Plagiarism Today
APRIL 18, 2023
Korean video game giant Nexon has filed a lawsuit against Ironmace over Dark and Darker, here's what's in the actual lawsuit. The post Understanding the Dark and Darker Lawsuit appeared first on Plagiarism Today.
IP Watchdog
APRIL 18, 2023
The Senate Judiciary Committee’s Subcommittee on Intellectual Property held a hearing today featuring a panel of patent-savvy witnesses to underscore the crucial role intellectual property plays in the U.S. economy and to define the biggest threats to IP rights, both foreign and domestic. The conclusion of most panelists as to what one step is most important in reestablishing the United States as an IP powerhouse was that we need to clean up our own IP system at home in order to even begin addre
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Michael Geist
APRIL 19, 2023
As anyone who has tried ChatGPT will know, at the bottom of each response is an option to ask the AI system to “regenerate response”. Despite increasing pressure on the government to move ahead with Bill C-27’s Artificial Intelligence and Data Act (AIDA) , the right response would be to hit the regenerate button and start over. AIDA may be well-meaning and the issue of AI regulation critically important, but the bill is limited in principles and severely lacking in detail, leaving virtuall
Hugh Stephens Blog
APRIL 19, 2023
Thank you CIPO (Canadian Intellectual Property Office). Last week I indicated in my blog post (“Copyright Registration for AI-assisted Creations: How Much AI Input is Too Much?”) that I would be seeking to register with CIPO the copyright on a work fully generated by AI platforms DALL-E2 and ChatGPT.
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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
APRIL 18, 2023
Nexon sues Ironmace over Dark and Darker, Korean pirate site noonoo closes its doors and Cam'ron sued over a famous photograph. The post 3 Count: No Noonoo appeared first on Plagiarism Today.
Intellectual Property Law Blog
APRIL 18, 2023
Recent patent cases have made it more difficult to obtain utility patent protection for some of the functional aspects of computer software. One way to, at least partially, overcome this is to consider design patent protection for computer generated icons and certain aspects of the graphical user interface (GUI) elements of a computer program. Strategic use of design patents can be an important part of an overall patent strategy.
Intellectual Property Pulse brings together the best content for IP professionals from the widest variety of industry thought leaders.
IP Watchdog
APRIL 21, 2023
The New Civil Liberties Alliance (NCLA), the firm representing U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit (CAFC) Judge Pauline Newman in CAFC Chief Judge Kimberly Moore’s bid to oust her from the court, sent a letter today to the CAFC Chief Judge calling for the case to be transferred to a new circuit. The letter charges that Moore has ordered that no new cases be assigned to Newman, that the complaint Moore identified against her “contains basic errors of fact”, and that Newman was not affor
Plagiarism Today
APRIL 20, 2023
In September, we looked at four Copyright Claims Board cases to watch. Now we're revisiting them and seeing what's happened with them. The post Update: 4 Copyright Claims Board Cases to Watch appeared first on Plagiarism Today.
McKinsey Operations
APRIL 17, 2023
Business transformations are designed to boost overall performance through increased revenue, lower operating costs, and better customer satisfaction and workforce productivity.
TorrentFreak
APRIL 20, 2023
The DMCA takedown process allows copyright holders to report infringing content and have it removed or taken down. It is a powerful tool that takes millions of URLs and links offline every day. In most cases, this happens for a good reason, but some takedown efforts are questionable. DMCA Takedown Abuse In recent years there have been numerous examples of clear abuse and impersonations , as revealed through Google’s transparency report.
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IP Watchdog
APRIL 16, 2023
On Wednesday, April 12, IPWatchdog was first to break the news that U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit Chief Judge Kimberly Moore has identified a judicial complaint against Judge Pauline Newman under the Judicial Conduct and Disability Act. In response to IPWatchdog’s report and subsequent reporting by other news outlets, the court on Friday issued a statement confirming the information provided by IPWatchdog’s sources and making the previously sealed documents public.
