JD Supra Law

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

ChatGPT is a large language model developed by OpenAI. It is based on the transformer architecture and trained on a massive dataset of text from the Internet. It has the ability to generate human-like text and can be used for a variety of natural language processing tasks such as language translation, question answering, and text completion. It is first pre-trained on a large corpus of general text and can be fine-tuned for specific tasks or domains.

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Sander Law

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

Trademark Registration for Musicians Are you a musician? in a band? Then you have trademarks that are worth protecting through trademark registration! Examples of Trademarks Below are some of the types of branding you could register as trademarks, and examples of musicians with registered trademarks in Canada and/or US. Artist Stage Name: LADY GAGA, BRUNO MARS, DR.

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IPilogue

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

Mona Karimi is a 3L JD Candidate at Osgoode Hall Law School. This article was written as a requirement for Prof. Pina D’Agostino’s IP Intensive Program. If you’re a fan of Hip-Hop music, you might just find your favourite artist fighting to protect themselves from their own lyrics. Jay-Z, Meek Mill, Big Sean, others have joined forces to openly endorse the Rap Music on Trial Bill.

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Hugh Stephens Blog

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

According to the Chinese zodiac, the Year of the Rabbit (this year) is supposed to represent “relaxation, quietness and contemplation”. This “Rabbit Year” is predicted to be “calm and gentle”. (Good news for the people of Ukraine, if true). However, when it comes to the thorny issue of copyright and content generated by artificial intelligence … Continue reading "Will the Year of the Rabbit be the Year of Contentious Copyright Litigation over AI-Generated Content?

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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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Erik K Pelton

JANUARY 30, 2023

The following is an edited transcript of my video Examples of Great Branding – to see the images and logos, watch the video below. I want to share several examples of great branding that I’ve encountered lately. The first example is from Peloton. If you notice the Peloton logo, it’s a nice, clean, simple, forward moving logo. They use the logo consistently and place it extremely well all the time.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

This post looks back at the key developments in AI and copyright in 2022, covering generative AI, text and data mining exceptions, the pastiche exception, deep fakes, voice cloning and infringement and enforcement of copyright using AI. 1. Generative AI Computer-generated art reached a tipping point in 2022. Experiments with AI-generated images go back decades (such as the computer programs of Harold Cohen starting in the 1970s).

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McKinsey Operations

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

Businesses risk billions if Black professionals continue to be underrepresented in tech jobs. Closing the gap means making changes to education, recruiting, and retention initiatives.

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Erik K Pelton

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

A recent study, Lessons from USPTO Trademark Prosecution Data, uses data from the USPTO records over four decades to show that working with an attorney improves the odds of success when applying to register a trademark. The full study by Deborah R. Gerhart and Jon J. Lee, published by the International Trademark Association’s Trademark Reporter, is available at [link].

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Patently-O

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

by Dennis Cxrouch In re Lizzo LLC (TTAB 2023) In a new precedential opinion, the PTAB has sided with the musical artist Lizzo — agreeing to register her mark “100% THAT B H” for use on apparel. The Trademark Examining Attorney had refused registration on “failure-to-function” — concluding that the phrase was a commonplace expression used to express a well-recognized sentiment.

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The IPKat

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

Ready to mine. As it was explained in the Impact Assessment accompanying the Commission’s Proposal for what would eventually become and be adopted by the Parliament and the Council as the DSM Directive [Katposts here ] , text and data mining (TDM) is a term commonly used to describe the automated processing ("machine reading") of large volumes of text and data to uncover new knowledge or insights.

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McKinsey Operations

JANUARY 30, 2023

Environmental, social, and governance (ESG) criteria are useful in measuring a company’s progress toward achieving social goals in addition to creating shareholder value.

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TorrentFreak

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

Russia’s invasion of Ukraine coupled with retaliatory measures and dangerous brinkmanship threatens to destabilize the entire planet. When a broad coalition of countries imposed sanctions on Russia last year, the goal was to limit Putin’s ability to wage war without resorting to war itself. Sanctions were ostensibly crafted to curtail military capability while meting out punishment to Russia’s elite.

