Plagiarism Today
SEPTEMBER 16, 2022
The Copyright Claims Board (CCB) is the new copyright small-claims court that was introduced in the CASE Act, which as passed in December 2020. The court itself has been open since June of this year and, as of this writing, some 151 cases have been filed with it. Of those 151 cases, some 11 are already closed. To be clear, none of the cases before the CCB have actually been decided by the board itself.
Michael Geist
SEPTEMBER 30, 2022
The Senate Bill C-11 hearings have provided a model for the much-needed, engaged, non-partisan inquiry that was largely missing from the House committee’s theatrics in which the government cut off debate on over 150 amendments. But this week those hearings attracted attention for another reason: serious charges of witness intimidation and bullying by government MPs, most notably Canadian Heritage Parliamentary Secretary Chris Bittle (yes, the same Bittle who last month suggested I was a racist a
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TorrentFreak
SEPTEMBER 16, 2022
Website blocking has become an increasingly common anti-piracy tool around the globe. In dozens of countries, ISPs have been ordered by courts to block pirate sites. In some cases, these blocking efforts are part of voluntary agreements. Cloudflare ‘Pirate’ Blocking Orders. In the United States, these types of injunctions are rare. However, since the Internet has no clear borders, the effects sometimes spill over.
McKinsey Operations
SEPTEMBER 7, 2022
An estimated $600 billion worth of food is lost during or just after harvest. Can manufacturers and grocers do anything about it? Definitely—and it will be good for business, people, and the planet.
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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?
The IPKat
SEPTEMBER 27, 2022
Over the past few years, there has been an increased interest in the metaverse (see IPKat posts here ) and NFTs , non-fungible tokens (see IPKat posts here ). From a trade mark perspective, the appropriate classification of goods and services has also been in the spotlight. In this sense, the European Union Intellectual Property Office ( EUIPO ) published in June 2022 the practical approach taken for classification purposes (see IPKat post here ).
Technology & Marketing Law Blog
SEPTEMBER 10, 2022
Alkutkar used the dating app Bumble. He paid money to get extra visibility for his dating profile and claims he got poor results, so he sued Bumble for false advertising. Bumble successfully redirects the case to arbitration based on its TOS. Alkutkar joined Bumble in 2016. In January 2021, Bumble sought to add an arbitration clause to its TOS. It communicated the amendments via an email notice and a “blocker card” that users encountered when they opened up the app: [The court includ
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SpicyIP
SEPTEMBER 5, 2022
Image from here. Battle lines are being drawn in the fight over the lucrative mRNA vaccine technology used in certain Covid 19 vaccines. Moderna recently sued Pfizer alleging patent infringement of three out of eight patents that cover its Covid 19 vaccine (Spikevax). Moderna has supplied over 299 million doses of its Covid 19 vaccine to the United States and has, reportedly , lined up supply deals worth USD 35 billion through the end of 2022.
TorrentFreak
SEPTEMBER 23, 2022
One can only imagine the crew’s screams of pain when they discovered that a clerical error had robbed ‘Night of the Living Dead’ of its copyright protections. George A. Romero’s masterpiece opened in 1968 to audiences largely unprepared for its genius. If anything, movie distributor Walter Reade Organization was even more unprepared.
McKinsey Operations
SEPTEMBER 27, 2022
While buffeted by the recent market downturn and bankruptcies, digital assets and the technologies underlying them still have the potential to transform business models across sectors.
The IPKat
SEPTEMBER 4, 2022
Is a country’s failure to ensure the protection of IP rights a breach of human rights, more precisely the right to the peaceful enjoyment of one’s own possessions under Article 1 of Protocol No. 1 to the European Convention of Human Rights (ECHR) ? This is what the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) had been asked to consider in Safarov v Azerbaijan (Application no. 885/12).
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IP Law 360
SEPTEMBER 16, 2022
A Cleveland federal jury on Friday said TransUnion LLC should pay $18.3 million to a Northeast Ohio startup that claimed the credit reporting giant held its source code hostage after terminating a business agreement, allegedly preventing the startup from making money with its idea elsewhere.
