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3 Count: AI Battles

Plagiarism Today

Majority of claims in the GitHub case are dismissed, the New York Times and OpenAI spar over discovery, and Hawk Tuah creators file takedowns. The post 3 Count: AI Battles appeared first on Plagiarism Today.

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Top Tips for Building Bold Brands with Strong Trademarks

Erik K Pelton

The following is an edited transcript of my book video Building a Bold Brand Chapter 2: Bold Brand Building Tools. Coming up with a great name for a new business, product, or service can be quite difficult, even more so today than in the past since there are so many already out there, and because any business can go online and almost instantaneously be considered a national or international company.

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Student Arrested, Deported in Academic Fraud Case

Plagiarism Today

A former student of Lehigh University scammed his way to a full scholarship. He was only caught after confessing to it on Reddit. The post Student Arrested, Deported in Academic Fraud Case appeared first on Plagiarism Today.

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D.C. Court’s Dismissal of Judge Newman’s Case Against Moore Sets Stage for Appeal

IP Watchdog

The U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia today dismissed the remaining counts in Judge Pauline Newman’s challenge to U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit (CAFC) Chief Judge Kimberly Moore’s inquiry into her fitness to continue serving as a federal appellate judge. The decision sets the stage for an appeal, which Newman’s lawyer told IPWatchdog will happen “within days, not weeks.

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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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Guest Post by Profs. Lemley & Ouellette: Fixing Double Patenting

Patently-O

Guest post by Professors Mark A. Lemley and Lisa Larrimore Ouellette of Stanford Law School. Two of the most controversial patent law changes of the past year have involved obviousness-type double patenting, which allows applicants to patent obvious variants of their earlier patents by disclaiming the extra term of the later-expiring patent. First, the Federal Circuit held in In re Cellect that patents tied by double patenting must expire on the same day even if one of the patents has received a

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Pirate Sites Face a More Challenging Hosting Climate in Europe

TorrentFreak

Earlier this month, torrent search engine MagnetDL mysteriously went offline, and there’s still no trace of the site today. The site had previously gone offline after it faced copyright-related hosting challenges, which may have also played a role in its disappearance. MagnetDL’s recent troubles were followed by the voluntary shutdown of pirate streaming site Animeflix a few days ago.

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“Lifetime” Pirate IPTV Boxes Freely Available on Amazon Cost Men $1.25m

TorrentFreak

Those setting out to buy a pirate IPTV device, perhaps even for the first time, have broadly three options. The first is to buy a ‘blank’ Android device from a retailer before navigating a minefield they don’t understand, hoping to buy a pirate subscription without getting ripped off. A second and increasingly popular option is to buy a device with an embedded subscription, either from a friend, a friend-of-a-friend, or from those prepared to sell them via websites or openly on

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China’s Six-Fold Lead Over the U.S. in Generative A.I. Patents is Less a Threat than a Wakeup Call

IP Close Up

The outsized media coverage of last week’s World Intellectual Property Organization report on generative artificial intelligence shows China holds a huge lead on the U.S.

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Facebook Isn’t Subject to the ADA–Lloyd v. Facebook

Technology & Marketing Law Blog

Lloyd brought a pro se lawsuit against Facebook raising a myriad of concerns. My prior blog post. The Ninth Circuit easily dismisses most of it in a breezy memorandum opinion, but the contract claim gets revived for a little longer. Some of the points covered: “the ADA claim fails because Facebook is not a place of public accommodation.” The Rehabilitation Act “does not apply to defendants who are private entities that do not receive federal funds.” With respect to the U

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Trade Secret Complaint Fails Basic Requirements

JD Supra Law

On May 23, 2024, the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania dismissed a trade secret misappropriation claim for failure to identify a trade secret. The case is titled Vertical Bridge REIT, LLC v. Everest Infrastructure Partners, Inc., Case No. 23-1017 (W.D. Pa. 2024).

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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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Musings on the Death of Chevron

IP Watchdog

“Ding-Dong, the Witch is Dead”—the Witch being the extraordinary agency overreach into law that Congress never passed, emboldened by the 1984 U.S. Supreme Court (SCOTUS) case of Chevron U.S.A. v. Natural Resources Defense Council, 467 U.S. 837, and enabled by a weakened judiciary told to give agency action presumptive deference on the construction and application of federal statutes.

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Patent Poetry: Federal Circuit Rules on Patent Damages Based on Foreign Conduct

JD Supra Law

The Federal Circuit has ruled that a US patent-holder plaintiff may be able to recover damages for a defendant’s foreign sales of infringing products if the foreign sales were proximately caused by the defendant’s improperly making, using, selling, offering to sell, or importing the patented invention in the United States.

