Erik K Pelton
APRIL 16, 2024
Erik shares important tips for journalists to help them accurately report on trademark matters in this episode. The post Trademark Tips for Journalists appeared first on Erik M Pelton & Associates, PLLC. Erik shares important tips for journalists to help them accurately report on trademark matters in this episode.
Plagiarism Today
APRIL 16, 2024
Harvard is facing yet another plagiarism scandal, this one involves an instructor who is accused of plagiarizing in an expert witness report. The post Yet Another Harvard Plagiarism Scandal appeared first on Plagiarism Today.
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JD Supra Law
APRIL 16, 2024
One of the biggest threats to modern corporations involves departing employees who take confidential business information (CBI) and/or trade secrets with them prior to or upon their departure. Indeed, the misappropriation of trade secrets and CBI can cost companies millions of dollars in legal fees, reputational harm, and lost revenue. In recent years, three new trends in the way that companies do business have led to unintended growth in this area of risk.
Plagiarism Today
APRIL 16, 2024
Kidd Wes appeals This is American decision, Stephen Thaler appeals AI ruling and Global Music Rights settles with radio stations. The post 3 Count: This is America appeared first on Plagiarism Today.
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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?
Velocity of Content
APRIL 16, 2024
The information landscape is undergoing a seismic shift, presenting both challenges and opportunities for librarians and info pros serving research communities. This necessitates a transition in librarian roles, from information retrievers to search educators, adept at guiding users through the intricacies of prompt engineering across diverse search tools.
IP Watchdog
APRIL 16, 2024
The U.S. Supreme Court today reversed an en banc decision of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit (CAFC) in which Judge Pauline Newman dissented, a development Newman’s lawyers say belies CAFC Chief Judge Moore’s opinion that Newman is mentally unfit to serve on the court. The en banc decision was an appeal from the United States Court of Appeals for Veterans Claims in which Judges Newman and Reyna each separately dissented.
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TorrentFreak
APRIL 16, 2024
Anna’s Archive is a meta-search engine for shadow libraries that allows users to find pirated books and other related sources. The site launched in the fall of 2022 , just days after Z-Library was targeted in a U.S. criminal crackdown, to ensure continued availability of ‘free’ books and articles to the broader public. Late last year, Anna’s Archive expanded its offering by making information from OCLC’s proprietary WorldCat database available online.
IP Law 360
APRIL 16, 2024
The Seventh Circuit on Tuesday halted the daily $1 million fine and sales ban ordered against Hytera Communications for participating in Chinese litigation against a district judge's orders, after previously refusing to save the company from its "self inflicted wounds.
Christopher Roser
APRIL 16, 2024
Automotive assembly is one of the pinnacles of modern manufacturing, having a very complex product of 30 000 parts as well as mass production in large quantities. The modern automotive moving assembly line is hence one of the most complex manufacturing operations in the world. In this two-post series I will look at how this. Read more The post The Evolution of Automotive Assembly Line—Part 1 first appeared on AllAboutLean.com.
IP Law 360
APRIL 16, 2024
As Earth Day approaches, law firms and attorneys should consider adopting more sustainable practices to reduce their carbon footprint — from minimizing single-use plastics to purchasing carbon offsets for air travel — which ultimately can also reduce costs for clients, say M’Lynn Phillips and Lisa Walters at IMS Legal Strategies.
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The Illusion of More
APRIL 16, 2024
About 25 years ago, when my first child was a little kid, I predicted to a friend that by the time that boy was an adult, higher education in the United States would be in crisis—both financially and culturally. It was clear then that the rate of increase in costs implied a level of borrowing […] The post As Course Materials Prices Drop, Dept. of Ed Proposes a Risky Rule Change appeared first on The Illusion of More.
IP Law 360
APRIL 16, 2024
An Army veteran who sought additional education benefits to attend Yale Divinity School is owed more federal assistance, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled Tuesday, upending an en banc Federal Circuit ruling that took a narrower view of what he is entitled to based on his multiple tours of duty.
