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3 Count: Early Christmas

Plagiarism Today

Have any suggestions for the 3 Count? Let me know via Twitter @plagiarismtoday. 1: U.S. Copyright Office Backtracks on Registration of Partially AI-Generated Work. First off today, Franklin Graves at IPWatchdog reports that the U.S. Copyright Office has begun the process of revoking a copyright registration that was granted to the human author of a piece of artwork that was generated by artificial intelligence (AI).

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Tips when Brainstorming New Business and Brand Names

Erik K Pelton

The following is an edited transcript of my video Tips for Brainstorming New Business and Brand Names. It’s not easy to come up with a great name today, nor has it ever been. But it is still possible—especially with these tips—to come up with a name that is bold, unique, and protectable. I suggest that you begin with pieces of words and names.

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‘U.S. Authorities Seize Z-Library Domain Names’

TorrentFreak

Pretty much every book ever written is available online for free and millions are shared through central hubs, commonly known as ‘shadow libraries’. Z-Library is one of the largest shadow libraries on the Internet. Through a variety of domain names, the site offers over 11 million books and 84 million articles. This has attracted a steady userbase and many millions of monthly visitors.

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U.S. Copyright Office Backtracks on Registration of Partially AI-Generated Work

IP Watchdog

On October 28, Kristina Kashtanova, an artist and artificial intelligence (AI) consultant and researcher, received notice from the U.S. Copyright Office (USCO) that the registration for the first issue of her partially AI-generated graphic novel, Zarya Of The Dawn, may be canceled. A month earlier, on September 15, the USCO issued a registration for Kashtanova’s work, which was subsequently widely publicized as the first known instance of an AI-generated work being successfully registered with t

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Software Composition Analysis: The New Armor for Your Cybersecurity

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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The James Corden Plagiarism Controversy

Plagiarism Today

From a plagiarism standpoint, this has been a very bad week for comedian and host of The Late Late Show, James Corden. On Tuesday, accusations were leveled against Corden that he had retold a joke originally performed by Ricky Gervais in 2018. In which James Corden basically does a Ricky Gervais joke word for word pic.twitter.com/8MfkrBo8Y0 — Rupert Myers (@RupertMyers) November 1, 2022.

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5 Things Yoga Taught Me About Trademarks

Erik K Pelton

What lessons from practicing yoga can be applied to trademarks? Erik shares some of his insights in this week’s Tricks of the Trade(mark). For more about all aspects of trademark registration and protection, see [link]. The post 5 Things Yoga Taught Me About Trademarks appeared first on Erik M Pelton & Associates, PLLC. What lessons from practicing yoga can be applied to trademarks?

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Supreme Court Grants Two IP Cases, Including Amgen v. Sanofi on Enablement

IP Watchdog

The U.S. Supreme Court granted petitions for certiorari in two intellectual property cases Friday, one dealing with the limits of extraterritorial application of the Lanham Act and another asking the High Court to weigh in on whether “enablement” means a specification must enable those skilled in the art “to reach the full scope of claimed embodiments” without undue experimentation.

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3 Count: Many Things Never Change

Plagiarism Today

Have any suggestions for the 3 Count? Let me know via Twitter @plagiarismtoday. 1: Disney Sued by Musician Over Song from ‘Frozen II’ Soundtrack. First off today, Blake Brittain at Reuters reports that songwriter Daniel Grigson has filed a lawsuit against Disney and others that worked on the film Frozen 2 alleging that one of the tracks from the film is an infringement of his earlier work.

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TikTok Blocks Z-Library Hashtag Pending Piracy Investigation

TorrentFreak

While movie and music piracy tends to generate the most headlines, the publishing industry is facing similar issues. Pretty much every book ever written is available online for free, including through so-called ‘shadow libraries’ Z-Library is one of the largest shadow libraries on the Internet. Through a variety of domain names, the site offers over 11 million books and 84 million articles.

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Prior Narrow Definition Does Not (Necessarily) Limit Claim Scope in Family Member

Patently-O

Finjan LLC v. ESET LLC , — F.4th — ( Fed. Cir. 2022 ). Finjan’s patents claim a system for checking downloadable files for security concerns. Back in 1996 when Finjan filed its original provisional application, the focus was on applets or other small downloadable programs. But downloadables today are much bulkier. Here, the claims require a number of operations on “a downloadable” and the parties have debated throughout the litigation how to construe that term.

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IPO Diversity in Innovation Toolkit

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.

