The IP Law Blog

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

I say “was” because Ross AI closed down as an operating company in 2020 – Ross says it was due to the Thomson Reuters lawsuit – but its insurance coverage has allowed it to continue to defend the Thomson Reuters lawsuit). The court found, as a matter of law, that Ross copied portions of the Westlaw headnotes.

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Plagiarism Today

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

It was hot on the heels of a very different kind of copying scandal, one that involved Streamlabs announcing the launch of a new product using content copied and pasted from one of their biggest competitors. Hey, can I copy your homework? ? Yeah, just change it up a bit so it’s not obvious you copied. This is our fault.

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TorrentFreak

NOVEMBER 5, 2021

However, there are those who have made cottage industries out of the sale of illegal copies at significantly lower prices. One such individual, a 28-year-old man from Denmark, was spotted by Rights Alliance selling copies of textbooks via DBA, Denmark’s most popular online marketplace. Man Handed Suspended Prison Sentence.

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TorrentFreak

AUGUST 12, 2022

Having spent billions on development and marketing over decades, companies like Microsoft dominate important sections of the software market. The defendants are described as prolific distributors of “black market access devices”, aka activation keys and tokens for Microsoft software.

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TorrentFreak

APRIL 5, 2024

Pressure Increases on Players in the Illicit Market In common with its counterparts in Europe, Sweden had already been paying more attention to those involved in the supply and sale of pirate IPTV subscriptions. The extensive evidence was noted once again and reference was made to the SEK 2,000,000 the man received in 2020.

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TorrentFreak

APRIL 12, 2023

By early 2020, the site’s main domain at 8maple.ru late March 2020. late March 2020. ” TorrentFreak obtained a copy of the official verdict from Taiwan prosecutor Harris Chen. was pulling around 35 million visits per month, generating around US$133,000 per month in revenue.

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TorrentFreak

DECEMBER 29, 2022

When movies are recorded directly from cinema screens, the resulting pirate copy is known as a ‘cam’, regardless of the device used – camcorder or otherwise. A screenshot from the cam copy of Minions: The Rise of Gru. Forensic investigators linked the copy to a cinema in Leeds, West Yorkshire.

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IPilogue

DECEMBER 9, 2022

The Court, by order dated 22 September 2020 , rejected the Defendants’ motion and allowed the Plaintiff’s motion for Partial summary judgement. The court opined that the dispute to copying does not arise as the defendants had admitted to copying the tattoo. The Court’s Conclusions. Citing Muhammad-Ali v.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

AUGUST 2, 2021

The book is available as a PDF at Gumroad for $10, as a Kindle ebook for $9.99, and in hard copy at Amazon for $20. The hard copy comes with a free PDF on request; and shipping should be free on Amazon Prime.] If you’re an academic and would like a free evaluation copy, please email me. Weis Markets. MySpace (5th Cir.).

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TorrentFreak

MAY 1, 2024

Copying or reproduction remains relevant, as does the concept of distribution. The Protecting Lawful Streaming Act ( PLSA ) closed the loophole late December 2020 with the creation of a new felony offense ( 18 U.S.C. Between 2018 and May 2020, Valverde sold reseller credits to ‘M.D’, But in this case, apparently not.

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TorrentFreak

JUNE 14, 2022

In the summer of 2020, publishers Hachette, HarperCollins, John Wiley and Penguin Random House filed a copyright infringement lawsuit against Internet Archive (IA). Only one patron can borrow each book at a time, and the one patron who borrowed a particular print copy from a library is entitled to read it, IA adds.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

JANUARY 9, 2022

I found 166 cases in 2021 (so far), a 23% increase over 2020. When the symbols “include something in addition to common tropes and shapes,” and even then, the registrations should only preclude verbatim copying. My Emoji Law Year-in-Review for 2020. Footnote: courts sometimes clearly mislabel the symbol.