Plagiarism Today
SEPTEMBER 21, 2022
In October 2021, Andrew Azzopardi and a student he was mentoring, Andrew Camilleri, published a literature review entitled Risk and Protective Factors in Violent Youth Crime in the first edition of the journal Studies in Social Well-being. . However, in November that same year, the article became the subject of controversy as two researchers, Saviour Formosa and Janice Formosa Pace, both from the same university as Azzopardi, claimed that parts of the article were plagiarized from their earlier
Technology & Marketing Law Blog
SEPTEMBER 9, 2022
This lawsuit relates to the “Toast Plus” app that was available in Apple’s app store. The plaintiffs claim it was a spoof app designed to steal cryptocurrency worth $5k in Diep’s case and $500k in Nagao’s case (ouch). The plaintiffs’ “claims are based on Apple’s part in authorizing and negligently distributing a ‘phishing’ / ‘spoofing’ app in its App Store, the Toast Plus application, while continuing to affirmatively repres
TorrentFreak
SEPTEMBER 11, 2022
Legal streaming services offering access to top tier football in Europe have a few unique selling points over piracy platforms. Perhaps most importantly, people who subscribe to legal services help to keep the game alive. They support the clubs they love, they support the players, and allow broadcasters to get a return on the money they invested in TV rights.
McKinsey Operations
SEPTEMBER 22, 2022
Even amid war in Europe and the energy and cost of living crisis that has resulted, the region needs to pay attention to its slow-motion corporate and technology crisis.
The IPKat
SEPTEMBER 19, 2022
Estoril, Portugal Earlier this week I had the honour and pleasure of attending the ALAI Congress , which was organized by the Portuguese ALAI group and held in beautiful Estoril. This year’s conference theme was neighbouring and special rights, but an extraordinary roundtable also found its way into to the programme to discuss the ever-unavoidable copyright topic: Article 17 of the DSM Directive [Katposts here ].
IP Watchdog
SEPTEMBER 28, 2022
Patents that are expected to protect a company’s most valuable innovations must stake a claim to that innovation and be equipped to defend it. This is because being worthy of patent protection doesn’t guarantee that an application’s claims to an innovation will not be rejected and rights to that innovation jeopardized. A major reason for this is that an examiner’s interpretation of a claim drawn to an innovation that may be worthy of patent protection may cause them to determine that the subject
Plagiarism Today
SEPTEMBER 2, 2022
1A few weeks ago, we took a look at the first 100 cases filed with the Copyright Claims Board (CCB), the recently launched copyright small claims court in the United States. There, we noticed several patterns. The majority of cases were self-represented, a plurality of them involved photographic/visual works, and most dealt with infringements that were ongoing.
Technology & Marketing Law Blog
SEPTEMBER 5, 2022
Kyle Hanagami is a choreographer. He made a video called “ How Long ” featuring his choreography. It now has 36M+ views. Fortnite offered an emote called “It’s Complicated.” “Ten of the poses in the video and the emote are the same.” Hanagami sued Epic for copyright infringement. The court shows the moves at issue side-by-side: There is no doubt that Fortnite “copied” the video.
TorrentFreak
SEPTEMBER 3, 2022
Last year, the UK music industry claimed a major victory in its fight against online piracy. Following a two-year process initiated by the British Recorded Music Industry Ltd (BPI) and Phonographic Performance Ltd (PPL), the High Court ordered major ISPs to block access to several YouTube rippers. The order aims to make these sites, including Flvto and 2Conv, harder to reach.
McKinsey Operations
SEPTEMBER 23, 2022
Every company must establish its own best practices for managing its data. Here are five pitfalls to avoid based on our conversations with experts and early adopters.
The IPKat
SEPTEMBER 15, 2022
Kat friend Iana Kazeeva provides an enlightening discussion on steps taken by the Russian government and courts with respect to IP following the invasion of Ukraine. In the spring and summer of 2022, following the international sanctions imposed upon Russia after its invasion of Ukraine, Russia introduced several landmark changes to its IP law, most notably to patent, trademark and copyright laws.
IP Watchdog
SEPTEMBER 16, 2022
The waning days of summer signal the approaching midterm election season. Amid inflation, recession and voter discontent, it’s understandable that a group of congress members are anxious to put points on the board with a price-control scheme that they wrongly believe will lower prescription drug prices. Though the goal is laudable, their approach would prove disastrous to American innovation while failing to deliver anything but higher prices for American consumers.
