Plagiarism Today
OCTOBER 4, 2023
The graphic design platform Canva has launched a dozen new AI-powered tools. But how well do they work and are they legal/ethical to use? The post Canva Launches New Suite of AI-Powered Design Tools appeared first on Plagiarism Today.
Michael Geist
OCTOBER 4, 2023
The CRTC’s decision to require registration for a wide range of Internet sites and services that meet a $10 million revenue threshold, including podcasters, adult sites, and news sites, appears to have taken many Canadians by surprise. For anyone who closely followed Bill C-11, this was entirely expected given that the bill adopts an approach in which all audio and video content anywhere in the world is subject to Canada’s Broadcasting Act.
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Plagiarism Today
OCTOBER 4, 2023
Authors Guild sends open letter to AI companies, Russia prepares to ban VPNs from their own store and Paramount releases Mean Girls on TikTok. The post 3 Count: Meaner Girls appeared first on Plagiarism Today.
JD Supra Law
OCTOBER 4, 2023
The growth of artificial intelligence (“AI”) and generative AI is moving copyright law into unprecedented territory. While US copyright law continues to develop around AI, one boundary has been set: the bedrock requirement of copyright is human authorship. Given this, it is clear in the US, AI alone cannot be an author. This bedrock principle was reinforced in two recent copyright decisions.
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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
OCTOBER 4, 2023
Plex is a multifunctional media software and service that allows users to easily access all of their entertainment in one place. The company was founded in 2009 and today boasts 16 million active monthly streaming users, making Plex a serious market player. Most people use the service for perfectly legitimate purposes. On the fringes, however, some users abuse the software to share pirate libraries publicly, a considerable thorn in the side for rightsholders.
JD Supra Law
OCTOBER 4, 2023
Using generative AI raises numerous copyright issues. In response, the US Copyright Office (USCO) has undertaken a new Artificial Intelligence Initiative (“AI Initiative”). This guide is a high level overview and a collection of materials relating to the AI Initiative. New Artificial Intelligence Initiative - On March 16, 2023, the USCO launched the new AI Initiative to examine the copyright law and policy issues raised by artificial intelligence (AI), including the scope of copyright in works.
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Biswajit Sarkar Copyright Blog
OCTOBER 4, 2023
The Indian Navy has a rich history and has undergone significant developments in terms of research and inventions. With a great sense of pride, we announce that the Indian Navy has introduced a new design for a mask to be used in their course of action. In general, members of the Navy are in the habit of using masks to resist impact and protect their face, neck, nose etc. from debris, dust, splashes to sudden exposure to heat and flames.
Kluwer Copyright Blog
OCTOBER 4, 2023
Image by Alexa from Pixabay As succinctly noted by Susan Bischoff in a prior post , the ongoing legal saga surrounding the ‘Metall auf Metall’ case continues to yield legal insights. Presently, a new reference from the German Federal Court of Justice (BGH) asks the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) for vital interpretive guidance concerning the parody exception within copyright law.
JD Supra Law
OCTOBER 4, 2023
The laws that govern the metaverse are grounded in those of Planet Earth. Private civil laws relating to contract, tort, IP and data privacy all bite, as do criminal and regulatory laws. Where the difference lies is in their application to a new environment. “Good morning to everyone in Santa Marta, Magdalena, Colombia, this 15th day of February 2023.
U.S. Department of Commerce
OCTOBER 4, 2023
Deputy Secretary of Commerce Don Graves Concludes Cybersecurity Trade Mission to the Republic of Korea and Japan October 4, 2023 KCPullen@doc.gov Wed, 10/04/2023 - 10:39 Cybersecurity Export and investment promotion ICT Supply Chain From September 20 – 26, U.S. Deputy Secretary of Commerce Don Graves led 15 American companies on a Cybersecurity Trade Mission to the Republic of Korea and Japan following President Biden’s Trilateral Summit with President Yoon of Korea and Prime Minister Kishida of
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JD Supra Law
OCTOBER 4, 2023
In this latest episode of Entertainment Law Update film/tv lawyer Gordon Firemark and music/trademark lawyer Tamera H. Bennett cover a wide range of topics, including significant legal cases, new developments in the music industry, recent legislation, and the latest news from the writers' union. Here's a brief rundown of what you can expect: #Actors #Artificial Intelligence #Artists #ClassAction #Copyright #CopyrightInfringement #EntertainmentIndustry #EntertainmentLawUpdate #FilmandTVlaw.