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Never Too Late: If you missed the IPKat last week!

The IPKat

If you were too busy to keep up with last week's IP news, here's the summary of what you missed. Trade Marks and Designs Image from Pixabay. Marcel Pemsel evaluated the ruling of the German Supreme Court concerning the 3D trade mark for the Volkswagen's famous 'Bulli' vehicle. A model car manufacturer continued selling Bulli models in packaging stating that they were "officially licenced" after its licence agreement was terminated, but raised questions of "genuine use" of the mark during the inf

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What You Need to Know If You’re Using AI-Generated Voices for Your Company

JD Supra Law

Global music superstar Taylor Swift began her music career in Nashville, so we thought it fitting that on July 1, with the end of the Eras Tour in sight, the Ensuring Likeness Voice and Image Security (ELVIS) Act went into effect in Tennessee. This marks the latest front in the effort to navigate the interplay between the capability of generative AI and the Right of Publicity for music and voice artists alike.

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Chase Bank Reaches Deal In Data Security Patent Suit

IP Law 360

JPMorgan Chase Bank NA indicated Tuesday that it has settled a lawsuit in Texas federal court over data security patents developed by a former Israeli air defense officer who worked on technological solutions for "survivability capabilities against systemic failures.

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Federal Circuit Clarifies Rules for Skinny Labeling for Generics and Biosimilar Companies

JD Supra Law

Last week, the Federal Circuit decided Amarin Pharma, Inc. v. Hikma Pharmaceuticals USA Inc., 23-1169 (Fed. Cir. June 25, 2024), a case that spotlighted the issues of skinny labeling and induced infringement for generic pharmaceuticals and provided lessons for both innovator and generic companies.

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Bard Fights 'Patent Misuse' Ruling In $53M Suit At 9th Circ.

IP Law 360

Bard urged the Ninth Circuit on Tuesday to reverse a lower court's finding that its attempt to collect $53 million in licensing payments from a medical-device company was a clear case of "patent misuse," arguing that the parties' licensing agreement allows for Bard to collect payments even after the patents-in-suit expired.

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Understanding Constitutional Standing: A Review of a Recent Federal Circuit Decision

JD Supra Law

In Intellectual Tech v. Zebra Technologies 2022-2207 (Fed. Cir. May 1, 2024), the Federal Circuit addressed a district court’s determination that the patent owner plaintiff lacked constitutional standing because it was divested of all exclusionary rights over the patent at issue upon default.

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Nirvana, Marc Jacobs Reach Deal In Smiley Face Logo Fight

IP Law 360

The rock band Nirvana, the fashion brand Marc Jacobs International LLC and a former record company employee have reached a settlement resolving a yearslong dispute over Nirvana's "smiley face" logo, according to a joint report filed in California federal court Tuesday.

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Federal Circuit Revives Induced Infringement Claims Despite "Skinny Label" Carve-Out

JD Supra Law

The Situation: The Hatch-Waxman Act allows generic drug manufacturers to "carve out" a brand's patented indications from their proposed labeling. Generic manufacturers often rely on these so-called "skinny labels" to try to avoid findings of infringement in standard Hatch-Waxman cases, but in post-marketing situations, the generic's "skinny label," coupled with its public statements, can be evidence of induced infringement even as to the carved-out, patented uses.

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HEC Can't Get Damages Over Injunction In Novartis Feud

IP Law 360

A Delaware federal court on Tuesday shot down HEC Pharm Co.'s bid for damages stemming from a preliminary injunction against it over the launch of a generic version of Novartis Pharmaceuticals' blockbuster multiple sclerosis treatment Gilenya.

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Patent Trial and Appeal Board Publishes Updated Oral Hearing Guide

JD Supra Law

The Patent Trial and Appeal Board (Board) has published an updated Oral Hearing Guide to reflect current practice before the Board. The changes include: Remote option for participating in America Invents Act (AIA) trials.

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South Africa Drops J&J Probe After TB Drug Price Cuts

IP Law 360

South Africa's antitrust office has said it's going to drop its investigation over whether Johnson & Johnson engaged in anticompetitive conduct by filing a patent there for a tuberculosis drug, after the drugmaker agreed to lower the cost of bedaquiline by 40% and allow generic versions of the drug on the market.

