Plagiarism Today
SEPTEMBER 10, 2024
The Internet Archive's defeat is a blow to the organization So why did it lose? Who is to blame? The answer is very simple. The post Why the Internet Archive Lost appeared first on Plagiarism Today.
TorrentFreak
SEPTEMBER 9, 2024
Over the past two decades, online piracy has proven to be a massive challenge for the entertainment industries. Governments around the world have recognized this challenge and, where possible, lend a helping hand to identify and address these threats. The European Commission, for example, compiles a bi-annual ‘Counterfeit and Piracy Watch List’ following the example set by the United States.
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Erik K Pelton
SEPTEMBER 10, 2024
There are an infinite number of reasons for an attorney to help you with your brand protection. Erik shares his top 25 in this episode. The post 25 Reasons to Use a Trademark Attorney appeared first on Erik M Pelton & Associates, PLLC. There are an infinite number of reasons for an attorney to help you with your brand protection. Erik shares his top 25 in this episode.
IP Watchdog
SEPTEMBER 11, 2024
Several amici weighed in late last week on a trademark petition to the U.S. Supreme Court that asks whether “an award of a ‘defendant’s profits’ under the Lanham Act…can include an order for the defendant to disgorge the distinct profits of legally separate non-party corporate affiliates.” The Supreme Court granted the petition in Dewberry Group, Inc. v.
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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
SEPTEMBER 9, 2024
The Copyright Claims Board is hearing a case over a unicorn pattern being sold as party dresses. However, the issues raised are very common. The post The Copyright Battle Over Unicorn Party Dresses appeared first on Plagiarism Today.
TorrentFreak
SEPTEMBER 11, 2024
Supported by Hollywood and other content industries, Dutch anti-piracy group BREIN has a long and well-established track record. The group celebrated its 25th anniversary on Monday, with now-retired director Tim Kuik receiving a royal decoration as Officer in the Order of Orange-Nassau for his achievements. While Kuik undeniably proved to be a major player in the anti-piracy field in recent decades, BREIN’s work continues without him.
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IP Watchdog
SEPTEMBER 13, 2024
Gemini Data, Inc., an AI software company, has sued Google, LLC for trademark infringement, alleging that the rebranding of Google’s AI chatbot from BARD to GEMINI represents a “calculated decision to bulldoze over Gemini Data’s exclusive rights without hesitation.” In February 2024, Google announced it would be re-branding BARD to GEMINI and attempted to register the trademark with the U.S.
JD Supra Law
SEPTEMBER 12, 2024
In patent litigation, expert witnesses play a crucial role in providing specialized knowledge to the court. In a recent case where Osseo Imaging LLC sued Planmeca USA Inc. for patent infringement, the Federal Circuit highlighted the importance of understanding expert witnesses' qualifications.
TorrentFreak
SEPTEMBER 12, 2024
Supported by almost constant life-or-death messaging, one has to wonder whether Serie A’s seemingly endless financial problems really are insurmountable. Yet for reasons that aren’t easily understood, let alone explained, every week matches go ahead as planned. With decaying stadiums at some clubs and billions of euros in persistent overall debt, companies in other industries would’ve stopped spending beyond their means long ago, or at least succumbed to financial pressure whil
Patently-O
SEPTEMBER 8, 2024
by Dennis Crouch As its name suggests, the Patent Eligibility Restoration Act (PERA) is designed to substantially overturn the Supreme Court's decisions in Mayo Collaborative Services v. Prometheus Laboratories, Inc. , 566 U.S. 66 (2012), and Alice Corp. v. CLS Bank International , 573 U.S. 208 (2014). Together those cases created a firestorm of invalid patents and challenges for the patent office and patent holders alike.
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IP Watchdog
SEPTEMBER 9, 2024
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit (CAFC) today issued a precedential opinion reversing a district court’s invalidation of patent claims challenged by GoPro, Inc. as patent ineligible. The CAFC said the district court erred in concluding at Alice step one that the claims were directed to an abstract idea and distinguished the case from its precedent in Yu v.
The IPKat
SEPTEMBER 13, 2024
This TechieKat is delighted to continue reporting on the Digital Knowledge – The Library and Copyright in a Global Digital Economy conference, organized by the National Library of Sweden in collaboration with the national IPO Swedish Intellectual Property Office (PRV) and the Stockholm Centre for Commercial Law at the Law Faculty at Stockholm University.
