IP Watchdog

JULY 21, 2024

With exquisitely bad timing, the National Institutes of Heath (NIH) floated a new policy governing licensing inventions made by its scientists subtitled “Promoting Equity in Access Planning.”. With stakeholders still stunned by the Administration’s attempt to misuse the Bayh-Dole Act to impose Washington price controls on products based on federally funded inventions, the new plan could hardly have been floated at a worse time.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

JULY 21, 2024

Recapping a couple of doomed-from-inception lawsuits. Benedict v. Google LLC , 2024 WL 3427161 (D. Ariz. July 16, 2024) Lance Benedict is a musician. Someone attacked him on the heavy metal website “All That Shreds” (apparently gone now), posting allegedly doctored images and defamatory statements. Those items got indexed in Google and appeared in Benedict’s vanity searches.

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The Trichordist

JULY 21, 2024

Will MLC Add Crowdstrike as Another Best In Breed Vendor?

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Patently-O

JULY 21, 2024

by Dennis Crouch Although not a patent case, Feliciano v. Department of Transportation merits attention as one of only two Federal Circuit cases granted certiorari for the October 2024 Supreme Court term, alongside the veterans benefits case of Bufkin v. McDonough. In Feliciano , the Supreme Court will consider whether federal civilian employees who are called to active military duty are entitled to differential pay even if their service is not directly connected to a declared national emergency

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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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The IPKat

JULY 21, 2024

The IPKat has received and is pleased to host the following guest contribution by Sunimal Mendis (Tilburg University) and Olia Kanevskaia (Utrecht University) on the judgment of the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) in C-588/21 P Public.Resource.Org , concerning copyright protection of technical standards and access to public documents. Here’s what they write: Harmonized technical standards under EU copyright: the Public.Resource.Org judgment by Sunimal Mendis and Olia Kanevskaia On

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