Plagiarism Today

AUGUST 10, 2021

A recent article in Nature highlighted an unusual approach to spotting questionable research papers, the use of “tortured phrases” The article highlights the work of Guillaume Cabanac, a computer scientist at the University of Toulouse, and his colleagues. According to Cabanac, he couldn’t understand why researchers in several articles were using phrases like “Colossal Information” instead of “Big Data” or “Haze Figuring” instead of “Cl

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Hugh Stephens Blog

AUGUST 9, 2021

Singapore’s long awaited and long debated revisions to its copyright law were tabled in Parliament at the beginning of July with a view to enactment by the end of summer. This follows a two-month public consultation by the Law Ministry and Intellectual Property Office. The revisions have been in the works for some time, beginning … Continue reading "Singapore’s Copyright Act Revisions: A Step in the Right Direction, But….

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Erik K Pelton

AUGUST 9, 2021

Trademark protection isn’t free. But it isn’t terribly expensive. And most important, the Return on Trademark Investment – R.O.T.I. – far outweighs the costs. The returns from investing in trademark registration include. Use of the ®. Increased protection online with social media, domain names, and Amazon. Appearing in the USPTO database 24/7.

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JD Supra Law

AUGUST 13, 2021

The question whether an artificial intelligence (“AI”) system can be named as an inventor in a patent application has obvious implications for the life science community, where AI’s presence is now well established and growing. For example, AI is currently used to predict biological targets of prospective drug molecules.

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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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Plagiarism Today

AUGUST 11, 2021

Earlier this week, independent fashion designer Bailey Prado took to Instagram to call attention to a different fashion label that, according to her, copied her “whole life.” Prado was talking about the “fast fashion” brand Shein. The wildly popular brand is famed for its imitations of popular, luxury items at bargain-basement prices.

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TorrentFreak

AUGUST 13, 2021

Two years ago, gaming giant Nintendo filed a lawsuit against the game download portal RomUniverse. The website facilitated massive online copyright infringement of many popular Nintendo titles, according to the complaint filed at a California district court. RomUniverse’s Pro Se Defense. The site’s operator, Los Angeles resident Matthew Storman, disagreed with these allegations.

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IP Watchdog

AUGUST 9, 2021

In 2001, six years before the iPhone appeared, a futurist named Ray Kurzweil wrote that humankind would cram 20,000 years of technological progress into the century that had just begun. There were skeptics, but today any of the world’s six billion smartphone subscribers can read his essay on their devices practically any time, any place they choose.

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Plagiarism Today

AUGUST 9, 2021

Last week, Twitter user @KokomRoily began to feel a creeping sense of déjà vu as they were reading a novel by prolific erotic romance author Romilly King. According to KokomRoily, the book felt familiar after reading the first chapter and, by the second they, “felt sure I could tell what was going to happen next.” The reason was that, the book in question, Paid to Kneel , was plagiarized from an earlier work by a user named Blue_King that was posted on a Supernatural fan fiction foru

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TorrentFreak

AUGUST 11, 2021

Six years ago, Netflix started blocking customers who tried to access its service over a commercial VPN or proxy service. These changes came after copyright holders repeatedly complained that ‘pirates’ were bypassing Netflix’s geographical restrictions. The VPN ban caused a lot of frustration for legitimate VPN users, many of whom had no intention of breaking any rules.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

AUGUST 9, 2021

Rossbach worked at Montefiore Medical Center. She claims her supervisor sexually harassed her and then the center retaliated against her. This screenshot is the evidentiary centerpiece of her claim: The last line is the court’s: “This image is a fabrication.” A line no litigant ever wants to see in a court opinion discussing their evidence.

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IP Watchdog

AUGUST 11, 2021

Believe it or not, a recent op-ed in the Washington Post written by Robin Feldman took the position that pharmaceutical companies should charge prices for their drugs that would surely guarantee that they go bankrupt. An absurd position even for a law professor who is ideologically predisposed to an irrational hatred of patents, but precisely the position Feldman articulated.

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Plagiarism Today

AUGUST 12, 2021

Have any suggestions for the 3 Count? Let me know via Twitter @plagiarismtoday. 1: Phillies Should be Allowed to Use Modified Phanatic, Federal Judge in Copyright Dispute Says. First off today, Robert Moran at The Philadelphia Inquirer reports that a federal judge has recommended that the Philadelphia Phillies be allowed to continue to use their modified version of the famous Phillie Phanatic mascot even though the changes were relatively minor.