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Lessons from the Levandowski Case: Reimagining the Exit Interview as Risk Management

IP Watchdog

It was February 2017 when Waymo, Google’s self-driving car unit, sued Uber in what would become the biggest trade secret case of the century. Waymo alleged that its former manager, Anthony Levandowski, had organized a competing company while still at Waymo, and before leaving had downloaded 14,000 confidential documents. As it turned out, Uber had known about this when it agreed to pay $680 million for Levandowski’s brand new startup; and we’ve already looked at how the hubris of that hasty tran

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On Copyright, the EFF Will Say Anything to Scare You

The Illusion of More

Are you gifted in the art of b t, but the popular conspiracy theories just aren’t for you? Do you enjoy riling people up about threats that are demonstrably false, but you just can’t get comfortable with QAnon or election deniers? Well, maybe you should consider an exciting career with the Electronic Frontier Foundation writing about […]. The post On Copyright, the EFF Will Say Anything to Scare You appeared first on The Illusion of More.

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‘Pirate’ Streaming Boxes Boosted Netflix Viewership, Research Finds

TorrentFreak

In recent years, legal video streaming services such as Netflix, HBO and Amazon have flourished. At the same time, millions of people are streaming from unauthorized sources as well, often paired with perfectly legal streaming platforms and devices. This mix of legal devices and illegal add-ons is a challenge for law enforcement. Platforms such as Kodi, Plex, and Roku are perfectly legal but can be configured to access pirated content as well.

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SpicyIP Events: Course on Access to Medicines TRIPS and Patents [Kochi, 10-14 Dec.]

SpicyIP

We are pleased to inform you that the Inter-University Centre for IPR Studies (IUCIPRS), Cochin University of Science and Technology (CUSAT), and Third World Network are organising a five-day course/workshop on Access to Medicines, TRIPS and Patents in the Developing World from December 10- 14 in Kochi, Kerala. The deadline for applications is November 10, 2022.

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CAFC Vacates Preliminary Injunctions Against Online Hoverboard Sellers

IP Watchdog

In two separate precedential opinions issued Friday, October 28, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit (CAFC) vacated two separate preliminary injunction orders granted by the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois against hoverboard products alleged to infringe four design patents due to “substantive defects” in the court’s reasoning for granting the injunctions.

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COVID-19 Showed the Benefits of 3D-Printing in Healthcare. Can IP get out of the way?

IPilogue

Gregory Hong is an IPilogue Writer and a 1L JD candidate at Osgoode Hall Law School, Many of you are likely familiar with 3D printing. The process is as follows: Add a digital model of a 3D model to a slicer; The slicer “slices” the model and generates toolpaths layer by layer; Upload the toolpaths to the 3D printer; and. Start the machine and wait!

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Court Orders Kim Dotcom to Pay Costs After ‘Seized Device’ Challenge Failed

TorrentFreak

For more than a decade , Kim Dotcom has challenged every detail of New Zealand and United States authorities’ attempts to hold him accountable for alleged crimes related to his hosting platform, Megaupload. Just one strand of this complex legal web involved the seizure of 135 devices (made up of around 300 components, including external storage) under a MACMA (Mutual Assistance in Criminal Matters) warrant.

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NIST Award Recipient Cracks the Code on Public Safety Devices

U.S. Department of Commerce

NIST Award Recipient Cracks the Code on Public Safety Devices. October 31, 2022. KCPullen@doc.gov. Mon, 10/31/2022 - 12:12. University of the Basque Country broadens first responder app market and simplifies device certification process. Smartphones, mobile apps and strong network connections have become so ubiquitous that it’s easy to take for granted the technological progress that makes those features possible.

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USPTO Efforts to Reduce Fraud are Good for the Trademark System

IP Watchdog

Security issues have long dogged the U.S. trademark system. Unscrupulous operators – sometimes competitors, sometimes bad actors with nothing better to do – too frequently muck up the application process by modifying those filings or filing improper submissions. This is no small problem given the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (the USPTO) remains a mammoth and international hub of trademark filings.

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How will US funding for defense technology innovation evolve?

McKinsey Operations

Companies that focus on defense technology innovation will benefit from a strong understanding of the US Department of Defense budget.

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Google Removes Hundreds of Domains to Aid French Sports Piracy Crackdown

TorrentFreak

At the start of this year, a French bill went into effect that sanctioned the formation of a new regulatory body. The old HADOPI anti-piracy outfit merged with the Higher Audiovisual Council, creating the Audiovisual and Digital Communication Regulatory Authority ( Arcom ). Sports Piracy Crackdown. Along with this organizational change, Arcom received new anti-piracy powers.

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Moderna sues Pfizer for mRNA Patent Infringement: when optics and profits reveal real issues in modern IP law usage

IPilogue

Michelle Mao is an IPilogue Writer and a 2L JD Candidate at Osgoode Hall Law School. Moderna and Pfizer battle’s over the inventive process of their respective mRNA COVID-19 vaccines revisit the negative associations of profit, monopolies, and optics in patent litigation. On August 26, 2022, Moderna released a press statement that they will pursue a patent infringement lawsuit against Pfizer/BioNTech for their use of Moderna’s registered mRNA patents in creating the Pfizer COVID-19 mRNA vaccine.

