Plagiarism Today
APRIL 3, 2024
YouTuber sees documentary taken down, German publishers get Sci-Hub blocked and Ugandan artists battle over copyright on YouTube. The post 3 Count: Channel 5 vs. Fox 5 appeared first on Plagiarism Today.
IP Watchdog
APRIL 3, 2024
There are many loud voices making a lot of noise about TikTok right now, and as someone who makes “noise” for a living, I thought I’d provide an independent musician’s perspective on the TikTok legislation before Congress: I hope it passes, both as an American and as a music maker. First of all, this bill restricts TikTok, it does not “ban” the app.
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Plagiarism Today
APRIL 3, 2024
The Copyright Claims Board has consolidated 12 cases filed by Games Workshop against an alleged repeat infringer. The post Copyright Claims Board Consolidates Games Workshop Claims appeared first on Plagiarism Today.
Erik K Pelton
APRIL 3, 2024
There are many benefits to registering your trademark, and Erik shares his top 5 in this episode. The post Top 5 Reasons to Register a Trademark appeared first on Erik M Pelton & Associates, PLLC. There are many benefits to registering your trademark, and Erik shares his top 5 in this episode.
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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?
Technology & Marketing Law Blog
APRIL 3, 2024
After a multi-year hiatus due to the pandemic, the Internet Law Works-in-Progress conference is returning! ( Some background about the series ). The conference provides a venue for authors of Internet Law papers (broadly conceived) to workshop their drafts and get pre-publication feedback from peers. We are also putting together a game night that should feature a very rare gaming experience you won’t want to miss.
Velocity of Content
APRIL 3, 2024
CCC is committed to addressing the ongoing needs and challenges of both medical communications professionals and leading publishers of medical journals. Whether facilitating important panel discussions, exploring the impact of the latest industry trends at customer-focused events like our recent Permissions Roundtable on 11 March, or gathering customer feedback via Customer Service and surveys, one message is consistently heard – there is a need for additional copyright education around the reus
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TorrentFreak
APRIL 3, 2024
There are thousands of pirate sites on the Internet but only a few will receive a permanent entry in the history books. Sci-Hub will certainly be among them. Founded by Kazakhstani computer programmer Alexandria Elbakyan, Sci-Hub provides free access to millions of academic publications. As such, it’s an essential tool for less privileged students and researchers worldwide.
IP Law 360
APRIL 3, 2024
TikTok Inc. permanently defeated video technology developer 10Tales' infringement suit alleging the video-sharing giant's "For You" feature copied its invention covering a digital "recommendation system" presenting customized content relevant to users based on their social network information for advertising, after a California federal judge said Tuesday the concept was abstract and not inventive.
JD Supra Law
APRIL 3, 2024
On March 18, 2024, Ismail Ramsey (“Ramsey”), the U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of California (“NDCA”), announced the launch of NDCA Whistleblower Pilot Program (the “Pilot Program”), a significant new policy that promises immunity from prosecution by the United States Attorney’s Office (“USAO”) for NDCA for certain individuals who voluntarily report corporate criminal misconduct.
IP Law 360
APRIL 3, 2024
The Federal Circuit on Wednesday backed a ruling from an administrative tribunal that wiped out most of a patent issued to a Florida radiologist and his ex-Lockheed Martin business partner, whose company is suing Microsoft over its line of HoloLens AR headsets.
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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.
Patently-O
APRIL 3, 2024
by Dennis Crouch The United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) recently proposed a new fee structure for fiscal year 2025 , which includes significant increases in various patent fees. [ Read the Notice of Proposed Rulemaking ] While incremental fee adjustments are common, the proposed changes for FY2025 are particularly noteworthy due to their magnitude in certain targeted areas and potential impact on applicant behavior.
IP Law 360
APRIL 3, 2024
As Gen Z and younger millennial attorneys increasingly express dissatisfaction with their work and head for the exits, the lawyers who manage them must understand and attend to their needs and priorities to boost engagement and increase retention, says Stacey Schwartz at Katten.
