Hugh Stephens Blog
MARCH 10, 2025
Image: Shutterstock.com We all know that local journalism is under extreme pressure. Long established regional newspapers are closing or are being turned into little more than franchise operations where a bare bones local newsroom contributes a modicum of local news to a newspaper fleshed out with filler from national wire services or mother publications.
Plagiarism Today
MARCH 10, 2025
A school photographer has filed a pair of claims with the Copyright Claims Board over alleged infringement of his yearbook photos. The post Copyright, Yearbooks and the Internet appeared first on Plagiarism Today.
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Erik K Pelton
MARCH 10, 2025
I recently created a petition to gather support to encourage the USPTO and other agencies to do more to fight trademark scams. The scams are a scourge on our trademark system, and they are getting worse and worse. Every year, many individuals and businesses fall victim to trademark scams. Fraudulent entities send deceptive notices and make scam telephone calls demanding unnecessary fees or posing as official government agencies, preying on trademark applicants and registrants.
TorrentFreak
MARCH 12, 2025
Yesterday, Carl Lundstrm stepped into his Mooney M20 propeller-driven plane, heading from Zagreb to Zurich in a solo flight. Not long after takeoff, the plane reportedly crashed into a mountain cabin located in the Slovenian Big Pasture Plateau. Lundstrm, who was 64 years old, did not survive. The crash of Lundstrm’s plane was picked up by both Slovenian and Swedish media.
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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?
SpicyIP
MARCH 8, 2025
Images from here and here [This post has been co-authored with SpicyIP Intern Suhani Chhaperwal. Suhani is a third year law student at NLSIU who loves to write on IP and tech issues.] The recently signed Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) between the Screen Writers Association (SWA) and the Music Composer Association of India (MCAI), along with the talks of a standardised agreement for screenwriters give a huge impetus to the cause of due recognition and fair remuneration to these authors.
JD Supra Law
MARCH 13, 2025
Artificial Intelligence (AI) has been touted as the answer to a multitude of business challenges. However, AI along with machine learning and large language models (LLMs) is still fraught with technical and regulatory challenges as the technology evolves. Threat actors use AI to create deepfake videos, text, and audio; craft convincing phishing emails; bypass security measures; and automate malicious activities prompting national and international security concerns.
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TorrentFreak
MARCH 11, 2025
In the race to build the most capable LLM models, several tech companies sourced copyrighted content for use as training data, without obtaining permission from content owners. Meta is among a long list of companies now being sued for this allegedly infringing activity, including a class action lawsuit filed by authors including Richard Kadrey, Sarah Silverman, and Christopher Golden.
SpicyIP
MARCH 14, 2025
Who doesnt love burgers? While burgers in the trademark case Burger King Co. v Anahita & Shapoor Irani excite us for the spicy IP discussions involved, courts in India also seem to express their love for whoppers by taking more than 14 years to settle the dispute. Last week, the Supreme Court bench comprising Honble Justices BV Nagarathna and SC Sharma stayed an order of the Bombay High Court restraining a Pune-based eatery named Burger King (petitioner) from using its tradename, on a suit f
JD Supra Law
MARCH 14, 2025
Intellectual property (IP) is often misunderstood, leading to costly mistakes for businesses and individuals alike. Many assume that once they create something, they automatically own the rights everywhere, or that patents and trademarks offer blanket protection. In reality, IP is a complex legal landscape governed by factors like value, ownership, jurisdiction and timing.
Likelihood of Confusion
MARCH 8, 2025
Originally posted 2017-09-25 12:32:49. Republished by Blog Post PromoterIt is so tiring. But that, to some extent, is what they’re counting on. Taylor Swift abusing trademark, again, of course. And everyone else not understanding that the nature of the latest version of that abuse, discussed below, is the widespread misunderstanding of what trademarks do — […] The post Not the swiftest appeared first on LIKELIHOOD OF CONFUSION.
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TorrentFreak
MARCH 11, 2025
For what appears to be operational reasons, police in Germany have only just revealed details of a massive law enforcement operation carried out against a pirate streaming operation last month. In a joint statement on Monday, the Police Headquarters of Upper Franconia and the Central Office for Cybercrime Bavaria, revealed the culmination of a two-year investigation into what is being described as an ‘illegal streaming network’ In June 2023, a major pay-TV broadcaster filed a crimina
The IPKat
MARCH 12, 2025
Normally a decision of a delegate of the Australian Trade Marks Registrar wouldn't attract much attention from the IPKat. But the subject matter of this decision has piqued some international interest: last week, an Australian fast food business successfully defended itself against an opposition brought by the owners of the IP related to The Lord of the Rings novels, in the matter of Middle-earth Enterprises v Lord of the Fries IP Pty Ltd [2025] ATMO 48.
