The Trichordist
DECEMBER 26, 2024
Music journalist Liz Pelly’s upcoming investigative book raises serous questions about the legitimacy of Spotify’s playlists and stream counts.
JD Supra Law
DECEMBER 26, 2024
On December 20th, 2024, the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit issued an important decision in Teva Branded Pharmaceutical Products R&D v. Amneal Pharmaceuticals that impacts Orange Book (OB) listings for patents related to FDA-approved drug/device combination products. Patentees and sponsors of New Drug Applications (NDAs) directed to drug/device combinations should review this decision to ensure that their OB listing processes comply with the standards outlined by the Federal Circuit
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TorrentFreak
DECEMBER 26, 2024
In the post-Napster, pre-YouTube world of 2004, a peculiar TV miniseries began to circulate online. The main character in The Scene went by the nickname Drosan. He was a member of a piracy release group called CPX and soon found himself up to his neck in drama after selling leaked movies to contacts in Asia. Blurred Lines: Fiction & Fact Combine While entertained and intrigued by the storyline, the show’s target pirate audience became more suspicious with every passing episode.
The TTABlog
DECEMBER 26, 2024
The steady drumbeat of failure-to-function refusals continues, with the Board affirming a refusal to register the proposed mark PROMATCH for "drum sticks and percussion instruments" on the ground that the term identifies a process or system and therefore fdoes not function as a trademark. Applicant pointed out that the PROMATCH text is bolded on its packaging, is accompanied by the symbol, and appears in a larger size font than the remainder of the text, thereby drawing the consumer's attention
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?
Patently-O
DECEMBER 26, 2024
by Dennis Crouch: The USPTO issued 6,920 utility patents of these, 94% were published prior to issuance. 800 design patents. Looking only at published applications, the UTL allowance rate was 86% calculated as the number patented divided by the number disposed (patented + abandoned). 90% of abandoned cases were - as you might expect - failure to respond to an office action.
IP Watchdog
DECEMBER 26, 2024
Part I of our summary concluded with a discussion about the potential impact of the recent U.S. Federal elections on the regulation of patents relating to industry standards, including with respect to the availability of injunctive relief. We pick up our discussion on a related note, by turning to the U.S. International Trade Commission (ITC), where the primary remedy is an exclusion order.
IP Watchdog
DECEMBER 26, 2024
Regime change is upon on us! You two [Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy] have been identified among those who will have considerable influence on policy and procedure for various government enterprise in the coming presidential administration. Hence, I write this letter in the hope it may affect your thinking as to the patent system and its current implementation in the United States.
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