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Is Your Community Selling You Out to AI?

Plagiarism Today

Stack Overflow has drawn the ire of its members by reaching a deal with OpenAI. Is your favorite community next or has it done so already? The post Is Your Community Selling You Out to AI? appeared first on Plagiarism Today.

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Protecting Your Business: Practical Tips To Keep Your Trade Secrets Secret

JD Supra Law

Everyone is talking about the new rule approved by the Federal Trade Commission on April 23 (published on May 7 and set to take effect – pending legal challenges – on September 4, 2024 ). It is referred to as the Non-Compete Clause Rule. The Non-Compete Clause Rule follows on the heels of several states effectively “outlawing” non-competition agreements.

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3 Count: Shopify vs. Seed

Plagiarism Today

10th Circuit to rehear Tiger King case, Appeals Court upholds This is America case dismissal and Shopify sues competitor. The post 3 Count: Shopify vs. Seed appeared first on Plagiarism Today.

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The Legacy of A.B. Dick and Motion Picture Patents: How these 100+ Year Old Ruling Reshaped Patent Law

Patently-O

by Dennis Crouch I see the US Supreme Court’s 1912 decision in Henry v. A.B. Dick Co. as a major turning point in American patent and antitrust law. 224 U.S. 1 (1912). The Court’s 4-3 decision favored the patentee and allowed the patent owner to place restrictions on the use of its patented product even after sale. But, that decision sparked a major reform effort.

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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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TTAB Orders Cancellation of "THE PLIMSOULS" Registration on Ownership and Likelihood of Confusion Grounds, Rejects Abandonment Claim

The TTABlog

In another of those battles between a rock band and one of its members, the Board again sided with the band, granting a petition for cancellation of a registration for THE PLIMSOULS for "entertainment in the nature of live performances by a musical band." The Board ruled that the band was entitled to challenge the registration, had not abandoned the mark, and had proved its claim of ownership of the mark and likelihood of confusion based on its prior use of the same mark for the same services.

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VPN, DNS, Give Up, or Go Legal: Aussies’ Reactions to Pirate Site-Blocking in 2023

TorrentFreak

As reported yesterday, the Australian government has just released the 2023 edition of its Consumer Survey on Online Copyright Infringement. The survey found that 41% of respondents consumed at least one item of pirated content (TV, movies, music, games, or live sports) from an illegal source in 2023, up from the 39% reported in the previous year. When compared to how many citizens resorted to pirate sources in 2015, the figures for 2023 show improvement almost right across the board.

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ISP Must Unmask Alleged Pirates But Rightsholders Can’t ‘Harass’ Them

TorrentFreak

In recent years, music and movie companies have filed several lawsuits against U.S. Internet providers, for failing to take action against pirating subscribers. One of the main allegations is that ISPs fail to terminate the accounts of repeat infringers in ‘appropriate circumstances’, as the DMCA requires. These lawsuits have resulted in multi-million dollar judgments against Cox and Grande.

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Teaching Yoga Makes Me A Better Lawyer

IP Law 360

Being a yoga instructor has helped me develop my confidence and authenticity, as well as stress management and people skills — all of which have crossed over into my career as an attorney, says Laura Gongaware at Clyde & Co.

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Limited Licensing: An introductory overview

IP and Legal Filings

Introduction Intellectual Property Rights are intangible rights All rights related to the property are exclusively reserved with the copyright holder. It serves the purpose of having Intellectual Property Rights in existence that is to give legal rights for the protection of the invention and creation. However, under some exceptions, a person other than the owner could be given a few rights for the utilization of the property.

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Supreme Court Fixes One Problem with the Copyright Statute of Limitations, But Punts Another — Warner Chappell Music v. Nealy (Guest Blog Post)

Technology & Marketing Law Blog

By Guest Blogger Tyler Ochoa Last week, the U.S. Supreme Court held 6-3 that assuming a copyright infringement claim is timely under the discovery rule of accrual, meaning that it was filed within three years of the date “when a plaintiff discovers or should have discovered an infringement,” there is no separate time limit on the amount of damages that a copyright owner may recover for the infringement.

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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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FTC warns pharma companies it means business with its Orange Book listing policy

JD Supra Law

Last September, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) promulgated a “policy statement” entitled “Statement Concerning Brand Drug Manufacturers’ Improper Listing of Patents in the Orange Book,” regarding the FTC’s allegations that some patents in the FDA’s Orange Book were improperly listed because they were neither new drugs nor methods of using them, but rather were directed to medical devices.

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Reconceptualizing Trademark Protection in the Digital Age: A Proposal for Reform in Response to Google Ads’ Policy- Part II

SpicyIP

Continuing the discussion (see here for Part I) on the Delhi High Court and the Supreme Court’s 2023 Keywords decisions, Malak Sheth critiques the Courts’ approach, arguing that use of a trademark in digital world cannot be viewed from the same lens of assessing their use in the physical world. Malak is a third year law student from Rajiv Gandhi National University of Law, Punjab.

