TorrentFreak
JANUARY 27, 2025
Last week, the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office ( USPTO ) organized an anti-piracy symposium where several experts discussed recent achievements, new challenges, and potential solutions. Held at the USPTO headquarters in Alexandria, Virginia, the meeting brought together public and private sector players to discuss various copyright and piracy-related topics.
Plagiarism Today
JANUARY 27, 2025
A PhD student interviewed a cartel hitman in an interview that was never meant to be released. She filed with the CCB when it was. The post CCB Awards $1,500 for Infringed PhD Thesis Interview appeared first on Plagiarism Today.
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TorrentFreak
JANUARY 27, 2025
Shorter theatrical windows and improved access to movies via streaming, aimed to address one of the reasons some people prefer to pirate movies rather than pay. While no silver bullet, making movies available legally is crucial in the fight against piracy. Yet, for many years, avoiding the most obvious response to unauthorized distribution meant that the ‘recently released’ movie market was dominated by not only illicit, but mostly inferior products.
IP and Legal Filings
JANUARY 27, 2025
In recent years, due to the development of technology, artificial intelligence (AI) has become a major innovation in various fields. Artificial intelligence in this century is extending its enhancement across industries, from healthcare to entertainment. Still, with these innovations, the sociotechnical task of managing IPR arises. This blog seeks to examine the relationship between AI and IPR and identify critical areas of discussion, conflict, and appropriate strategy within the expanding rubr
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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?
IP Watchdog
JANUARY 27, 2025
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit (CAFC) handed Apple a win when it confirmed today in a precedential opinion that the U.S. Patent and Trademark Offices (USPTOs) Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) has jurisdiction over expired patents brought before it in inter partes review (IPR) proceedings. While the CAFC has previously ruled in appeals from the PTAB involving expired patents, it has not squarely addressed the subject until now.
Plagiarism Today
JANUARY 27, 2025
M. Night Shyamalan and Apple win Servant lawsuit, Paul McCartney hits back at AI policy and two men arrested over fake anime images. The post 3 Count: What a Twist appeared first on Plagiarism Today.
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The IPKat
JANUARY 27, 2025
Being at the right time in the right place is crucial. But what is the right time for assessing a design infringement? This is one of the questions posed by a Belgian court to the Court of Justice of the EU (CJEU) in a new reference for a preliminary ruling ( Van Ratingen , case C-749/24). Background Koninklijke Philips NV (Philips) marketed various air fryers under the brand Airfryer.
JD Supra Law
JANUARY 27, 2025
The District of Delaware recently rejected a patentees argument that non-production of an opinion letter from counsel, combined with knowledge of the patent, warranted a finding that defendant induced infringement. Plaintiff Kaneka Corporation accused defendants Design for Health, Inc., (DFH) and American River Nutrition, LLC, (ARN) of directly infringing its nutritional supplement patent, and accused ARN of inducing DHSs infringement.
SpicyIP
JANUARY 27, 2025
Image by macrovector. See here. [ This post has been authored by SpicyIP intern Aditi Agrawal. Aditi is a final-year B.A., LL.B (IPR Hons.) student at The ICFAI University, Dehradun. Her previous posts can be accessed here. ] On 26th December 2024, the Delhi Government issued a gazette notification ( F. No. 11/24/2024/HP-II/4236-4244 ), designating Delhi Police as the nodal agency for regulating digital content hosted or published on intermediary platforms in the National Capital Territory of De
JD Supra Law
JANUARY 27, 2025
Artificial Intelligence (AI) in intellectual property is as big and as fast-changing a topic as ever. On January 14, 2025, the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) published an Artificial Intelligence Strategy (USPTOs AI Strategy) document which discusses how the USPTO aim[s] to address AI's promise and challenges across intellectual property (IP) policy, agency operations, and the broader innovation ecosystem..
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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.