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IP Watchdog

JANUARY 28, 2023

As Robert Frost poetically noted, two roads diverged in the woods he was exploring. One road was well trod, easy to traverse, and the other less traveled, difficult and getting weedy. Sadly, although Americans pride themselves on innovation, American innovation, particularly inventorship, is now the difficult road. Bad decisions made in previous forks in the road have gradually undermined the innovative spirit in our nation, but some inventors in Washington, DC, next week want to change course b

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The IPKat

JANUARY 31, 2023

The recent Board of Appeal decision in T 0670/20 considered whether patients in a clinical trial were under conditions of confidentiality. The patent was for a tablet formulation that had been given to patients in a clinical trial conducted before the patent had been filed. The question became whether the patients could be considered members of the public, and whether their participation in the clinical trial therefore constituted prior public use of the formulation.

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Christopher Roser

JANUARY 31, 2023

Work standards are the backbone of continuous improvement because you need a standard to maintain what you have already achieved. But standards are not easy. A standard should explain everything in sufficient detail without being too detailed…and that is a fine line to walk. The key to the problem, but also to the solution, is. Read more The post The Limits of Work Standards first appeared on AllAboutLean.com.

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TorrentFreak

JANUARY 28, 2023

The MPA and strongly-affiliated Alliance for Creativity and Entertainment are the sworn enemies of illegal streaming sites, IPTV services, and torrent portals. Still, when everything boils down, the hunter and the hunted ultimately find themselves on the same digital battlefield, equipped with broadly similar tools, underpinned by mostly the same technical rules.

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IP Watchdog

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

The inventor of a novel jump rope system (the Revolution Rope), Molly Metz, argued in a reply brief to the U.S. Supreme Court filed on behalf of her company, Jump Rope Systems, LLC, on Tuesday that her case against Rogue Fitness is justiciable and the company has standing despite the cancellation of her patent claims by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

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The IPKat

JANUARY 28, 2023

This Kat has recently been researching the impact of wars on geographical indications (GIs). She would like to share with Kat readers some thoughts on how features of the Versailles Peace Treaty of 1919 and its aftermath resonate with the modern-day GI legislation. Background The Treaty of Versailles was a peace treaty signed on June 28, 1919. It ended the state of war between Germany and the Allied (US, the British Empire, France, Italy, Japan) and the Associated Powers (a total of 22 of countr

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McKinsey Operations

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

In this podcast, three McKinsey partners and leaders of the Insurance Practice discuss the themes that will define Asian insurance in 2023 and beyond.

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TorrentFreak

JANUARY 29, 2023

As outlined again only this month , people who simply watch pirate streams break UK law. If the content comes from an illegal source, it’s illegal to consume it under copyright law. That is a fact – there is no debate. The problem for rightsholders is that copyright cases are complex, difficult to prove, and won’t end in a prison sentence under civil law.

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IP Watchdog

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

During the PTAB Masters 2023 program, which was held this week on Tuesday and Wednesday at IPWatchdog’s headquarters in Ashburn, Virginia, former U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) Director David Kappos explained on a panel about potential reform of the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) that the PTAB was meant to be an alternative to district court, but “that hasn’t worked out.

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IPilogue

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

Mariela Gutierrez Olivares is a 3L JD Candidate at Osgoode Hall Law School. This article was written as a requirement for Prof. Pina D’Agostino’s IP Intensive Program. Controversy ensued when a Mexican food restaurant in the UK, Taquería, issued a cease and desist letter to a similar restaurant, Sonora Taquería, for infringement of their registered mark “Taqueria.” Yet taquería is Spanish for a place where tacos are sold.

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McKinsey Operations

JANUARY 31, 2023

Life sciences companies are making progress in adopting and deploying digital and analytics. But they can go further and faster by heeding some lessons from the past few years.

