Plagiarism Today
NOVEMBER 4, 2024
While it's well known that NASA images and videos are public domain, there are still some restrictions to be aware of before using them. The post NASA: Copyright and Trademark in Space appeared first on Plagiarism Today.
TorrentFreak
NOVEMBER 5, 2024
While search engines are extremely helpful for the average Internet user, copyright holders have also seen a massive downside. In addition to trillions of legitimate pages, there’s a steady supply of pirate sites. These can be hard to ignore for some entertainment-hungry users. This problem is not new. When piracy-discovery became web-based with the surge of BitTorrent in the early 2000s, search engines were unwittingly used as pirate gateways.
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The IPKat
NOVEMBER 19, 2024
Yesterday, the EU design reform reached its final step: it was published in the Official Journal as Regulation (EU) 2024/2822 and Directive (EU) 2024/2823. This post analyses the main elements of the two acts. Background Foundations for the EU design system (as of now still covered by Regulation (EC) 6/2002 for EU-wide designs and Directive 98/71/EC for national designs) were laid down in the late 1980s-early 1990s, when various groups of academics presented their proposals for EU acts on the ma
JD Supra Law
NOVEMBER 13, 2024
What do Megan Rapinoe, Kevin Durant, Shawn Kemp, Calvin Johnson, Willie Nelson, Wiz Kalifa, Margo Price, and Sublime all have in common? They all have created their own boutique cannabis brands. As cannabis has become more popular, celebrity athletes and musicians have taken notice and jumped into the game. This is true for both forms of cannabis, including marijuana and hemp.
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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?
Copyright Lately
NOVEMBER 10, 2024
Why a new court win for OpenAI and a tough Supreme Court standard could leave AI copyright claims on shaky ground. A relatively obscure Supreme Court case involving the Fair Credit Reporting Act might seem like an odd fit for the high-stakes world of copyright in the age of artificial intelligence. But it’s time to start paying attention to the Court’s 2021 ruling in TransUnion v.
Patently-O
NOVEMBER 17, 2024
The updated patent claim count data through 2024 reveals a continuing trend toward standardization in claim counts, with both the median and mean hovering around 16-17 claims per patent. The perhaps the most striking feature of this longitudinal data is the dramatic reduction in variance – from a standard deviation of about 15 claims in the mid-2000s to just about 7 claims today.
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IP Watchdog
NOVEMBER 12, 2024
Are trademark rights in the Metaverse as intangible as the world itself, or are they as real as in the ‘real’ world? This is the question the European Parliament addresses for the first time in its Resolution on policy implications of the development of virtual worlds – civil, company commercial and intellectual property law issues, published on October 17, 2024, in the Official Journal of the European Union.
The IPKat
NOVEMBER 1, 2024
One of the best-known frames of Todd Phillips’s 2019 Joker film starring Joaquin Phoenix is that of Phoenix’s “Joker” inside a lift. Let’s imagine a situation in which the user of a generative Artificial Intelligence (AI) model inputted the following prompt: “Create an image of Joaquin Phoenix Joker movie, 2019, screenshot from a movie, movie scene.
Barry Sookman
NOVEMBER 17, 2024
OpenAI scored a major success in a recent case in which Raw Story Media, Inc. and AlterNet Media, Inc lost a motion to dismiss their case alleging that OpenAI’s removal of copyright management information (CMI) from thousands of articles prior to using them to train its ChatGPT product violated Section 1202(b)(i) of the DMCA. In dismissing the case, the court relied on the U.S. requirement to establish Article III Standing (that the injury must be “concrete and particularized” and “actual or im
JD Supra Law
NOVEMBER 15, 2024
Ladies and gentlemen, hold onto your cocktails and nachos, because we might just witness one of the wildest boxing events in recent history: Mike Tyson versus Jake Paul! Yes, you heard it right. Iron Mike, the baddest man on the planet, versus the YouTube sensation-turned-boxer Jake Paul. While the fighters train and talk trash, a different kind of high-stakes battle is taking place behind the scenes.
