TorrentFreak

JANUARY 12, 2024

The UK government’s Criminal Justice Bill had its first reading in the House of Commons on November 14, 2023, followed by its second reading on November 28. “Law enforcement agencies will have extended powers to suspend domain names and IP addresses used for fraudulent purposes or other serious crimes,” Cleverly said.

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IP Watchdog

APRIL 18, 2023

economy and to define the biggest threats to IP rights, both foreign and domestic. 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.

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OCTOBER 4, 2024

Experts say most of the laws governing extraterrestrial IP are as unexplored as space itself. The rapidly expanding space tourism industry is raising a vast universe of potential intellectual property issues.

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SpicyIP

OCTOBER 11, 2024

Image from here In Part I , we looked at the legal mechanism around IP professors’ engagement with the judiciary. We can get an inkling about this after observing the sorry state of IP research in India. I resist making normative or ideological claims about what IP is for and the stakes of public interest therein.

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IP Watchdog

JANUARY 11, 2024

The bill seeks to provide for intellectual property (IP) rights in an individual’s voice and likeness as well as remedies including statutory damages and disgorged profits.

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SpicyIP

AUGUST 23, 2024

She is incredibly passionate towards IP laws and its workings. As reported ( here , here , here and here ) these scammers through fake email ids, whatsapp numbers, etc are contacting people, impersonating these law firms and are coercing them to pay money for supposedly infringing IP rights of these firms/ their purported clients.

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IP Watchdog

OCTOBER 9, 2023

This might sound well and good—until you think about what it actually means for IP owners. Indeed, the foundational premise of the repair movement is that there is something inherently wrong when an IP owner exercises its right to exclude and imposes a repair restriction.

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IP Watchdog

OCTOBER 14, 2024

This conference brings together some of the top thought leaders and newsmakers from the entire industry, with a variety of different backgrounds and people who focus on various different niche verticals within the IP community.

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IP Watchdog

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

Supported by a coalition of well-recognized individuals and trade organizations long supporting greater certainty in patent rights, the framework of IP principles is intended to serve as a guidebook for policymakers who want to address genuine issues currently facing the nation’s IP system.

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IP Watchdog

DECEMBER 24, 2023

Another year of IP is behind us, and it is time to reflect on what mattered most—what decisions will affect practice for years to come and/or continue to play out in the courts as we move into 2024? Below are reflections on milestones from this past year—some positive, some negative, and some neutral--at least for now.

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SpicyIP

DECEMBER 30, 2023

As 2023 comes to an end, in line with our annual tradition, we take stock of the top IP developments that occurred this year. The decisions in the second category, i.e., Top 10 IP Cases/Judgements (Jurisprudence/Legal Lucidity) reflect those that we thought showed a fair bit of jurisprudential rigour and/or legal lucidity. Nataraj, Ms.

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IP Watchdog

MARCH 25, 2024

After a year-long process involving 38 state organizations and dozens of individual representatives, IP rights has been selected as the topic for the 2024-2025 debate competition by The National Federation of State High School Associations (NFHS). Should the U.S.

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TorrentFreak

OCTOBER 20, 2024

The nature and circumstances of this event should be a signal for the Italian government to remove rightsholders’ ability to meddle in internet infrastructure before it’s too late. After blocking Cloudflare a few months ago, on Saturday night another vital online service was rendered inaccessible.

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IP Watchdog

JULY 23, 2024

The House Judiciary Committee’s Subcommittee on Courts, Intellectual Property and the Internet today held a hearing, titled “IP Litigation and the U.S. Issa said these voices claim the forum is being leveraged in ways that distort the IP system.

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TorrentFreak

MAY 19, 2023

When the French government formed a new anti-piracy agency called Hadopi, the mission was to significantly disrupt BitTorrent and similar peer-to-peer file-sharing networks. For their part, Hadopi and the government reached the opposite conclusion.

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Intellectual Property Law Blog

DECEMBER 1, 2021

In the first phase of the litigation, the government admitted infringement at ten airports, but challenged the validity of the patent, arguing that it was obvious over the prior art. The government’s failure to come forward with any evidence rebutting infringement was a factor that weighed in favor of the Court’s infringement finding.

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Patently-O

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

by Dennis Crouch The White House this week issued a new executive order focusing on a variety of aspects of regulating artificial intelligence, some of which focuses on IP issues. Advancing equity and civil rights when using AI in criminal justice, government benefits, hiring, and other areas. ” Improving government use of AI.

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SpicyIP

JANUARY 23, 2024

Various IP experts (academics, legal practitioners, in-house counsels, and public-policy analysts) in India have contributed to the development of the course. The course will also contain topics that involve the interface of IP with areas such as human rights, free speech and competition law.

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SpicyIP

MAY 14, 2023

Indeed, this commitment to fostering accountability and transparency in the Indian IP eco-system is central to the blog. As anyone who has researched on the Indian IP landscape would know, even if you are looking for data, it is very hard to find. Over time, we will add other areas of IP as well.