JD Supra Law
APRIL 16, 2024
Laws prohibiting the use of a person’s likeness for commercial gain have been in effect for some time, testing everything from the value of an influencer’s endorsement to “freemium” reports by people search companies.
Patently-O
APRIL 16, 2024
By Chris Holman Salix Pharms., Ltd. v. Norwich Pharms. Inc. , 2024 WL 1561195 (Fed. Cir. Apr. 11, 2024) Human clinical trials play an essential role in the discovery, development, and regulatory approval of innovative drugs, and federal law mandates the public disclosure of these trials. Pharmaceutical innovators are voicing concern that these disclosures are increasingly being used as prior art to invalidate patents arising out of, or otherwise relating to, these trials, in a manner that threat
JD Supra Law
APRIL 16, 2024
Can a patentee really just take a pass on alleging that an accused product meets a limitation in an asserted claim, even where the case involves complex technology? That's the upshot of the court's decision in Lindis Biotech, GMBH v. Amgen, Inc., C.A. No. 22-35-GBW, 2024 WL 1299930 (D. Del. Mar. 27, 2024). The independent claim at issue “requires administration of a trifunctional, bispecific immunostimulating antibody.”.
IP Law 360
APRIL 16, 2024
A Tuesday filing indicated that Winston & Strawn LLP has managed to settle copyright infringement allegations coming from a boutique intellectual property firm that went to a federal court in Manhattan to accuse the BigLaw firm of copying a motion-to-dismiss filing "nearly verbatim.
JD Supra Law
APRIL 16, 2024
Luv N’ Care, Ltd. v. Lindsey Laurain, Appeal Nos. 2022-1905, -1970 (Fed. Cir. Apr.12, 2024) - In this week’s Case of the Week, the Federal Circuit affirmed the district court’s bench trial decision that unclean hands barred patentee Eazy-PZ LLC (“EZPZ”) from seeking relief, and also addressed issues concerning inequitable conduct, patent invalidity, and attorneys’ fees and costs under 35 U.S.C. § 285.
IP Law 360
APRIL 16, 2024
A decade after the U.S. Supreme Court’s Alice ruling, critics continue to argue that the subject matter eligibility framework it established yields inconsistent results, but that contention is disproved by affirmance data from the Federal Circuit, district courts and the Patent Trial and Appeal Board, say Dennis Abdelnour and David Thomas at Honigman.
JD Supra Law
APRIL 16, 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. Last week, the US House Judiciary Subcommittee on Courts, Intellectual Property, and the Internet held a hearing entitled “Artificial Intelligence and Intellectual Property: Part III – IP Protection for AI-Assisted Inventions and Creative Works.
IP Law 360
APRIL 16, 2024
A Texas federal judge has shipped to California a suit accusing Apple of patent infringement, prompting patent-owning technology company Haptic Inc. to appeal the decision to the Federal Circuit.
JD Supra Law
APRIL 16, 2024
On April 10, 2024, the Court granted Plaintiffs Genentech, Hoffmann-La Roche, and Biogen and Defendants Dr. Reddy’s and Fresenius Kabi’s joint stipulation of dismissal due to settlement in Case No. 1:23-cv-22485 (D.N.J.) related to Dr. Reddy’s and Fresenius Kabi’s proposed Rituxan® (rituximab) biosimilar DRL_RI.
Garrigues Blog
APRIL 16, 2024
The Supreme Court has delivered a judgment that bolsters copyright protection for works of applied art under criminal law: It sets an important precedent in Spain in distinguishing design as an art that deserves protection under both criminal as well as civil law. The world of fashion design, in which aesthetics are woven into practicality, poses challenges for copyright.