The IP Law Blog
SEPTEMBER 30, 2022
Copyright protection automatically attaches to a work when it is created. Specifically, copyright protection attaches to the original, creative work when it is fixed in a tangible medium, such as when it is written, drawn, recorded digitally, or typed electronically. Copyright law “protects original works of authorship including literary, dramatic, musical, and artistic works, such as poetry, novels, movies, songs, computer software, and architecture.
The Illusion of More
SEPTEMBER 30, 2022
Dear Authors (“the undersigned”): It’s not your fault. You mean well. But you are simply wrong to have signed that letter—the one written and orchestrated by Fight for the Future (FFTF), which misrepresents the case Hachette et al., v Internet Archive as an attack on libraries. If I were not a copyright nerd, and I […]. The post An Open Letter from a Copyright Nerd to About 300 Authors appeared first on The Illusion of More.
TorrentFreak
SEPTEMBER 2, 2022
In 2017, Cloudflare CEO Matthew Prince decided to terminate the account of the controversial neo-Nazi site Daily Stormer. “I woke up this morning in a bad mood and decided to kick them off the Internet,” he wrote at the time. The company’s lawyers later explained that the move was meant as an “intellectual exercise” to start a conversation regarding censorship and free speech on the internet.
McKinsey Operations
SEPTEMBER 30, 2022
In stormy weather, survey respondents maintain realism about the global economy. While geopolitical conflicts and inflation remain top of mind, concerns about energy volatility predominate in Europe.
The IPKat
SEPTEMBER 14, 2022
The decision in T 1869/19 relates to the patentability of a medical device defined in a patent according to its method of manufacture, in the form of a "product-by-process" claim. The decision highlights the difficulty and limitations of the product-by-process claim format, and raises questions as to the value to innovators of this type of claim format.
IP Watchdog
SEPTEMBER 22, 2022
A new intellectual property (IP) organization launched today will be headed by former vice president of U.S. policy at the U.S. Chamber of Commerce's Global Innovation Policy Center (GIPC), Frank Cullen, and features a Board of Directors comprised of bipartisan frontrunners in the IP realm. The Council for Innovation Promotion (C4IP) will aim to educate on the importance of innovation to the U.S. economy at a high level, and to fill the void its creators say exists with respect to clarifying the
Christopher Roser
SEPTEMBER 13, 2022
In this post I would like to talk about another term that claims to be lean: lean staffing. It is NOT lean! It is an abomination. It is pretty much the opposite of what, in my opinion, lean stands for. It is a complete lack of respect for humanity. Let me explain you what it. Read more. The post This is NOT Lean: Lean Staffing first appeared on AllAboutLean.com.
Technology & Marketing Law Blog
SEPTEMBER 16, 2022
When a proposed new law is sold as “protecting kids online,” regulators and commenters often accept the sponsors’ claims uncritically (because…kids). This is unfortunate because those bills can harbor ill-advised policy ideas. The California Age-Appropriate Design Code (AADC / AB2273, just signed by Gov. Newsom ) is an example of such a bill.
TorrentFreak
SEPTEMBER 27, 2022
Following Russia’s invasion of neighboring Ukraine in February, life in both countries has changed. While Ukrainians fight for their freedom, Russian citizens must deal with the effects of sanctions and other restrictions. Many large companies, including those in the entertainment industry, support sanctions. For example, major Hollywood players and streaming services voluntarily pulled out of the country.
McKinsey Operations
SEPTEMBER 28, 2022
McKinsey sits with NIO’s president to discuss the logic behind its approach, its input–output economics, and the implications for the industry.
SpicyIP
SEPTEMBER 26, 2022
Image from here. Policy makers have often been caught off guard with new age technology. Technology emerges and evolves rapidly and regulations are slow to catch up. This cat and mouse game continues with another fast emerging and disruptive technology – AI / ML based medical devices. The US and EU are seeing waves of regulatory and policy level curiosity in AL / ML medical devices.
IP Watchdog
SEPTEMBER 30, 2022
In its third precedential patent opinion this week, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit (CAFC) earlier today upheld a Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) decision finding that Mylan Pharmaceuticals, Inc. failed to show that certain claims of Merck Sharp & Dohme Corp.’s patent for a Type 2 Diabetes treatment were anticipated or would have been obvious over the cited prior art.
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