TorrentFreak

MAY 19, 2024

Last December, Swedish anti-piracy group Rattighetsalliansen (Rights Alliance) reported that a local prosecutor had filed an indictment against a man suspected of being behind Viking IPTV. In the Scandinavian pirate market, Viking IPTV is a well-known brand and according to Rights Alliance, business appears to have been brisk. A police cryptocurrency expert reported that clusters of bitcoin wallets that could be connected to the suspect received around 308 bitcoins between 2018 and 2022, over US

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The IPKat

MAY 19, 2024

The USPTO has issued a request for comments regarding the impact of AI on patentability. The USPTO specifically calls for views on how the proliferation of AI could affect evaluations of patentability, including what qualifies as prior art and the capabilities of the person skilled in the art. The full call for views can be viewed here. Comments are due by 29 June 2024.

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IP Watchdog

MAY 19, 2024

Senator Thom Tillis (R-NC) has been unsuccessfully trying to obtain information from the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) on data being used to support drug pricing proposals for nearly two and a half years. More specifically, in a January 31, 2022 letter, Senator Tillis requested an independent assessment and analysis of the sources of data that are being relied upon by those advocating for patent-based solutions to drug pricing.

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Likelihood of Confusion

MAY 19, 2024

I’ve been focusing on Google and its ersatz trademark policy, but meanwhile the Google copyright train — arguably the bigger story — has left the station. Here’s one way to catch up: A piece called “The Motivation Behind the Anti-Google Copyright Protection Coalition.” Originally posted 2011-05-23 16:57:11. Republished by Blog Post Promoter The post Google tumult appeared first on LIKELIHOOD OF CONFUSION™.

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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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Patently-O

MAY 19, 2024

By Dennis Crouch Two people cannot wear the same sock (at least at the same time) but they can think the same thought, sing the same song, or undergo the same medical procedure. As Thomas Jefferson famously put it, part of the ‘peculiar character’ of an idea is that ‘no one possesses the less, because every other possesses the whole of it.’ This quote from Professor James Stern’s new article introduces the conventional view that ideas and information are nonrivalrou

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