Plagiarism Today
JANUARY 7, 2025
Microsoft is facing allegations of tricking its users into searching with Bing. But what can be done to stop it? The post Why is Microsoft Impersonating Google? appeared first on Plagiarism Today.
Erik K Pelton
JANUARY 7, 2025
The following is an edited transcript of my video 25 Classes of Goods and Services at the USPTO. When applying to register a trademark at the USPTO, it is important to know about goods and services and their classification. The classification is important because it’s required by the USPTO, and one of the reasons it’s required is that it aligns our system with other systems around the world.
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Plagiarism Today
JANUARY 7, 2025
Romantsy authors battle over book similarities, 3Blue1Brown video restored and popular anime pirate site passes Disney. The post 3 Count: Bigger Than Disney appeared first on Plagiarism Today.
Erik K Pelton
JANUARY 7, 2025
Why monitor your registered trademark? Erik shares 3 reasons why this is valuable for your brand in this episode. Learn more about monitoring at [link] The post 3 Reasons for a Trademark Watch Service appeared first on Erik M Pelton & Associates, PLLC. Why monitor your registered trademark? Erik shares 3 reasons why this is valuable for your brand in this episode.
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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?
JD Supra Law
JANUARY 7, 2025
This status quo cannot continue. With these words, the UK government has made it clear that changes to the AI regulatory regime are on the horizon. The recently published consultation on AI and copyright underscores how current uncertainties in the law risk[] limiting investment, innovation, and growth. The government aims to encourage AI development on UK soil by tackling these hurdles.
Patently-O
JANUARY 7, 2025
by Dennis Crouch The Patent Term Adjustment (PTA) statute was designed to ensure patent terms aren't unfairly shortened by USPTO delays during prosecution. 35 U.S.C. 154(b). The basic framework provides day-for-day extension of patent term to account for certain examination delays, such as when the USPTO takes more than 14 months to issue a first office action or more than 4 months to respond to an applicant's reply.
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Likelihood of Confusion
JANUARY 7, 2025
Originally posted 2014-04-09 07:50:34. Republished by Blog Post PromoterJohn Welch at the TTABlog has up what even he acknowledges is an “excit[ing]” post, in which he both imagines himself a woman and quotes this lively Trademark Trial and Appeals Board opinion excerpt concerning the resolution of the Chippendale’s dancer-boy trademark appeal I discussed a while […] The post I enjoy being a trademark lawyer appeared first on LIKELIHOOD OF CONFUSION.
JD Supra Law
JANUARY 7, 2025
About a year ago, I read an article about an image generated by artificial intelligence that was refused registration by the U.S. Copyright Office. Mr. Jason Allen, a digital artist based in the State of Colorado, created this particular image using the Generative AI tool called Midjourney..
Copyright Alliance
JANUARY 7, 2025
Over the past year, all eyes have understandably been on the various ongoing cases brought by copyright owners against generative AI companies. But while we await decisions in those cases, […] The post Copyright Cases in 2024: A Year in Review appeared first on Copyright Alliance.
JD Supra Law
JANUARY 7, 2025
Conventional notions of trademark law suggest that emulating a popular product or service carries certain legal risks. However, a recent federal ruling highlights the complexities of trademark infringement cases involving "dupe" products, and shows there may be a greater tolerance for mimicry in some industries.
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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.
IP Law 360
JANUARY 7, 2025
Two retired professional women's hockey players who started a podcast last year called "Moms Who Puck" have been sued for trademark infringement by a former teammate who alleges they stole that phrase from her, according to a lawsuit in Connecticut federal court.
JD Supra Law
JANUARY 7, 2025
In this episode of On Record PR, Jennifer Simpson Carr goes on record with Moish E. Peltz, Partner at Falcon Rappaport & Berkman LLP, to discuss the impact of rising technology like artificial intelligence and cryptocurrency on the evolving business and legal landscapes. By: Furia Rubel Communications, Inc.
IP Law 360
JANUARY 7, 2025
Charter Communications Inc. filed a lawsuit in Connecticut federal court Tuesday against a former executive it claims made off with trade secrets and began working as a senior vice president and chief information officer of a competitor, Metronet.
JD Supra Law
JANUARY 7, 2025
The digital age has rocketed content creators to the forefront of entrepreneurship. Content creators often do more than create content; they build lucrative online presences that serve as platforms for diverse businesses.
IP Law 360
JANUARY 7, 2025
The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office on Tuesday welcomed six additions to its patent and trademark advisory committees, including lead intellectual property attorneys at The Estee Lauder Cos. Inc. and Mattel Inc.
JD Supra Law
JANUARY 7, 2025
An increasingly competitive and fractured marketplace and a rapidly evolving legal landscape mean that protecting your intangible assets, enforcing your rights, and mitigating intellectual property risks are more challenging than ever. Here are six trends we have been following closely and we expect the significance of these trends will only grow over the coming year.
IP Law 360
JANUARY 7, 2025
The former parent company of a group of international automotive product suppliers has asked a Michigan federal judge not to force arbitration of its lawsuit accusing them of stiffing it out of more than $11 million in royalties, saying the suppliers waived their right to arbitration.
JD Supra Law
JANUARY 7, 2025
Trends to Watch in 2025 January 7, 2025 As we welcome 2025, Wilson Sonsini litigators shed light on the emerging trends and key issues they see shaping the legal landscape, from AI regulation to evolving trade secret laws and increasing scrutiny on corporate disclosures.
