Plagiarism Today
AUGUST 20, 2024
For students returning to school worrying about plagiarism, I have a simple piece of advice: Learn the warning signs. The post My Big Piece of Advice for Students on Plagiarism in 2024 appeared first on Plagiarism Today.
TorrentFreak
AUGUST 20, 2024
The inception and early years of The Pirate Bay are an intriguing chapter of the Internet’s history. While most pirate site operators hid in the shadows, Pirate Bay’s founders were public figures who openly taunted the entertainment industries. This chapter didn’t end as planned for Fredrik Neij, Peter Sunde, and Gotffrid Svartholm, who were eventually sentenced to prison.
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Plagiarism Today
AUGUST 20, 2024
Authors file lawsuit against Anthropic, Kanye West settles another lawsuit and Homicide: Life on the Streets finally comes to streaming. The post 3 Count: And Another One… appeared first on Plagiarism Today.
Erik K Pelton
AUGUST 20, 2024
The following is an edited transcript of Chapter 8 of my book video Building a Bold Brand: The Trademark Registration Process: A Long and Winding Road The trademark application process at the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) is generally long, complex, and full of deadlines. It’s also full of bumps, potholes, detours, wrong exits, and toll booths.
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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?
JD Supra Law
AUGUST 20, 2024
To help you stay on top of the latest news, our AI practice group has compiled a roundup of the developments we are following.
TorrentFreak
AUGUST 20, 2024
For companies reliant on sales of digital products delivered via the internet, any level of success is likely to face not just unlicensed competition, but rivals offering identical products with a price tag marked ‘free’ How to tackle this threat depends on the product, the audience, and the location and nature of pirate sites and services active in the niche.
Intellectual Property Pulse brings together the best content for IP professionals from the widest variety of industry thought leaders.
TorrentFreak
AUGUST 20, 2024
For many traditional newspapers reliant on sales of a physical product, the rise of the internet as an integrated publishing, distribution, and content consumption platform, disrupted almost everything. With new opportunities came new challenges. Popularity of free-to-consume digital versions had a tendency to cannibalize print sales. Advertising revenue that once kept digital publications online, later began to diminish.
JD Supra Law
AUGUST 20, 2024
Trademark scams are on the rise and include increasingly varied communications attempting to trick trademark applicants and registrants into paying fees. If you receive any communications regarding your trademarks from anyone other than your trademark attorney, it is most likely not legitimate.
IP Watchdog
AUGUST 20, 2024
Journalists and book authors Andrea Bartz, Charles Graeber and Kirk Wallace Johnson have filed suit against generative artificial intelligence (AI) company, Anthropic, on behalf of a class of plaintiffs in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California – San Francisco Division, alleging widespread copyright infringement of “hundreds of thousands of copyrighted books.
JD Supra Law
AUGUST 20, 2024
As a content creator, your brand is your livelihood. You work tirelessly to create engaging content, build your audience, and attract partnerships with brands. But amidst the creativity and hustle, there’s one critical aspect many content creators overlook— legal protection.
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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.
IP Law 360
AUGUST 20, 2024
The legal industry continues to see incremental gains for female lawyers in private practice in the U.S., according to a Law360 Pulse analysis, with women now representing 40.6% of all attorneys and 51% of all associates.
JD Supra Law
AUGUST 20, 2024
In Celanese Int’l Corp. v. ITC, the Federal Circuit addressed whether the America Invents Act (“AIA”) changed the on-sale bar such that the sale of a product made using a secret process would no longer invalidate later-sought claims on that process.
IP Law 360
AUGUST 20, 2024
The legal industry still has a long way to go before it can achieve gender parity at its upper levels. But these law firms are performing better than others in breaking the proverbial glass ceiling that prevents women from attaining leadership roles.
JD Supra Law
AUGUST 20, 2024
Keypoint: Companies onboarding AI products and services need to understand the potential risks associated with these products and implement contractual provisions to manage them. With the rapid emergence of artificial intelligence (AI) products and services, companies using these products and services need to negotiate contractual provisions that adequately address the unique issues they present.
