TorrentFreak

FEBRUARY 3, 2024

If it was possible to recall and then count every anti-piracy campaign targeted at the UK public since the dawn of the VCR, the answer would be of interest to us, because we have absolutely no idea. But maybe volume isn’t particularly important. Perhaps a better question would be this: Has an anti-piracy campaign targeting the public in the last 40+ years ever actually worked?

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The Illusion of More

FEBRUARY 3, 2024

On Wednesday, January 31, the Senate Judiciary Committee presided over a dramatic hearing entitled Big Tech and the Online Child Sexual Exploitation Crisis. The gallery was filled with family members representing young victims of sexual exploitation, drug-related deaths, and adverse mental health effects of social media that can lead to chronic illness and suicide.

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The IPKat

FEBRUARY 3, 2024

If you were barely holding on last week and didn't stay up-to-date with the IP news, here's the summary of what you missed. A Kat barely holding on. Image from Pexels. Hayleigh Bosher announced the nominees and winners of the IPKat Book of the Year 2023. Congratulations to all the nominated authors! Trade Marks and Designs Anna Maria Stein commented the latest decision ( T-537/22 ) about the validity of Lego's registered Community design for “Building blocks from a toy building set”.

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43(B)log

FEBRUARY 3, 2024

Bita Amani: Forbidden Arts & Subjugated Knowledges: On the Polemics of Intellectual Property IP rights are state-dependent, property-dependent models so make false promises of equality. History of art as propaganda: art can support war or speak truth to power. Iran has criminalized expression: rapping, singing, dancing. IP rights are contingent and state dependent in ways that have nothing to do with the merits of expression or invention.

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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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CoCal IP Law Institute

FEBRUARY 3, 2024

Please join us Monday, February 5, 2024 at noon where will discuss the importance of patent assignments stemming from Roku, Inc. v. International Trade Commission (Fed. Cir. 2024), the importance of timely filings in motion practice (or lack thereof) as seen in the trademark case Rolex Watch v. Beckertime (5th Cir. 2024), and the impact [.

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43(B)log

FEBRUARY 3, 2024

Mary Katherine Amerine, Reasonably Careless Consumers in TM & False Advertising How do courts treat consumers in TM and false advertising cases? Assumption dates back to at least the 1930s that consumers exercise less care for inexpensive grocery items and are thus easier to confuse: Brew nuts v. Beer Nuts, Bulls’ Eye v. Raging Bull for barbecue sauce, Powerbar v.

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43(B)log

FEBRUARY 3, 2024

Rachael Dickson, Administrative Discrimination? At the Trademark Office [I feel like there’s a Panic! At the Disco joke to be made here.] ID manual: a searchable database of acceptable IDs of goods/services, regularly updated and changed to adapt; you can make suggestions to add easily, and new IDs are added regularly. Benefits: lower application filing fees: $350/class goes to $250 class; clarity and examples as to what IDs are acceptable.

Designs 59

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43(B)log

FEBRUARY 3, 2024

Andrew Gilden, Talking Pleasure in IP Courts and advocates are skeptical of value of pleasure; when they want to honor it, they reframe it as something else, like social justice. Joy of producing/consuming can be important motivation for activities, though, so exploring how courts deal with it in IP is important. Expected to find a lot of talking around the topic of pleasure, but surprised to find a lot of hostility to, especially, defendants’ enjoyment of their own conduct.

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