Plagiarism Today
APRIL 20, 2023
Drake faces a copyright lawsuit over an uncleared sample, Nintendo wins big in France, and a new study says pirate losses to rise. The post 3 Count: Honestly, Nevermind appeared first on Plagiarism Today.
Erik K Pelton
APRIL 18, 2023
Whether your brand is small or large, new or established, there are many things you can do to strengthen it, including these 5 free tips from Erik. The post 5 Free Ways to Strengthen Your Brand appeared first on Erik M Pelton & Associates, PLLC. Whether your brand is small or large, new or established, there are many things you can do to strengthen it, including these 5 free tips from Erik.
TorrentFreak
APRIL 19, 2023
While some anti-piracy groups focus on taking content down, others prefer to take entire sites down. The benefits of the latter approach are obvious; when a site no longer exists, the need to send future takedown notices is eliminated. It’s also much more easily said than done but certainly not impossible. The Alliance for Creativity and Entertainment has taken down hundreds of sites, and it’s often possible to predict which sites are about to feel the heat.
IP Watchdog
APRIL 18, 2023
The Council for Innovation Promotion (C4IP) on Monday held a webinar featuring some big names in the IP world to clear up what the organization characterizes as misguided views on the use of Title 28 of the U.S. Code, Section 1498(a). The event was prompted in part by a recent U.S. government statement of interest filed in a patent infringement suit against Moderna, Inc.’s COVID-19 vaccine.
McKinsey Operations
APRIL 20, 2023
Even with recent industry layoffs, the tech talent shortage shows few signs of abating. To attract this critical segment, it’s important to understand what they want (hint: it’s not just compensation).
The IPKat
APRIL 19, 2023
The IPKat is pleased to host the following guest post by Katfriend Paolo Maria Gangi (Studio Gangi) on a recent case addressing the legal nature of non-fungible tokens (NFTs). Here’s what Paolo writes: Free Holdings case raises important issues regarding the legal nature of NFTs by Paolo Maria Gangi The decision of 17 March last of judge James L. Cott of the United States Southern Court of New York in the Free Holdings case poses an interesting question: is an NFT an asset in itself or is it onl
TorrentFreak
APRIL 16, 2023
Upcoming first-person shooter game Dark and Darker is scheduled to launch later this year, but even at this early stage it’s causing controversy. Last month, police in South Korea raided the offices of local game studio Ironmace. According to reports , the developers allegedly stole assets from their former employer, game publisher Nexon , which is allegedly working on a similar project too.
IP Watchdog
APRIL 18, 2023
In January of this year, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) proposed a new rule that would ban employers from using noncompete clauses for their employees. In an announcement, the FTC said that the use of noncompete clauses is “a widespread and often exploitative practice that suppresses wages, hampers innovation, and blocks entrepreneurs from starting new businesses.
McKinsey Operations
APRIL 17, 2023
As the space economy expands, satellite constellations are proliferating. But launch providers must make tricky decisions on how to ramp up capacity.
Michael Geist
APRIL 20, 2023
With Bill C-11 in the final stretch – Senate approval could come this week – the government finally provided a more detailed explanation for rejecting the Senate’s user content regulation fix. Indeed, after weeks of false or empty justifications for the rejection, Senator Marc Gold, the government’s representative in the Senate, at long last tried to make the case for rejecting the amendment.
TorrentFreak
APRIL 15, 2023
Faced with millions of instances of copyright infringement every day, many rightsholders use anti-piracy companies to help stem the tide. More often than not, that involves sending DMCA takedown notices on an industrial scale, in the hope that Google and Bing delist infringing URLs from search results before the cycle begins again. Huge volumes of DMCA notices and similar requests are handled directly by companies including YouTube, Twitter, Facebook and Instagram.
IP Watchdog
APRIL 15, 2023
On Wednesday, the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit (CAFC) reversed a district court’s dismissal of a Florida vape company’s patent lawsuit against tobacco company Phillip Morris. Healthier Choices Management (HCM) filed the appeal to the CAFC after a district court ruled in Phillip Morris’s favor, dismissing the patent infringement case.
