Plagiarism Today
AUGUST 14, 2024
With PlagScan ending private plans, a question is raised: How accessible should plagiarism detection tools be to the public? The post Who Should Have Access to Plagiarism Detection Tools? appeared first on Plagiarism Today.
TorrentFreak
AUGUST 14, 2024
Library Genesis ( LibGen ) is one of the oldest shadow libraries on the Internet, offering free access to millions of books and academic papers people otherwise have to pay for. The site’s origins reportedly trace back to the Soviet Union’s underground publishing culture ‘ samizdat ,’ which was used to bypass state censorship in the last century.
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Plagiarism Today
AUGUST 14, 2024
Artists score win against AI companies, Pitbull song draws copyright lawsuit, and Gloria Gaynor sues former producer. The post 3 Count: I Will Survive appeared first on Plagiarism Today.
JD Supra Law
AUGUST 14, 2024
How integral are networking and community-building to becoming a successful entrepreneur? Pablo Casilimas and Justis Mendez of OneSixOne Ventures join Founder Shares to discuss how they harnessed the power of these strategies to jumpstart their venture capital firm and connect founders and funders. Listen as they share some of the most useful insights, they gained from hosting highly curated programs and events in different cities across the country and hosting a virtual accelerator program that
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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?
TorrentFreak
AUGUST 14, 2024
People being arrested for pirate IPTV activities isn’t anything new, not in the UK or indeed anywhere else, but it is mentioned a lot more than before. The terminology currently used to describe offenders seems to have changed too. Last month it was reported that 40 illegal ‘IPTV operators’ were served with official warnings, some via an in-person visit by police and anti-piracy group FACT.
JD Supra Law
AUGUST 14, 2024
There is no special treatment for neural networks when it comes to UK patenting of computer related inventions. That is the essence of the English Court of Appeal’s conclusion, led by a Judge with a keen interest in computer programming. Emotional Perception AI Limited brought the case to court after the UK Intellectual Property Office refused to grant a patent to the company.
Intellectual Property Pulse brings together the best content for IP professionals from the widest variety of industry thought leaders.
JD Supra Law
AUGUST 14, 2024
Antibody-drug conjugates (ADCs) are typically composed of a monoclonal antibody attached to a cytotoxic drug via a chemical linker. The antibody is able to identify biomarkers on and attach to cancer cells, allowing targeted delivery of the cytotoxic drug without damaging surrounding, healthy cells. As a result of this targeted treatment, ADCs are associated with improvement in tumor remissions and overall survival, as well as decreased side effects while undergoing treatment.
IP Law 360
AUGUST 14, 2024
A recent Seventh Circuit decision involving the Defend Trade Secrets Act, allowing for broader international application of trade secrets laws, highlights a difference in how trade secrets are treated compared to other areas of intellectual property law, say Armin Ghiam and Maria Montenegro-Bernardo at Hunton.
JD Supra Law
AUGUST 14, 2024
This decision emphasizes the significance of broader public dissemination to meet the statutory requirement of “publicly disclosed” for purposes of exceptions to prior art under 35 U.S.C. § 102(b)(2)(B).
U.S. Department of Commerce
AUGUST 14, 2024
From August 16-17, the Department of Commerce’s U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) will host Invention-Con 2024: Expanding your intellectual property potential. This free event provides resources and access to independent inventors, entrepreneurs, and small business owners whose success depends on guarding their creative work. Learn how accomplished innovators use intellectual property (IP) to achieve success.
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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.
JD Supra Law
AUGUST 14, 2024
Intellectual Property (IP) can often be an organization's most important asset. A thorough review is important to claim the IP asset's full value and the ability to claim the full associated rights, such as the right to sue or claim damages.
IP Watchdog
AUGUST 14, 2024
On Monday, the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California filed an order granting in part and denying in part motions to dismiss the first amended complaint in Andersen v. Stability AI LTD, a critical lawsuit which may pin down several issues relating to generative artificial intelligence (GAI) platforms. The allegations stem from a complaint against four technology companies for incorporating the AI software product Stable Diffusion into their individual platforms.
JD Supra Law
AUGUST 14, 2024
In Voice Tech Corp., v. Unified Patents, LLC 2022-2163 (Fed Cir. August 1, 2024), the case addresses whether failure to re-raise arguments in a request for rehearing before the Patent Trial and Appeals Board (“PTAB”) forfeits such arguments on appeal to the Federal Circuit. This case also addresses what an appellant must show to have claim construction arguments considered on the merits on appeal.
The TTABlog
AUGUST 14, 2024
Inter partes proceedings involving two color marks are as rare as a traffic cop in Boston. The Board denied this petition for cancellation of a supplemental registration for the color mark (red-white-and-blue) shown below left, for "metal fence posts," finding confusion unlikely with the registered color mark (red top) shown below right for "metallic fence posts.
JD Supra Law
AUGUST 14, 2024
As discussed in a prior Goodwin Alert, the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) recently released Draft Guidance for designating a platform technology for drug development pursuant to § 560k of the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act. The platform technology program was included as part of the PREVENT Pandemics Act “to bring significant efficiencies to the drug development or manufacturing process.”.
IP Law 360
AUGUST 14, 2024
Law professors and media groups are backing a nonprofit's legal quest at the Federal Circuit to unseal documents in a since-concluded patent lawsuit in the Eastern District of Texas, arguing that keeping patent cases secret harms the public interest.
JD Supra Law
AUGUST 14, 2024
On August 12, 2024, Amgen filed a BPCIA complaint in the District Court for the District of New Jersey against Samsung Bioepis and Samsung Biologics related to Samsung Bioepis’s proposed biosimilar of Amgen’s PROLIA and XGEVA.
