TorrentFreak

FEBRUARY 4, 2024

From the launch of its online streaming service fifteen years ago, Netflix positioned itself as a piracy competitor. The idea was to take market share away from piracy sites, by offering a legal and more convenient streaming platform. Initially, this seemed to work. Netflix amassed hundreds of millions of subscribers, some of whom left their piracy habits behind.

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Likelihood of Confusion

FEBRUARY 4, 2024

Wired News reports: Transit officials in New York and San Francisco have launched a copyright crackdown on a website offering free downloadable subway maps designed to be viewed on the iPod. More than 9,000 people downloaded the map, which was viewable on either an iPod or an iPod nano, before Bright received […] The post Trademarks — and Copyrights — in the Public Interest?

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TorrentFreak

FEBRUARY 4, 2024

In recent years, copyright holders have paid close attention to a growing number of large piracy services with connections to Vietnam. Representatives of the Motion Picture Association ( MPA ) and the Alliance for Creativity and Entertainment ( ACE ), went as far as traveling to the Asian country to discuss the problem with local authorities. The problematic sites and services, which include Fmovies, AniWave, 123movies, BestBuyIPTV, 2embed, and Y2mate, have many millions of monthly users globall

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SpicyIP

FEBRUARY 4, 2024

In May 2023, the UK Court of Appeal upheld the invalidity of Bristol-Myers Squibb’s Apaxiban patent for lacking “plausibility” But how does this finding interact with the position of relevant laws in India? Responding to this question, we are pleased to bring to you this guest post by Amit Tailor, discussing whether the “plausibility” requirement is embedded within the Patent Act.

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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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IP Watchdog

FEBRUARY 4, 2024

A recent decision out of the Eastern District of Texas sheds further light on Judge Rodney Gilstrap’s interpretation of a patent owner’s commitment to the European Telecommunications Standards Institute (ETSI) pursuant to ETSI’s Intellectual Property Rights Information Statement and Licensing Declaration (“the ETSI Licensing Declaration”). The decision, however, also raises some questions for SEP owners.

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Patently-O

FEBRUARY 4, 2024

by Dennis Crouch On Monday, February 5, 2024, the Federal Circuit will sit together for the first time in years to hear an en banc patent case. In LKQ Corporation v. GM Global Technology Operations LLC , the court will consider whether to apply a more stringent obviousness test to design patents. In a 2010 article, I concluded that “the current design patent examination system operates as a de facto registration system” with very little obviousness analysis except in cases of clear

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