TorrentFreak

JULY 13, 2023

law enforcement agencies seized over 200 domain names connected to the site. Following an FBI investigation, the authorities identified Russian nationals Anton Napolsky and Valeriia Ermakova as prime suspects. While that may be true, this isn’t conduct that can be ascribed to the defendants, the lawyers argue.

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SpicyIP

MAY 17, 2023

India, which has featured in this list multiple times in the past, (as highlighted on the blog by different authors over the years) finds its position in the list yet again, for remaining as “one of the world’s most challenging major economies with respect to protection and enforcement of IP”. .” of the TRIPS.

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TorrentFreak

OCTOBER 17, 2023

In the absence of sudden momentous events, shaping entrenched public opinion requires astute calculations and considerable patience, built on a foundation of financial power. Before we address that, here’s some fresh news for context. These individuals either received an in-person visit or were sent a cease-and-desist letter.

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43(B)log

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

Second, the court rejected defendants’ argument that their allegedly improper conduct ceased in 2018, giving the FTC no standing in court. Defendants’ conduct strongly suggests they were well aware that the reviews might not generated by genuine users of the platform. But had defendants ceased their conduct?

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43(B)log

MARCH 22, 2023

findings are the sole creative effort of the author and NutriSearch Corporation, neither of whom is associated with any manufacturer or product represented in this guide.” Usana allegedly benefited financially from the Guide. company whose products may be represented herein. Usana has also taken advantage of these neutrality claims.

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LexBlog IP

MAY 24, 2023

Theoretically, the FTC could have pushed for an administrative penalty, but it might have been a stretch in this case for the FTC to allege that the conduct was “fraudulent or dishonest ,” which is the standard that the agency has to meet in order to get money administratively.

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IP and Legal Filings

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

Financial crimes like tax evasion have a lack of transparency at their core, which is connected to a larger range of activities like money laundering and corruption. INTRODUCTION. Governments all over the world are deeply concerned about the need for corporate transparency. Image Source: Freepic]. Beneficial Ownership. Indian Framework.

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LexBlog IP

JANUARY 17, 2024

On January 1, 2021, Congress enacted the Corporate Transparency Act (the “ CTA ”) as part of the Anti-Money Laundering Act of 2020 and its annual National Defense Authorization Act. Department of the Treasury’s Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (“ FinCEN ”).

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LexBlog IP

AUGUST 29, 2023

On January 1, 2021, Congress enacted the Corporate Transparency Act (the “ CTA ”) as part of the Anti-Money Laundering Act of 2020 and its annual National Defense Authorization Act. Department of the Treasury’s Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (“ FinCEN ”).

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IP and Legal Filings

MAY 29, 2022

vs Rajnish Chibber on 20 Oct 1995 trade secret was defined as any financially valuable information that’s not that cannot be disposed to public otherwise its revelation would cause serious hurt to the owner. (2) DEFINITIONS UNDER VARIOUS ACTS. (1) 1) In Burlington Home looking Pvt. vs chemical action Equipments P.

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LexBlog IP

OCTOBER 18, 2021

Federal Office of Culture of the Swiss Confederation that the temporary seizure in Geneva of antiquities belonging to Colorado-based art collectors conducted by Swiss authorities, as part of a Swiss police investigation, does not fall within the scope of the “expropriation exception” of the U.S.

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43(B)log

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

But “[t]here are no reported cases where Lanham Act liability is extended to a company that merely benefits from the statement and compensates the author for the statement in the absence of an agency relationship or evidence that it has exercised control over or caused the statement.” The FTC 100% thinks so.]

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Corsearch

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

The Global Security Team quickly span up an enforcement program and started to get more listings removed; it was able to measure platform compliance; it began to measure units of diverted medicines removed from visibility so that patients couldn’t purchase them online – with the team attributing a financial value to this activity.

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Copyright Lately

JANUARY 31, 2023

” But according to Astley’s complaint, “A license to use the original underlying musical composition does not authorize the stealing of the artist’s voice in the original recording.” Ford’s ad agency licensed the musical composition “Do You Wanna Dance” for use in a Mercury Sable commercial.

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LexBlog IP

JUNE 20, 2023

While the agency has substantive rule-making authority to implement the AIA, it does not have authority to implement regulations that effectively rewrite the AIA statutes themselves. The agency plainly cannot limit access to IPR by expanding agency discretion to swallow entire aspects of the AIA statutes.

