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The government’s funding of Laith Marouf, a known anti-semite, sparked anger and condemnation last summer as many wondered how Canadian Heritage failed to conduct the necessary due diligence to weed him out as part of its anti-hate program. While government MPs such as Anthony Housefather urged action , then-Diversity Minister Ahmed Hussein was slow to respond and then-Canadian Heritage Minister Pablo Rodriguez inexplicably remained silent.
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Mike Keyes , a consumer survey expert and IP litigator at Dorsey & Whitney LLP, has granted me permission to post this recent article from his newsletter, "Lanham Act Surveys for Lawyers" (subscribe here ). Getting Your Teflon Survey to "Stick" at the TTAB Teflon. When most people hear that word, they may think of their favorite coated frying pan that dutifully keeps those scrambled eggs from being a jumbled-up, sticky mess on Saturday mornings.
In AI Training Case Brought by Thomson Reuters, Court Denies Summary Judgment - In Thomson Reuters v. Ross Intelligence, a district court largely denied the parties’ cross motions for summary judgment and held that a number of factual issues must be decided by a jury. - The decision provides some insight into how courts might address the complex issue of whether the use of copyrighted works to train artificial intelligence systems constitutes copyright infringement and, if so, the viability.
Cover page of WIPO World IP Indicators, 2023 Image from here The World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) recently published its annual World IP Indicators for the year 2023, detailing the different trends in the filing of IP applications and the subsequent grants by IP offices across different jurisdictions. In this short post, I’ll take a look at the India-specific figures in terms of patent filings, grants, and procedural data about the Indian Patent Office.
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