JD Supra Law
MARCH 12, 2025
Artificial intelligence or AI traces its roots to Alan Turings work in the 1950s. While its a current hot topic, AI is far from new. Students and teachers have been using AI in some form for years in everyday life, such as when they use a smart phones search feature to find a photo of their cat, listen to Spotify playlists, or use Duolingo to learn a new language.
Patently-O
MARCH 12, 2025
by Dennis Crouch Bullshine Distillery LLC v. Sazerac Brands, LLC , 2023-1682 (Fed. Cir. March 12, 2025) In an interesting trademark decision, the Federal Circuit has clarified that terms once considered generic do not necessarily remain permanently unregistrable. provides important guidance on genericness timing and addresses a question of first impression in trademark law.
TorrentFreak
MARCH 10, 2025
Public pirate sites accessible by anyone with an internet browser have been under financial pressure for years. Rightsholder-led campaigns urged mainstream advertisers to boycott the platforms to cut off their revenue streams. This was supposed to put sites out of business but in many cases that simply meant the deployment of lower quality ads from any entity still prepared to place them.
The IPKat
MARCH 12, 2025
Cell therapy represents one of the most exciting fields of innovation, with the potential to provide long-term cures for previously incurable diseases. However, unlike traditional pharmaceuticals, these "living medicines" present unique IP challenges that can make or break a biotech's future. Whilst conventional pharmaceuticals benefit from straightforward composition of matter patents that protect their chemical structure or biological sequence, cell therapies are vastly more complex and hetero
JD Supra Law
MARCH 10, 2025
In Lashify v. ITC, the Federal Circuit held that the economic prong of the domestic industry requirement, which is a precondition for obtaining International Trade Commission Section 337 relief, can be satisfied with investments in sales, marketing, warehousing, or related activities alone, even if those activities do not relate to or are not accompanied by manufacturing and development expenditures.
Plagiarism Today
MARCH 13, 2025
French publishers sue Meta over AI training, Turbo wins lawsuit over tag and Carl Lundstrm, Pirate Bay founder, dies in a plane crash. The post 3 Count: French Front appeared first on Plagiarism Today.
TorrentFreak
MARCH 13, 2025
When peer-to-peer file-sharing was in its heyday, communities were the glue that held everything together, but not in the global sense evident today. File-sharing communities typically gathered on various forums. Operating in isolation, most embraced a central theme – file-sharing – everything else was a footnote. Embracing anyone and welcoming any topic of conversation, fancy high-tech social media platforms made short work of file-sharing communities.
SpicyIP
MARCH 9, 2025
Keep up with the ever changing world of IP with SpicyIPs Weekly Review! A quick glance at last week analysis of wrongful obtainment in the Indian patent landscape, discussing Delhi High Courts jurisdiction in ANI vs OpenAI, and the implications of a MoU between screen writers and music composers. This and much more in this weeks SpicyIP Weekly Review.
JD Supra Law
MARCH 10, 2025
What if the key to advancing brain health and neuroscience lies in harnessing neurodata in ways never thought possible? On todays episode of Founder Shares, Robert S. Cooley Jr., founder and CEO of Nuream, discusses how his company is revolutionizing the way we capture and analyze brain activity. With cutting-edge smart-sensing materials, Nuream is creating new possibilities for early intervention in conditions like dementia, improving sleep health, and expanding our understanding of cognitive.
Plagiarism Today
MARCH 12, 2025
A video game publisher allegedly stole a game from a solo dev and published it on all the major consoles. Here's how it happened. The post How a Scam Publisher Stole a Video Game appeared first on Plagiarism Today.
TorrentFreak
MARCH 10, 2025
Almost two decades ago, The Pirate Bay supported the “ OscarTorrents ” project, which aimed to be a pirates’ counterweight to Hollywood’s annual awards show. At the time, mass movie piracy was still a relative fringe activity, with no instant streaming options available. Nonetheless, more than 100,000 people voted for their own movie favorites.
