companies to sell their products.

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Script Writers Rights Association of India Gets Registered as a Copyright Society

SpicyIP

[ This post has been authored by SpicyIP intern Aditi Agrawal. Aditi is a final-year B.A., LL.B (IPR Hons.) student at The ICFAI University, Dehradun. ] After years of advocacy by screenwriters seeking better protection and management of their creative rights, the Screenwriters Rights Association of India (SRAI) has been finally registered as a Copyright Society (Reg.

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IPO Diversity in Innovation Toolkit

Women and diverse employees have the technical skill and knowledge, yet their contributions are not patented at the same rate as those of their male counterparts.This toolkit can help organizations move the needle on achieving gender parity in innovation.

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The Pitch - December 2024

JD Supra Law

The Pitch newsletter is a monthly update of legal issues and news affecting or related to the music, film and television, fine arts, media, professional athletics, eSports, and gaming industries. The Pitch features a diverse cross-section of published articles, compelling news and stories, and original content curated and/or created by Arnall Golden Gregory LLPs Entertainment & Sports industry team.

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Issa Again Selected To Lead House IP Subcommittee

IP Law 360

Rep. Darrell Issa, R-Calif., will again lead the House subcommittee overseeing intellectual property in the upcoming Congress, a role in which he has sponsored bills seeking to limit how many patents can be asserted in biosimilar cases and require disclosure of litigation funding.

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IP transactions lawyers emerge from the shadows

Managing IP

Demand for specialists is increasing as IP plays an ever-bigger role in deals and financial transactions

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Omnitracs' $19M Patent Trial Win Tossed By Calif. Fed Judge

IP Law 360

A California federal judge has overruled a jury's holding thatPlatform Science willfully infringed one of Qualcomm spinoff Omnitracs'fleet management software patents and vacated the resulting $19 million verdict, finding that the plaintiffs' expert gave faulty testimony.

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Supreme Court Preview: Will “Skinny Labels” Get a Weight Check?

Patently-O

by Dennis Crouch The Supreme Court will soon be asked to weigh in on the the skinny-label debate -- particularly the question of how much a generic drug manufacturers can say about their products without inducing patent infringement? The case is Hikma v. Amarin. It is very common for a drug to follow the following innovation-patent pathway: First the composition is discovered and patented along with a particular therapeutic use.

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Fox Rothschild Atty Beats Trade Secret Theft Allegations

IP Law 360

A federal judge in New Jersey says a company trying to develop cancer drugs had waited too long to sue its former patent lawyer after he allegedly "confessed" over five years ago to helping a Chinese rival file a patent application that allegedly misappropriated trade secrets.

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TV Group Couldn’t Force U.S. ISPs to Block Pirates, UK ISPs May Offer Help

TorrentFreak

More than two-and-a-half years ago, a group of Israel-based TV companies entered a new phase of their multi-year war against the country’s most popular and resilient pirate sites. Companies including United King Film Distribution, Keshet Broadcasting, Hot Telecommunications Systems, and Reshet Media, requested a broad injunction at a federal court in the United States.

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Dyson, SharkNinja Put Down Blades In Sprawling Patent Fight

IP Law 360

Dyson Inc. and its rival SharkNinja Inc. have informed federal judges in Texas and Massachusetts that they've reached a settlement in their sprawling patent fight spanning multiple jurisdictions over vacuum cleaner appliances, and they have requested a stay in the litigation.

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Federal Circuit Weighs the Need for Claim Construction at the Rule 12 Stage

JD Supra Law

On October 18, 2024, the Federal Circuit issued its opinion in UTTO Inc. v. Metrotech Corp., No. 2023-1435, 2024 U.S. App. LEXIS 26340, (Fed. Cir. Oct. 18, 2024) addressing the propriety of conducting claim construction at the Rule 12 stage. UTTO alleged that Metrotechs RTK-Pro locator device infringed U.S. Patent No. 9,086,441 (the 441 patent), which describes methods for detecting and identifying buried assets, such as underground utility lines.

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IBM And GlobalFoundries Settle Contract, Trade Secret Suits

IP Law 360

IBM and semiconductor maker GlobalFoundries US Inc. have settled lawsuits lodged against each other in which IBM accused GlobalFoundries of breaching a $1.5 billion manufacturing deal, while GlobalFoundries accused IBM of unlawfully disclosing its confidential trade secrets, the companies announced Thursday.

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ECCTA Updates: Key Changes and Timelines - Cogency Global

Cogency Global

What this is : In this blog, we will discuss all the changes already implemented by Companies House, as well as upcoming changes. What this means : As we all know, the Economic Crime and Corporate Transparency Act (ECCTA) came into effect in the United Kingdom in October 2023 with the overarching objective of cracking down on the use of corporate vehicles in economic crimes.

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Fed. Circ. Reverses Telecom Patent Owner's PTAB Win

IP Law 360

The Federal Circuit on Thursday threw out a Patent Trial and Appeal Board decision that refused to invalidate claims in a mobile communications patent owned by a unit of European patent-licensing company Sisvel, with a panel majority saying the PTAB made numerous errors.