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LexBlog IP

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

I say “was” because Ross AI closed down as an operating company in 2020 – Ross says it was due to the Thomson Reuters lawsuit – but its insurance coverage has allowed it to continue to defend the Thomson Reuters lawsuit). The court found, as a matter of law, that Ross copied portions of the Westlaw headnotes.

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TorrentFreak

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

The group offered hardware and software solutions that allowed people to install and play unofficial games and pirated copies on various consoles, including the popular Nintendo Switch. He was arrested in the Dominican Republic in September 2020 and was deported to the U.S. One of the defendants is Canadian Gary Bowser. soon after.

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Velocity of Content

MARCH 1, 2023

From research to medical communications to legal to marketing, sharing content with colleagues across job roles and departments is critical. Since the last survey in 2020, executive-level preference for collaboration tools has risen 82%. Employees in all job roles are sharing with more and more people.

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IP and Legal Filings

JANUARY 31, 2022

Globalization has given Indian businesses a huge opportunity to access global markets to sell and buy goods and services not only in India but also abroad. 58/2015-2020 dated February 12, 2021, of DGFT an amendment was made relating to IEC scrapping the lifetime validity to an annual one. Copy of rent agreement or electricity bill.

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The IPKat

OCTOBER 15, 2023

The Swedish Patents and Market Court (first instance) held that the shape of the dining table was the result of the author’s own intellectual creation and therefore sufficiently original. The claim to copyright infringement prevailed and that court prohibited the Respondent from further manufacturing, marketing, and selling its dining table.

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The IPKat

FEBRUARY 13, 2022

increase in international registration filings compared to 2020! According to WIPO, China's accession means that the Hague System will cover nine of the world's top 10 economic markets. But what happens when it comes to e-books and audiobooks, where copyright owners typically license access to the works rather than selling copies?

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IP and Legal Filings

JANUARY 8, 2023

modification, and other forms of copying of the work fall under this category. A product or piece of information may be easily copied thanks to modern technology, and some businesses get a significant portion of their income from copying what other businesses have produced. Image Sources : Shutterstock]. The Tips v.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

Philpot sued in 2020 over the 2016 IJR publication, i.e., after the 3 year statute of limitations that no one seems to care about post-Petrella. (In ” Market Effect. Further, “if IJR’s challenged use becomes uninterrupted and widespread,” it hurts Philpot’s potential market of licensing to media outlets.

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JIPL Online

MARCH 15, 2021

The Conan Doyle estate, heirs to the author of the works about the famed detective Sherlock Holmes, alleged that Netflix infringed on the character Sherlock Holmes in its portrayal of Sherlock Holmes in the 2020 movie “Enola Holmes.” [2] 18] Netflix admitted it had access to and copied the memoir. [19] 21, 2020), [link]. [3]

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The IPKat

MAY 9, 2024

018171305 ) as well as case law ( R-51/2006-4 , R-2069/2020 ). The EUIPO therefore concluded that the sign in question is just one more variant of the many existing on the market that adopt simple decorative elements, alone or in combination with each other. 018153472 , EU trade mark no. 018734154 , EU trade mark no. 018840443.

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IPilogue

JULY 21, 2021

In February 2020, a jury in the U.S. copyright laws by copying their source code, it also complained that Hytera infringed the federal Defend Trade Secrets Act. Profiting from a market competitor’s innovations via trade secrets and source code theft misappropriates the intellectual creation and property of other firms’ investments.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

AUGUST 1, 2023

By Guest Blogger Tyler Ochoa Recently, the Ninth Circuit reaffirmed what has become known as the “server test”: in order to be held directly liable for violating the public display right, the alleged infringer must have a fixed “copy” of the work stored on a server in its possession or control. Instagram, LLC , 2023 WL 4554649 (9th Cir.

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TorrentFreak

OCTOBER 25, 2021

Six major ISPs – BT, EE, Plusnet, Sky, TalkTalk and Virgin Media – control more than 90% of the fixed line broadband market in the UK. appeared in September 2020 when MPA/ACE obtained a DMCA subpoena at a California district court. Traffic recently dropped to around 9.7 domain acted as a replacement for its predecessor.