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TorrentFreak

AUGUST 9, 2021

When The Pirate Bay first came online during the summer of 2003, its main point of access was thepiratebay.org. Since then the site has burnt through more than a dozen domains, trying to evade seizures or other legal threats. The torrent site eventually returned to the.org domain which remains the official home today. While there are hundreds of Pirate Bay proxies online, none of these are operated by the TPB-team.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

AUGUST 12, 2021

Paul Nicklen is a highly acclaimed nature photographer. He posted a video of an emaciated polar bear wandering the Canadian Arctic to his Facebook and Instagram accounts to sound the alarm on climate change. Nicklen “urged his social media followers to consider the ‘haunting’ and ‘soul-crushing scene’ and to take steps to mitigate the harms of climate change.

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IP Watchdog

AUGUST 8, 2021

On August 9, we once again observe the International Day of the World's Indigenous Peoples. Traditionally, international organizations take advantage of this time to promote the contributions of indigenous peoples across the globe. However, the day also presents an opportunity for States and international organizations to reflect on collective efforts to protect and preserve the culture and heritage of our indigenous communities.

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Plagiarism Today

AUGUST 10, 2021

Have any suggestions for the 3 Count? Let me know via Twitter @plagiarismtoday. 1: Court Dismisses Yout.com DMCA Circumvention Lawsuit Against RIAA, For Now. First off today, Andy Maxwell at Torrentfreak writes that Yout.com has had its lawsuit against the RIAA tossed, though the court is leaving room for it to be refiled with additional information.

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TorrentFreak

AUGUST 8, 2021

While search engines are extremely helpful for the average Internet user, copyright holders also see a massive downside. The fact that “infringing sites” show up in search results has become a source of frustration. As a result, Google and other search engines are facing a steady stream of DMCA takedown notices. Google alone has processed more than five billion takedown requests and millions of new URLs are reported every week.

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The IPKat

AUGUST 10, 2021

The World Intellectual Property Organization ( WIPO ) has shared some news in connection with International Day of the World’s Indigenous Peoples , celebrated on 9 August every year. Winners of the WIPO Short Story Competition on Indigenous Ingenuity and Creativity The winners of the WIPO Short Story Competition on Indigenous Ingenuity and Creativit y have been announced.

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IP Watchdog

AUGUST 7, 2021

With South Africa’s patent office having recently granted the first patent to an AI inventor, and an Australian court ruling in favor of AI inventorship, it’s time to review how we got here—and where we’re going. The number of artificial intelligence (AI) patent applications received annually by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) grew from 30,000 in 2002 to more than 60,000 in 2018.

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Plagiarism Today

AUGUST 9, 2021

Have any suggestions for the 3 Count? Let me know via Twitter @plagiarismtoday. 1: Major Record Labels Sue Charter Communications Again for Alleged Copyright Infringement. First off today, Kim Lyons at The Verge reports that the major record labels have joined forced to file a second lawsuit against Charter Communications over allegations that the internet service provider is not doing enough to deter piracy on its network.

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TorrentFreak

AUGUST 9, 2021

Since launching a decade ago in 2011, Sci-Hub has occupied a unique space in the pirate site ecosystem. While its unlicensed counterparts in movie, TV show and music distribution are vilified for undermining creators, Sci-Hub has received broad praise for helping to spread knowledge for the furtherment of science and education, particularly to those who can least afford it.

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Patently-O

AUGUST 11, 2021

by Dennis Crouch. Seabed Geosolutions v. Magseis FF ( Fed. Cir. 2021 ). The Magseis invention here is fully enclosed single case seismometer. The patent explains that “hundreds to thousands of receivers” might be deployed in order to conduct a seismic survey. U.S. Pat. No. RE45,268. A key feature of a seismometer is the “geophone” that actually detects the vibrations.

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IP Watchdog

AUGUST 12, 2021

President Joe Biden this week nominated Christopher Wilson to be Chief Innovation and Intellectual Property Negotiator at the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative (USTR). The position has not been filled since its creation in 2015. Wilson has been with the USTR for two decades, serving as Deputy Assistant U.S. Trade Representative for Innovation and Intellectual Property (2006-2008) and several Assistant U.S.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

AUGUST 8, 2021

Goodman made and posted a YouTube video called the “Crony Awards,” bestowing honors on countries that downplayed the COVID-19 virus. Because the court says Goodman’s company “traffics in wild conspiracy theories,” it’s likely the video actually celebrates countries for COVID denialism rather than criticizing the countries as you or I would have done.