TorrentFreak
SEPTEMBER 10, 2024
In recent years, music and movie companies have filed several lawsuits against U.S. Internet providers based on allegations that they failed to take action against pirating subscribers. One of the main arguments is that the DMCA requires providers to terminate the accounts of repeat infringers in ‘appropriate circumstances’. These lawsuits have resulted in multi-million dollar windfalls in favor of rightsholders.
SpicyIP
SEPTEMBER 8, 2024
Image from here As I conclude my summer vacation at home, it’s the perfect moment to bring the series I started over a year ago to its conclusion … Welcome to the climactic finale of our “ Sifting Through SpicyIP Pages ” series! Yes, it’s the 12th and final post, culminating this year-long time-travel-ish journey. I began the series with a sense of Sankofa —aiming to fetch what was left behind (if any) and see how we can take things forward.
Technology & Marketing Law Blog
SEPTEMBER 11, 2024
Utah’s Minor Protection in Social Media Act contains two major provisions. First, it requires social media companies to conduct age assurance of their users to a 95% accuracy rate, along with an appellate process for misclassified users. Second, once minors are segregated: social media companies must “set default privacy settings to prioritize maximum privacy” (giving specific examples of regulated settings), and parental consent is required to make any adjustments to those settings.
IP Watchdog
SEPTEMBER 10, 2024
On IPWatchdog Unleashed this week, we had a wide ranging conversation on patent strategy, including working with patent examiners—for example, what to do when you are assigned to a difficult patent examiner with a low allowance rate—the importance of interviews, tips for getting past 112 rejections, and how outside counsel can build solid, working relationships with in-house counsel, and much more.
TorrentFreak
SEPTEMBER 8, 2024
After years of anti-piracy campaigns, there’s a tendency to wonder whether the secret sauce of success is right around the corner or just as elusive as it’s ever been. Yet, even briefly considering the perspective of those creating these campaigns can be a fairly sobering experience. There’s a blank sheet of paper and this campaign has to work, what can it possibly say that hasn’t been said before?
SpicyIP
SEPTEMBER 8, 2024
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The Illusion of More
SEPTEMBER 12, 2024
On Monday, beloved actor James Earl Jones passed away at age 93, but in 2022, he signed an agreement with LucasFilms to allow the voice of Darth Vader to live on through Gen AI replication. Jones’s permission to replicate his voice is a bittersweet prelude to today’s news from Capitol Hill, where the House of […] The post No FAKES Act Matched in House Bill to Address Gen AI Replication appeared first on The Illusion of More.
U.S. Department of Commerce
SEPTEMBER 11, 2024
By Joe Wassel, Executive Director and CEO, First Responder Network Authority (FirstNet Authority) Twenty-three years ago, America experienced a day unlike any other in our history. News of the attacks on the World Trade Center, Pentagon, and in Shanksville, Pennsylvania, reverberated across our nation. Everyone was on high alert. No one knew where, when, or if another attack would happen.
TorrentFreak
SEPTEMBER 7, 2024
In recent years, rightsholders of major sports events have repeatedly complained that piracy of live sports is rising through the roof. They’ve called on lawmakers to tighten legislation and urged law enforcement to take the problem much more seriously. Last month, U.S. authorities took action by seizing several domain names of sports streaming site Streameast, which has millions of monthly users.
IP Law 360
SEPTEMBER 13, 2024
A technology company has claimed it introduced a Canadian hardware seller to confidential contacts looking to buy graphics processors, and the seller secured sales from them, but is now withholding around $10.5 million in referral fees.
The IPKat
SEPTEMBER 9, 2024
Many famous brands do not only use word marks but also figurative marks. The question often is: How famous is the figurative mark on its own? This can be challenging to prove as the following case concerning LANCÔME’s rose device shows. Background On 21 April 2022, Guangzhou Ya Ti Ao Jia Cosmetics Co., Ltd filed for registration of EU trade mark no. 018689867 covering various cosmetic products in Nice class 3.
