Plagiarism Today
JULY 25, 2024
Authors are constantly being targeted by fake publisher scams. Here we break down one such site and explain what to look for. The post Authors Beware of This Scam Macmillian Website appeared first on Plagiarism Today.
Erik K Pelton
JULY 23, 2024
What are the distinctions between patents, trademarks, and copyrights? Erik breaks it down in this episode. To schedule a free initial consultation, visit [link] The post Patent, Trademark, and Copyright: Definitions and Differences appeared first on Erik M Pelton & Associates, PLLC. What are the distinctions between patents, trademarks, and copyrights?
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Copyright Alliance
JULY 25, 2024
The development and launch of new generative artificial intelligence (AI) technologies over the last two years has been revolutionary. But these advancements have been accompanied by significant concerns from copyright […] The post Mid-Year Review: AI Lawsuit Developments in 2024 appeared first on Copyright Alliance.
Kluwer Copyright Blog
JULY 24, 2024
AI-generated image by DALL-E 3 (through Microsoft Copilot) based on Gabriele Cifrodelli’s prompt: ‘Terms and Conditions on a cracked computer screen’ Although large, general purpose AI (GPAI) or “foundation” models and their generative products have been around for several years , it was ChatGPT’s launch in November 2022 which captured the public and media’s imagination as well as large amounts of venture capital funding.
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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?
Plagiarism Today
JULY 23, 2024
VPN marketing makes it sound like they're a one-stop-shop for security. However, most people don't need and shouldn't want one. The post The Dangers of Using a VPN appeared first on Plagiarism Today.
Erik K Pelton
JULY 23, 2024
The following is an edited transcript of my book video Building a Bold Brand Chapter 4: Spectrum of Marks. Let’s assume you have a list of creative and inspired names for your product or company. You’ve sent several to your trademark attorney for consideration and you’re ready to make a final decision. Before you do that, there’s another key consideration.
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TorrentFreak
JULY 26, 2024
App stores are littered with apps that promise free access to music, but only few live up to expectations. Musi is one of them. The music app made headlines in 2016 when its founders, who were teenagers at the time, presented their brainchild in an episode of the Canadian edition of Dragons’ Den. In essence, the software itself is relatively simple.
Plagiarism Today
JULY 23, 2024
Condé Nast sends cease-and-desist to Perplexity, Germany sells pirate site Bitcoin and USCO finalizes new registration rule. The post 3 Count: Perplexing Perplexity appeared first on Plagiarism Today.
Patently-O
JULY 22, 2024
by Dennis Crouch In recent years, the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) has undergone a significant shift in its examiner composition, with real implications for patent prosecution strategies. Our data reveals a dramatic drop in the percentage of assistant examiners over the past decade. Prior to 2015, over 35% of patents were examined by assistant examiners.
The IPKat
JULY 21, 2024
The IPKat has received and is pleased to host the following guest contribution by Sunimal Mendis (Tilburg University) and Olia Kanevskaia (Utrecht University) on the judgment of the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) in C-588/21 P Public.Resource.Org , concerning copyright protection of technical standards and access to public documents. Here’s what they write: Harmonized technical standards under EU copyright: the Public.Resource.Org judgment by Sunimal Mendis and Olia Kanevskaia On
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IP Watchdog
JULY 24, 2024
The Special Committee of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit (CAFC) that has been investigating Judge Pauline Newman’s alleged misconduct for the past year today renewed its recommendation to sanction Newman in the form of a suspension from hearing cases at the panel or en banc level for an additional year. The Committee consists of CAFC Chief Judge Moore and Judges Prost and Taranto.
Plagiarism Today
JULY 24, 2024
FACT and Sky target IPTV operators in the UK, CCC announces AI licensing system and stealth piracy app caught in iOS App Store. The post 3 Count: Stealth Piracy appeared first on Plagiarism Today.