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IIPRD

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

of the population of India having ingress to the world wide web and ever growing e-commerce market which is forecasted to reach about twenty billion euros by 2030, it becomes pertinent to analyse the interconnect between these two. [1] Bindu Shah, ‘Retail Industry of India’ (IIPTA 1 st December 2019) [link] accessed on 16th August, 2020.

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IPilogue

OCTOBER 28, 2022

In 2020, COVID-19’s emergence prompted scientists across the world to race against time to develop a vaccine, with the pharmaceutical giants Moderna, Pfizer and BioNTech (“Pfizer/BioNTech”) leading the way. Nancy Chen is an IPilogue Writer and a second-year JD/MBA Candidate at the University of Toronto. Infringement Allegation.

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Velocity of Content

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

In 2020, digital advertising spending worldwide amounted to US$378 billion — with online platforms Google and Facebook together owning half the market or about $190 billion. For scale, the New York State budget in 2020 was $177 billion. billion – a further 18 percent fall since 2020. So what’s a news publisher to do?

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TorrentFreak

AUGUST 24, 2021

In April 2020, a coalition of entertainment companies headed up by Universal, Paramount, Columbia, Disney and Amazon filed a copyright infringement lawsuit against the operators of ‘pirate’ IPTV service Nitro TV. channels, which are only possible to offer after content is copied and stored, contrary to copyright law.

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Patently-O

AUGUST 24, 2023

In its recent Volva Penta decision, the Federal Circuit found that the PTAB had (1) created too high of a burden to prove nexus and (2) been unduly dismissive of the patentee’s evidence of commercial success and copying. The case also serves as a reminder that product copying still caries significant weight in the obviousness analysis.

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43(B)log

DECEMBER 1, 2022

The parties compete in the market for audio products, specifically multichannel amplifiers, and sell online, including on Amazon. Statements in a user manual are ‘made to explain a user tool, not for a promotional purpose to penetrate the relevant market of the viewing public.’” But “[n]ot all commercial speech is promotional.”

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Velocity of Content

APRIL 12, 2023

The ease with which teams can access and share information, such as news, feature articles, research reports, and more, can influence the pace at which organizations and their teams drive innovation and deliver products and services to the market. 1] so important to note?

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TorrentFreak

FEBRUARY 15, 2022

In 2020, Amazon teamed up with publisher Penguin Random House and authors including John Grisham, Scott Turow and Lee Child to sue several pirate ‘Kiss Library’ eBook sites operating out of Ukraine. When sales are replaced by pirated copies, authors earn a lot less. Congress and Google Must Do More.

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TorrentFreak

AUGUST 14, 2021

In March 2020, with the world gripped by the coronavirus pandemic, the Internet Archive (IA) offered a new service to help displaced learners. In a lawsuit filed June 1, 2020, in a New York court, Hachette Book Group, Inc., The service was not appreciated by book publishers. Publishers Sue IA For Copyright Infringement.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

JULY 16, 2021

Robinhood Markets, Inc., Robinhood used Ice Cube’s picture and paraphrase of a line from his song to illustrate an article about market corrections. Mangos Caribbean Restaurant LLC, 2020 WL 10056405 (N.D. On the contrary, they seem easily separable. 2021 WL 2435307 (N.D. June 15, 2021). Employment. Crawford v.

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LexBlog IP

MARCH 7, 2022

Moreover, in 2020, TikTok was forced to enter into a global agreement with the National Music Publishers Association (“NMPA”) in response to NMPA’s allegation that at least half of the music on the application was unlicensed and in direct violation of copyright laws. were copyright related.

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Patently-O

AUGUST 17, 2021

Valve submitted a printout of Burns and argues that it was a printed copy of an online review of a Scuf controller from 2010. In particular, one of the inventors (Burgess) testified that he had facilitated the publication back in 2010 for marketing purposes. 10, June 2020). ” Fed. See, e.g., MPEP § 2128 (9th ed.

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