McKinsey Operations
APRIL 21, 2023
A recent McKinsey survey shows broad, unmet consumer demand for climate-linked financial products—but will financial institutions provide the education consumers require and the differentiated offerings needed to win this space?
JD Supra Law
APRIL 19, 2023
Artificial intelligence has rapidly advanced over the past few years, with generative AI emerging as a particularly powerful tool that can generate text, images, and art autonomously. While this technology has numerous applications in fields ranging from medicine to design, it has also raised concerns about the potential infringement of human creators’ copyrights.
TorrentFreak
APRIL 18, 2023
Ever since its launch in 2009, rightsholders have complained that file-hosting platform 1fichier.com fails to take intellectual property rights seriously. 1fichier operates a “freemium” business model which allows users to access the platform for free and then pay a fee to have various restrictions removed. 1fichier allows user content to be accessed via links posted elsewhere, meaning that when users upload infringing content, links render that content available to the public.
IP Watchdog
APRIL 17, 2023
Just when you think you have enough things to worry about, you stumble upon one more. In its wisdom, Congress enacted a “Medicare Drug Price Negotiation Plan” as part of the Inflation Reduction Act. The program kicks in by imposing “maximum fair prices” for drugs as determined by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS). In setting these prices, Congress included such factors as the R&D costs for each drug and whether they have been recovered and the current cost of produci
McKinsey Operations
APRIL 20, 2023
Our latest analysis of talent trends suggests that employees of all ages seem to want the same things from their work experience—with a few important caveats.
Managing IP
APRIL 19, 2023
Whether Pauline Newman steps down now or in the future, her famous dissents, experience and patent prosecution history have won her the respect of the bar
TorrentFreak
APRIL 20, 2023
When a company like Nintendo puts out a press release, the entire world pays attention. This week was no different. Nintendo has been locked in a legal battle with French file-hosting service 1fichier for the past five years. The basic facts don’t appear to be in dispute; Nintendo informed 1fichier that it had found pirated copies of its games on the service, but 1fichier refused to take them down.
IP Watchdog
APRIL 19, 2023
U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) Director Kathi Vidal said in an Order filed yesterday in IPR2021-01229 between Patent Quality Assurance (PQA)/Intel and VLSI Technology that VLSI’s reference in its Rehearing Request to an “unsolicited, anonymous, and improper ex parte communication” about the relationship between PQA and Intel that Vidal had put under seal has put VLSI on thin ice and in danger of being sanctioned.
McKinsey Operations
APRIL 21, 2023
Next-generation operational excellence is more than doing things well. It’s about uniting an organization around a common purpose, process, and systems.
SpicyIP
APRIL 17, 2023
[ This weekly review is co-authored with SpicyIP intern Devanshu Agrawal. Devanshu is a second-year student pursuing B.A. LL.B. (Hons.) from National Law School of India University, Bengaluru. ] Here are the quick summaries of the 4 posts, 9 case summaries, and other IP developments that took place last week. Important IP cases that we’re missing out on?
TorrentFreak
APRIL 19, 2023
Over the past few years, Brazil has worked hard to combat online piracy from various angles. The “Operation 404” campaigns, in particular, have led to numerous takedowns and arrests with the most recent wave taking place last month. Brazil’s Ministry of Justice and Public Security (MJSP) praised the international mobilization which resulted in 11 arrests.
IP Watchdog
APRIL 17, 2023
This week in Washington IP news, the Senate and House are back in session and holding a variety of hearings on departments’ 2024 budget requests, including for the Department of Commerce and the National Science Foundation (NSF). Elsewhere, the Council for Innovation Promotion (C4IP) is holding a webinar on proper use of Section 1498(a) of the U.S. Code; and the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) is hosting regional events in Central Virginia and Silicon Valley to promote resource
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