The IPKat
OCTOBER 4, 2023
On 1 November 2023 and 1 November 2024 important changes to the Madrid System will enter into force. The most significant changes entering into force on 1 November 2023 are: Obligation to notify time limits and their calculation. Minimum time limit to respond to a provisional refusal. Consequences of failure of national trade mark offices to meet the new requirements concerning notifications of time limits.
IP Law 360
OCTOBER 4, 2023
A Third Circuit judge sitting in Delaware has thrown out infringement litigation against Broadcom Inc., saying the defunct company filing the suit lost its rights to enforce the patents four years ago, and is now trying to "slap a bandage on the gaping wound" at the "eleventh hour" to argue otherwise.
JD Supra Law
OCTOBER 4, 2023
Precedential and Key Federal Circuit Opinions - BAXALTA INCOPORPORATED v. GENENTECH, INC. [OPINION] (2022-1461, 9/20/2023) (Moore, Clevenger, and Chen) - Moore, C.J. The Court affirmed a district court’s grant of summary judgment that claims were invalid for lack of enablement. Claim 1 of the asserted patent “cover[ed] all antibodies that (1) bind to Factor IX/IXa; and (2) increase the procoagulant activity of Factor IXa.”.
IP Watchdog
OCTOBER 4, 2023
On October 2, the Nobel Assembly at Karolinska Institutet announced that Hungarian-American biochemist Katalin Karikó and American immunologist Drew Weissman were awarded the 2023 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for their discoveries related to modified messenger ribonucleic acid (mRNA) for use in vaccines. A critical part of the world’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic, mRNA vaccines were not an effective option until the pioneering work of these two scientists, one of whom faced conside
JD Supra Law
OCTOBER 4, 2023
The Federal Circuit has ruled that “comparison prior art” used in infringement analysis in a design patent infringement must be applied to the same “article of manufacture” that is identified in the claim of the design patent.
The TTABlog
OCTOBER 4, 2023
In this Section 2(d) opposition to registration of the mark MOSAIC for "Collectible trading cards; Sports trading cards," Opposer RLP Ventures, appearing pro se, seriously botched its attempt to submit evidence and testimony. The Board struck RLP's notice of reliance but nonetheless allowed it to file an amended notice, and the Board re-opened RLP's testimony period so it could file a supplemental testimony declaration authenticating certain exhibits.
JD Supra Law
OCTOBER 4, 2023
Patent attorneys regularly use indefinite articles (i.e., “a” or “an”) in claim drafting to introduce patent limitations. In Apple Inc. v. Corephotonics, Ltd., however, the Federal Circuit made a ruling that may require practitioners to think twice about using such articles, particularly when they could be used to later broaden the claims during an invalidity analysis.
IP Tech Blog
OCTOBER 4, 2023
It seems the Supreme Court will decide (again) whether a claim for copyright infringement can extend to infringement that occurred more than three years before filing suit. In Warner Chappell Music, Inc. v. Nealy , the Supreme Court will resolve a classic circuit split – the Second Circuit holding that no damages can be obtained for acts of infringement older than three years, and the Ninth and Eleventh Circuits holding that a plaintiff can recover all of its damages if it commences litigation w
JD Supra Law
OCTOBER 4, 2023
Australia’s trade mark legislation provides trade mark owners with the ability to register (in certain circumstances) their well-known brands as ‘defensive trade marks’ in respect of particular goods and/or services, even if the owner of the mark has no intention of using the mark in respect of those goods and/or services.
IP Intelligence
OCTOBER 4, 2023
The Supreme Court seemed, at least to a small degree, interested in evaluating the subject matter eligibility of diagnostic claims when it requested that the respondents (Natera Inc. and Eurofins Viracor Inc.) respond to a petition for writ of certiorari filed by CareDx Inc. and the Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University (collectively “CareDx”).
JD Supra Law
OCTOBER 4, 2023
The answer seems to be yes — but only when ‘authorship’ of the work can be attributed to a human. In August 2023, the US District Court for the District of Columbia ruled that an AI-generated work “absent any guiding human hand” is not protected by copyright (Thaler v. Register of Copyrights).