JD Supra Law
APRIL 3, 2024
For the second year in a row, we pulled and analyzed data on the number of women who appeared in International Trade Commission (ITC) investigations. This year’s data confirms what we saw last year: that women are underrepresented at the ITC. While research shows women make up about 50% of the population, 50% of associates, and 39% of the profession generally, they only made up 27% of the ITC advocates in both 2022 and 2023.
IP Law 360
APRIL 3, 2024
The Federal Circuit has clarified that patent owners can ask for reasonable royalties when pursuing damages for foreign infringement and expanded what constitutes eligible infringement in those instances, a ruling attorneys say should make it easier to recover damages from abroad.
JD Supra Law
APRIL 3, 2024
In its 2023 Brand Protection Report, Amazon reveals its efforts to eliminate counterfeit products. Bolstered by more than $1.2 billion in investment and 15,000 personnel, from machine learning scientists to specialized investigators, the company secures its platform from counterfeiting, fraud, and abuses. Among its achievements, Amazon reports that over 700,000 bad actors have been deterred from making seller accounts.
IP Law 360
APRIL 3, 2024
An Illinois federal judge on Wednesday refused to lift a $1 million-a-day fine and other contempt sanctions against Hytera Communications without more proof it was out of options to derail Chinese litigation Hytera started against Motorola Solutions, saying she could no longer take the company's representations at face value.
JD Supra Law
APRIL 3, 2024
Artificial intelligence is rapidly reinventing the research and development process, but until recently, patentability remained a major uncertainty. That’s until the United States Patent and Trademark Office stepped in and issued guidance in February outlining what it takes to obtain patent protection when AI is involved in the invention process.
IP Watchdog
APRIL 3, 2024
Michael Best & Friedrich LLP is seeking an experienced Advertising, Marketing, and Promotions Partner to help grow our Advertising and Brand Protection team. The ideal candidate will have significant expertise in traditional and new media advertising, marketing, and promotions matters and embrace the opportunity to help grow our nationally recognized practice.
JD Supra Law
APRIL 3, 2024
What must you show to prove that someone misappropriated trade secrets? The Arkansas Uniform Trade Secrets Act provides that misappropriation of trade secrets can be shown in one or more of three ways: acquisition or physical retention, disclosure, or use.
Kluwer Copyright Blog
APRIL 3, 2024
On 19 March 2024, the Court of Appeal handed down its decision on the appeal in the Lidl v Tesco case ( [2024] EWCA Civ 262 ), holding as follows. First instance (High Court) decision Court of Appeal ruling Copyright infringement Overturned (appeal allowed) Trade mark infringement Upheld (appeal dismissed) Passing off Upheld (appeal dismissed) Trade mark invalidity (for the mark depicting the background to the main Lidl logo) Upheld (appeal dismissed) This post focusses on the Court of Appeal al
JD Supra Law
APRIL 3, 2024
At the National Advising Division (NAD), competitors will sometimes go for the brass ring, the big prize, the whole enchilada, and ask the NAD to recommend that an advertiser’s trademarked slogan or even the brand name be discontinued.
IP Law 360
APRIL 3, 2024
A Federal Circuit panel on Wednesday questioned VLSI's position that the Patent Trial and Appeal Board wrongly found claims of its computer memory patent invalid in a challenge by Intel, suggesting that a previous ruling may have foreclosed VLSI's argument.
JD Supra Law
APRIL 3, 2024
In a published decision issued April 1, 2024 (no fooling), the Ninth Circuit in BBK Tobacco & Foods LLP v. Central Coast Agriculture, Inc. weighed in on somewhat esoteric topics concerning whether federal courts have jurisdiction to hear challenges to pending federal trademark applications. While the Ninth Circuit’s decision there has caught the eye of many commentators, perhaps more interesting (and practical) for cannabusinesses looking to protect federal trademark rights was the Ninth.
Copyright Alliance
APRIL 3, 2024
In March, the courts remained extremely busy with a range of copyright cases including a final conclusion to a monumental fair use case. Here is a quick snapshot of those […] The post March 2024 Roundup of Copyright News appeared first on Copyright Alliance.