IP Law 360
AUGUST 20, 2024
An Illinois federal judge on Tuesday refused to disturb a jury's $525 million verdict in favor of software company Kove IO Inc. in a dispute with Amazon over cloud data storage patents, rejecting Amazon's argument that there wasn't enough evidence and holding that Kove is entitled to roughly $147.7 million in prejudgment interest.
JD Supra Law
AUGUST 20, 2024
Case Name: Pharmacyclics LLC v. Alvogen Pine Brook LLC, Civ. No. 19-434-CFC, 2024 WL 1885677 (D. Del. Apr. 30, 2024) (Connolly, J.) - Drug Product and Patent(s)-in-Suit: Imbruvica® (ibrutinib); U.S. Patents Nos. 8,008,309 (“the ’309 patent”), 8,754,090 (“the ’090 patent”), 9,655,857 (“the ’857 patent”), and 9,725,455 (“the ’455 patent”).
IP Law 360
AUGUST 20, 2024
A BigLaw associates’ union could address a number of issues that have the potential to meaningfully improve working conditions, diversity and attorney well-being — from restructured billable hour requirements to origination credit allocation, return-to-office mandates and more, says Tara Rhoades at The Sanity Plea.
JD Supra Law
AUGUST 20, 2024
Allergan USA, Inc. v. MSN Laboratories Private Ltd., Appeal No. 2024-1061 (Fed. Cir. August 13, 2024) In this week’s Case of the Week, the Federal Circuit clarifies rules relating to when an applicant’s patent can be used for an obviousness-type double patenting (ODP) rejection for another of the applicant’s patent applications. Ultimately, the Federal Circuit held that a first-filed, first-issued, later-expiring claim cannot be invalidated under ODP by a later-filed, later-issued, but.
IP Close Up
AUGUST 20, 2024
Iconic characters from Disney, Marvel and DC Comics (Warner Bros.
JD Supra Law
AUGUST 20, 2024
On August 12, 2024, Amgen filed Case No. 1:24-cv-08417 (D.N.J.) against Samsung Bioepis, alleging SB16 (denosumab), its proposed Prolia® / Xgeva® (denosumab) biosimilar, would infringe 34 of Amgen’s patents.
IP Watchdog
AUGUST 20, 2024
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit (CAFC) on Tuesday reversed and remanded the Western District of Texas district court’s decision that Claim 1 of Neonode’s patent for a tablet display was indefinite. Neonode sued Samsung Electronics for infringement of its U.S. Patent No. 8,095,879 and the district court ultimately said it found itself presented with “three equally competing interpretations of what” claim 1 means.
JD Supra Law
AUGUST 20, 2024
The cofounders of FanDuel are stepping up their efforts to recoup lost equity from the company’s 2018 acquisition by European bookmaker Paddy Power Betfair, which later rebranded to Flutter Entertainment.
The TTABlog
AUGUST 20, 2024
With the retirements of Judges Bergsman and Wolfson, the passing of Judge Hudis, and the addition of six judges this year, the Board’s membership now stands at thirty-one (31) Administrative Trademark Judges. The current roster is set forth below, beginning with Chief Judge Gerard F. Rogers and then proceeding alphabetically. Rogers, Gerard F. (Chief Judge): Appointed to TTAB in 1999.
JD Supra Law
AUGUST 20, 2024
Before Lourie, Bryson, and Stark. Appeal from the United States District Court for the Central District of California. Summary: Patent claims that merely recite result-orientated, functional language without specifying the steps of information manipulation are invalid under 35 U.S.C. § 101.