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Conclusory Assertions Won’t Cut It: Federal Circuit Provides Further Insight into the Motivation to Combine Analysis

JD Supra Law

In Virtek Visions international ULC v. Assembly Guidance Systems, Inc., DBA Aligned Vision Nos. 2022-1998, 2022-2022 (Fed Cir. Mar. 27, 2024), the Federal Circuit reviewed the Patent Trial and Appeal Board’s findings regarding patent obviousness for U.S. Patent No. 10,052,734. Specifically, appellate review of the Board’s findings related to the motivation to combine analysis.

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Fight Over Golf-Aid Sales Puts Amazon In RICO Hot Seat

IP Law 360

A pair of golf marketing companies conspired with Amazon to cash in on the sale of popular equipment endorsed by top-ranked golfer Scottie Scheffler after tricking the manufacturer into selling it to them wholesale, the equipment maker claimed in a fraud and RICO suit filed in California federal court on Tuesday.

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Specificity Required for Trade Secret Protection under the DTSA: An Attempt to Protect “Confidential Information” Dooms Preliminary Injunction in Insulet v. EOFlow

JD Supra Law

On June 17, 2024, the Federal Circuit issued a precedential opinion reversing a preliminary injunction imposed in a trade secret case, explaining that the district court abused its discretion by, inter alia, failing to fully analyze the requirements for trade secret protection under the Defend Trade Secrets Act (“DTSA”).

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Steve Madden Blasts Skechers' TM Suit Over Shoes

IP Law 360

Steve Madden pushed back Tuesday against a lawsuit in California federal court from Skechers alleging that one of Steve Madden's companies, Dolce Vita Footwear, infringed its trademark and design patent rights, rejecting Skechers' contention that its "S" marks are famous.

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Federal Circuit Finds Personal Jurisdiction in an Amazon Product Dispute

JD Supra Law

In SnapRays, d/b/a SnapPower v. Lighting Defense Group, the Federal Circuit found that a district court could exercise personal jurisdiction over a declaratory judgment defendant based on the defendant’s sending an Amazon Patent Evaluation Express (APEX) agreement to the declaratory judgment plaintiff alleging that the plaintiff infringed the defendant’s patents by selling products through Amazon into the state.

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Like Lions, Statue Co. Wants Out Of Barry Sanders Photo Row

IP Law 360

The company responsible for sculpting a bronze statue of legendary Detroit Lions running back Barry Sanders wants out of the lawsuit filed by a professional photographer who claims his copyrighted photo was the unauthorized inspiration for the structure.

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Design Patents vs. Utility Patents: A Unique Advantage in Litigation

JD Supra Law

Need another reason to secure and enforce design patents? Design patents offer a unique additional remedy in district court litigation: profit disgorgement. While design patent owners may still pursue the traditional remedies of injunctive relief (§ 283) and compensatory damages (§ 284) available to utility patent holders, Congress enacted a statute in 1887 that uniquely enables design patent owners to recover the total profits earned by the infringer from their prohibited conduct.

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Texas Ethics Opinion Flags Hazards Of Unauthorized Practice

IP Law 360

The Texas Professional Ethics Committee's recently issued proposed opinion finding that in-house counsel providing legal services to the company's clients constitutes the unauthorized practice of law is a valuable clarification given that a UPL violation — a misdemeanor in most states — carries high stakes, say Hilary Gerzhoy and Julienne Pasichow at HWG.

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Preliminary Injunctions Issued Preventing Launch of EYLEA® Biosimilars

JD Supra Law

In June 2024, the Court granted preliminary injunctions against the commercial launch of three EYLEA® (aflibercept) biosimilars, Samsung Bioepis’s Opuviz™ (aflibercept-yszy) (Case Nos. 1:23-cv-00094 (N.D.W. Va.), 1:23-cv-00106 (N.D.W. Va.) / MDL 1:24-md-03103 (N.D.W. Va.)), Formycon’s Ahzantive® (aflibercept-mrbb) (Case Nos. 1:23-cv-00097 (N.D.W. Va.) / MDL 1:24-md-03103 (N.D.W.

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9th Circ. Lets Librarian's Suit Against Dun & Bradstreet Go On

IP Law 360

The Ninth Circuit has backed a California federal court's decision not to throw out a suit claiming Dun & Bradstreet Holdings sold personal information of individuals without consent, saying the proposed class action can move forward.

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How Do I Know If My Design Is Patentable? The New Test

JD Supra Law

Design patents protect the ornamental appearance of an article. The protection granted by a design patent is primarily indicated by illustrations. Since the first grant in 1842, the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) has issued about 1.03 million design patents.

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Fed. Circ. Won't Revive Patent Fights Against Dating Apps

IP Law 360

The Federal Circuit on Tuesday quickly shot down appeals from a patent litigation outfit trying to breathe life back into its failed legal campaign against a handful of prominent dating apps.

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