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Patently-O
NOVEMBER 18, 2024
by Dennis Crouch New data from the USPTO shows that the amazing transformation in patent inventorship continues: the average number of inventors per utility patent has reached 3.2 in 2024, nearly double the 1.7 inventors per patent seen in 1976. This steady rise in team-based inventing reflects fundamental changes in how innovation occurs and how the patent system operates.
Plagiarism Today
NOVEMBER 5, 2024
UMG sues TuneCore for $500 million, Marcus King draws fire for photography contract and Google hits 10 billion DMCA URLs. The post 3 Count: King of Contracts appeared first on Plagiarism Today.
IP Watchdog
NOVEMBER 11, 2024
Encouraged and abetted by free riders who would benefit unfairly from others’ work, well-intentioned lawmakers and judicial activists have compromised the U.S. patent system, threatening America’s prosperity and national security. But we have the chance to reverse this trend by supporting two bills that will be debated this week in the Senate Judiciary Committee.
The IPKat
NOVEMBER 13, 2024
The AmeriKat has the t-shirt.now what? In a second of a series on AI and patents from our KatFriends at GJE, Kate Voller reports on a recent CIPA webinar with the EPO on how the EPO is leveraging AI tools in examination - with the key message of "assisting", not "replacing" examiners. Over to Kate for the report: "The European Patent Office (EPO) has embraced artificial intelligence (AI) to enhance the efficiency of its patent document searching process.
TorrentFreak
NOVEMBER 6, 2024
During 2010/2011, opportunity arose for Hollywood to convince the High Court in London that site-blocking would be a proportionate response to tackle a single Usenet indexing site called Newzbin. As rightsholders offered assurances that the action would be carefully targeted and strictly limited in scope, the requested injunction was granted in October 2011.
JD Supra Law
NOVEMBER 1, 2024
Popular brands face attacks from all sides, from competitors trying to chip away at market share, to bad actors seeking to profit from counterfeit or knockoff products. However, one lesser-known threat arises when your brand becomes so famous that the trademark becomes synonymous with the product category. By: Sterne, Kessler, Goldstein & Fox P.L.L.C.
SpicyIP
NOVEMBER 19, 2024
In an interesting development, the CIC recently rejected an RTI application concerning information on IPRS’ compliance with the Copyright Act, upholding privacy for private organizations and confidentiality of inquiry reports that have not been tabled in front of the Parliament. SpicyIP intern Kartikeya Srivastava analyses this decision from the lens of underlying public interest in the information sought and comments on the dilution of the RTI Act under the guise of privacy.
Plagiarism Today
NOVEMBER 19, 2024
The same day a photographer won $11,000 at the Copyright Claims Board, a different photographer won just $940 in federal court. The post Photographer Wins Just $940 in Federal Lawsuit appeared first on Plagiarism Today.
IP Watchdog
NOVEMBER 5, 2024
We invited Judge Newman to speak at our annual Life Sciences program at IPWatchdog Studios, which gave Judge Newman a platform to tell her side of the story in her own words and to discuss what the Federal Circuit is doing. So powerful were her comments that at least several in the audience were seen shedding a tear, and she received a hearty standing ovation.
Patently-O
NOVEMBER 15, 2024
by Dennis Crouch Recent patent prosecution data reveals a striking trend: the percentage of utility patents containing "non-transitory" software claims continued to increase -- from virtually zero 15 years ago to nearly 22% in 2024. This dramatic rise illustrates both the central role of software in our patent system and the peculiar formalistic requirements that have emerged around software patent eligibility under 35 U.S.C. § 101.
TorrentFreak
NOVEMBER 13, 2024
After eight years of unprecedented uptime and reliability, the collapse and eventual demise of pirate streaming giant FMovies looked much like the demise of any other. Cracks first started to emerge in June 2024 when the site stopped updating with new content. A few weeks later in mid-July, FMovies disappeared entirely, without any explanation from its operators or indeed anyone else.
JD Supra Law
NOVEMBER 11, 2024
There is no shortage of surprises and twists in the decade-long fight over the control of dominant IP in the CRISPR space. The newest one is the self-revocation of two seminal CRISPR patents in Europe by the team led by two Nobel Laureates Emmanuelle Charpentier and Jennifer Doudna (aka “CVC”).
