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Step Right Up: The Chamber of Progress’s Ticketing Chamber of Horrors Fools Nobody

The Trichordist

The Chamber of Progress is at it again, this time with added fallaciousness and foolishness.

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Domain Seizures and German ISP Blockade Add to Libgen’s Troubles

TorrentFreak

Library Genesis ( LibGen ) is one of the oldest shadow libraries on the Internet, offering free access to millions of books and academic papers for which people would otherwise have to pay. The sites origins reportedly trace back to the Soviet Unions underground publishing culture samizdat, which was used to bypass state censorship in the last century.

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Sunday Surprises

The IPKat

If you are looking for some last-minute Christmas gifts, we have some ideas for you: Call for papers The Indian Journal of Intellectual Property Law, a student-run journal of NALSAR University of Law in Hyderabad, calls for papers for its 15th volume. The submission deadline is 31 March 2025. For further information please click here. Jobs Assistant Professor in Intellectual Property Law at Maastricht University Have you ever wondered what it is like to be an Assistant Professor in Intellectual

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Best of 2009: “While my guitar gently weeps”

Likelihood of Confusion

Originally posted 2015-01-26 15:03:05. Republished by Blog Post PromoterThis was first posted on March 31, 2009. One of the first posts on LIKELIHOOD OF CONFUSION was about Gibson Guitar Corp. v. Paul Reed Smith Guitars, LP, 70 UPSQ2d 1911 (M.D. Tenn. 2004), and the question of whether “only a Gibson guitar can make a Gibson-looking […] The post Best of 2009: “While my guitar gently weeps” appeared first on LIKELIHOOD OF CONFUSION.

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Software Composition Analysis: The New Armor for Your Cybersecurity

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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What You Need to Know About Trade Secrets in 2024

IP Watchdog

Even though trade secret rights are governed today almost entirely by statute (the Uniform Trade Secrets Act (UTSA) in every state except New York, and the federal Defend Trade Secrets Act [DTSA]), its operative principles are rooted in common law traditions of tort and the twin policy objectives of maintenance of standards of commercial ethics and the encouragement of invention.

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Recent Patent Cases at the Supreme Court

Patently-O

by Dennis Crouch The Supreme Court has not granted certiorari in any patent cases this term. But the 2024 docket includes a number of important petitions -- some focusing on procedural issues and others on fundamental patent law questions. Here is a quick review of those currently pending before the high court: To continue reading, become a Patently-O member.

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