TorrentFreak
JULY 20, 2024
It’s no secret that online piracy presents a major challenge to copyright holders. With owners of pirate sites largely unresponsive, search engines and other online intermediaries are often asked to intervene. In most cases, these takedown efforts are outsourced to third-party companies. These outfits scour the web for links to infringing material and subsequently ask the operators of these sites and services to take action.
The IPKat
JULY 26, 2024
As part of our UPCKat reporting on the latest UPC developments, the IPKat continues its series of reports that analyze the development of preliminary injunction case law from the UPC. With our guest UPCKat team in the form of guest UPCKats Agathe Michel-de Cazotte , Hiske Roos and Laura Mikkelsen and members from the team at Carpmael s we continue the journey, again visiting the Munich Local Division before venturing to the Court of Appeal's May decision.
IP Law 360
JULY 25, 2024
7-Eleven Inc. and a Chicago-based law practice called Seven Eleven Law Group have settled the trademark complaint the convenience store chain filed in November, alleging the firm was infringing its mark and causing consumer confusion.
Plagiarism Today
JULY 22, 2024
Fourteen NBA teams sued for copyright infringement, Michael Jackson catalog sale to move ahead and researchers seek AI copyright exemption. The post 3 Count: Double Dribble appeared first on Plagiarism Today.
IP Watchdog
JULY 23, 2024
The House Judiciary Committee’s Subcommittee on Courts, Intellectual Property and the Internet today held a hearing, titled “IP Litigation and the U.S. International Trade Commission” (ITC), featuring four witnesses, most of whom were advocating for reforms to the current ITC process that many would characterize as anti-patent. Subcommittee Chair Darrell Issa (R-CA) explained that “recently there has been a growing chorus of voices suggesting the ITC is being misused for purposes other than its
Velocity of Content
JULY 25, 2024
CCC has licensed this report from Outsell, Inc., with the right to distribute it for marketing and market education purposes. CCC did not commission this report as a fee-for-hire white paper nor did it have influence on the outcome of the report. Outsell’s fact-based research, analysis, and rankings and all aspects of our opinion were independently derived.
IP Law 360
JULY 23, 2024
The Patent Trial and Appeal Board must reconsider Netflix's petitions challenging the validity of a Broadcom unit's software performance monitoring patent, the Federal Circuit held Tuesday, finding flaws in the board's refusal to institute reviews.
Plagiarism Today
JULY 24, 2024
Test preparation company Barkley & Associates are suing study aid website Quizlet. However, the case has a wrinkle. The post Quizlet Sued By Test Prep Company appeared first on Plagiarism Today.
IP Watchdog
JULY 21, 2024
With exquisitely bad timing, the National Institutes of Heath (NIH) floated a new policy governing licensing inventions made by its scientists subtitled “Promoting Equity in Access Planning.”. With stakeholders still stunned by the Administration’s attempt to misuse the Bayh-Dole Act to impose Washington price controls on products based on federally funded inventions, the new plan could hardly have been floated at a worse time.
Olartemoure Blog
JULY 22, 2024
On Wednesday, June 12th 2024, Japan enacted groundbreaking legislation aimed at ensuring that tech giants like Google or Apple provide access to third-party smartphone apps and payment systems on their platforms. This law represents a significant move to bolster fair competition, enhance consumer choice, and reduce monopolistic practices by dominant digital platform operators.
TorrentFreak
JULY 25, 2024
In terms of general internet security, there are few things worse than reports of yet another potentially massive leak of personal information. Whether due to incompetence or deception, the bottom line is often the same; exploitation of data at the expense of those to whom it relates, and a further undermining of online safety to the detriment of all.
Plagiarism Today
JULY 25, 2024
Jetflix defendants seek to have convictions tossed, Indian direct pulls his own film and Mungo Jerry frontman seeks to battle piracy. The post 3 Count: Mungo Jerry appeared first on Plagiarism Today.