IP Watchdog
AUGUST 14, 2024
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit (CAFC) today vacated and remanded a district court’s grant of a preliminary injunction to VPR Brands, LP, which accused Shenzhen Weiboli Technology Co. Ltd of infringing its ELF trademark for electronic cigarettes and associated products. VPR sued Weiboli in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida, alleging infringement via Weiboli’s distribution of its ELFBAR branded e-cigarettes, which VPR said were likely to cause confusio
JD Supra Law
AUGUST 14, 2024
Kilpatrick attorneys Yifan Mao and Stuart Pollack recently attended the 20th annual KTIPS (Kilpatrick Townsend Intellectual Property Seminar) to discuss the “The Federal Circuit’s New § 112 Attack on Biotechnology: Diagnosis and Prescription.” The recent rulings from the Federal Circuit have emphasized the importance of the written description and enablement defenses in patent litigation and prosecution, particularly in the field of biotechnology.
Velocity of Content
AUGUST 14, 2024
The impact of technological change on the standards ecosystem means standards publishers need to adopt new technologies faster and adapt their publishing toolchains to better meet the needs of increasingly digital consumers. Solutions in the past have focused on transforming standards documents into machine-consumable content and exploiting AI to deliver more value.
JD Supra Law
AUGUST 14, 2024
In a case it described as “‘a prime example’ of when ODP does not apply,” the Federal Circuit recently reversed a decision from the District of Delaware that invalidated a claim for obviousness-type double patenting (ODP), holding that a first-filed, first-issued, later-expiring claim cannot be invalidated for ODP based on a later-filed, later-issued, but earlier-expiring claim from the same family.
IP Law 360
AUGUST 14, 2024
Gratuity Solutions LLC accused Boston-based Toast Inc. of misappropriating trade secrets in a lawsuit brought Wednesday in Florida federal court, alleging that executives from the point-of-sale software company stole confidential information after a failed bid to merge the two companies.
Patent Trademark Blog
AUGUST 14, 2024
Can you submit prior art after paying the issue fee? Yes, you can submit prior art after paying the issue fee by filing a Quick Path IDS. Need to file an IDS after paying the issue fee? Contact US patent attorney Vic Lin at (949) 223-9623 or email vlin@icaplaw.com to explore working with us. How does a Quick Path IDS work? A QPIDS enables you to submit additional prior art references for consideration by the examiner.
IP Law 360
AUGUST 14, 2024
A D.C. federal judge told Novartis to stop acting like it would be destroyed financially by having a generic version of its best-selling drug Entresto enter the market, saying the drugmaker will be fine if it loses $3 billion in U.S. sales out of its $45 billion global revenue.
Stock Legal Blog
AUGUST 14, 2024
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IP Law 360
AUGUST 14, 2024
A Texas federal judge has ordered litigation firm VDPP LLC and its counsel, Texas attorney William Ramey III of Ramey LLP, to pay Volkswagen $207,543 in fees stemming from a now-dismissed patent case after determining a fee multiplier that applies to "exceptional" cases was appropriate due to the suit's "obvious lack of merit.
IP Law 360
AUGUST 14, 2024
A company that sells fertilizer to commercial cannabis growers has claimed a competitor used its trademarks as part of an unsanctioned co-branding campaign and on THC lab testing reports that falsely advertise its products as less effective, according to a suit filed in Washington federal court.
IP Law 360
AUGUST 14, 2024
The Fourth Circuit revived a Virginia-based telecommunications company's infringement suit against T-Mobile, ruling that Simply Wireless had done enough to show it was planning to revamp its "Simply Prepaid" branding and hadn't abandoned the trademark when T-Mobile began using it.
IP Law 360
AUGUST 14, 2024
Job search platform Tarta.ai has again asked a California federal court to dismiss Jobiak LLC's copyright complaint accusing its rival of stealing its artificial intelligence-driven employment postings database, saying Jobiak has not shown that its individual job listings are copyrightable or that the court has jurisdiction over the case.
IP Law 360
AUGUST 14, 2024
The pharmaceutical giant Amgen Inc. is fighting a bid by a South Korean rival to sell biosimilar versions of its highly popular bone drugs Prolia and Xgeva, telling a New Jersey federal court that the proposed medications will infringe 34 patents.
IP Law 360
AUGUST 14, 2024
An alleged online scammer is using Netgear Inc.'s trademarks to trick the computer networking company's customers into thinking they are buying products and services from Netgear itself, according to the company's $4 million complaint alleging trademark infringement and unfair competition.
IP Law 360
AUGUST 14, 2024
The maker of the popular Elfbar vape will get another shot at upending a court-imposed order banning it from selling under the "Elf" mark, the Federal Circuit ruled Wednesday, saying the district judge who ordered the injunction "misread" precedent and relied on a "deficient" legal analysis.
IP Law 360
AUGUST 14, 2024
A federal judge on Wednesday overturned a Delaware jury verdict that AstraZeneca owes $107.5 million for infringing two cancer drug patents owned by a Pfizer unit, concluding that both patents are invalid for failing to provide sufficient information about the invention.
IP Law 360
AUGUST 14, 2024
Baker Botts LLP and Sumner Schick LLP are seeking nearly $14.3 million in attorney fees plus almost $1.8 million in costs for representing Computer Sciences Corp. in a trade secrets dispute where the IT company won $168.4 million after a Texas jury found Tata Consultancy Services willfully misappropriated CSC's proprietary information.
IP Law 360
AUGUST 14, 2024
Lewis Brisbois Bisgaard & Smith LLP and a Texas lawyer accused of ripping off the BigLaw firm's name battled over the issue of attorney immunity in post-hearing briefings Tuesday, with the firm writing that the Fifth Circuit "has made itself clear" that the lawyer can't be shielded from the case.
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