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Legislative Developments in Patents: Prospects for the PREVAIL and RESTORE Acts and PERA in 2025

IP Watchdog

Three significant bills that would alter patent law were considered by U.S. legislators in 2024: the Promoting and Respecting Economically Vital American Innovation Leadership Act (PREVAIL Act); the Realizing Engineering, Science, and Technology Opportunities by Restoring Exclusive Patent Rights Act (RESTORE Act); and the Patent Eligibility Restoration Act (PERA).

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Trucking Software Co. Sued Over Alleged Trade Secrets Theft

IP Law 360

A technology company that offers solutions to shippers, carriers and logistics service providers has filed suit against Southern Motor Carriers Association Inc. and one of its board members, alleging they interfered with its contractual and business relations and misappropriated trade secrets related to one of its software packages.

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"Target Clean" might certify specific qualities to reasonable consumers

43(B)log

Boyd v. Target Corp., F.Supp.3d -, 2024 WL 4287669, No. 23-CV-02668 (KMM/DJF) (D. Minn. Sept. 25, 2024) This interesting lawsuit relies on Targets curatorial reputation for the false advertising claim. Target is headquartered in Minnesota and plaintiffs sought to represent a putative nationwide class over certain products labeled Target Clean. Target allegedly represents that the labeled products are clean because they are free from commonly unwanted chemicals or ingredients and formulated with

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Startup Wants New Trial After TransUnion Undoes $18M Loss

IP Law 360

A Sixth Circuit panel was wrong to affirm that a startup must come away empty-handed from a dispute with TransUnion LLC over a partnership to develop an online insurance quote marketplace, the startup said in asking the panel to give it a new trial instead of throwing out its jury win completely.

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Traverse Legal Launches Investigation into Project 79, Hydro Whales NFT Collection, Burlcore Mining, Ocean Money, GSP, and Sahara Star Mining, and Related Projects.

Traverse Legal Blog

This blog post is part of an ongoing investigation. All individuals mentioned are presumed innocent until proven otherwise. The statements herein reflect allegations and concerns raised by investors looking for more information about projects they have invested in and for which they have been unable to get information from the project or project founders.

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Comcast Foe Fails To Resurrect Patent Case Over Xfinity App

IP Law 360

The full Federal Circuit on Thursday denied a request to look at a decision overturning a Delaware federal jury's infringement verdict in favor of a small California companythat has been suing Comcast over patent claims for the past five years.

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Precedential No. 30: Illustration of Block Puzzle Merely Descriptive of Computer Game Software, Says TTAB

The TTABlog

In this doubly rare case - a Section 2(e)(1) opposition involving an illustration of the goods - the Board found the proposed mark shown below to be merely descriptive of computer game software. "[C]onsumers who know that Applicants product is a block puzzle game will understand the mark to immediately convey information about it; that is, that the product is a downloadable and/or mobile computer block puzzle game as described in Applicants identification of goods.

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Southern Comfort Malt Liquor Buyers Score False Ad Cert.

IP Law 360

A New York federal judge certified a class of Southern Comfort customers alleging Sazerac Co. deceptively labeled its malt beverage products, but declined to allow one plaintiff to serve as class representative, finding Thursday he lied in interrogatory answers and "appeared not to know the basic premise of the case.

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Boston Dynamics Settles Robot IP Suit With Rival

IP Law 360

Boston Dynamics Inc. has agreed to a deal to end a patent infringement lawsuit it launched against competitor Ghost Robotics Corp. in Delaware federal court over artificial intelligence technology tested by the U.S. Air Force.

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9th Circ. Dismisses LegalForce Trademark Appeal

IP Law 360

The Lanham Act, the primary federal statute dictating trademark law, does not apply to the advertising and selling of equity, the Ninth Circuit stated in an appeals case between intellectual property firm LegalForce RAPC Worldwide PC and a Japanese company that fundraised off the brand "LegalForce.

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3 Things To Know About 9th Circ. Ruling In $56M Beer Battle

IP Law 360

The Ninth Circuit has affirmed a $56 million trial verdict for Stone Brewing Co. in a long-running trademark battle involving Molson Coors, saying the evidence supported the jury's conclusion that the Canadian-American beer company's repackaging of its Keystone Light brand infringed its competitors' "Stone" mark.

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'Crush-Resistant' OxyContin Patents Fail At Federal Circuit

IP Law 360

In one of its last major moves in 2024, the Federal Circuit decided to reject an appeal from the bankrupt maker of OxyContin, which is trying to use patent laws to block the release of a competing "crush-resistant" generic painkiller.

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Identifying Deepfakes During Evidence Collection, Discovery

IP Law 360

Attorneys must familiarize themselves with the tools used to create and detect deepfakes media manipulated by artificial intelligence to convincingly mimic real people and events as well as best practices for keeping this fabricated evidence out of court, says Bijan Ghom at Saxton & Stump.

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