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Where Did the Poor Man’s Copyright Myth Start?

Plagiarism Today

The myth of Poor Man's Copyright has been with us for decades. But where did the (bad) idea get its start? The post Where Did the Poor Man’s Copyright Myth Start? appeared first on Plagiarism Today.

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Court Rejects Law Firm’s Bid to Directly Obtain BitTorrent Users’ Identities

TorrentFreak

In many countries around the world there are long-established, well-worn legal processes that allow rightsholders to obtain the personal details of suspected pirates. Requirements vary from region to region but when certain conditions are met, few courts deny genuine copyright holders the ability to enforce their rights under relevant law. One of the most fundamental requirements is that the entity making the claim has the necessary rights to do so, yet over the years there has been no shortage

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3 Count: Her Not Her

Plagiarism Today

Scarlett Johansson threatens to sue OpenAI, Cox sues insurers over copyright payout, and NMPA seeks to end statutory licenses. The post 3 Count: Her Not Her appeared first on Plagiarism Today.

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Destiny 2 Creator Bungie & Cheat Maker AimJunkies Go Head-To-Head at Trial

TorrentFreak

Over the past several years, game companies have pursued legal action against both cheaters and cheat makers. Rightsholders have mostly emerged from these lawsuits as victors, but until now, none have gone all the way to a full trial. The legal dispute between American video game developer Bungie and AimJunkies.com has been fiercely fought, and the long-awaited jury trial is now underway.

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Software Composition Analysis: The New Armor for Your Cybersecurity

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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LKQ v. GM: What In-House Counsel Needs to Know About This Change in Design Patent Law

JD Supra Law

On May 21, 2024, the Federal Circuit issued an en banc decision (full court, instead of the typical three-judge panel) in LKQ Corp. et al. v. GM Global Technology Operations LLC, overturning the long-standing obviousness test for design patents. By: Wolf, Greenfield & Sacks, P.C.

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Spencer Fane Lures In Big-Name 'Misfits' For Patent Group

IP Law 360

Spencer Fane LLP has spent the past two years building up what it hopes to be a top-tier intellectual property group, pulling together a "band of misfits" from firms like Fish & Richardson PC and McKool Smith, according to the group's co-leader.

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Justices' CFPB Alliance May Save SEC Courts, Not Chevron

IP Law 360

A four-justice concurrence to the U.S. Supreme Court's decision upholding the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau's unique funding scheme last week carries implications for other cases pending before the court that challenge the so-called administrative state, or the permanent cadre of regulatory agencies and career government enforcers who hold sway over vast swaths of American economic life.

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Supreme Court Holds Invalid Cholesterol Drug Patent That Covered Millions of Undisclosed Antibodies

JD Supra Law

In Amgen Inc. v. Sanofi, the Supreme Court unanimously held that “[i]f a patent claims an entire class of processes, machines, manufactures, or compositions of matter, the patent specification must enable a person skilled in the art to make and use the entire class.” That is, “the specification must enable the full scope of the invention as defined by its claims.

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Scarlett Johansson, OpenAI and the Voice of Things to Come?

Copyright Lately

Johansson says the new ChatGPT voice is “eerily similar” to her own. Does the actress have a case? Matt Belloni and I break it down on today’s episode of The Town. In 2013, The New Republic gave Spike Jonze’s film Her a dubious honor, calling it the scariest movie of the year. The titular “Her” is Samantha, an AI personal assistant, and the movie paints a disguised dystopia in which humans are all too easily subjugated to the seductive voice of technology.

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District Court Adopts Broad View of Copyright Preemption in Data Scraping Case

JD Supra Law

The recent California district court decision dismissing the complaint in X Corp. v. Bright Data Ltd. could have significant implications for companies that rely on their terms of use to prohibit unauthorized “data scraping” — that is, using automated tools to extract data from a website or online services.

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IPO Diversity in Innovation Toolkit

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.

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Pryor Cashman Atty Accused Of 'Brazen' Hose Patent Fraud

IP Law 360

An attorney for Pryor Cashman LLP and his client were accused Wednesday in Florida federal court of engaging in a "brazen" scheme to usurp a hose company's rights to a patent portfolio while also defrauding the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office.

