The Illusion of More

OCTOBER 19, 2021

In an excellent post on the blog Librarian Shipwreck, the author reminds us to take a more expansive view of the so-called Facebook problem. The article lands direct hits on most of the big nails (for instance, that we cannot trust Facebook to fix Facebook), but perhaps its most critical observation is the one about […].

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Patent Trademark Blog

APRIL 5, 2023

One of the most frequent questions I get about getting a patent in China is whether anyone should even bother. Why file a patent overseas when you cannot enforce it? Keep in mind that I am a US patent attorney. Our foreign patent experience has enabled us to counsel our clients on what to expect when filing patents worldwide.

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Velocity of Content

APRIL 25, 2024

“Why do life science companies need to discover new scientific content?” It is about generating new ideas that solve problems or build on existing solutions, like improving patient treatments and meeting unmet medical needs. This is why timely access to scientific content is so crucial in generating news ideas and insights.

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TorrentFreak

JULY 12, 2022

Last month, the US Copyright Claims Board went live. We reached out to Sky directly who informed us that it has nothing to do with this claim. We have no association with Copyrights Protection, they are not authorized to act on our behalf and we will be contacting them to request the claim is withdrawn,” a Sky spokesperson informed us.

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43(B)log

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

Want to be globally available so need to consider more than US, EU, UK guidance. If © is difficult, what about ROP? Lots of people on social media claim to be AI-generated and complain about “stealing my pics.” Tyler Ochoa: why won’t TM law be more valuable? If AI-generated is inaccurate/puffery, should that bother us?

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Plagiarism Today

JANUARY 13, 2022

However, it was in 1995, when writing for New Republic, that questions about her ethics became public. In an article about affirmative action policies at the Washington Post, she made several factual errors, including one that resulted in the publication being sued for defamation. That, in turn, brings us to the lawsuit itself.

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TorrentFreak

SEPTEMBER 3, 2023

Under the current DMCA legislation, US-based Internet services are expected to remove infringing links, if a copyright holder complains. In recent years there has been a lot of discussion about the effectiveness of the system but it remains standard practice. This process shields these services from direct liability.

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Plagiarism Today

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

However, in 1965, there was a very different conversation about the song. Why It’s Worth Remembering. However, it’s important to remember that these kinds of cases have always been with us. In the end, the case is more of a footnote in both the film’s history and the history of copyright.

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Erik K Pelton

AUGUST 18, 2020

One of the most popular questions I get asked among new or prospective clients is about filing at the US Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) for a word versus a logo. I want to explain why protecting the words is actually more important, almost always, than protecting the logo.

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LexBlog IP

FEBRUARY 14, 2022

For many years now, each February, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has issued a report reminding us that love is indeed a battlefield and that life is not always like an episode of Hart to Hart. You may be wondering why we are highlighting this issue in a blog dedicated to advertising.

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Patent Trademark Blog

JULY 14, 2022

Leap of Faith: File a PCT patent application while your US application might get rejected? For US applicants, the deadline for filing a PCT patent application is 1 year from your earliest US filing date known as the priority date. Educated Guess: How will your US claims be amended? How does that help your US application?

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Velocity of Content

JANUARY 9, 2024

In a 2023 report published by EndPoints News , it is suggested that for 2022, an estimated 70% of US FDA approvals for new treatments originated in small companies when compared to 66% in 2021. In Why does it matter, and what can you do? This becomes increasingly concerning when also considering remote working.

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TorrentFreak

JANUARY 9, 2024

It’s not clear why the report uses a comparison base this far out. Roughly 15 years ago, India only had about five million broadband subscribers. However, MUSO and Kearney stress that understanding why people pirate, and responding appropriately, can help to convert some pirates into paying consumers.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

DECEMBER 17, 2021

Xandr places third-party cookies and uses it to track users and collect personal information about them, which it then shares with its business partners. ” The UK GDPR authorizes private rights of action in US courts. ” So the case is out of the US. maybe the US rules for class formation are more favorable?

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TorrentFreak

JANUARY 1, 2024

To that end, today we can report that DMCA notices continued to be filed against us at Google, all of them demanding the deindexing of links to our news reports in Google search. We also received a few direct to us via email, more than usual in 2023. Sadly, it mentioned nothing about the copyright claims.

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The IPKat

JUNE 17, 2023

I personally love everything by Cattelan and among other things I did enjoy the recent exhibition in Florence about his and other contemporary artists’ work. In this sense, the judge reminded that “ mere availability, and therefore possibility of access, is not sufficient to prove access ”. This alone would be dispositive of Morford’s claims.

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JD Supra Law

OCTOBER 14, 2021

That sounds like an enormous amount of investment capital, but when the company is potentially changing cancer treatment as we know it - you can see why investors are excited about Elevation's potential. Today, founder and CEO Shawn Leland tells us all about the raises, challenges and excitement of growing his company.

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SpicyIP

APRIL 24, 2022

Why looking so pale! To start with, let’s think a little about what IP and IPR mean. Though I never really understood why they’re all pushed within one umbrella term “IPR” though. . You all have touched on different aspects of the question from what/what-not IP to why IP and what after IP. So, your initial initiation!

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SpicyIP

MARCH 11, 2024

He is passionate about geopolitics, foreign policy, international trade, and intellectual property and spends his time reading and watching sports. ] The DHC had held that the keywords used by booking.com caused no such confusion in the user’s mind. Image from here [ This post is authored by SpicyIP intern Aarav Gupta.