SpicyIP
OCTOBER 4, 2023
Image from here In 2018, an Office of Memorandum (Memo) was passed by the Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change directing the National Biodiversity Authority (NBA) to consider, on merit, the cases of entities/ persons, who were unaware of the provisions of the Biological Diversity Act and were using biological resources without approval.
JD Supra Law
OCTOBER 4, 2023
The UK Intellectual Property Office (IPO) has started a second consultation on proposed changes to trade marks, design rights and tribunal services, in relation to its "One IPO" digital transformation programme. The deadline for responding is 31 October 2023.
LexBlog IP
OCTOBER 4, 2023
Inter partes review (IPR) replaces inter partes reexamination as an avenue for a third party’s patentability challenge and the provision in the AIA for inter partes review was effective on September 16, 2012.
Herbert Smith Freehills
OCTOBER 4, 2023
The Herbert Smith Freehills Alumni Network is a thriving global community and recently, a group now based in the Cayman Islands, hosted their own reunion. The HSF Alumni network in the Cayman Islands met for drinks on Wednesday 6 th September at Vine & Tap in George Town. The on island network has grown to over 35 people, with representation from alumni who have between them spent time in the London, Paris, Tokyo, Hong Kong, Singapore, Dubai and various Australian offices.
LexBlog IP
OCTOBER 4, 2023
Leveraging Written Description Vulnerabilities in IPR Bio/pharma patents are rarely targeted in IPR proceedings because their technical vulnerabilities often relate to written description and/or enablement. IPR, of course, is restricted in scope to only grounds of unpatentability that are based on patents and printed publications. And claims in the unpredictable arts, even when challenged in IPR, can be relatively tougher to invalidate as compared to patents in the predictable arts.
Patently-O
OCTOBER 4, 2023
I have several public events coming up over the next few months that I’m looking forward to. I always enjoy the opportunity to connect with old friends and meet new people who are ready to dig into the details of intellectual property law. Let me know if you want to meet up. — Dennis AIPLA Annual Meeting – October 19-21, 2023 – Washington DC I’ll be joining a year-in-review plenary session on the final day of the AIPLA Annual Meeting moderated by Melissa Pytel of E
LexBlog IP
OCTOBER 4, 2023
It seems the Supreme Court will decide (again) whether a claim for copyright infringement can extend to infringement that occurred more than three years before filing suit. In Warner Chappell Music, Inc. v. Nealy , the Supreme Court will resolve a classic circuit split – the Second Circuit holding that no damages can be obtained for acts of infringement older than three years, and the Ninth and Eleventh Circuits holding that a plaintiff can recover all of its damages if it commences litiga
IP Law 360
OCTOBER 4, 2023
The Patent Trial and Appeal Board has thrown out various claims in a company's patent for wirelessly communicating data, finding that the challenged claims were anticipated or obvious over the prior art.
LexBlog IP
OCTOBER 4, 2023
Australia’s trade mark legislation provides trade mark owners with the ability to register (in certain circumstances) their well-known brands as ‘defensive trade marks’ in respect of particular goods and/or services, even if the owner of the mark has no intention of using the mark in respect of those goods and/or services. This unique feature of Australian trade mark law is not available in many other jurisdictions around the world.
IP Law 360
OCTOBER 4, 2023
Trader Joe's United hit the grocery store chain with an unfair labor practice charge with the National Labor Relations Board Wednesday, alleging the store retaliated against union workers by filing a trademark infringement lawsuit over the union's logo.
IP Law 360
OCTOBER 4, 2023
Judges on the Federal Circuit appeared frustrated by both sides when trying to decide Wednesday whether Manhattan's U.S. District Judge Jed Rakoff had enough evidence in front of him to throw out IBM's patent claims against pet goods retailer Chewy, with the top judge there warning an IBM lawyer that if he got a citation to the lower court case wrong, "we're going to have a further discussion that you're not going to like.
IP Law 360
OCTOBER 4, 2023
A Texas federal judge on Wednesday issued a directed verdict in favor of Google LLC on the third day of a jury trial, finding that Google didn't infringe patents owned by Brazos Licensing & Development that cover location tracking technology, Google confirmed in a statement.
IP Law 360
OCTOBER 4, 2023
Four law firms are the ones general counsel and law firm leaders most fear having to face off against in court, according to a new report set to be released Thursday.
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