Patently-O

NOVEMBER 29, 2024

Since Director Kathi Vidal’s confirmation in April 2022, the grant rate has shown a modest decline from its peak levels of around 80-85% during 2020-2021. More recent data points to subtle but noteworthy changes in USPTO practice.

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IP Watchdog

OCTOBER 10, 2024

In 2021, LAION, based in Hamburg, automatically downloaded images from the internet, including Kneschke’s photo from Bigstock, to create a dataset (LAION 5B) containing image-text pairs for training AI.

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Hugh Stephens Blog

JANUARY 4, 2022

As I noted in my year-end wrap up a couple of weeks ago, some of the copyright and content related issues that were under discussion in Canada in 2021 will likely move forward in a more aggressive way this year.

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TorrentFreak

JANUARY 15, 2025

The next wave of success and the subsequent and inevitable rise of other unblocked sites kept Malaysian authorities busy; in 2019 (438 sites), 2020 (644), and in 2021 (347). Whether some or all of these ‘sites’ were clones, mirrors, or proxies, or potentially just new domains, wasn’t revealed.

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Plagiarism Today

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

But in 2021, it Slowly Started Growing Again. However, in 2021, the trend started to reverse. However, in the second half of 2020, the trend started to reverse, with 2021 marking a 2.8% In an announcement on his channel, GilvaSunner has said that he is going to close the channel, or what is left of it, tomorrow.

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Plagiarism Today

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

They did so anyway and followed up by filing a trademark We’ve tried to sort this out in private and they have been uncooperative at every turn [link] — OBS (@OBSProject) November 17, 2021. pic.twitter.com/00sjHsmntF — Streamlabs (@streamlabs) November 17, 2021. — Streamlabs (@streamlabs) November 16, 2021.

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Likelihood of Confusion

NOVEMBER 24, 2024

Originally posted 2021-04-13 10:40:33. Republished by Blog Post PromoterWhen trademark lawyers — much less judges — use a word, it means just what they choose it to mean — neither more nor less.

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JD Supra Law

JANUARY 6, 2025

Since 2021, NIL deals have allowed student athletes to earn money and work with brands while in school, but they require brands to undertake additional steps above and beyond those required when working with a celebrity or influencer who is not a student athlete.

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Intellectual Property Law Blog

MAY 11, 2021

On Wednesday, May 7, 2021, the United States officially endorsed waiving intellectual property protections for COVID-19 vaccines. 1] Press Release, Executive Office Of The President, Statement From Ambassador Katherine Tai On The Covid-19 Trips Waiver (May 5, 2021), [link]. FOOTNOTES. [1]

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TorrentFreak

MARCH 19, 2025

Piracy Decline (2022 report) This report is still not the original source, as another citation identifies an EUIPO copyright infringement report from 2021 as the basis for the conclusion that piracy is declining. This indeed mentions that “the overall decline of digital piracy continued” during the COVID pandemic.

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JD Supra Law

JANUARY 23, 2025

On January 16, 2025, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) Bureau of Competition published four reports on pharmaceutical patent settlement agreements filed under the Medicare Prescription Drug, Improvement, and Modernization Act of 2003 (MMA) for fiscal years 2018-2021. By: Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati

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Copyright Lately

NOVEMBER 10, 2024

But it’s time to start paying attention to the Court’s 2021 ruling in TransUnion v. Ramirez : The New Standard for Concrete Harm The Supreme Court’s 2021 decision in TransUnion v. Ramirez , which introduced a strict new requirement for establishing standing to sue in federal court. TransUnion v.

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Plagiarism Today

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

In July 2021, Disney debuted a new series entitled Behind the Attraction , which among its initial episodes, featured their own episode about the attraction. Right is from Behind the Attraction on Disney+ pic.twitter.com/Sf1biymTSz — James St.Onge – Art of Engineering (@aoEngineering) September 16, 2021. And this one.

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Plagiarism Today

JUNE 23, 2025

In May 2021, Klein was sued by Triller , who alleged H3H3 had committed copyright infringement by using clips from the Jake Paul vs. Ben Askren boxing match. In December 2021, Klein announced that he intended to sue the Korean media company MBC. That case (and the others that spun off from it) were settled in August 2024.

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Plagiarism Today

OCTOBER 6, 2021

” Evans had plagiarized a significant portion of his speech from a July 2021 article by Robert Farrington at Forbes magazine. The first event took place in January 2021. The second incident took place in June 2021 at a Juneteenth event in Flushing, Ohio. Pretty soon, “People started just reading along.”

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JD Supra Law

MAY 20, 2025

French cinema iconGrard Depardieuwas convicted of sexually assaulting two women on a film set in Paris in 2021 and handed an 18-month suspended sentence. By: Kaufman & Canoles

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Plagiarism Today

JANUARY 3, 2022

A new year is upon us and, while 2021 proved that a new year doesn’t mean a fresh start, it is still an opportunity to both reflect on the past and look ahead. In December 2021, Spotify made the abrupt decision to remove a long list of comedy performers from their streaming service. 2: The Battle Over Comedy Tracks.

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Plagiarism Today

SEPTEMBER 2, 2022

According to the claim, JMC infringed on two of their films, the 1988 film Coming to America and its 2021 sequel Coming 2 America. According to the filing, in February 2021, as the second film was preparing to be released, JMC announced that it would host a “McDowell’s” themed pop up in April.

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JD Supra Law

APRIL 1, 2025

Since the NCAA's landmark policy shift in 2021, student-athletes can now profit from their personal brands. With March Madness in full swing, the spotlight isnt only on thrilling buzzer-beaters or underdog victories; its also on the continued evolution of Name, Image and Likeness (NIL) rights. This is exciting.