IP Watchdog
JULY 22, 2024
Today, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit (CAFC) issued a precedential decision in ZyXEL Communications Corp. v. UNM Rainforest Innovations affirming obviousness findings entered by the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) over UNM Rainforest Innovations’ (UNMRI) arguments that ZyXEL’s expert witness misrepresented his contributions to an expert report relied upon by the Board.
IP Law 360
JULY 26, 2024
A $2.78 billion deal to settle a massive class action targeting the NCAA's name, image and likeness compensation rules was submitted to a California federal judge for preliminary approval Friday, allowing for revenue sharing with athletes across all sports.
TorrentFreak
JULY 23, 2024
The positions of Apple and Google are very clear when it comes to piracy app availability in their respective stores. Whether created for iOS or Android, they are not allowed. Period. With the theory neatly wrapped up, reality tends to take over and at that point, the bright lines become a little blurred. Right now there are apps on the App Store and Google Play which offer TV schedule/EPG-type functionality out of the box, exactly as advertised.
Likelihood of Confusion
JULY 23, 2024
Originally posted 2011-04-21 00:20:15. Republished by Blog Post Promoter Mommy’s Time Out wine, a photo by Ron Coleman on Flickr. I couldn’t but snap the above shot of “Mommy’s Time Out” wine when I first saw it three years ago in the local wine store. And after all the vino I’ve downed in the last […] The post Mommy’s trademark infringement appeared first on LIKELIHOOD OF CONFUSION™.
SpicyIP
JULY 26, 2024
New Form 27 The office of Controller General of Patents, Designs and Trademark (CGPDTM) issued a notice informing about the organization of a virtual public meeting for brainstorming on the new Form 27. The meeting will be organized on July 29 at 4:30 and can be joined by using the open house meeting link (can be accessed from here ). While the move to organize the public meeting should be appreciated, the extremely short notice (of merely 4 days!
IP Law 360
JULY 25, 2024
The Seventh Circuit’s recent ruling in Motorola v. Hytera, which held that the Defend Trade Secrets Act applies extraterritorially, does not address whether an act that furthers misappropriation must be committed by the defendant in order to satisfy the law's extraterritoriality requirement, say Ilissa Samplin and Grace Hart at Gibson Dunn.
TorrentFreak
JULY 22, 2024
Pirate sites tend to come and go but in recent months it’s been challenging to keep up with all the changes. Earlier this year, several popular pirate sites including Zorox, Upmovies, Animeflix, and Vegamovies lost their domains due to legal action. These sites relaunched under new domains, but more confusion lay ahead. In June, Fmovies switched to a new domain name , Fmovies24.to, after trading Fmovies.to for Fmoviesz.to a few months earlier.
Kluwer Copyright Blog
JULY 22, 2024
Landgericht Hamburg Criminal Justice Building by Andrew Milligan sumo from flickr CC BY 2.0 Last week, the District Court of Hamburg, Germany, held a hearing in the first European case to examine the legality of using copyrighted works for the purpose of training generative AI models. The case centers on LAION e.V.’s (a German non-profit organization that builds widely used training datasets) download of an image by German photographer Robert Kneschke for inclusion in the LAION 5B dataset.
The Trichordist
JULY 25, 2024
Songwriters Guild of America, the Society of Composers & Lyricists, and Music Creators North America filed a thoughtful and detailed comment that merits an equally thoughtful read.
IP Law 360
JULY 24, 2024
Federal Trade Commission Chair Lina Khan weighed in on a host of topics during a discussion Wednesday at the Ninth Circuit Judicial Conference, expressing concerns about the agency's high legal bills for expert witnesses and describing AI price-setting tools as a potential loophole for collusion.
TorrentFreak
JULY 23, 2024
Offering pirate streaming services is a serious offense in the UK, where several people have received multi-year prison sentences in recent history. These sentences haven’t deterred others from following in their footsteps. Illegal access to paid sports and TV content remains readily available, with vendors and operators profiting from these unauthorized subscriptions.
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