Plagiarism Today
SEPTEMBER 29, 2022
The Copyright Claims Board (CCB) is the new copyright small claims court in the United States. Passed into law in 2020 and opening its doors in June 2022, it promises a simple and affordable way to address copyright claims. . To that end, the CCB upholds many of its promises. There is not much doubt that it is far simpler and far less expensive than a regular copyright infringement lawsuit.
Erik K Pelton
SEPTEMBER 28, 2022
What are the differences between a USPTO trademark registration certificate and a presentation copy? Erik explains the differences between electronic, presentation, and paper registration certificates. The post What is a Presentation Copy of a Trademark Registration? appeared first on Erik M Pelton & Associates, PLLC. What are the differences between a USPTO trademark registration certificate and a presentation copy?
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Intellectual Property Law Blog
SEPTEMBER 29, 2022
On September 22, 2022, the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) conducted a live meeting for its Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Emerging Technologies (ET) Partnership Series. During this meeting, panelists from industry and the USPTO provided helpful tips on drafting and prosecuting patent applications that include AI components, including special tips for the biotech industry.
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.
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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 28, 2022
The first version of the Batman emblem. A recent article by Austin Mace at Screenrant highlights comments made decades ago by Batman co-creator Bill Finger regarding Batman’s first appearance in Detective Comics #27, published in May 1939. . According to Finger, that story, entitled The Case of the Chemical Syndicate , was a direct plagiarism of Partners of Peril , a novel featuring the superhero The Shadow, that was published in November 1936.
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 ).
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TorrentFreak
SEPTEMBER 30, 2022
Three years ago, the RIAA began targeting YouTube ripping sites by sending relatively rare takedown requests to Google. Instead of the usual DMCA copyright notices, the music group asked the search engine to remove various URLs for alleged violations of the DMCA’s anti-circumvention provision. The sites in question are accused of circumventing YouTube’s rolling cipher, a technical protection measure that attempts to protect audio and video from being copied without permission.
Plagiarism Today
SEPTEMBER 29, 2022
Have any suggestions for the 3 Count? Let me know via Twitter @plagiarismtoday. 1: Meta Criticizes Epidemic’s Copyright Lawsuit Over “Vague Assertions and Glaring Omissions”. First off today, Chris Cooke at Complete Music Update reports that Facebook has hit back at the music production sound Epidemic Sound, alleging that their recent lawsuit filed against them is vague and leaves them trying to guess what they did wrong.
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
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.
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Women and diverse employees have the technical skill and knowledge, yet their contributions are not patented at the same rate as those of their male counterparts.This toolkit can help organizations move the needle on achieving gender parity in innovation.
TorrentFreak
SEPTEMBER 29, 2022
As pirate site blocking programs expand around the world, Denmark already has more than 15 years of experience in this branch of copyright protection. After blocking Russian MP3 site AllofMP3 in 2006, Danish rightsholders haven’t looked back. The big drive now is how to streamline the site-blocking process so that piracy platforms can be hit as quickly and as comprehensively as possible.
Plagiarism Today
SEPTEMBER 28, 2022
Have any suggestions for the 3 Count? Let me know via Twitter @plagiarismtoday. 1: Pirate IPTV Operator Faces Prison Following Organized Crime Investigation. First off today, Andy Maxwell at Torrentfreak writes that, in the UK, a man faces potential prison time for his role in operated a pirate TV service after being charged both under the nation’s copyright act and under the Proceeds of Crime Act.
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.
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.
TorrentFreak
SEPTEMBER 30, 2022
For more than a decade the Hadopi agency (High Authority for the Distribution of Works and the Protection of Rights on the Internet) was seen as the solution to BitTorrent-style peer-to-peer piracy in France. Hadopi’s goal was to change the behaviors of the majority of French pirates. Ultimately, a preference among pirates for different technologies ended up taking the credit for that.
Plagiarism Today
SEPTEMBER 27, 2022
Back in March, we took a look at the story of prominent chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE) and brain trauma expert Paul McCrory. . At the time, McCrory was the Concussion in Sports Group, an organization that provides guidance to a wide variety of sporting organizations, including FIFA, the National Football League, the International Olympic Committee, F1 and more, on the issue of CTE.
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.
McKinsey Operations
SEPTEMBER 29, 2022
Today’s fastest-growing brands participate in digital communities to earn engagement and loyalty—and do so with high returns and low risk by harnessing agile test and learn.
TorrentFreak
SEPTEMBER 29, 2022
After being sued by Bungie in a Washington court during the summer, a teenager accused of cheating in Destiny 2 and being abusive towards Bungie staff decided to fight back. The core of Bungie’s lawsuit is that L.L. repeatedly breached the terms of its Limited Software License Agreement (LSLA) by using third-party cheating software, getting banned by Bungie, and then repeatedly signing back up to breach the LSLA’s terms once again.
