Plagiarism Today
JUNE 4, 2024
A team including Stanford undergrads have been accused of plagiarizing a Chinese company when creating their new AI system. The post Stanford University Students Accused of Plagiarizing AI Model appeared first on Plagiarism Today.
Erik K Pelton
JUNE 4, 2024
Erik shares 25 key terms to know if you are involved in a Trademark Trial and Appeal Board matter in this episode. The post 25 TTAB Tips appeared first on Erik M Pelton & Associates, PLLC. Erik shares 25 key terms to know if you are involved in a Trademark Trial and Appeal Board matter in this episode.
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Plagiarism Today
JUNE 4, 2024
Roberto Clemente's estate sued over alleged double-dealing, DAZN won more site blocking, and Adobe criticized over Ansel Adams-like images. The post 3 Count: Double Dealing appeared first on Plagiarism Today.
Michael Geist
JUNE 4, 2024
The CRTC has released its much-anticipated Bill C-11 ruling on the initial mandated contributions from Internet streaming services. The headline the Commission and government will promote is that the services will be required to contribute 5% of their Canadian revenues to support various Canadian funding programs that support film and TV production, news, and music.
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?
IP Law 360
JUNE 4, 2024
To deliver clear and effective written advocacy, lawyers should follow the model of a fine dining chef — seasoning a foundation of pure facts with punchy descriptors, spicing it up with analogies, refining the recipe and trimming the fat — thus catering to a sophisticated audience of decision-makers, says Reuben Guttman at Guttman Buschner.
TorrentFreak
JUNE 4, 2024
Driven by views, likes, and in some cases, a reasonable level of fame, around 2016 emboldened YouTubers threw caution to the wind with their ‘content acquisition’ tutorials. Where there had once been a nod-and-a-wink, many ventured into the full-blown piracy tutorial arena. For good measure, they also marketed them as such. While some claimed protection based on freedom of speech, many underestimated the implications of exercising that right on YouTube, a platform they did not own.
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TorrentFreak
JUNE 4, 2024
In recent years, legal video and sports streaming services have flourished around the world. At the same time, millions of people are streaming from unauthorized sources, often through perfectly legal streaming devices including Amazon’s Firesticks. Most people know that the subscription services that typically arrive pre-installed on the devices are unauthorized.
IP Law 360
JUNE 4, 2024
Paramount and Univision have been hit with a $142.5 million copyright lawsuit over allegedly continuing to broadcast masked "Lucha Libre" fights on Pluto TV, over a year after ending a licensing deal with a California company that markets the videos in the U.S.
Christopher Roser
JUNE 4, 2024
The Bayerische Motoren Werke AG, or short BMW, is a maker of luxury vehicles, sport cars, and motorcycles. As part of my Grand Tour of German Automotive I visited their plants in Munich and Leipzig, and was quite impressed. In my view, it these are the best-performing automotive plants in Germany, and close to the. Read more The post The Grand Tour of German Automotive—BMW Munich first appeared on AllAboutLean.com.
Technology & Marketing Law Blog
JUNE 4, 2024
YouTube’s TOS restricts the uploading of content depicting animal abuse, defined as “content that shows the malicious infliction of serious physical or psychological harm that causes an animal to suffer.” The TOS provides additional details about what YouTube considers impermissible animal abuse. Lady Freethinker is an animal rights advocacy group with the tagline “ending cruelty for all beings.” It claims that it created a YouTube account predicated on YouTube prom
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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
JUNE 4, 2024
Like few topics before it, generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) has dominated discussions in many C-suites over the last year. Boards are playing a crucial role in both encouraging management to accelerate the pace of exploration of GenAI and urging management to put in place appropriate policies and guardrails for the development, deployment, and use of the technology.