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The Federal Circuit Addresses Where Participants of Amazon’s APEX Program Can Be Haled Into Court

JD Supra Law

The Federal Circuit’s decision in SnapRays, d/b/a SnapPower v. Lighting Defense Group (May 2, 2024) addresses personal jurisdiction in federal district court actions that arise out of Amazon’s Patent Evaluation Express (APEX) program. Background Under Amazon’s APEX program, a patent owner may identify products listed for sale on Amazon’s website that likely infringe a U.S. utility patent, and the allegedly infringing products may ultimately be removed from the site.

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TikTok Exploits a “Target-Rich Environment” for Drug Scams According to DCA Report

The Illusion of More

TikTok may be the perfect crucible in which to exploit the frailties of negative body image and then breed scammers who con millions from people looking to obtain drugs for weight-loss. According to a report released today by Digital Citizens Alliance (DCA), a joint investigation with the Coalition for a Safer Web found at least […] The post TikTok Exploits a “Target-Rich Environment” for Drug Scams According to DCA Report appeared first on The Illusion of More.

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California Court Issues Another Noteworthy Decision Dismissing Breach of Contract and Tort Claims in Web Scraping Dispute

JD Supra Law

On May 9, 2024, a California district court dismissed, with leave to amend, the complaint brought by social media platform X Corp. (formerly Twitter) against data provider Bright Data Ltd. (“Bright Data”) over Bright Data’s alleged scraping of publicly available data from X for use in data products sold to third parties. (X Corp. v. Bright Data Ltd., No. 23-03698 (N.D.

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Tillis, Issa, Kiley Ask Vidal to Investigate Issues Raised by ‘Patent Examiner’ Reddit Thread

IP Watchdog

Last week, IPWatchdog’s CEO and Founder Gene Quinn exposed a “Patent Examiner Reddit” thread in which a purported examiner asked peers for advice on how to approach examination of patents that have purposes they may fundamentally disagree with politically. Now, Senator Thom Tillis (R-NC) and Representatives Kevin Kiley (R-CA) and Darrell Issa (R-CA) have sent a letter to U.S.

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Rethinking Copyright Law: The Case for Protecting AI-Generated Content and Rewarding Those Who Truly Know What They Want

JD Supra Law

Imagine a world where your deepest, unarticulated desires—those you are not even consciously aware of—are brought to life. Now, consider if simply articulating those desires in natural language is all it takes to make it happen.

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Chestek Takes Challenge of USPTO Domicile Address Rule for Trademark Applicants to High Court

IP Watchdog

On May 13, trademark law firm Chestek PLLC filed a petition for writ of certiorari asking the U.S. Supreme Court to take up a challenge to the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office’s (USPTO) promulgation of rules requiring trademark applicants to disclose their domicile address to the agency. According to Chestek’s petition, the Federal Circuit’s lower ruling improperly reads the agency’s notice-and-comment requirement for all general rulemaking out of the relevant statute, here resulting in the unwa

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USTR Releases the Results Of Its Four-Year Review Of China Section 301 Tariffs

JD Supra Law

The existing Section 301 duties will continue, with tariff increases on $18 billion of Chinese imports in strategic sectors (to be implemented by forthcoming regulations following a notice and comment process) - On May 14, 2024, the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative (“USTR”) announced the conclusion of its statutorily-required four-year review of the tariffs imposed on imports of Chinese goods under Section 301 of the Trade Act of 1974 (“Section 301”).

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Fed. Circ. Backs Xerox Win In Printer Patent Case

IP Law 360

The Federal Circuit has affirmed a New York federal judge's decision that handed Xerox Corp. a win in a suit claiming the company infringed a series of printer technology patents owned by a youth sports company.

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Sued: What In-house Counsel Without Litigation Experience Need to Know - Preparing Your Inside Team

JD Supra Law

3: Preparing Your Inside Team - Preservation, Privilege, Potential Pitfalls -This is the third in a series of articles that explores considerations and suggested actions for in-house counsel who are inexperienced in patent litigation, yet facing a suit. The first article included considerations to help understand some parameters of the suit, and the second article included considerations to help select your lead counsel.

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Cell Therapy Cos. Must Beware Limits Of Patent Safe Harbors

IP Law 360

Though developers of gene and cell therapy products commonly assume that a legal safe harbor protects them from patent infringement suits, recent case law shows that not all preapproval uses of patented technology are necessarily protected, say Natasha Daughtrey and Joshua Weinger at Goodwin.

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Do You Need to Have a Contract to Bring a Trade Secret Claim?

JD Supra Law

Do you need to have a contract to bring a trade secret claim? No. Arkansas law protects trade secrets whether there is a contractual agreement to protect them or whether no such written agreement exists.

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NJ Firm Picks Up An Ex-NPE Patent Litigator

IP Law 360

A small New Jersey firm has hired a longtime patent litigator from the "nonpracticing entity" trenches, who tells Law360 that he's since sworn off "NPE work," because it's become too hard to make money from those cases.

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Alexion’s Preliminary Injunction Motion Denied in Eculizumab BPCIA Litigation Against Samsung Bioepis

JD Supra Law

As we previously reported, Alexion Pharmaceuticals, Inc. and Alexion Pharma International Operations Ltd. (collectively, “Alexion”) sued Samsung Bioepis Co. Ltd. (“Samsung”) in January 2024 in the U.S. District Court for the District of Delaware. Alexion’s complaint alleged infringement of six patents under the BPCIA based on Samsung’s submission of its BLA for SB12, a proposed biosimilar to SOLIRIS (eculizumab).