Plagiarism Today
SEPTEMBER 26, 2022
Have any suggestions for the 3 Count? Let me know via Twitter @plagiarismtoday. 1: NYC artist granted first known registered copyright for AI art. First off today, Adam Schrader at UPI reports that New York artist Kris Kashtanova has received a copyright registration for a graphic novel entitled Zarya of the Dawn , representing the first known copyright registration granted to a work of AI-generated artwork.
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.
McKinsey Operations
SEPTEMBER 30, 2022
Our survey reveals a strong commitment to sustainability in packaging, but few organizations are on track to meet these goals. We suggest five levers to get companies back on track.
TorrentFreak
SEPTEMBER 29, 2022
The rivalry between Liverpool and Manchester United goes back more than a century. It even has its own Wikipedia entry. The football teams and their fans often go head to head but on neutral territory, the clubs have recently formed an unusual partnership. Football Rivals Team Up in Court. This week, the clubs filed a complaint at a U.S. federal court in Chicago.
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 27, 2022
The inventor of a novel jump rope system (the Revolution Rope), Molly Metz, is petitioning the U.S. Supreme Court through her company, Jump Rope Systems, LLC, to seek clarification of the collateral estoppel doctrine as applied by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit (CAFC) to bar a patent infringement suit in district court where the CAFC has affirmed a Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) finding of unpatentability.
McKinsey Operations
SEPTEMBER 30, 2022
Luxury and sportswear have delivered consistently high returns through turbulent years. But outliers from other categories offer insights into outperformance in a volatile global apparel market.
TorrentFreak
SEPTEMBER 27, 2022
After beginning life as DigitalRights back in 2009, anti-piracy company Rightscorp became known for its cut-price copyright-trolling operations. Where competitors would attempt to charge hundreds up to multiple thousands of dollars per alleged file-sharing infringement, Rightscorp initially offered to settle cases for around $20. The long game was for every ISP in the United States to forward Rightscorp notices to customers, thereby negating the need for courts, subpoenas, and other legal expens
The Illusion of More
SEPTEMBER 25, 2022
I have written extensively about state sovereign immunity (a.k.a.,11th Amendment immunity) as it relates to copyright owners’ inability to hold states and state actors liable for recklessly and knowingly infringing protected works. State immunity for violations of federal statutes against persons is a maddening subject—rife with judicial and historical contradictions and implications that reach far […].
Technology & Marketing Law Blog
SEPTEMBER 25, 2022
Shared.com is a content producer. It ran Facebook self-service ads and participated in Facebook’s “instant articles” program that let Facebook embed ads in its content in exchange for a revenue cut. Starting in 2018, Shared “lost access” to the instant articles program three times, each time (allegedly) without advance notice despite the applicable TOS saying Facebook “will use good faith efforts to provide Publisher with notice of” any termination.
McKinsey Operations
SEPTEMBER 28, 2022
Domenika Lynch, head of the Aspen Institute’s Latinos and Society Program, and McKinsey’s Bernardo Sichel discuss the economic state of Latinos in America and ways to remove barriers to participation.
TorrentFreak
SEPTEMBER 28, 2022
In June, the US Copyright Claims Board was launched. Through this venue, hosted at the US Copyright Office, rightsholders can try to recoup alleged damages outside the federal court system. More than one hundred and fifty cases have been filed thus far. Some of these have been dismissed for administrative reasons or opt-outs, but the board has yet to issue its first verdict.
Copyright Alliance
SEPTEMBER 30, 2022
Creators often wonder how to “get” copyright protection for their creative works. The good news is that copyright law will automatically protect a work if it meets the criteria of […]. The post Copyright Law Concepts to Know Before Filing a Registration Application appeared first on Copyright Alliance.
IPilogue
SEPTEMBER 28, 2022
Michelle Mao is a 2L student at Osgoode Hall Law School and an IPilogue Writer. In response to a Texan Church’s unauthorized performance of Hamilton , where the musical’s contents were altered to reflect Christian Values , Lin-Manuel Miranda, creator of the Hamilton musical tweets, “Now lawyers do their work.” So, what exactly does this “work” entail?
McKinsey Operations
SEPTEMBER 29, 2022
A prominent economist, author, podcaster, and talent investor discusses how to better match human talent to opportunities, de-bureaucratize philanthropy, achieve higher-quality governance, and identify fields of likely progress, and how to get it all done.
TorrentFreak
SEPTEMBER 26, 2022
Rightsholders seeking to crack down on pirate streaming services in the UK can do so under civil and criminal law but the former has mostly been abandoned. Rightsholders such as the Premier League, Sky and BT Sport, with support from the Federation Against Copyright Theft, now tend to conduct their investigations before referring them to the police.
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