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TorrentFreak

JANUARY 31, 2023

Numerous reports published by the European Union over the past decade have linked higher levels of content piracy with lacking availability of legal content. Restricted access to legal offers fuels the perception among citizens that piracy is an acceptable option, which in turn leads to higher levels of pirated content consumption. One way to combat that is by making content available and raising awareness, through the EU’s Agorateka platform , for example.

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IP Watchdog

JANUARY 31, 2023

Earlier this month, patent owner Cellspin Soft filed a motion for recusal under 28 U.S.C. § 455 seeking the vacatur of a summary judgment order entered in the Northern District of California by U.S. District Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers releasing several defendants from infringement liability, including Fitbit. Cellspin Soft’s motion points to several financial interests between Judge Gonzalez Rogers and Fitbit’s parent company Google, including business relationships developed by Judge Gonzale

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IP and Legal Filings

JANUARY 31, 2023

Introduction The concept of the metaverse is developing and has already made its way into a number of fields, including architecture, media and entertainment, as well as the legal system. It has also given “trendsetters,” fashion companies, and fashion shops a large number of opportunities. The Covid-19 pandemic and lockdowns had a detrimental influence on fashion companies, which further motivated them to grow their business on the Metaverse.

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McKinsey Operations

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

European transformation leaders share fresh perspectives based on their real-world experiences. A unifying principle to drive change and a structured approach to execute and sustain it can boost success.

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TorrentFreak

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

Every year, the Office of the United States Trade Representative ( USTR ) publishes a list of ‘notorious markets’ that facilitate online piracy and related intellectual property crimes. Drawing on input from copyright holders, the report includes a non-exclusive overview of sites and services that are believed to be involved in piracy or counterfeiting.

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IP Watchdog

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

Yesterday, February 1, was the deadline for submissions to the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) on its call for responses to a number of questions purportedly aimed at making U.S. patents more “robust and reliable.” But many commenters have weighed in to question why the Office is relying on data driven by advocacy groups to explore potentially major adjustments to the U.S. patent system when, as the expert agency on patents, it has not yet undertaken a data-driven study itself to confir

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JD Supra Law

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

The assumption that artists love credit is challenged when an artist appears to repudiate their authorship. Sometimes repudiation arises from personal animus while in other instances an artist might feel that their work is no longer “up to snuff.”.

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SpicyIP

JANUARY 31, 2023

[This post has been authored by SpicyIP intern Ishant Jain. Ishant is a final-year student pursuing BA LLB at Guru Gobind Singh Indraprastha University, Delhi. He comes from Firozabad, UP, and is looking forward to building his career in Intellectual Property Rights. As he describes himself, if he is not at his desk, he is probably writing a poem or a short story.

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TorrentFreak

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

Late last year, popular anime site AmimixPlay closed its doors , citing technical and motivational issues. The decision was a massive disappointment to its loyal user base, which was good for an estimated 100 million monthly visits. Following the site’s demise, several copycats popped up. A group of fans also created a new project to honor the original in a more respectful matter, while giving former users a new home; AnimixReplay.

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IP Watchdog

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

Last October, the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) issued a Request for Comments on USPTO Initiatives To Ensure the Robustness and Reliability of Patent Rights. Responses to this request are due by this Thursday, February 2, 2023. Patent owners, especially small businesses and independent inventors, need two things of the patent system: 1) Reliability/believability.

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JD Supra Law

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

The issue of what is or is not patent-eligible subject matter under 35 U.S.C. § 101 has been hotly contested over the past decade. The debate stems largely from two U.S. Supreme Court decisions on the topic, as well as a large body of caselaw from the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, which has been criticized for lacking uniformity.

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Michael Geist

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

Bill C-11 entered what may be its final phase yesterday with a near split screen: at the Prime Time conference held at the Westin Hotel in Ottawa was Heritage Minister Pablo Rodriguez telling an industry audience that he would reject any Senate amendments that have an impact, stating “there are amendments that have zero impact on the bill and other that may have some and we will not accept them.

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