Sat.Jan 20, 2024

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Russia Piracy Takedowns Up By 100%, “Western Rightsholders to Blame”

TorrentFreak

Russian media outlets are reporting that the volume of pirated content on the internet doubled between 2022 and 2023. That’s not exactly true, or indeed true at all. The claims are based on data supplied by local telecoms watchdog Roscomnadzor. Speaking with Izvestia , the government agency said it blocked or deleted more than a million links to infringing content in 2023, more than double the amount blocked or deleted during the previous year.

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IP Scholarship, Citations, and Knowledge Governance: Some Insights from the History of IP Teaching in India

SpicyIP

Source – From Flickr’s Kevin Lim “Are Some Scholars More Equal than Others?,” a question that Prof. Basheer raised in his 2018 post on the Politics of Patent Citation. While the question made sense ever since I read the post, it started making more sense (and bothering me more) after working on the SpicyIP Open IP Syllabus where I witnessed a relative “over-accessibility” of US-European IPR scholarship.

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Saturday Sundries

The IPKat

IP events, news, and opportunities are continuously announced as the end of January rapidly approaches. Check them out! Events Seminar ‘From the Batmobile to Mickey Mouse via Pippi Longstocking’. City, University of London will hold the seminar ‘From the Batmobile to Mickey Mouse via Pippi Longstocking’ on 14 February 2024. PermaKat Eleonora Rosati will address how IP rights protect fictional characters through several case law examples, aiming to “answer whether, in the end, the only fictional

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Ten Commandments Achieve Creche Status

Likelihood of Confusion

We’ve been patiently waiting for this one, and the decision is out, and evidently it’s a doozy! Court Splits on Ten Commandments Displays Says the story: [T]he high court said. The post Ten Commandments Achieve Creche Status 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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Never Too Late: If you missed the IPKat last week!

The IPKat

If you've been stretched thin lately and haven't kept up with the IP news , here's the summary of what you missed. Trade Marks and GIs This Kat has been stretched thin too. Image from Pexels. Marcel Pemsel discussed the latest in plant-based trade marks with the General Court decision that 'MYBACON' (for fungi-based meat substitutes) was of such a nature as to deceive the public.

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How’s Trix?

Likelihood of Confusion

Ryan Gile reports that it’s Trixy out there. Originally posted 2012-04-09 16:28:19. Republished by Blog Post Promoter The post How’s Trix? appeared first on LIKELIHOOD OF CONFUSION™.