IP and Legal Filings
SEPTEMBER 12, 2024
INTRODUCTION Section 29 [1] of the Trademark Act, 1999 , defines infringement as: “Trademarks infringement occurs if an unauthorized party makes use of a registered trademark in a way that is likely to lead to confusion about the origin of the product.” Trademarks are very important business assets because they distinguish products and embody reputation.
TorrentFreak
SEPTEMBER 12, 2024
In recent years, rightsholders have repeatedly teamed up with Egyptian law enforcement to tackle several large pirate sites and services. The Alliance for Creativity and Entertainment ( ACE ) booked several successes, shutting down domains related to popular piracy rings , streaming portals such as Egybest, MyCima , Movizland , and, more recently, Cimaclub and Cima4U.
IP Law 360
SEPTEMBER 13, 2024
After months of a relatively steady pace of law firm mergers and acquisitions, the trio of proposed BigLaw tie-ups announced in recent days will likely spur more firms towards entertaining similar deal talks, experts say. Here, Law360 offers a snapshot of the proposed deals.
Velocity of Content
SEPTEMBER 12, 2024
When you’re working in a fast-paced, but small life sciences company, there’s a chance your organization hasn’t thought about a copyright policy (yet). This can be a grave oversight. Without a copyright policy that outlines use cases on how artificial intelligence (AI) tools can be used with copyrighted content, how to use copyrighted material in social media posts, how to curate articles in a copyright-compliant manner, or how to share information with internal colleagues, healthcare providers,
Technology & Marketing Law Blog
SEPTEMBER 7, 2024
I don’t fully understand exactly what’s happening with Telegram and Pavel Durov in France. However, I have observed how many people don’t know the history of governments prosecuting Internet executives for the content or actions of third parties using their services. I sent the following to a reporter: Europe has a long history of individually prosecuting Internet company executives for third-party content.
TorrentFreak
SEPTEMBER 10, 2024
In an article published yesterday , we featured the Motion Picture Association’s submission to the European Commission (EC) for its next Counterfeit and Piracy Watch List. While still calling out familiar targets, such as torrent sites, streaming portals, and piracy apps, the MPA clearly wants to draw attention to the role of third-party intermediaries in the piracy ecosystem.
IP Law 360
SEPTEMBER 12, 2024
Pharmaceutical giant Sanofi SA said Thursday that it will pay up to €320 million ($353 million) to U.S. biotechnology group RadioMedix Inc. and French medicine developer Orano Med for an exclusive license for a radiation treatment for rare cancers.
IP and Legal Filings
SEPTEMBER 10, 2024
Introduction A trademark is a symbol that differentiates one’s brand from another. A trademark is a symbol that can consist of a device, label, name, signature, combination of colors and much more. The main objective of getting a mark registered is to distinguish it from other similar goods & services. A company/any person who can secure ownership over products and services, benefits not only the domestic income but also increases the recognition in the international market.
The Illusion of More
SEPTEMBER 13, 2024
The Chamber of Progress launched an initiative called the “Generate and Create” campaign to “defend fair use” and “promote AI creativity.” I don’t know whether they bought this campaign used from the basement of Fight for The Future or Electronic Frontier Foundation, but the following statement is worn-out rhetoric that sounds even weaker defending AI […] The post Chamber of Progress: Old Rationales for a Brave New World appeared first on The Illusion of More.
TorrentFreak
SEPTEMBER 13, 2024
A few weeks before the U.S. Department of Justice announced the criminal prosecution of two alleged Z-Library operators in 2022, the French Publishers Union (SNE) had already targeted the site indirectly. In August that year, SNE obtained an order at a Paris Court, requiring French ISPs to block more than 200 domain names. By November 2022, the order was largely moot.
IP Law 360
SEPTEMBER 12, 2024
Netgear Inc. has received $135 million from TP-Link Systems Inc. as part of a settlement of the companies' patent and contract litigation over Wi-Fi routers in the U.S. International Trade Commission and California federal courts.
Copyright Lately
SEPTEMBER 8, 2024
A court win against the Internet Archive has publishers celebrating, but what does it mean for the future of public libraries and digital access? The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit has spoken, and it’s not the news advocates of “controlled digital lending” were hoping for. In last week’s ruling in Hachette Book Group, Inc. v.
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