IP Watchdog
JUNE 4, 2024
On June 1, one year after the date when patents with unitary effect became effective in the European Union (EU), the European Patent Office (EPO) announced that it had registered more than 27,500 unitary patents, representing about 25% of all European patents granted over the past year. The EPO also reported that the Unified Patent Court (UPC) has received a total of 373 case filings since that court first became operational one year ago, although news reports indicate that technical issues have
JD Supra Law
JUNE 4, 2024
In an effort to enhance collaboration, the Indian Pharmaceutical Alliance (IPA) recently proposed that a more formal preferred partnership between the U.S. and India can not only lower drug prices in the U.S. but can improve supply chain problems as well. As I have previously written, given political tensions between the U.S. and China in recent years, Indian pharmaceutical companies have increasingly focused efforts at supplanting China's role in providing active pharmaceutical ingredients.
Copyright Alliance
JUNE 4, 2024
In May, the U.S. Supreme Court was unusually busy with copyright cases, as were lower courts around the country. Here is a quick snapshot of some of copyright-related activities that […] The post May 2024 Roundup of Copyright News appeared first on Copyright Alliance.
JD Supra Law
JUNE 4, 2024
A Los Angeles jury has found following a monthlong trial that StubHub owes more than $16 million for breaching its contract with Spotlight Ticket Management, which does business as TicketManager, and interfering in the company’s relationship with American Express.
The TTABlog
JUNE 4, 2024
The Board denied Applicant Zarco Hotels' FRCP 12(b)(6) motion to dismiss this opposition to registration of the mark HOLLYWOOD HOTEL for hotel and restaurant services, ruling that claim preclusion, based on an earlier opposition, did not apply. The Board first construed the motion as one for summary judgment and then concluded that Opposers' claims of likelihood of confusion and geographical descriptiveness were not decided in the prior opposition (which was sustained on the ground of nonownersh
JD Supra Law
JUNE 4, 2024
The Summer Olympic Games will begin on July 26, 2024 in Paris, France. The International Olympic Committee (IOC) and the United States Olympic & Paralympic Committee (USOPC) carefully protect Olympic trademarks and copyrights. Radio and television stations should be cautious not to use materials that might infringe on these rights.
The IPKat
JUNE 4, 2024
By decision of 28 May 2024 ( R 173/2024 ) the Board of Appeal of EUIPO (BoA) rejected a 3D trade mark for jewellery constituted by the representation of a bejewelled eagle. Fact of the case On February 8, 2023, Kurt Geiger Limited (the Applicant) applied for the registration of 3D trade mark no. 18833400 , among the others, for classes 9 (downloadable virtual products, namely jewellery; downloadable virtual products, namely computer programs featuring jewellery; downloadable image and video file
JD Supra Law
JUNE 4, 2024
The number of bar associations that have issued AI ethics guidance continues to grow, with NJ being the most recent. In its May 2024 report (Report), the NJ Task Force on Artificial Intelligence and the Law made a number of recommendations and findings as detailed below. With this Report, NJ joins the list of other bar associations that have issued AI ethics guidance, including Florida, California, New York, DC as well as the US Patent and Trademark Office.
IP Law 360
JUNE 4, 2024
The Patent Trial and Appeal Board has refused to invalidate any claims of a G+ Communications 5G network patent following a review requested by Samsung, which argued they were either obvious or anticipated.
JD Supra Law
JUNE 4, 2024
On May 21, Alvotech announced that it had entered into a license and supply agreement with Dr. Reddy’s Laboratories SA for the commercialization of AVT03, a proposed denosumab biosimilar. Denosumab, sold by Amgen under the brand names PROLIA and XGEVA, is indicated for the treatment of various diseases including osteoporosis in postmenopausal women and prevention of skeletal-related events in adults with advanced malignancies.
IP Law 360
JUNE 4, 2024
An inventor is arguing against the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office's bid to toss a D.C. federal court case challenging the office's redactions in documents regarding Patent Trial and Appeal Board reviews of patents at the center of his battle with Apple Inc.
JD Supra Law
JUNE 4, 2024
Appeal from the United States Patent and Trademark Office, Patent Trial and Appeal Board. Summary: Comparing pre-Section 135 bar date claims to amended post-bar date claims in an interference proceeding requires comparing the two sets of claims to determine if either set contains material limitations not found in the other—a “two-way test.”.