IP Law 360
NOVEMBER 19, 2024
HP has agreed to join a patent pool for coding technology developed by companies like Dolby Laboratories, Mitsubishi and Philips, months after alleging that the group was engaging in "a money grab" to coerce it to accept "unfair and discriminatory licensing terms.
Plagiarism Today
NOVEMBER 12, 2024
Two papers have been retracted after a software company objected to the use of pirated software. Here's what researchers need to watch for. The post Two Studies Retracted for Using Pirated Software appeared first on Plagiarism Today.
The IPKat
NOVEMBER 11, 2024
Decisions on the enforcement of abstract colour trade marks are rather rare. This is certainly due to the fact that obtaining protection for such marks is not easy in the first place. Colours are generally considered not to be inherently distinctive. As a consequence, trade mark protection for single colours or colour combinations is limited to well-known colours that have acquired distinctiveness through use.
IP Watchdog
NOVEMBER 14, 2024
During a scheduled markup hearing of three key patent bills today, Senators Thom Tillis (R-NC) and Chris Coons (D-DE) announced they would delay consideration of both Patent Eligibility Restoration Act (PERA) and the Promoting and Respecting Economically Vital American Innovation Leadership Act (PREVAIL Act), respectively. However, the Inventor Diversity for Economic Advancement (IDEA) Act of 2024 moved forward to the Senate floor.
TorrentFreak
NOVEMBER 8, 2024
The inception and early years of The Pirate Bay are an intriguing chapter of the Internet’s history. Founded by the Piratbyrån group, The Pirate Bay and its founders embraced the power of the new BitTorrent technology: to copy culture en masse. By doing so, they altered the public discourse, openly taunting the entertainment industries in the process.
JD Supra Law
NOVEMBER 5, 2024
Roughly half the world’s population menstruates at some point in their lives. While menstruation is essential for human life and a critical indicator of health, it is plagued with stigma. Around the world people who menstruate are routinely kept isolated or home from attending school, work, and cultural and religious events because they lack access to affordable and sustainable menstrual health products.
IP Law 360
NOVEMBER 8, 2024
The U.S. Supreme Court must reckon with the Federal Circuit's "disconcerting pattern" of affirming decisions from the Patent Trial and Appeal Board with one-word orders, patent holder ParkerVision Inc. has told the justices, saying that by failing to explain its reasoning, the court is creating uncertainty that is stifling innovation.
Plagiarism Today
NOVEMBER 20, 2024
Bluesky has reached over 20 million users and is adding more every second. But how is it on matters of copyright and content protection? The post Copyright and Content Protection on Bluesky appeared first on Plagiarism Today.
The IPKat
NOVEMBER 10, 2024
Last month, Advocate General (AG) Szpunar issued his Opinion in case C-575/23 , this being the first request for a preliminary ruling on the interpretation of Directive (EU) 2019/790. The referral, which originates from the Belgium's Supreme Administrative Court [see The IPKat here on the national proceedings], concerns the interpretation of Arts. 18 to 23, which govern fair remuneration in exploitation contracts of authors and performers.
IP Watchdog
NOVEMBER 14, 2024
The Senate Judiciary Committee’s Subcommittee on Intellectual Property held an oversight hearing yesterday in which Register of Copyrights Shira Perlmutter told the Subcommittee members that the Office is still working to get parts two and three of its promised report on Copyright and Artificial Intelligence out by the end of this year.
TorrentFreak
NOVEMBER 4, 2024
Last year, Braflix was added to the ever-growing list of flix-inspired pirate streaming sites. Reportedly operating from Brazil, the site offered a clean interface, relying on third-party sources to provide a gateway to pirated movies and TV shows. The site had no obvious connections to other large streaming cabals, such as the massive Fmovies operation.
JD Supra Law
NOVEMBER 4, 2024
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IP Law 360
NOVEMBER 18, 2024
Router maker Netgear urged a California federal judge Monday to hold a mini-trial to determine a reasonable royalty rate for licensing Wi-Fi technology patents from Huawei, which Netgear claims is engaging in anticompetitive behavior and a "scorched earth worldwide litigation campaign" to extract excessive royalties.
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