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October 2022 Roundup of Copyright News

Copyright Alliance

Easily the most significant copyright-related event to take place this October was the U.S. Supreme Court hearing of oral arguments in the biggest fair use case in decades, Andy Warhol […]. The post October 2022 Roundup of Copyright News appeared first on Copyright Alliance.

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Accelerating green growth in the built environment

McKinsey Operations

The industries that make up the built environment are highly fragmented and slow to change. Creating green growth requires shifts in how players design, build, operate, and decommission assets.

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Record Labels Wins $47 Million Piracy Liability Verdict Against ISP Grande

TorrentFreak

Three years ago, several of the world’s largest music companies including Warner Bros. and Sony Music sued Internet provider Grande Communications. The recording labels accused the Astound-owned ISP of not doing enough to stop pirating subscribers. Specifically, they alleged that the company failed to terminate repeat infringers. Jury Finds Grande Guilty.

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Challenges and limitations of ACR technologies to protect IP rights

IPilogue

Amin Hosseini is an IPilogue Writer and an LLM Candidate at Osgood Hall Law School. In recent years, many technical mechanisms to protect intellectual property have given their helping hands to IP owners and technology developers to enhance IP management and protection. ACR technology is a prominent example. Automatic content recognition (ACR) refers to the ability of an application to identify content based on sampling a portion and comparing it with a source service.

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USPTO Shortens Time for Tm Applicants to Respond to Office Actions Starting December 3, 2022

JD Supra Law

The United States Patent & Trademark Office (USPTO) has announced that starting on December 3, 2022, those filing trademark applications will have three months (instead of the original six) to respond to office actions during the trademark examination process. Please note this is only applicable for office actions that are issued on or after December 3, 2022.

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Author Talks: How to learn and lead calmly through volatile times

McKinsey Operations

Three McKinsey veterans condense decades of boardroom experience and cognitive science into a guide for learning proactively and leading dynamically amid the most uncertain circumstances.

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RIAA Seeks $250,000 in Attorneys’ Fees from YouTube Ripper

TorrentFreak

Popular stream-ripping site Yout.com has been targeted in lawsuits around the world. As a result, the service is now blocked in countries including Denmark, the UK and Spain. In addition, government agencies targeted the site and its operator in Brazil and Peru , further adding to Yout’s legal troubles. Despite all of this legal pressure, Yout.com operator Johnathan Nader is convinced that his service operates within the boundaries of the law.

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Open-Source AI-Generated Art Raises Concerns Amongst Artists

IPilogue

Sally Yoon is an IPilogue Writer, IP Innovation Clinic Fellow, and a 3L JD Candidate at Osgoode Hall Law School. A high-tech solarpunk utopia in the Amazon rainforest, a Pikachu fine dining with a view to the Eiffel Tower, a mecha robot in a favela in expressionist style – if you are struggling to visualize any of these descriptions, an AI art generator could most likely help you out.

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Dmitry Karshtedt

Patently-O

By Jason Rantanen. George Washington University Law School Professor Dmitry Karshtedt has passed. Dmitry was a remarkable scholar, wonderful colleague, and incredible friend. We often had different ways of thinking about patent law, and I always hoped that some day we might have time to write something together. Sadly will never happen. The world was more with Dmitry and less without him.

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A devilish duality: How CEOs can square resilience with net-zero promises

McKinsey Operations

Amid turbulence on the path to net zero, leaders will have to be much nimbler to balance resilience with an energy future that is secure, affordable, and clean. Five actions can help.

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MPA: Mandatory Release Windows Could Exacerbate Piracy

TorrentFreak

The Motion Picture Association ( MPA ) represents several of the world’s largest movie industry companies. Traditionally its members were restricted to top Hollywood studios such as Disney and Warner Bros, but three years ago streaming giant Netflix joined the exclusive club. The newcomer hasn’t changed the MPA’s main goal of protecting its members’ content from piracy.

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NCAA Publishes Interim NIL Policy Clarifications

JD Supra Law

On October 26, 2022, the NCAA approved and published additional clarifications to its Name Image Likeness (NIL) Policy. Following the NCAA’s initial release of the NIL Policy on July 1, 2021, permitting student-athletes to receive compensation for NIL use, the NCAA published additional guidance in May 2022 and issued two Q&As in November 2021 and July 2022.

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Sorry Dave: Breaking Google’s Hold on Government May Be Harder Than You Think

The Trichordist

We’ve all been predicting that Google will get broken up by government for any one of a host of reasons. It’s not just songwriters watching the overlawyered… Read more "Sorry Dave: Breaking Google’s Hold on Government May Be Harder Than You Think".