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What The Justices' Copyright Damages Ruling Didn't Address

IP Law 360

While the U.S. Supreme Court’s recent ruling in Warner Chappell v. Nealy clarified when a copyright owner may recover damages in jurisdictions that apply the so-called discovery rule, it did not settle the overriding question of whether the Copyright Act even permits applying the rule, say Ivy Estoesta and William Milliken at Sterne Kessler.

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The USPTO's Proposed Terminal Disclaimer Rule: A Litigator's Perspective

JD Supra Law

As discussed at length in a previous post on this blog (see "USPTO Proposed Rule Change to Terminal Disclaimer Practice"), the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office has proposed amending the form of terminal disclaimer to be used by patent applicants. Specifically, it proposes requiring terminal disclaimers filed to obviate nonstatutory (or obviousness-type) double patenting to include an agreement that the patent will be enforceable only if no claim of any patent to which it is tied by terminal.

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Panelists Push for Predictability at IPWatchdog’s 2024 Patent Litigation Masters Program

IP Watchdog

"Make it happen.” That was the request U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit (CAFC) Judge Pauline Newman made of attendees of IPWatchdog’s Patent Litigation Masters 2024 program on Monday, imploring them to “think creatively” to solve the intellectual property problems of today. Pointing to developments such as the Unified Patent Court (UPC), Newman said “it’s a time of change and flux, and we can learn a good deal, not only from the UPC, but the way the law is developing in jurisdiction

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Supreme Court Allows Copyright Damages Recovery Outside Three-Year Limitations Period—But Questions Regarding Accrual of Claims Remain

JD Supra Law

The U.S. Supreme Court affirmed the Eleventh Circuit’s holding in Warner Chappell Music v. Nealy that copyright plaintiffs bringing timely claims of infringement may recover damages for acts occurring outside the three-year statute of limitations. The ruling addresses a longstanding circuit split over whether monetary relief is available even where infringement occurred more than three years prior.

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Declaratory Judgment: How to Fight a Patent Infringement Claim When Stakes Are High

Patent Trademark Blog

What is a patent declaratory judgment lawsuit? A patent declaratory judgment action is an infringement lawsuit in reverse. The plaintiff is the accused infringer seeking a declaration of noninfringement from the court. The patent owner is the defendant. Instead of asking for money damages or an injunction, the accused infringer is asking the court to render a decision that their products do not infringe a particular patent.

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Requester Side Benchmarks for Successful Reexamination Requests

JD Supra Law

Takeaways: -A requester can have a voice in ex parte reexamination prosecution. - Requesters should strategically structure their request documents to hedge against potential patent owner amendment and argument. The key challenge of ex parte reexaminations has always been the lack of requester involvement after the reexamination request is granted. In order to reduce the impact of the requester’s silence during the proceeding, the requester needs to consider what might occur during.

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Reconceptualizing Trademark Protection in the Digital Age: A Proposal for Reform in Response to Google Ads’ Policy- Part I

SpicyIP

Critiquing the 2023 decisions on Keywords by the Delhi High Court and the Supreme Court, we are pleased to bring to you this two part post by Malak Sheth. In part I of the post, he critiques the Supreme Court’s observation in MakeMyTrip India Private Limited v. Google LLC on likelihood of confusion among the consumers. Malak is a third year law student from Rajiv Gandhi National University of Law, Punjab.

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Going to the [Warner] Chappell, and we’re gonna get DA-A-AMAGES!

JD Supra Law

A split Supreme Court has decided that, under a plain reading of the Copyright Act, a party alleging copyright infringement may obtain damages for the entire damages period, so long as the suit itself is timely brought. Warner Chappell Music, Inc. v. Nealy, No. 22-1078, 601 U.S. __ (2024). Nothing that reaches the Supreme Court, however, is ever as simple as just reading a statute, and here there is much more to the iceberg than what is seen above the water line.

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[Guest post] Conference Report – Fashion Reborn: The Age of AI

The IPKat

The IPKat has received and is pleased to host the following report by Katfriend Jack Cooper (Addleshaw Goddard) on the recently held Fashion Law London’s event ‘ Fashion Reborn: The Age of AI’. Here’s what Jack writes: Conference Report – Fashion Reborn: The Age of AI by Jack Cooper It was with great pleasure that I was able to attend Fashion Law London's latest event held on 13 May 2024 focusing on the impact which AI innovation is having within the Fashion industry.

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Supreme Court Resolves Split Among The Circuits: No Time Limits on Monetary Recovery for any Timely Copyright Infringement Claim

JD Supra Law

Copyright plaintiffs prevailed as the Supreme Court definitively expanded the scope of monetary damages available in discovery-rule copyright infringement cases. The discovery rule of accrual provides that a copyright claim accrues when the plaintiff discovers (or reasonably should have discovered) the infringement, regardless of when the infringing conduct occurred.