JD Supra Law
APRIL 3, 2024
In a Hatch-Waxman case, the District Court for the District of New Jersey recently found that a generic label that included an allegedly infringing permissive use did not induce infringement where the label cautioned against that use and provided non-infringing alternatives. The district court additionally found no direct infringement where the patentee failed to present….
IP Law 360
APRIL 3, 2024
Mintz Levin Cohn Ferris Glovsky and Popeo PC has hired an attorney for its intellectual property practice group who worked for more than a decade at Winston & Strawn LLP and spent brief in-house stints at Nike and video game company Capcom.
JD Supra Law
APRIL 3, 2024
Tennessee has joined the ranks of states regulating, in various ways, the use of artificial intelligence to manipulate an individual’s likeness. On March 21, 2024, Gov. Bill Lee said “thank you very much” to the Tennessee legislature and signed into law the Ensuring Likeness, Voice, and Image Security (“ELVIS”) Act of 2024, HB 2091/SB 2096, which updates Tennessee’s right of publicity statute.
IP Law 360
APRIL 3, 2024
Recently published guidance from the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office establishes that inventions created using artificial intelligence may be patentable if a human also significantly contributes, but ownership and legal rights in these types of patents are different issues that require further assessment, says Karl Gross at Leydig Voit.
JD Supra Law
APRIL 3, 2024
Maine Governor Janet Mills has vetoed legislation that would have severely restricted the contexts in which Maine employers could use and enforce non-compete agreements. The bill, LD 1496, would have significantly hampered Maine employers seeking to enter into non-competition agreements with their employees under most circumstances. By: Jackson Lewis P.C.
IP Law 360
APRIL 3, 2024
The Federal Circuit was thrown for a loop Wednesday in a case that asked whether the holder of an exclusive patent license could sue for infringement another company that could have acquired a license for the same patent by other means, with one judge calling the court's case law on the matter "very muddled.
JD Supra Law
APRIL 3, 2024
The Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) recently dismissed and terminated inter partes review challenging claims of U.S. Patent No. 8,495,167 (“the ’167 patent”). Netflix, Inc. v. Owner, IPR2022-01568, Paper 29 (PTAB March 18, 2024). (The PTAB’s case captions originally listed Lauri Valjakka as the owner. Paper 29 uses “owner” instead because “the identity of the patent owner is unclear on the current record.
The TTABlog
APRIL 3, 2024
Kate Spade moved for summary judgment in its Section 1071 civil action for review of the Board's decision dismissing its opposition to registration of the mark WOLV & Design (shown below left) for watches. The Board found the mark to be too dissimilar to the KATE SPADE word mark and the "spade logo" mark to support Kate Spade's Section 2(d) likelihood-of-confusion and Section 43(c) dilution-by-blurring claims. [ TTABlogged here ].
JD Supra Law
APRIL 3, 2024
Tennessee has enacted the Ensuring Likeness, Voice and Image Security (ELVIS) Act, which aims to protect individuals from the use of their persona in connection with “deepfakes” (i.e., fake content generated by artificial intelligence (AI) that a user is likely to mistakenly believe is legitimate).
IIPRD
APRIL 3, 2024
Introduction The Indian fashion market is pegged at an impressive value of $50 billion, out of which 10% consists of international luxury brands. [1] The fashion industry in India is extremely diverse in the type of fabric, labour, design, way of draping, and handwork that is used. This is evidenced by the numerous Geographical Indication tags endowed on various textiles and hand-looms throughout the country by the government. [2] This produces a higher opportunity for producing counterfeit good
JD Supra Law
APRIL 3, 2024
On March 18, 2024, the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) released a memorandum including guidelines and resources to assist Examiners in interpreting claims under 35 U.S.C. §112(f). This memo comes on the back of newly released guidance on obviousness rejections under §103 in an apparent effort to refresh Examiners’ understanding of the law and promote clarity on the record as to what should be considered when interpreting the claims under §112, and when making rejections under.
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