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Battling Brands: The Fight For Trademark Territory

JD Supra Law

In a David vs. Goliath-esque legal saga, Rogue Fitness (ROGUE), a well-known workout products company, finds itself embroiled in a trademark dispute against Rogue Ridge LLC (Rogue Ridge), a mountain bike seller. At the heart of the matter lies the use of the term “Rogue” in branding, a word laden with commercial significance for both companies.

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Salesforce Gets Texas Judge To Move Patent Suit To California

IP Law 360

For at least the second time in a week, a federal judge in Austin, Texas, has explained why he has shipped a patent lawsuit from his court to the Northern District of California — this time in a case brought by a bankrupt startup against one of Salesforce's brands.

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Rethinking Interchangeability, Top Cases, and Battling Misinformation at FDLI’s Annual Conference

JD Supra Law

1 Last week, the Food and Drug Law Institute held its Annual Conference while also celebrating its 75th anniversary. There, members of FDA and industry players gathered to discuss the latest legal, policy, and regulatory developments affecting the Agency and the industries it regulates.

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PTAB Finds Inergy's Chip Patent Challenges 'Compelling'

IP Law 360

The Patent Trial and Appeal Board has decided to review Force Mos Technology chip patents, saying it won't rely on a 2020 precedent to discretionarily deny challenges by Inergy Technology Inc. in light of a looming district court trial because the petitions raise "compelling evidence of unpatentability.

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Are Certain Claims Prevented When Bringing a Trade Secret Claim?

JD Supra Law

Are certain claims prevented when bringing a trade secret claim? Yes. Generally speaking the Arkansas Uniform Trade Secrets Act (AUTSA) displaces conflicting tort, restitutionary, and other law concerning the misappropriation of a trade secret.

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Boeing Can't Use Belated Patent Defense In Startup's IP Trial

IP Law 360

A Washington federal judge has rejected The Boeing Co.'s last-minute bid to tell a jury that its patents preempt claims it misappropriated an electric jet startup's intellectual property, saying it would be unfair to allow previously unpled affirmative defenses now that the trial is underway.

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Federal Circuit Patent Watch: Section 285 Does Not Extend to Recovery of IPR Fees

JD Supra Law

Precedential and Key Federal Circuit Opinions - 1. ZIRCON CORP. v. ITC (2022-1649, 05/08/2024) (Lourie, Bryson, and Stark) - Bryson, J. The Court affirmed the Commission’s determination regarding the domestic industry requirement for filing a patent suit.

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CAFC Vacates Win for Nokia on Standing Issue

IP Watchdog

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit (CAFC) on Tuesday, May 21, issued a precedential decision vacating and remanding a district court’s finding that Core Optical Technologies didn’t have standing to sue Nokia due to the language of a contract between the inventor and his employer. Judge Mayer dissented. Core Optical alleged infringement of U.S.

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FDA Approves First Two Interchangeable EYLEA® Biosimilars – Biocon’s Yesafili™ (aflibercept-jbvf) and Samsung Bioepis’s Opuviz™ (aflibercept-yszy)

JD Supra Law

On May 20, 2024, the FDA approved the first two interchangeable biosimilars of Regeneron’s EYLEA® (aflibercept) – Biocon Biologics and Mylan’s Yesafili™ (aflibercept-jbvf) and Samsung Bioepis’s Opuviz™ (aflibercept-yszy). .

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Ted Davis: "Annual Review of U.S. Federal and State Case Law and T.T.A.B. Developments"

The TTABlog

Thank you, Ted Davis, for permitting me to post a link ( here ) to your article, "Recent Developments in United States Trademark and Unfair Competition Law." This article is a companion to the Ted's presentation at the 2024 Annual Meeting of INTA Atlanta." Read comments and post your comment here.

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3 Key Takeaways - Corporate Perspectives on Intellectual Property

JD Supra Law

Kilpatrick partners Brian Axelrad, Jeff Hechtman, and Brenda Holmes recently presented to clients at the Kilpatrick Intellectual Property Seminar on the topic of “Corporate Perspectives on Intellectual Property.” They discussed corporate and intellectual property issues and how they are handled by different types of companies (early and later stage).

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USPTO's Proposed Disclaimer Rule Would Harm Inventors

IP Law 360

The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office’s recently proposed rule on terminal disclaimers will make the patent system less available to inventors and will unfairly favor defendants in litigation, say Stephen Schreiner at Carmichael IP and Sarah Tsou at Omni Bridgeway.

