Plagiarism Today
MARCH 12, 2024
In a case involving clips from an Andrew Dice Clay comedy special, the Copyright Claims Board has found a documentary was a fair use. The post Copyright Claims Board Finds Documentary was Fair Use appeared first on Plagiarism Today.
IP Watchdog
MARCH 12, 2024
In an opposition brief filed Monday, The New York Times Company (The Times) told a New York district court that OpenAI’s late February claim that The Times “paid someone to hack OpenAI’s products” in order to prove OpenAI infringed its copyrights amounts to little more than “grandstanding.” In late December 2023, the Times became the latest of many complainants to accuse OpenAI’s Large Language Model, ChatGPT, as well as Microsoft’s GPT-4-powered Bing Chat, of widespread copyright infringement.
This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.
Plagiarism Today
MARCH 12, 2024
Bad Bunny sues fan over concert video, Brazil under scrutiny by USTR and New Zealand Appeals Court finds copyright relationship property. The post 3 Count: Hopping Mad appeared first on Plagiarism Today.
IP Law 360
MARCH 12, 2024
A new federal bill, the BIRDIE Act, introduced in February would extend intellectual property protections to golf course designers but could undercut existing IP case law and raise broader questions about the scope of copyright protection for works that involve living elements or nonhuman authorship, say attorneys at Bradley Arant.
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?
TorrentFreak
MARCH 12, 2024
The Alliance for Creativity and Entertainment ( ACE ) is the world’s most active anti-piracy coalition, initiating and assisting enforcement efforts around the world. Most anti-piracy actions are focused on streaming sites and services, many of which are located in or operated from Vietnam. ACE previously visited Vietnam and met with government officials to explore potential solutions to address the problem.
IP Law 360
MARCH 12, 2024
The Judicial Conference of the United States on Tuesday said it has updated a policy on random case assignments to ensure litigants can't shop for the judge of their choice by going to a one-judge district court.
Intellectual Property Pulse brings together the best content for IP professionals from the widest variety of industry thought leaders.
IP Law 360
MARCH 12, 2024
Meta Platforms Inc. has sued a former Meta vice president in California state court, accusing the executive of "brazenly disloyal and dishonest conduct" for allegedly defecting to an artificial intelligence startup with the social media company's proprietary vendor contracts, AI "roadmaps" and employment data to recruit Meta's top talent.
Christopher Roser
MARCH 12, 2024
Normally, assembly lines are run with a product in every slot of the line. However, for various reasons, sometimes you may have an empty spot. Depending on your assembly line, you may even play with the general distance between products on the line. The latter is called variable takt, or VarioTakt. In this post I. Read more The post Using Empty Slots on the Assembly Line first appeared on AllAboutLean.com.
IP Law 360
MARCH 12, 2024
A Washington federal judge seemed doubtful Tuesday of models' damages bid against a Seattle cabaret that allegedly used their images without permission, unconvinced that those who spotted the ads would truly believe such elite models worked at the "mediocre" strip club with bad Yelp ratings.
IP and Legal Filings
MARCH 12, 2024
Introduction Around 5.18 billion people use the Internet, equivalent to 64.6% of population. Moreover, trends indicated that two-thirds of the world’s population started using the Internet by the end of 2023 [i]. In this era, as the use of the Internet grows, digital piracy is becoming more common, affecting millions. Pirated content has become more accessible due to the widespread use of the Internet.
Advertiser: IPO
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.
IP Law 360
MARCH 12, 2024
Ericsson asked a London court on Tuesday to reject Lenovo's request for fair rates for the use of each other's patents to be set in the U.K., arguing that the Chinese tech giant was forum shopping to disturb ongoing proceedings in the U.S.
IP Close Up
MARCH 12, 2024
The relationship of inventions, names, content and designs to intellectual property rights, less than clear to most people, has been complicated by the emergence of Continue reading
IP Law 360
MARCH 12, 2024
A major Chinese radio company cannot pursue a bid in Chinese court to bar Motorola's motion for an anti-suit injunction, an Illinois federal judge ruled late Tuesday.
