Plagiarism Today
JANUARY 8, 2025
Though plagiarism isn't a common plot point for video games, Assassin's Creed: Origins has a plagiarism-related quest. Here's how it holds up. The post Plagiarism in Pop Culture: Assassins Creed: Origins appeared first on Plagiarism Today.
The IPKat
JANUARY 8, 2025
A story came to this Kat's attention at the end of last year , which highlights that developing a good trademark strategy sometimes requires good awareness of plant variety names. The story also shows that examiners mustn't forget about the requirement to consult the plant variety register for conflicting denominations when a trademark specification includes plants.
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Plagiarism Today
JANUARY 8, 2025
UK court sentences fire stick pirate to two years prison, Belgian artist wins big in China and Sci-Hub continues to host retracted papers. The post 3 Count: Shattered Reputation appeared first on Plagiarism Today.
JD Supra Law
JANUARY 8, 2025
2024 was eventful in the life sciences space and key trends are expected to continue in the new year.
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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?
TorrentFreak
JANUARY 8, 2025
The United States Trade Representative ( USTR ) published its annual Out-of-Cycle Review of Notorious Markets a few hours ago. The non-exhaustive list includes dozens of sites and services linked to piracy or counterfeiting activity. The report is largely based on input from copyright industry groups, including the RIAA and MPA. Platforms detailed in recommendations filed late last year, are meant to serve as ‘prominent and illustrative examples’ without the USTR drawing any legal co
JD Supra Law
JANUARY 8, 2025
Happy New Year and welcome to our 2024 Trade Secret and Restrictive Covenant Year in Review. 2024 was less stressful and dramatic than most people feared at the start of the year, but there still were some significant rulings and results, as well as some moderate statutory changes.
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JD Supra Law
JANUARY 8, 2025
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IP Law 360
JANUARY 8, 2025
Roper Technologies subsidiary PowerPlan Inc. has agreed to pay $24 million in a settlement with a rival firm formed by former employees who said the utility software giant tried to lock them out of the market by threatening litigation against them and prospective clients.
JD Supra Law
JANUARY 8, 2025
In Zaha Hadid Ltd v The Zaha Hadid Foundation, the High Court confirmed that agreements of indefinite duration would not necessarily be interpreted to include bilateral termination rights and that the absence of such rights did not mean the relevant agreements operated in restraint of trade.
IP Law 360
JANUARY 8, 2025
New York federal prosecutors have accused a quantitative trader of stealing the secrets of a billion-dollar company's source code from his former employer to use at his own trading firm, according to an indictment unsealed Wednesday in New York federal court.
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JD Supra Law
JANUARY 8, 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.
IP Law 360
JANUARY 8, 2025
The United Services Automobile Association faced a skeptical Federal Circuit panel Wednesday as it argued that an administrative board's invalidation of claims in its check deposit patent, which is part of a $218 million verdict against PNC Bank, conflicted with a prior decision upholding the patent.
JD Supra Law
JANUARY 8, 2025
Whether youre a startup founder, an innovator, or a multi-national corporation, understanding the strategic importance of patents can transform the way you protect and leverage your intellectual property (IP) portfolio.
IP Law 360
JANUARY 8, 2025
A Texas federal judge should hold that YellowPages.com operator Thryv Inc. can't challenge the final claim of Click-to-Call Technologies LP's patent for making anonymous phone calls but stop short of finding infringement, a magistrate judge recommended in the 12-year-old case.
JD Supra Law
JANUARY 8, 2025
With the advent of generative artificial intelligence (or GenAI), many companies have begun to shift their innovation strategies to incorporate and rely on GenAI tools. These tools can be powerful drivers of technological innovation, but their use can affect whether the resulting innovations are protectable.
IP Law 360
JANUARY 8, 2025
A California federal judge on Wednesday granted Netflix a partial win in a patent infringement suit Broadcom lodged against the streaming giant, finding a claim for one remaining patent in the dispute invalid for being directed to a "familiar concept rooted in history" and lacking any inventive concept.
JD Supra Law
JANUARY 8, 2025
The United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) will implement a new fee schedule this month, introducing significant changes across all fee categories, including initial trademark application filing fees.
IP Law 360
JANUARY 8, 2025
A California federal judge is letting a trademark lawsuit from health data company Telligen proceed against information technology company Telligens, ruling that he was not yet convinced that the suit was filed 10 years too late.
JD Supra Law
JANUARY 8, 2025
In 2024, the Rx IP Update team at Smart & Biggar reported on a number of developments in Canadian life sciences IP and regulatory law. Highlights from 2024 are below; see also our top ten Rx IP Update reads of 2024.
IP Law 360
JANUARY 8, 2025
The Office of the U.S. Trade Representative on Wednesday released its latest list of overseas "notorious markets" selling illicit and counterfeit goods, pointing in particular to a boom in counterfeit online pharmacies selling knock-off medications that pose a risk both to public health and businesses' intellectual property interests.