BYU Copyright Blog
JANUARY 27, 2025
Three Closed Cases Settled Out of Court,University,Commercial Educational Materials,Test Prep Materials January 27, 11:54 AM January 27, 11:59 AM Ivy Coach, Inc. v. Lehren Education, LLC. Four years ago, we first published a post about an intriguing case involving two education consulting firms litigating over an online excerpt published on the website of Lehren Education (Defendant), which Ivy Coach (Plaintiff) alleged had been improperly copied, infringing on its copyrights.
JD Supra Law
JANUARY 27, 2025
AT A GLANCE - Post-merger IP integration poses critical tax and IP risks, which require a pre-closing assessment to mitigate. In this Legal Update, James R. Ferguson describes the tax and IP risks arising from post-merger IP licensing structures and outlines the steps that acquiring companies can takebeforeclosing to reduce the tax risks, while ensuring the enforceability of the newly acquired patents, trade secrets, trade marks, and copyrights.
Nelligan Law
JANUARY 27, 2025
Reading Time: 3 minutes If youve ever wanted to witness the high-stakes drama of a sneaker soap opera, look no further than the lawsuit brewing between Nike and the Shoe Surgeon. For the uninitiated, the Shoe Surgeona.k.a. Dominic Ciambroneis a celebrated name in the sneaker world, crafting bespoke kicks that transform footwear into wearable art. Nike, the footwear powerhouse, has stepped up as the self-appointed referee, claiming Ciambrones custom designs are playing too close to their trademar
JD Supra Law
JANUARY 27, 2025
The U.S. International Trade Commission (ITC) remains a pivotal forum for addressing intellectual property disputes under Section 337, particularly those involving design patents. Although the Commission issued no remedial orders in the two design patent cases that terminated in 2024, an analysis of cases reaching a Final Determination between 2015 and 2024 reveals that cases involving a design patent continue to obtain a remedial order at a significantly higher success rate than utility.
Indiana Intellectual Property Law
JANUARY 27, 2025
FitzMark, LLC , a logistics brokerage firm in Indianapolis, Indiana , has filed a lawsuit against former employee Micah Adkins and Koola Logistics, LLC , alleging breaches of confidentiality , misappropriation of trade secrets , and interference with business relationships. Adkins, hired in 2017, signed an agreement in 2019 to protect FitzMarks confidential information and refrain from using it in competition.
The TTABlog
JANUARY 27, 2025
In a precedential decision in September 2023, the Board sustained an opposition to registration of the mark HME in the stylized from shown below, for various types of pipes and other building products, finding confusion likely with opposer's mark KME for overlapping goods. [ TTABlogged here ]. Applicant Zhejiang Hailiang Co., Ltd. then commenced a civil action in the U.S.
IP and Legal Filings
JANUARY 27, 2025
Overview of AI and IP Artificial intelligence is a rapidly evolving piece of technology, which has massive impacts on all industries and economies around the globe. AI, a simulation of human intelligence by a computer system designed to perform tasks typically done by human beings, has in just a few short years evolved beyond what was previously believed possible, and has manifested itself in even creating new works of Intellectual Property, such as art, literature, music, etc.
JD Supra Law
JANUARY 27, 2025
On December 19, 2024, FDA formally announced the end of the tirzepatide shortage in a Declaratory Order issued to Eli Lilly & Co. (Lilly). Lilly is tirzepatides patentholder and the manufacturer of the two branded versions of tirzepatide, Mounjaro (for diabetes) and Zepbound (for weight loss and, announced on December 20, sleep apnea).
IP Law 360
JANUARY 27, 2025
The NFL Players Association and DraftKings Inc. asked a New York federal judge Tuesday to pause a lawsuit that accused the betting platform of failing to follow through on a licensing agreement related to nonfungible tokens while they iron out details of a settlement.
JD Supra Law
JANUARY 27, 2025
The USPTO released proposed guidelines addressing the complex issue of AI inventorship. The USPTO is not the only agency attempting to tackle this issue; jurisdictions across the globe have been grappling with whether AI-generated inventions are patentable without any human intervention. By: Sterne, Kessler, Goldstein & Fox P.L.L.C.