IP and Legal Filings
MARCH 10, 2025
Bulldozer justice means demolishing one’s property for the only reason that he is allegedly accused of some crime without following proper legal procedure. It has become a national trend in the states of Uttar Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh, Gujarat, Delhi, Maharashtra and Assam. Recently, in a suo-motu writ petition of 2020, the Supreme Court ordered to pay Rs. 25 lakhs as compensation for demonstrating the house of Manoj Tibrewal Akash, a senior journalist in UP by state government.
JD Supra Law
MARCH 12, 2025
Before the USPTO was subject to a hiring freeze, it assumed it would onboard 400 new examiners between fiscal year 2025 and fiscal year 2026, and still predicted an increase in the backlog of unexamined patent applications. With a hiring freeze in place, the current backlog at nearly 838,000 unexamined patent applications, and the wait for initial examination already over 20 months, applicants can expect the time required to obtain a patent to increase.
Plagiarism Today
MARCH 12, 2025
George Clinton sued former business partner, Meta must face CMI claims, and Pensacola venue sued for unlicensed music. The post 3 Count: Funky Lawsuit appeared first on Plagiarism Today.
TorrentFreak
MARCH 8, 2025
Tranco publishes an updated ranking list of a million domains every day. In today’s report the usual suspects dominate the top slots – google.com, microsoft.com, mail.ru and facebook.com. After scrolling through a 22mb.cvs, monosurveys.com eventually completes the million. Zonatmo.com can be found at #1576 but, until this week, the domain had yet to appear on our radar.
IP Watchdog
MARCH 10, 2025
IPWatchdog has learned that Farheena Rasheed has been asked by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) to serve as one of the Acting Vice Chief Administrative Patent Judges (APJs) at the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB). Rasheed will immediately move to the PTAB. Until this move Rasheed served as Deputy General Counsel for Intellectual Property Law and Solicitor, which made her the chief litigator for the USPTO.
JD Supra Law
MARCH 14, 2025
In this edition of The Precedent, we outline the decision in Trudell Medical International Inc. v. D R Burton Healthcare LLC. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit recently affirmed in part, reversed in part and remanded a district courts decision, finding errors in the admission of noninfringement testimony and denial of a new trial on infringement, while upholding the denial for judgment as a matter of law (JMOL) on infringement, and ordering a new trial before a different.
Plagiarism Today
MARCH 11, 2025
Jury rules Moana did not infringe, Ed Sheeran lawsuit appealed to the Supreme Court, and judge questions Miley Cyrus motion to dismiss. The post 3 Count: Moana Victory appeared first on Plagiarism Today.
Patent Trademark Blog
MARCH 13, 2025
How long does it take to get a design patent? On average, a design patent application can take about 16 months for the initial examination. Strip out the fast-tracked design applications from the equation, and the average wait time for non-expedited design applications would certainly be longer. In fact, we have seen design patent applications take two to three years for the initial review by the examiner.
SpicyIP
MARCH 11, 2025
Image from here [ This post has been co-authored with Anjali Tripathi. Anjali is a fourth-year law student at JGLS with an interest in IP rights, access to education, and the creative arts. Her previous post can be accessed here. ] In a big relief to movie director Shankar, the Madras High Court today stayed the Enforcement Directorate (ED)s decision to provisionally attach his assets worth 10.11 crore under the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA), 2002.
JD Supra Law
MARCH 14, 2025
In this edition of The Precedent, we outline the decision in Wuhan Healthgen Biotechnology Corp. v. Intl Trade Commn. The United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit recently emphasized that Section 337s domestic industry requirement does not focus on the dollar amount a patent holder spends on industry investments but rather the nature of such investments and their relation to the industry within the United States.
IP Watchdog
MARCH 11, 2025
If you happened to see the new Netflix show Running Point, starring Kate Hudson, that was made possible by a last-minute decision of a California federal court on the eve of the shows February 27 release. Pepperdine University, in an emergency motion filed one week before the shows release, asked the court to block the release due to trademark violations occurring within the series.
The IPKat
MARCH 13, 2025
The recent decision in Abbott v Sibio Technology ( UPC_CoA_382/2024 ) offers valuable insights into the UPC's approach to the interpretation of functional claim language and the ever-contentious topic of added matter. On both issues, the UPC broadly appears to have followed the EPO approach. However, the lack of any explicit indication from the Court of Appeal that it was following EPO case law, particularly on the issue of added matter, raises the question of whether there was nonetheless some
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