JD Supra Law
JANUARY 8, 2025
Petitioners may soon need to check their account balances, as the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) is raising patent fees across the board, effective January 19, 2025. 89 Fed. Reg. 91898.
IP Law 360
JANUARY 8, 2025
An attorney representing himself in a lawsuit seeking a court order saying he is allowed to sell unlicensed NFL merchandise took exception with a federal judge's suggestion that the league's merchandising arm may want to move for sanctions.
JD Supra Law
JANUARY 8, 2025
Kilpatrick partners John Alemanni and Justin Krieger recently presented a CLE addressing Building a Winning Evidentiary Record at the PTAB (and Surviving Appeal)..
IP Law 360
JANUARY 8, 2025
Two new rulings out of the Patent Trial and Appeal Board have wiped out a swath of claims in a patent Apple is asserting against a medical software company that was initially first to assert patents against Apple over health-related programming in the Apple Watch.
IP Watchdog
JANUARY 8, 2025
On November 20, 2024, the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) published a final rule introducing a significant new fee structure for continuing patent applications. This rule, set to take effect on January 19, 2025, establishes additional fees for any continuing application filed at least six years after its earliest benefit date (EBD). The final rule identifies EBD as the earliest filing date for which benefit is claimed under 35 U.S.C. 120, 121, 365(c), or 386(c) and ?
IP Law 360
JANUARY 8, 2025
Martin Shkreli told a Brooklyn federal judge that the writer and producer of the one-of-a-kind Wu-Tang Clan album should weigh in on their rights to the work as the crypto project that purchased the album presses ahead with a suit accusing the pharma broof keeping copies of the album after he was ordered to give them up.
IP Watchdog
JANUARY 8, 2025
On December 30, Acting U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) Director Derrick Brent filed an intervenors brief with the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit in an appeal brought by inventor Carrie Hafeman, following several inter partes review (IPR) proceedings filed against her patents by tech giants Google and Microsoft. While Hafeman seeks the reversal of final written decisions invalidating her patent claims due to the violation of a Sotera stipulation that had led to the PTABs i
IP Law 360
JANUARY 8, 2025
Microsoft has defeated an appeal from an inventor alleging its Azure cloud computing software infringed his patents, with Federal Circuit judges deciding to side with the tech giant's wins at the patent board.
Patently-O
JANUARY 8, 2025
by Dennis Crouch The Federal Circuit has affirmed the Trademark Trial and Appeal Board (TTAB) cancellation of CeramTec's trademark registrations for the pink color of its ceramic hip implants, and also providing an important analysis of functionality doctrine and its intersection with expired utility patents. CeramTec GmbH v. CoorsTek Bioceramics LLC , No. 2023-1502 (Fed.
IP Law 360
JANUARY 8, 2025
Despite an ever-increasing backlog of argument-ready cases, the Federal Circuit issued fewer decisions in 2024 than in previous years, and the decisions' overall friendliness toward patent owners and applicants was low, says Dan Bagatell at Perkins Coie.
TorrentFreak
JANUARY 8, 2025
The adage that the first casualty of war is the truth held solid as Russia denied any intention of invading Ukraine, even as it was actively doing so. State-controlled media, television presenters in particular, turned in some remarkable performances for the benefit of local audiences. While dramatically documenting events that bore only a passing resemblance to reality on the ground, broadcasters including Russia Today, Sputnik, and RIA Novosti, ensured that Russia’s position on Ukraine w
IP Law 360
JANUARY 8, 2025
A proposed class of authors urged a California magistrate judge Wednesday to order Meta to produce certain datasets used to fine-tune its artificial-intelligence product Llama in their high-stakes copyright fight, while Meta's counsel slammed the discovery demands for being belated, speculative and placing an "alarming level of burden" on Meta.
JD Supra Law
JANUARY 8, 2025
The U.S. Patent & Trademark Office (USPTO) has finalized new fees for continuation (CON) patent applications, effective January 19, 2025. These fees include $2,700 for CONs filed more than six years after the earliest claimed priority date ($1,080 for small entity applicants) and $4,000 for those filed more than eight years after the earliest claimed priority date ($1,600 for small entity applicants).
IP Law 360
JANUARY 8, 2025
Samsung and Asus Technology Licensing notified a Texas federal judge Wednesday they've settled their dispute over wireless 5G technology in a case where both sides accused each other of patent infringement in their respective commercial products, with Asus targeting an array of Samsung's Galaxy devices and Samsung attacking Asus' Zenbook laptops.
The TTABlog
JANUARY 8, 2025
The Board issued 30 precedential opinions in calendar year 2024, a total slightly lower than in recent years. A number of trademark practitioners believe that the TTAB should be issuing more precedential decisions. The Board has made available a form for nominating a Board decision as precedential. (link here ). [Good luck with that.] Section 2(a) - False Suggestion of a Connection: Precedential No. 11: TTAB Upholds 2(a) False Connection Refusal of LEATHERNECKS for Motorcycle Club Membership Sec
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