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43(B)log

FEBRUARY 3, 2024

Q: is this project about taking away the mythos of IP as equalizer or something else? Possible implications for how we think about refugees, internationalization of rights. Definitions are challenging, including use in commerce—but that hasn’t stopped us in other IP. Mexican legislation deals w/cultural appropriation.

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SpicyIP

APRIL 15, 2024

Here is our recap of last week’s top IP developments including summaries of posts on the India- EFTA TEPA, AP High Court’s curious findings on fair use, and Delhi High Court’s order imposing INR 1 lakh as damages on Google for failing to disclose information about their corresponding foreign applications. Read on to know more.

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TorrentFreak

JANUARY 5, 2024

On January 1, 2024, TorrentFreak published a review of the wrongful DMCA notices filed against us in 2023, either directly via email or at Google demanding deindexing of our articles. Our small request for 2024 was not unreasonable: stop sending us bogus copyright notices. domain, but the repo was reported for infringement nonetheless.

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SpicyIP

SEPTEMBER 16, 2023

We’re pleased to bring to you this post by UNH Franklin Pierce about its Associate Dean for Administration and Enrolment’s visit to India. The move to UNH Franklin Pierce came after nearly three decades in the US Navy, where he was a submarine officer and then Navy Judge Advocate. Note: this is a sponsored post.

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TorrentFreak

NOVEMBER 26, 2022

While it was the US Department of Justice that ultimately took action, these large-scale operations often rely on international cooperation. “We sent our report to relevant publishers, not directly to US authorities,” Kuik clarifies. “[The report] outlined the domains and identified a number of suspects involved. .

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Velocity of Content

JANUARY 11, 2024

We recently spoke with CCC’s Catherine Hodges to learn more about this initiative: Q: How did you first hear about Girls Who Code and what motivated you to get involved? A: I learned about Girls Who Code in my first DEI committee meeting at CCC. If so, why? to their lives. It is not just for writing code.

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TorrentFreak

AUGUST 11, 2022

Six years ago the US Navy was sued for mass copyright infringement by German software vendor Bitmanagement, which requested hundreds of millions of dollars in damages. Software Company Sues US Navy. At the United States Court of Federal Claims, the German company accused the US Navy of mass copyright infringement.

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CopyrightsWorld

MARCH 29, 2022

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Velocity of Content

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

It has presented us with unprecedented scope and scale of information. The internet is all about communication,” Katz explains. The digital revolution has come on with unprecedented speed. And most importantly, it has kind of given a rocket boost to how we communicate.”. Best of VOC: Gen Z Explained.

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43(B)log

FEBRUARY 4, 2023

A Few Words for a Lost Friend: Tribute to Dmitry Karshtedt (Bob Brauneis, Mark Lemley, Jake Sherkow) Closing Plenary Session: Fair use Robert Brauneis, Copyright Transactions in the Shadow of Fair Use Suppose a work does not infringe another work because and only because it’s been ruled a fair use. effect on the market.

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TorrentFreak

NOVEMBER 18, 2022

This allows us to do something that legal entities cannot do: making sure books are mirrored far and wide,” they note. “For us, it underscores the importance of being careful, and the importance of this data being widely available and redundant across the globe,” Anna said. Leave No Trace.

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The IPKat

APRIL 11, 2022

A happy Kat preparing for Easter Across the pond, IPFinance reported that the US Congressional Research Service has released a report for the US Congress concerning the COVID-19 Patent Waiver agreement between the U.S., The report contains information about the leaked agreement and specific issues for the U.S.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

MAY 10, 2022

The defense firm argued that the above text exchange warned the associate about the potential disqualification. The appellate court sees it differently: Slavin’s alleged “warning” about disqualification was followed by a smiley-face emoji, which is prone to multiple interpretations. Fortunately, this court showed us what it saw.

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TorrentFreak

SEPTEMBER 2, 2022

For example, copyright holders wondered why the company could terminate these accounts but not those of the most notorious pirate sites. ” As we suggested back in 2017, Cloudflare essentially handed out free ammunition to adversaries , who could use the voluntary terminations as an argument to request more restrictions.

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LexBlog IP

FEBRUARY 18, 2024

In this newsletter, I’ll show you the importance of patenting and how it can protect you and your invention when someone uses it without your permission. WHY PATENT AN INVENTION? Patenting is essentially claiming ownership of your invention by obtaining exclusive rights to make, use, or sell it.

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Velocity of Content

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

We see it in the shows and movies that Netflix and Amazon suggest to us and in the music that Spotify or Pandora recommends while we scroll through our playlists. As consumers, we experience personalization daily via targeted online advertising while browsing or in our social media accounts. According to the latest data , approximately 8.5

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Nelligan Law

JANUARY 4, 2024

Many people don’t think about those realities when they “pop the question” or “say yes.” Most of us think about preparing a will in case one partner dies. Very few people think about making a plan with their partner in the event the union ends. Many are very fearful about the future. But everyone should.

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Traverse Legal Blog

MARCH 25, 2022

In this video, Blockchain attorney Enrico Schaefer identifies key legal issues every brand, marketing agency, or project point person needs to be thinking about before launching an NFT project for a company. In this video, you will learn about the issues these brands and marketing companies are considering when they talk bout NFT projects.

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