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JD Supra Law

JANUARY 22, 2025

On May 6, 2021, plaintiffs sued defendants for patent infringement in the United States District Court for the District of Delaware.

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IP and Legal Filings

JANUARY 2, 2025

On March 30, 2021, the Indian government modified the Copyright Rules, adding a few additional legal measures pertaining to copyright violations in social media. on recent years, there has been an increasing worry over copyright violations on social media, which affects the creators’ right to life as well [6]. 1 (2022). 1 (2022). [5]

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IP Close Up

JANUARY 28, 2025

The Center for Intellectual Property Understanding is pleased to announce that the Under Secretary of Commerce and United States Patent and Trademark Office Director, 2017-2021, Continue reading

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IP Watchdog

JUNE 18, 2025

The DSMER Pilot was announced in January 2022 in response to a 2021 letter sent to the Office by Senators Thom Tillis (R-NC) and Tom Cotton (R-AR) asking then-interim Director Drew Hirshfeld to “initiate a pilot program directing examiners to apply a sequenced approach to patent examination,” rather than the traditional “compact approach.”

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Hugh Stephens Blog

SEPTEMBER 2, 2024

Image: Shutterstock (modified) The 2021 Revisions Back in 2021 I wrote a mixed review of the revisions brought in to update Singapore’s Copyright Act.

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TorrentFreak

NOVEMBER 29, 2024

of the EU population used pirate IPTV services in 2021. These percentages are hard to interpret without a historical reference. Previously, research commissioned by Audiovisual Anti-Piracy Alliance (AAPA), estimated that 4.5% This number presumably went up in the following years.

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Plagiarism Today

AUGUST 19, 2021

After that, in January 2021, now-former Rochester Public School District superintendent Michael Muñoz faced multiple allegations of plagiarism related to his job. The story involves Dr. Christine Trujillo, who began her new role as superintendent of the Gilbert Community School District on July 1, 2021.

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JD Supra Law

JUNE 10, 2025

In 2021, the NCAA began allowing players to be compensated for their Name, Image, and Likeness (NIL). Since its inception, the NCAA has restricted schools from paying student athletes anything beyond scholarships that covered tuition and the cost of attendance. By: Lowndes

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TorrentFreak

OCTOBER 26, 2024

Late January, 2021, a warrant was executed at Merrell’s home, and five electronic devices were seized. In a subsequent interview Merrell admitted that he’d serviced 1,000 customers since 2017, a figure later revised to 2,000 by 2021.

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Plagiarism Today

DECEMBER 1, 2022

This was in stark contrast to what Mueller said in June 2021, when he openly admitted that, on occasion, Google can accidentally rank copied content over original works and encouraged people to file copyright notices. While the answers are definitely thin, Google has a long history of ducking these complicated issues. A Changing Tactic.

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Plagiarism Today

FEBRUARY 21, 2022

” In January 2021, the pair submitted it to the International Small Business Journal , a SAGE journal. However, on Christmas Day 2021, the authors got an unpleasant holiday surprise when their paper was published in Vision: The Journal of Business Perspective by a different group of authors. Vision is also a SAGE journal.

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Plagiarism Today

MAY 23, 2022

Instead, it was published in 2021 on Douyin, the Chinese equivalent of TikTok, by a prominent video blogger that uses the name Beida Mange. Similarly, in October 2021, we discussed the Cinemassacre Monster Madness plagiarism allegations. However, the monologue was not his, nor was it written by Audi or M&C.

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Indiana Intellectual Property Law

DECEMBER 20, 2024

The first set, referred to as “Copyrighted Photographs 1,” was taken on January 12, 2021, and depicted a property located in Fortville, Indiana. The second set, “Copyrighted Photographs 2,” was taken on May 20 and May 25, 2021, of another property located in Fishers, Indiana. Continue reading

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Plagiarism Today

AUGUST 4, 2022

In February 2021, Activision was sued by author and photographer Clayton Haugen, who alleged Activision based a character named Mara off his character Cade Janus, specifically photos he took of a cosplayer dressed as the character. That case was settled in October 2021. So what happened in this latest case?

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The IPKat

MARCH 19, 2025

The Case China amended its Seed Law in 2021 to strengthen its plant variety protection system. China released its 14th Five-Year Plan in 2021, which included measures to promote its innovation system in the agricultural sector, including improving agricultural varieties and fostering an internationally competitive seed industry.

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TorrentFreak

FEBRUARY 9, 2025

million blocked in 2021. million removed in 2021. million removed in 2021. The descriptions and figures are therefore Gazprom’s own, provided here as-is. 2022 Blocked: 7 million links to pirated content, 67% more than the 4.2 Removed: 4.6 million links removed from Yandex search results vs. 2.6 Removed: 2.8

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IP Watchdog

MARCH 19, 2025

Prior to an evidentiary hearing in July 2021, DivX filed an unopposed motion to withdraw its Section 337 complaint as it pertained to Realtek, proceeding on its infringement theories in the evidentiary hearing against TCL instead. Realtek filed for sanctions against DivX in October 2021. for sale infringed its patent claims.

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Plagiarism Today

APRIL 7, 2022

The new bill, entitled “A Bill For An Act To Repeal The Copyright Act CAP LFN 2004 And To Re-enact The Copyright Act 2021,” would make it illegal to broadcast or duplicate any online audiovisual work without a license. This includes works originally uploaded to social media.

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