JD Supra Law
MARCH 12, 2024
With the constant rise of counterfeiting, protecting one’s brand is now more important than ever. Many brand owners already take protective steps to protect their brands such as registering brands through trademark and copyright registrations and monitoring fraudulent use of said brands. However, with our current social media-driven world, connecting with the digitally native generations is a critical measure brand owners should consider in protecting their reputation and their consumers.
IP Law 360
MARCH 12, 2024
The U.S. International Trade Commission has decided to pull its import ban on a line of Philip Morris e-cigarette products following a settlement of its patent fight with British American Tobacco, over the objections of the agency's own in-house lawyers.
JD Supra Law
MARCH 12, 2024
In this episode of the Knobbe IP+ podcast, Knobbe Martens partner Mauricio A. Uribe speaks with author, technology disruptor, strategist and CEO Linda Bernardi on the role of patent strategies in VC funding opportunities and due diligence. Leveraging Linda’s current role as CEO at XdMind Inc., a revolutionary company using AI to dynamically adapt music to video gaming, as well as her previous executive-level experience at IBM, Element AI, and Consensys, Mauricio and Linda explore the role of.
IP Law 360
MARCH 12, 2024
An Eighth Circuit panel considered Tuesday the question of how far federal copyright law stretches to cover the use of memes while debating the effect of last year's landmark Warhol ruling on a suit against a former U.S. representative's use of the "Success Kid" meme in a fundraising post.
JD Supra Law
MARCH 12, 2024
Ladas & Parry LLP considers diversity and inclusion as core values and principles that provide access to opportunity, maximization of expertise and a range of perspectives and ensures excellence, particularly in the IP field. We salute those who have helped shape the world and would like to shine a light on these pioneers who sometimes receive little or no credit.
Intellectual Property Office Blog
MARCH 12, 2024
UK-based business, Oxa was the first company in the UK to test self-driving cars on public roads as part of Project Endeavour, an Innovate UK-funded trial. We caught up with Oxa’s Head of Licencing and IP Management Alex Tame to find out how owning IP has played a role in the research, production and scaling of their innovative AV technology.
JD Supra Law
MARCH 12, 2024
On February 12, 2024, the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) released guidance and a solicitation for public comments on assessing inventorship in the context of inventions aided by artificial intelligence (AI). This guidance, which took effect on February 13, 2024, clarifies that inventions facilitated by AI can still be patented and underscores the importance of human involvement in the inventive process to qualify for patent protection.
SpicyIP
MARCH 12, 2024
We are pleased to announce that the Inter-University Centre for IPR Studies (IUCIPRS), CUSAT, and Third World Network are jointly organizing a workshop on ‘Patent Opposition in the Pharmaceutical Field’ between April 26-30, 2024. The last date to apply for the workshop is March 24, 2024. For further details, please read the call for applications below: Workshop on Patent Oppositions in the Pharmaceutical Field Inter-University Centre for IPR Studies (IUCIPRS), CUSAT, and Third World Network are
JD Supra Law
MARCH 12, 2024
With the recent emergence of Name Image Likeness ("NIL") compensation, alumni associations focused on raising funds to compensate student athletes have been on the rise. But alumni associations in some form or another have been around as long as some of the oldest colleges and universities in the nation. Schools are often faced with the question of how far they will permit an alumni association to utilize trademarks, colors and slogans in furtherance of raising funds without an explicit.
IP Law 360
MARCH 12, 2024
A Texas federal judge said he is staying a suit accusing Samsung's phones of infringing a technology company's patent, noting that there were challenges to the patent going forward before the Patent Trial and Appeal Board.
JD Supra Law
MARCH 12, 2024
Having a clear view of your company’s patents, trademarks, copyrights and trade secrets is a first step to protecting your intellectual property and building a process to maximize new IP value. It’s well known that a company’s intellectual property can be a valuable asset. But as general counsel, how much do you think about your IP portfolio? Originally published by Industry Dive - March 7, 2024.