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Enabling AI-Assisted Inventions and the Black-Box Problem

JD Supra Law

Earlier this year, the U.S. Patent Office issued its Inventorship Guidance for AI-Assisted Inventions.The main takeaway is that “[w]hile AI systems. . . cannot be listed as inventors on patent applications,” the “use of an AI system by a natural person” does not preclude that person from being listed as an inventor if they “significantly contributed to the claimed invention.

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NFL Escapes Sanders Statue Spat As Getty Eyes Arbitration

IP Law 360

The NFL has escaped a New York federal lawsuit filed by a professional photographer who claims his copyrighted photo was unlawfully used to create a statue of legendary running back Barry Sanders, while Getty Images Inc. hopes to settle through arbitration.

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Design Patent Obviousness: Federal Circuit Rehearing and Examiner AI-Assisted Searching

JD Supra Law

The law for design patent obviousness may change in the upcoming months when a decision is issued from the Federal Circuit Court of Appeals from the February 2024 en banc rehearing of LKQ Corp. v. GM Global Technology Operations LLC.[2] Although the law has not yet changed, the application of the current law has recently changed at the United States Patent & Trademark Office (USPTO).

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Record Co. Worker Can't Appeal Before Nirvana Logo Trial

IP Law 360

A former record company employee who claims he created Nirvana's "smiley face" logo can't immediately appeal a ruling denying his ownership claim or delay trial in the band's copyright suit against designer Marc Jacobs International LLC over the logo, a California federal judge has ruled.

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The Safe Harbor Provision in §271(e)(1) Protects Acts of Infringement Connected to Submissions of Data to Federal Agencies

JD Supra Law

A split Federal Circuit panel recently held that the safe harbor provision of 35 U.S.C. §271(e)(1) providing a defense to infringement applies if the allegedly infringing activity is “reasonably related to submitting information” to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (“FDA”). Edwards Lifesciences Corp. v. Meril Life Sciences Ltd. (Fed. Cir. March 25, 2024).

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Inventor To Take $102M IP Malpractice Row To Ga. High Court

IP Law 360

A neurosurgeon pursuing a nearly $102 million legal malpractice case against FisherBroyles LLP and a legal services contractor over a missed patent filing deadline said Wednesday that he is planning to take the dispute to the highest court in the Peach State.

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Redrawing the Obviousness Standard: Graham Factors Overrule Rosen-Durling for Design Patents

JD Supra Law

Brooks Kushman serves as design patent counsel for Ford Motor Company and has closely followed this case. Attorneys Frank Angileri and Marc Lorelli from Brooks Kushman filed an amicus brief on Ford’s behalf in the en banc proceedings. By: Brooks Kushman P.C.

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Where are the Women? A Detailed History of Women in Computer Science and How it Impacts the Modern Day Industry

Chicago-Kent Intellectual Property Journal Blog

Written by Mary Kate Nowak Introduction In the United States, computer science is considered an extremely lucrative career. In 2019, STEM-educated workers in computer occupations had the highest median annual earnings among STEM occupations. [1] Yet, computer science has one of the largest gender gaps in STEM. As of 2022, … The post Where are the Women?

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Carmen Electra, Other Models' Likeness Suit Moves Forward

IP Law 360

A Pennsylvania federal judge has rejected a bid from three Philadelphia-area strip clubs to throw out a suit claiming they wrongly used the likeness of models including Carmen Electra, saying the models' claims were plausible.

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Winning Strategies at the PTAB, Part I: Bring Your Game

IP Watchdog

Litigating the validity of claims in an inter partes review (IPR) at the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) is vastly different from litigating validity in district court. PTAB judges are scientists and engineers, and they are also patent attorneys. They have significant technical training, and most have advanced technical degrees. You can assume they know substantive patent law cold.

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Insurance Co. Says Ex-Underwriter 'Lured' Away Colleagues

IP Law 360

An insurance brokerage and its affiliate have accused a former high-ranking company official of decamping for a competitor and encouraging colleagues to follow suit, according to a complaint designated Wednesday to North Carolina Business Court.

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How to Trademark: What goods and services are related or unrelated?

Patent Trademark Blog

What is the meaning of related goods and services? Likelihood of confusion is one of the biggest obstacles to registering trademarks. In comparing trademarks, examiners will frequently reject one mark for being confusable with another mark even though the respective goods or services appear quite different. The common rationale in a typical Office Action Section 2(d) rejection is that the applicant’s goods or services are related to those of a cited registered trademark.