IP Watchdog
AUGUST 20, 2024
As an update to my previous posts from 2017, 2019, 2020, March 2021, August 2021, 2022, 2023, and February 2024, the tenth anniversary of the U.S. Supreme Court’s Alice Corp. v. CLS Bank decision has just passed. Yet, there is still no end to the debate over when a software (or computer-implemented) claim is patentable versus being simply an abstract idea “free to all men and reserved exclusively to none” (as eloquently phrased over 76 years ago by then-Supreme Court Justice Douglas in Funk Bros
JD Supra Law
AUGUST 20, 2024
In a recent precedential decision, the Trademark Trial and Appeal Board (the “Board”) found that Door Dash, Inc. (“Door Dash”) was merely doing what all trademark owners must do—protect their valuable rights. Door Dash, Inc. v. Greenerside Holdings, LLC, Opp. No. 91285160 (TTAB 2024). The Board struck the affirmative defense of “trademark bullying” because a cannabis company did not properly plead it.
Patently-O
AUGUST 20, 2024
by Dennis Crouch The U.S. Solicitor General has filed the Government’s opposition to Chestek PLLC’s petition for a writ of certiorari in a case challenging the USPTO’s authority to implement certain procedural rules without notice-and-comment rulemaking. The case has has significant implications for the agency’s regulatory powers.
JD Supra Law
AUGUST 20, 2024
In 2023, the number of federal corporate prosecutions remained far below the 25-year average after two consecutive years of increases.The DOJ’s Fraud Section secured just $690 million in penalties across eight corporate resolutions in 2023, marking the first time total fines dipped below $1 billion since at least 2015. However, convictions at trial remain historically high despite dropping year-over-year.The U.S. government and whistleblowers were parties to a record 543 False Claims.
Olartemoure Blog
AUGUST 20, 2024
Colombia has many different types of stock companies of which there are two main ones, widely used in the country. These are Simplified Joint Stock Companies (S.A.S. by its acronym in Spanish) and Joint Stock Companies (S.A. by its acronym in Spanish). In this article we will briefly describe each one of them and point out their main differences, so you can decide which one is a better fit for your business plan in Colombia.
JD Supra Law
AUGUST 20, 2024
In a new precedential decision issued August 13, 2024, the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit in Allergan USA. v. MSN Labs, 24-1061, held that a first-filed, first-issued parent patent that receives a patent term adjustment (PTA) due to delays by the Patent Office during prosecution cannot be invalidated for obviousness-type double patenting (ODP) by a later-filed, later-issued child patent that receives less, if any, PTA, and expires earlier.
Velocity of Content
AUGUST 20, 2024
In a 2024 McKinsey study , 65% of respondents said that their organizations are routinely using generative artificial intelligence (AI) in at least one business function. Clearly, AI is poised to have a significant impact on industries around the globe, offering unprecedented opportunities to enhance efficiency, productivity, and innovation. Corporations can leverage AI to streamline operations, improve decision-making, accelerate research and discovery, and foster a culture of continuous improv
JD Supra Law
AUGUST 20, 2024
LEGISLATION, REGULATIONS & STANDARDS - EPA Takes Emergency Action to Stop Use of Dacthal - For the first time in nearly 40 years, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has issued an emergency order to suspend all registrations of the pesticide dimethyl tetrachloroterephthalate (also known as DCPA or Dacthal) under the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide and Rodenticide Act (FIFRA).
IP Law 360
AUGUST 20, 2024
Chinese phone company OnePlus can have a new trial on damages after it was hit with a $10 million infringement verdict in Pantech Corp.'s patent dispute over technology used to comply with 5G wireless standards, a Texas federal judge ruled, saying, "There is no question this verdict is excessive.
JD Supra Law
AUGUST 20, 2024
In its most recent decision addressing the complicated interplay between Patent Term Adjustment (PTA) and obviousness-type double patenting (OTDP), the Federal Circuit ruled that a first-filed, first-issued parent patent awarded PTA cannot be invalidated for OTDP in view of a later-filed, later-issued child patent that expires earlier because it did not earn PTA.
IP Law 360
AUGUST 20, 2024
Litigation business Future Link says the latest version of an antitrust lawsuit in California federal court from Taiwanese chipmaker Realtek over claims of a conspiracy with a different Taiwanese chipmaker to fund purported "patent troll" lawsuits is just more "litigation over litigation.
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