IP Law 360
JANUARY 27, 2025
A Broadcom subsidiary had no luck at the Federal Circuit on Monday in breathing new life into data caching patent claims that were asserted in the chipmaker's legal war with Netflix, but later rejected by the U.S. Patent Trial and Appeal Board.
JD Supra Law
JANUARY 27, 2025
Right now, we are all taking stock of the many important issues and challenges we saw crop up for clients last year, trying to predict what they will face in the coming year, and strategizing about how we can help.
IP Law 360
JANUARY 27, 2025
U.S. Supreme Court advocate and SCOTUSblog co-founder Tom Goldstein pled not guilty in Maryland federal court on Monday to charges that he schemed to evade taxes and used funds from his boutique law firm to cover gambling debts.
JD Supra Law
JANUARY 27, 2025
US civil juries have returned a number of substantial trade secret verdicts against defendants over the past decade. In December 2024, a company from South Korea became the most recent defendant on the receiving end of a large trade secret jury verdict.
IP Law 360
JANUARY 27, 2025
Harvard University on Monday dropped its lawsuit that accused Samsung and several of the South Korean multinational's U.S. affiliates of infringing two patents assigned to the Ivy League university when manufacturing certain microprocessors and memory chips.
JD Supra Law
JANUARY 27, 2025
On January 14, 2025, the Federal Circuit in Lynk Labs Inc. v. Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. clarified that inter partes review challenges may be based upon published patent applications, and such published patent applications can be deemed prior art in IPRs as of their filing date..
IP Law 360
JANUARY 27, 2025
Cisco has defended its retrial victory in a multibillion-dollar computer security patent case by telling the Federal Circuit the new judge had seen through a cybersecurity startup's legal "tactics.
JD Supra Law
JANUARY 27, 2025
Join us for an insightful session as our presenters Pelle Berends, Tierney G.B. Deluzio, Meika Ellis and Kwan T. Loh deliver a roundup of Canadian trademark law, highlighting some of the most important new cases and practice directions from 2024. These are the key cases and legal developments that brand owners ought to know.
IP Law 360
JANUARY 27, 2025
The Patent Trial and Appeal Board has invalidated all the claims in a patent issued almost a decade ago to engineers at Intel and then assigned to a litigation business that asserted it against automakers and others.
Hugh Stephens Blog
JANUARY 27, 2025
Image: Shutterstock.com Early last week there was a flurry of articles, including one on Billboard, reporting on the strange case of Nova Scotia musician Ian Janes. Janes discovered that his Spotify artist profile included music that wasnt his and which he hadnt recorded.
IP Law 360
JANUARY 27, 2025
Meijer is going to have to arbitrate its claims that Takeda Pharmaceutical broke antitrust law by cutting a pay-for-delay deal with Par Pharmaceuticals to keep a generic version of Takeda's anti-constipation drug Amitiza off the market for several years.
IP Watchdog
JANUARY 27, 2025
The focus of our conversation was entrepreneurship, particularly the trials and tribulations of entrepreneurs looking to dive into the startup world with an innovative product. The road to building and monetizing a better mouse trap requires ingenuity and the identification of opportunity, but it requires funding.
IP Law 360
JANUARY 27, 2025
A Court of Federal Claims judge partially granted a German company's bid to secure discovery materials from the U.S. government and a French cybersecurity firm for its suit accusing the government of infringing on patents related to electronic passport readers.
The IPKat
JANUARY 27, 2025
Now that the IP community has had a week to reflect on the Court of Appeal judgment in Thatchers v Aldi , the IPKat is pleased to host the following guest contribution from Katfriend Oliver Fairhurst (Lewis Silkin) to comment on the potential ramifications of the decision. Here's what Oliver has to say: Image created by DALL-E 3 "Most UK readers will know all about the Thatchers Cider v Aldi case ( [2025] EWCA Civ 5 ), which was summarised by the IPKat here.
IP Law 360
JANUARY 27, 2025
A Texas-based researcher laid out her case against an attorney she accuses of violating her copyright and skipping out on his bill, claiming that her firm foundered after the lawyer, who was defending a Proud Boy accused of attacking the U.S. Capitol, didn't tell her he couldn't pay.
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