JD Supra Law
APRIL 16, 2024
Is the dripping wax seal of Maker’s Mark famous? What about the Texas Longhorn Football logo – surely that’s famous, isn’t it? While many would say those are famous and indelible American symbols, in the area of trademark law, specifically trademark dilution, there is no easy answer.
IP Law 360
APRIL 16, 2024
The Second Circuit on Tuesday threw out an injunction barring New York City and its fire department from using the allegedly infringing term "medical special operations," reasoning in the trademark suit that it's too general to be considered an infringement of a nonprofit's name for meetings.
JD Supra Law
APRIL 16, 2024
The USPTO has issued several recent Federal Register Notices this calendar year. The latest, entitled Guidance on Use of Artificial Intelligence-Based Tools in Practice Before the United States Patent and Trademark Office, 89 FR 25609 (April 11, 2024) (the “Guidance”) comes on the heels of the Final Rule: Signature Requirements Related to Acceptance of….
IP Law 360
APRIL 16, 2024
A Texas federal judge has decided that the tequila marketplace is big enough for both a U.S. startup called "Casa Azul" and an older Mexican brand called "Clase Azul," whose lawyers unsuccessfully tried to persuade the judge of its fame by playing a music video by reggaeton rapper Ozuna.
JD Supra Law
APRIL 16, 2024
Tennessee has become the first state to enact legislation introducing new safeguards for the voices of songwriters, performers, and celebrities from artificial intelligence and deepfakes, as Governor Bill Lee signed the ELVIS Act (Ensuring Likeness Voice and Image Security) into law on March 21, 2024.
IP Law 360
APRIL 16, 2024
A Canadian cooler maker has urged a Colorado federal judge to toss a rival's patent infringement claims in a dispute over soft-sided coolers, arguing that the rival failed to disclose a licensing agreement that shows it never had the right to claim infringement in the first place.
JD Supra Law
APRIL 16, 2024
In Hip, Inc. v. Hormel Foods Corp., the U.S. Court of Appeals, Federal Circuit, held that there was no joint inventorship when the contribution of preheating meat pieces using an infrared oven was insignificant in quality because it was mentioned only once in the patent specification as an alternative heating method to a microwave oven and was recited only once as part of a Markush group in a claim.
IP Law 360
APRIL 16, 2024
Although the first-year WNBA salary of Caitlin Clark will be relatively meager, she is in no financial straits because of dramatic changes to the laws and rules governing college athletes' ability to earn money in recent years, and experts say Clark's ascension is lifting up all of women's sports.
IP Watchdog
APRIL 16, 2024
The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday denied a petition that challenged the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit’s decision that found a district court had authority to impose $36 million in sanctions for abusive litigation practices in a trademark case. The underlying case relates to AECOM Energy & Construction, Inc.’s (AECOM) suit against Gary Topolewski, who owned a clothing business called Metal Jeans, Inc., for infringing use of trademarks associated with AECOM's predecessor, Morriso
IP Law 360
APRIL 16, 2024
A Texas patent outfit is back at the U.S. Supreme Court with an appeal over a loss in the lower courts, this time over a reading of legal precedent involving patent law's rarely invoked "original patent" requirements.
The TTABlog
APRIL 16, 2024
A TTAB judge once said to me that one can predict the outcome of a Section 2(d) appeal 95% of the time just by looking at the marks and the involved goods/services. Here are the three such appeals recently decided by the TTAB. How do you think these three came out? No hints this time. [Answers in first comment.] In re Suarez Industries, Inc. , Serial No. 97602779 (April 10, 2024) [not precedential] (Opinion by Judge Michael B.
IP Law 360
APRIL 16, 2024
Impossible Foods has urged the U.S. Supreme Court to reject a request by a marketing firm owned by a self-described "digital nomad" to review a split Ninth Circuit decision reviving the veggie burger-maker's trademark lawsuit against it, arguing the petition mischaracterizes personal jurisdiction legal precedent and makes "radical" constitutional arguments.
IP Close Up
APRIL 16, 2024
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