IP Law 360
JANUARY 7, 2025
The pharmaceutical industry won't fall into "chaos and disruption" if the Federal Circuit doesn't stay an injunction ordering Teva to remove inhaler patents from the Orange Book, and Teva's arguments otherwise are "a mere theatrical distraction" from the weakness of its position, according to Amneal Pharmaceuticals.
JD Supra Law
JANUARY 7, 2025
As a general rule, in order to be protectable trade dress, a feature of a product, for example, the product's color, must be nonfunctional. That is, the feature must have been an arbitrary choice added to identify the source of the product (think of Owens Corning's pink insulation or T-Mobile's use of magenta).
IP Law 360
JANUARY 7, 2025
The Federal Circuit on Tuesday backed a Patent Trial and Appeal Board decision upholding several claims in a Columbia Insurance Co. construction hanger patent, clarifying that the board's finding only applies to the original version of the claims.
JD Supra Law
JANUARY 7, 2025
A North Carolina federal judge wont pause his order blockingNASCARfrom enforcing its antitrust release in racing contracts including one for a team owned by former NBA starMichael Jordan for the 2025 season, saying Monday that he did not grant the injunction lightly.
IP Law 360
JANUARY 7, 2025
The patent board has decided to ax a swath of claims in two Samsung patentscovering ways of arranging pixels that the Korean tech giant is asserting against a major Chinese rival in the business of selling replacement screens for Galaxy-brand cellphones.
JD Supra Law
JANUARY 7, 2025
Numerous court decisions over the past decade such as Amgen Inc. v. Sanofi from the US Supreme Court and Juno Therapeutics, Inc. et al. v. Kite Pharma, Inc. from the US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit have called into question the validity of broad antibody patent claims, leading some commentators to declare the death of the antibody genus claim.
IP Law 360
JANUARY 7, 2025
Batur Oktay, the former leader of Starbucks Corp.'s intellectual property program, has joined Davis Wright Tremaine LLP as a partner in the firm's Seattle office, according to an announcement Tuesday.
JD Supra Law
JANUARY 7, 2025
Honeywell International Inc. v. 3G Licensing, S.A., Appeal Nos. 2023-1354, -1384, -1407 (Fed. Cir. Jan. 2, 2025) In this weeks Case of the Week, the Federal Circuit reversed an inter partes review finding of the Patent Trial and Appeal Board, which had upheld the patentability of challenged claims of appellee 3G Licensings U.S. Patent No. 7,319,718.
IP Law 360
JANUARY 7, 2025
The last year saw significant legal developments affecting drug and device manufacturers, with landmark decisions and regulatory changes that require vigilance and agility from the industry, say attorneys at Faegre Drinker.
JD Supra Law
JANUARY 7, 2025
As 2025 begins and intellectual property (IP) strategies are being developed for the new year, it is a good time to reflect on what IP issues were prominent in 2024. According to many readers, hot IP topics included artificial intelligence (AI), pharmaceutical-related patent applications, and U.S. double patenting, and U.S. patent term adjustment (PTA).
IP Law 360
JANUARY 7, 2025
A new professional virtual golf league launched by Tiger Woods and Rory McIlroy is engaged in a trademark spat with an equipment maker, with the pro golf stars arguing in a Delaware federal lawsuit that their new venture is allowed to use "LA Golf Club" in golf-related branding.
JD Supra Law
JANUARY 7, 2025
Will these changes affect your trademark portfolio? Effective January 18, 2025, the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) will increase trademark fees affecting most future trademark application and registration filing costs. This increase is due to the USPTOs biennial review that periodically adjusts the fee schedule to provide the USPTO with sufficient resources to fund and administer the U.S. trademark system.
IP Law 360
JANUARY 7, 2025
Starbucks has urged the Eastern District of Texas to keep alive its counterclaims against a patent-licensing executive who claims the coffee chain infringed a patent covering a mobile ordering system, accusing him of creating an "extensive thimblerig" of shell entities to avoid paying the cost of his "meritless" cases.
Christopher Roser
JANUARY 7, 2025
Hoshin Kanri (or “policy management” in English) is a way to manage the objectives of both you and your subordinates and also align these objectives with the overall goals and directions of the company. One possible and useful companion document to track the progress of these objectives throughout the year is the bowler chart, or.
IP Law 360
JANUARY 7, 2025
A closer look at last year's Allergan v. MSN case at the Federal Circuit highlights the importance of rejoinder during patent prosecution in view of the risks associated with obviousness-type double patenting based on later-filed applications in the same patent family, say attorneys at BCLP.
IIPRD
JANUARY 7, 2025
Introduction What is Artificial Intelligence? Creating computer systems capable of carrying out activities that need human intellect is known as artificial intelligence or AI. AI analyses vast volumes of data to spot trends and conclude from the material it has gathered. This may be accomplished by using methods like robotics, computer vision, natural language processing, and machine learning.
IP Law 360
JANUARY 7, 2025
A Federal Circuit panel affirmed a decision holding that the U.S. Navy owes a software company just $154,000 for its infringing use of a 3-D virtual reality program, and not the nearly $86 million the company sought based on installations on more than 429,000 computers.
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