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TorrentFreak

JANUARY 5, 2023

A quote attributed to former UK Prime Minister Winston Churchill suggests that democracy is actually the worst form of government – except for all the others. The Concept Art Association says that some of the money will go to the Copyright Alliance, which already lobbies the government on behalf of its own members.

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TorrentFreak

MAY 12, 2023

At that point, however, implementation was still to be determined so, over the past few months, the government has been drafting decrees. Issued by the government in late April, Decree No. Issued by the government in late April, Decree No. At first blush, it appears to herald a new world of opportunities for rightsholders.

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SpicyIP

OCTOBER 17, 2024

Recently, the Calcutta HC also notified its IPR Division Rules ( here ) and a new roster ( here ) that created specialised benches for IP matters. In fact, recently the government had announced its plan to establish a Bulk Drug Park accompanied by subsidies on land and electricity to attract more investments.

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Plagiarism Today

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

In particular, they allege that they have sent over a thousand notices against a single IP address on the AT&T network without a single response. The lawsuit accuses AT&T of contributory copyright infringement for its failure to act against piracy on its network. 3: MPLC Joins the Copyright Society.

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Intepat

DECEMBER 5, 2024

Introduction Intellectual property (IP) licensing and royalties are mechanisms that reward creators and innovators for the use of their works. Royalties are the payments made to IP holders based on the usage or distribution of their work. One major legal question surrounding smart contracts is their enforceability. In the U.S.,

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TorrentFreak

MARCH 1, 2024

In countries where internet access faces restrictions, from general government censorship through to more limited site-blocking programs to protect copyright, citizens have grown comfortable with the use of VPNs. Faced with an untenable situation, some VPNs threw in the towel and never looked back.

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Intellectual Property Law Blog

JANUARY 11, 2023

government. Even though the number of registered mask works is not enormous, they are still an important component of chip companies’ IP portfolio. The identifying material deposited to support an application to register a claim in mask work, whether the claim is registered or refused, becomes the property of the U.S.

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TorrentFreak

APRIL 26, 2023

The Australian government’s review of copyright enforcement measures aims to ensure that responses to infringement are “appropriate, effective and proportionate.” Citing government research demonstrating the efficacy of these interventions, successes are clear.

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IP Watchdog

OCTOBER 28, 2024

As artificial intelligence (AI) technology continues to evolve at an unprecedented pace, it brings with it numerous questions regarding the application of intellectual property (IP) laws.

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SpicyIP

AUGUST 22, 2024

For the IP-centric parts that are of specific interest to our readers: Ms. Shwetasree Majumder, the Managing Partner of Fidus Law Chambers , is a veteran IP advocate with a practice of more than 21 years, as noted by the SC in its resolution. of Justice. Long time readers will remember that Ms.

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TorrentFreak

MAY 25, 2023

The US Chamber of Commerce 2023 International IP Index report is a pretty big read at 213 pages, but for those interested in intellectual property matters, it’s an interesting one too. The report benchmarks the IP frameworks in 55 major economies and rates them based on how effectively they protect all kinds of intellectual property.

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TorrentFreak

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

During the summer the UK government announced a new inquiry to investigate what needs to be done to “maintain and enhance” the UK’s position as a global destination for film and television production. For the major Hollywood studios of the MPA, IP protection and piracy remain key issues.

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The IPKat

FEBRUARY 11, 2024

This Big Kat is thinking about the big issues for IP in the coming year. The early years focused on investigating and analysing national experiences to understand the relationship between IP and genetic resources, traditional knowledge and traditional cultural expressions. It has been a long road to a Diplomatic Conference.

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TorrentFreak

JUNE 12, 2024

On May 28, day one of the trial, the government had four attorneys listed for appearance, alongside an FBI Special Agent and an IT expert. The government’s opening statement arrived just before noon, with defendants’ counsel delivering their statements early afternoon, before jury members were excused for lunch at 14:30.

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TorrentFreak

APRIL 13, 2023

AIIP reports progress in the form of a government commitment to evaluate the preparation of a “whitelist” of IP addresses and servers for the root zone of the Domain Name System (DNS) that can not be included in the blocking program.

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IP and Legal Filings

AUGUST 5, 2024

This does, however, raise substantial issues to do with the protection of Intellectual Property (IP) and data protection. Current IP owners are at a risk of losing their exclusivity since the AI models trained on private data may, in a way, broadcast this protected information.

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TorrentFreak

MAY 12, 2024

While this is clearly a stand-out example, there’s something about the way Telegram conducts business, at times interpreted as a complete lack of interest, that frustrates courts, rightsholders, even some governments. million Google and Amazon IP addresses instead.

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IP Watchdog

DECEMBER 31, 2023

We are less than 24 hours out from 2024 and, after reflecting on what mattered in 2023 and other year-in-review recaps, it is now time once again to ponder what lies ahead.

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