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SpicyIP

JULY 31, 2023

This weekly review is co-authored with SpicyIP Intern Yashna Walia. The court held that the Controller should have considered the details of the experiments conducted, comparative studies made and their conclusive results to determine efficacy. Centre for Developments of Telematics to be the nodal agency for telecom IPRs.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

DECEMBER 12, 2022

Under the law of copyright, the authors of works of science are the copyright owners of their published articles. In current practice, authors are expected to assign or exclusively license their copyright to publishers. The new copyright rules relevant to “Big Deals”. Additionally, an increasing number of Member States (e.g.,

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LexBlog IP

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

Issued nearly one year after publication of the Biden Administration’s AI Bill of Rights, the Order tasks a number of federal departments and agencies with the responsibility of generating, implementing and/or overseeing standards and guidance with respect to AI-related risks.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

JUNE 11, 2022

It also clearly had the right and ability to control the display of the Subject Images—its own employees published the infringing articles—and it received a financial benefit from them in the form of paid advertising. * Plaintiffs do not allege an agency relationship. UMG Recordings, Inc. RCN Telecom Services, LLC , 2022 WL 1291388 (D.

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LexBlog IP

APRIL 25, 2022

While acknowledging the risk that “high-value art and the market in which it is traded can be abused by illicit financial actors to launder funds,” the Report recommended that Treasury “complete its ongoing work to close outstanding gaps in the U.S. .” The Report. Auction Houses and Galleries. Online Marketplaces.

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LexBlog IP

JULY 21, 2021

But it runs deeper and further back for this author , and provides for a broader discussion, as it seems to be an issue many countries have addressed, differently, as my research here has revealed. So a lot is implied in, or possible from, the title ( as is often my intent on this blog ). society at over $1 trillion annually. society at $4.8

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43(B)log

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

Other doctrines developing in parallel: the First Amendment is the elephant in the room, w/unintended consequences for financial regulation, public accommodations, etc. Fromer: Don’t forget role of PTO and other agencies, either contributing to ossification or development of TM. Burrell: can an admin agency be part of ossification?

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TorrentFreak

JULY 23, 2023

NordVPN notes on its website that it “will only comply with requests from foreign governments and law enforcement agencies if these requests are delivered according to laws and regulations.” KPMG also recently conducted an independent audit which confirmed that our VPN servers are in compliance with our privacy policy.

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IP Tech Blog

JULY 17, 2023

These principles are: Human agency and oversight –AI shall be a tool that serves people, respects human dignity and personal autonomy, and that functions in a way that can be appropriately controlled and overseen by humans. High quality of the datasets feeding the system to minimise risks and discriminatory outcomes.

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LexBlog IP

JULY 17, 2023

These principles are: Human agency and oversight –AI shall be a tool that serves people, respects human dignity and personal autonomy, and that functions in a way that can be appropriately controlled and overseen by humans. .” High quality of the datasets feeding the system to minimise risks and discriminatory outcomes.

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LexBlog IP

MARCH 16, 2023

Perhaps coincidentally, the agency did not announce any sort of public meeting that month, much to our suspicious chagrin. In the FTC’s statute, 6(b) is simply the provision that gives the agency the authority to get information from outside entities and compile that information into anonymized reports for the public.

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LexBlog IP

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

Citing concern that these items could be misused to “abuse human rights or conduct other malicious cyber activities,” BIS stated its aim is to ensure “U.S. 5440) would require reporting of qualifying incidents to the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) no more than 72 hours after discovery.

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43(B)log

AUGUST 9, 2021

This opinion considered whether Charter was liable in civil contempt and the amount of harm caused by its conduct to the relevant creditors. If there’s “a fair ground of doubt as to the wrongfulness of the defendant’s conduct,” civil contempt isn’t appropriate. Nor could they cast off blame onto their ad agency or their consultant.

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SpicyIP

SEPTEMBER 30, 2023

This registration was challenged by Armasuisse, the federal agency of Switzerland, before the single judge, who ruled that the “Swiss Military” marks would be ineligible for trademark registration in clothing and textiles. Hong Kong and Shanghai Banking Corporation.

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LexBlog IP

MARCH 1, 2022

In a unanimous decision last year, the United States Supreme Court held that Section 13(b) of the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) Act does not authorize the FTC to obtain equitable monetary relief such as restitution or disgorgement. AMG Capital Management v. Federal Trade Commission , 593 U.S. Takeaway No.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

JANUARY 24, 2023

Without adequate financial support for outside counsel, those cases could go sideways. Honorable mention: New York’s AB A7865A requiring editorial disclosures about “hateful conduct.” Some of the problems he’s creating: Not paying outside counsel. You need top talent to win hard cases. Twitter and Trump v.

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