43(B)log
JUNE 4, 2024
Sheiner v. Supervalu Inc., 2024 WL 2803030, No. 22 Civ. 10262 (NSR) (S.D.N.Y. May 28, 2024) Supervalu sold a “Maximum Strength Lidocaine Patch” product which contained “topical anesthetic 4% Lidocaine” which “desensitize[s] aggravated nerves” to provide “temporary relief of pain” to the “back, neck, shoulders, knees, elbows” for “up to 8 Hours of relief.
JD Supra Law
JUNE 4, 2024
Appeal from the United States Patent and Trademark Office, Trademark Trial and Appeal Board. Summary: Parties that own minority shares in the trademark registrant, but do not separately use or possess an ownership right in the trademark, are not entitled to seek cancellation of third-party registrations based on likelihood of confusion.
IP Close Up
JUNE 4, 2024
“The Best Inventions for 2023,” Time magazine’s revealing overview of patented breakthrough solutions to life’s challenges, illustrates the breadth of industries, technologies and businesses building Continue reading
JD Supra Law
JUNE 4, 2024
WilmerHale lawyers advise clients on every aspect of trade secret law from contracts to complex litigation. Below please find a short update on an important development in trade secret whistleblower protections in the Northern District of California.
IP Law 360
JUNE 4, 2024
NCR Corp. has a "tough burden" on its shoulders if it wants to prove that the evidence a jury relied on to deliver a $13 million jury verdict against the company for infringing two payment processing patents was not substantial enough, a Federal Circuit judge said Tuesday.
JD Supra Law
JUNE 4, 2024
The advent of generative artificial intelligence (AI) has brought renewed attention to copyright law, with much of the early generative AI-related litigation concerning claims of copyright infringement of the content being used to train AI models. These lawsuits will likely spin off some of the most consequential case law in connection with copyrights that we have seen in some time, particularly around the notion of what constitutes fair use; however, a recent appellate decision on far more.
IP Law 360
JUNE 4, 2024
Federal Circuit judges on Tuesday repeatedly expressed skepticism over a split administrative board ruling that allowed a small hip-hop record label to land a trademark using the word "cognac" over objections from the cognac distilling industry.
JD Supra Law
JUNE 4, 2024
As discussed previously on this blog (see "USPTO Proposed Rule Change to Terminal Disclaimer Practice" and "The USPTO's Proposed Terminal Disclaimer Rule: A Litigator's Perspective") and elsewhere, the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office has announced a proposed rule change to the required form for terminal disclaimers in an attempt to rein in abusive serial litigation practices.
IP Law 360
JUNE 4, 2024
A federal magistrate judge in Manhattan has recommended that a group of textbook publishers be awarded nearly $27.7 million in damages in a copyright and trademark infringement complaint against nearly a dozen defendants who defaulted for not participating in a case where they were accused of selling counterfeits on Amazon.
JD Supra Law
JUNE 4, 2024
Patent and Trademark Public Advisory Committees, 89 FR 44634 (May 21, 2024) (“seeking nominations for up to three members of its Patent Public Advisory Committee (PPAC) to advise the Director of the USPTO on patent policy, and for up to three members of its Trademark Public Advisory Committee (TPAC) to advise the Director on trademark policy” before July 5, 2024 to serve a 3 year term).
IP Law 360
JUNE 4, 2024
Netflix Inc. has told the Tenth Circuit that the U.S. Supreme Court's decision last year finding that an Andy Warhol silkscreen of pop icon Prince infringed the photo it was based on strengthens its position in a lawsuit that accuses the streaming service of infringing a copyrighted funeral video by using a clip of it in the popular 2020 docuseries "Tiger King.
JD Supra Law
JUNE 4, 2024
The recent guidance from the United States Patent and Trademark Office on evaluating inventorship involving AI tools has sparked discussions on treating AI differently from other advanced tools. The guidance lacks clear definitions on what constitutes an AI tool and why it should be treated uniquely.
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