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Plagiarism Police come for Winston & Strawn

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Winston Strawn Plagiarism Complaint Winston Strawn Plagiarism Attachments I recall being asked to draft my first patent infringement complaint back in early 2003 – a few months after graduating from law school. 2014), a district court judge addressed the issue of copyright infringement in the context of legal briefs.

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Journey Through “Augusts” on SpicyIP (2005 – Present)

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Whether it is South Asian Basmati Brawls, the much-to-tread trail of transparency, the Statements of Patent (Non-)Working, or the Indian “Bayh Dole” Bill, some stories never cease to beguile us. The story starts when the first Mashelkar report (which was later retracted) was alleged of plagiarizing a part of a commissioned study by Prof.

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Attorney Fees on Undecided Inequitable Conduct Issues

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2023) The UCANN vs. Pure Hemp patent case has come to a close with the Federal Circuit affirming the district court’s decision to deny attorney fees to Pure Hemp. The original infringement lawsuit was filed in 2018, with UCANN suing Pure Hemp for infringing US Patent No. 545 (2014). 559 (2014). 4th — (Fed.

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The FTC’s Misguided Comments on Copyright Office Generative AI Questions

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courts have addressed the legality of non-expressive uses of copyrighted works in the context of other copy-reliant technologies, including software reverse engineering, [2] plagiarism detection software, [3] and the digitization of millions of library books to enable meta-analysis, text data mining, and search engine indexing. [4]