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TorrentFreak

AUGUST 10, 2021

Backed by the RIAA, several major music industry companies have taken some of the largest U.S. Internet providers to court. The music companies accuse these providers of failing to terminate the accounts of the most egregious pirates by ignoring millions of copyright infringement notices. This has already resulted in a massive windfall in their case against Cox, where a jury awarded a billion dollars in damages.

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The IPKat

AUGUST 8, 2021

Bad faith pursuant to Article 59(1)(b) of the EU Trade Mark Regulation ( EUTMR ), presupposes the presence of a dishonest state of mind or intention ( Koton Ma?azacilik Tekstil Sanayi ve Ticaret v EUIPO (C?104/18 P) ). In an interesting decision from June this year, the General Court considered that, even if the intervener’s filing of the EUTM application in question had taken place after the applicant had presented its modernization plan, this was not sufficient to establish that there had been

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IP Watchdog

AUGUST 10, 2021

A patent owner has filed a lawsuit in the United States District Court for the Western District of Tennessee against former U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) Director Michelle Lee, and a number of other former USPTO officials, for allegedly depriving the plaintiffs “of their valuable property rights in quasi-judicial administrative proceedings before the USPTO’s Patent Trial and Appeal Board (‘PTAB’).

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SpicyIP

AUGUST 9, 2021

Image from here. Appreciating the growing importance of AI in various fields as well as its economic impact, the Parliamentary Standing Committee Report (hereinafter the Report) recommended the ‘revisiting of IPR legislations and implementing a strong IPR framework’ in order to ‘extract benefits from AI’. (Pg 38) The Report relying on a research report by Accenture stated that AI related innovations might add USD 957 billion to the Indian economy by 2035.

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TorrentFreak

AUGUST 12, 2021

Triller’s campaign to haul alleged Jake Paul vs. Ben Askren fight pirates into US courts hasn’t been straightforward. After filing one big lawsuit, that was later reduced to just one defendant by a judge, Triller began filing individual complaints against some of the original defendants. Thus far, that venture hasn’t gone particularly well.

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The IPKat

AUGUST 9, 2021

Facial recognition technologies are already widespread in China, though their adoption and use needs to comply with a number of requirements. That is so especially after the highlight judicial regulation issued by the Supreme People's Court of China came into effect on 1 August. The guidance addresses some sensitive and pressing concerns. The IPKat is delighted to host the following guest post by Anja Geller (Ph.D. candidate at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität and Junior Research Fellow at the Max

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IP Watchdog

AUGUST 10, 2021

To capture attention in the crowded new field of cannabis-related goods and services, many companies are using other companies’ brands to promote their goods and services, including puns in the edibles space. Not surprisingly, brand owners are responding with lawsuits, alleging trademark infringement, dilution, and unfair competition among other claims.

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Patently-O

AUGUST 9, 2021

by Dennis Crouch. Rain Computing has filed an interesting petition to the Supreme Court focusing on indefiniteness and means-plus-function claims. Rain Computing, Inc. v. Samsung Electronics America, Inc. , No. 21-170 (Supreme Court 2021). Rain’s asserted claims require a “ user identification module configured to control access of … software application packages.

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TorrentFreak

AUGUST 10, 2021

Follow the RIAA’s attempt to have youtube-dl removed from Github , ripping service Yout carried out a preemptive legal strike against the record label group. Filed in a Connecticut court, Yout argued that previous actions by the RIAA to have its homepage delisted from Google , on the basis that it circumvented YouTube’s ‘rolling cipher’ technology, were wrongful and damaged its business. “Contrary to Defendants’ allegations, Yout’s software platform is not designed to descramble, dec

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The Illusion of More

AUGUST 11, 2021

We may finally be at the end of a five-year litigation between Dr. Seuss Enterprises (DSE) and ComicMix. The latter produced a book called Oh, the Places You’ll Boldly Go!, a mash-up of Dr. Seuss and Star Trek that, though funny, was neither parodic nor fair use under any of the four factors according to […]. The post Is ComicMix going to trial?

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IP Watchdog

AUGUST 12, 2021

The category of “trade secrets” is broad and encompasses information that people may not ordinarily associate with the term. Easy, iconic examples of trade secrets include the secret recipe for Coke or the secret formula for creating the nooks and crannies in Thomas’ English Muffins. Others, such as the algorithms that determine what appears in our social media feeds, or how much an office supply store charges a particular client for a box of paper clips, may not be so apparent.

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