IP Law 360
MARCH 12, 2024
The full Federal Circuit on Tuesday declined to review a panel ruling from late last year that sided with a Patent Trial and Appeal Board decision that there was nothing patentable about a way of administering a blockbuster pulmonary hypertension drug.
IP Watchdog
MARCH 12, 2024
On March 11, U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) Director Kathi Vidal issued an order on rehearing that upheld the attorney’s fee award levied against petitioner OpenSky Industries over its abuse of process during inter partes review (IPR) proceedings at the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB). Although Director Vidal’s order delayed the date by which OpenSky must pay, the ruling nixed OpenSky’s challenges to the more than $400,000 attorney’s fee award in favor of patent owner VLSI.
IP Law 360
MARCH 12, 2024
A videographer has accused Barstool Sports Inc. of using his footage of the Marshall fire in Superior, Colorado, on its Instagram page without his permission, according to a lawsuit filed in New York federal court.
SpicyIP
MARCH 12, 2024
The troubles for the Office of the Controller General of Patent, Designs, and Trade Mark (CGPDTM) just don’t seem to end anytime soon. In yet another “out of the frying pan and into the fire” situation for the CGPDTM, after the corruption allegation (covered here ), the Delhi High Court passed an order on 7 March 2024 in IPAA v CGPDTM seeking directions for the suspension of Trademark Registry related limitation periods till the complete resumption of the services of the website/port
Patently-O
MARCH 12, 2024
by Dennis Crouch In a nonprecedential decision, the Federal Circuit has vacated and remanded a PTAB decision siding against the patentee. The key issue on appeal was the proper construction of the claim term “ matingly engaged ,” which appears in the limitation “a compliant member matingly engaged with the second side of the housing member.” CoolIT Sys., Inc. v.
JD Supra Law
MARCH 12, 2024
Pfizer Inc. v. Sanofi Pasteur Inc., Appeal Nos. 2019-1871, -1873, -1875, -1876, -2224 (Fed. Cir. Mar. 5, 2024) This week’s Case of the Week mostly resolves an appeal filed five years ago, following decisions from the PTAB in IPRs that were filed as early as 2017. Although the decision covers a number of issues, the portion that arguably broke new ground relates to the question of obviousness—specifically the “result-effective variable doctrine.”.
The IPKat
MARCH 12, 2024
If you were too busy to stay up-to-date with the IP news last week, here's the summary of what you missed. IP Generally Image from yacubee via Pixabay. Antonios Baris reviewed the book, Propriété intellectuelle et développement durable / Intellectual Property & Sustainable Development , edited by Prof. Jacques de Werra. This edited collection addresses the relationship between sustainability and the different IP “ecosystems”, including patents, trade marks, copyright, and unfair competition
JD Supra Law
MARCH 12, 2024
Pursuant to efforts by the federal government to develop artificial intelligence in a safe, secure and trustworthy manner, the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office issued inventorship guidance for inventions developed with assistance of AI in February. The guidance clarifies how inventorship is to be determined for the purposes of a patent when AI is involved in the innovation process.
LexBlog IP
MARCH 12, 2024
Electronic discovery in the Federal Court of Australia (FCA) is nothing new. From July 2014, the FCA began implementing the Court’s electronic court file (ECF) across its Australian registries. This enabled the Court to embrace the use of technology in proceedings, including the use of electronic discovery, eLodgement, eTrials, eCourtroom, and video conferences.
IP Law 360
MARCH 12, 2024
The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office and the U.S. Copyright Office told Congress in a report Tuesday about the intellectual property implications of nonfungible tokens, identifying opportunities and concerns about the technology, while advising against changing IP law or policy as a result.
LexBlog IP
MARCH 12, 2024
In a post last year , I proposed a solution for a recurring problem in trade secret litigation–namely, the situation where a former employee takes information but quickly regrets their conduct and looks for a way to resolve the dispute. As readers will recall, I proposed a “safe harbor” that would allow that former employee to provide disclosures and an injunction to address their former employer’s legitimate concerns.
Expert insights. Personalized for you.
265 
Let's personalize your content