IP Watchdog

JULY 7, 2022

Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) yesterday announced in a joint blog post with the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) that the Office plans to execute a number of initiatives aimed at lowering drug prices, as directed in July 2021 by President Joe Biden’s “Executive Order on Promoting Competition in the American Economy.”

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Velocity of Content

JANUARY 9, 2024

For example, depending on the nature and purpose of your use, you can unknowingly infringe someone’s copyright rights by embedding a YouTube video into your PowerPoint presentation, posting a commercial podcast on your company’s Intranet, or copying and pasting a blog post from a LinkedIn listing to your own blog. 

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

JUNE 18, 2023

collectively.” Blog post on amicus briefs. Blog post on Asurvio v. Blog post on that ruling. Blog post on the filings. Blog post on that ruling. Blog post on that ruling. Blog post on that ruling. District Court dismissal on remand.

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Velocity of Content

AUGUST 15, 2023

This is the second in a series of blog posts in which CCC shares this analysis with the scholarly community to spark dialogue and drive action with respect to metadata management during each stage of the research lifecycle. In this blog, we examine the interactions between researchers and funders during the proposal submission stage.

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U.S. Department of Commerce

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

In this blog post, we share more about this effort, as well as discuss major insights from the Metrics Working Group final report, “Innovation in Evidence-Building: Evolving Program Data Management Practices within the Department of Commerce.” This post is authored by Barbara Downs, Evaluation Officer, U.S.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

DECEMBER 4, 2023

To ensure you don’t miss out on interesting IP law developments reported on our other IP blogs, we will, on a regular basis, provide you with an overview of the most-read posts from each of our IP law blogs. Here are the most popular posts over the past few months. “ Part 2 of this post is available here.

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Likelihood of Confusion

OCTOBER 23, 2022

Originally posted 2012-04-23 18:48:45. Republished by Blog Post Promoter. The post The TTABlog Fraud Collection appeared first on LIKELIHOOD OF CONFUSION™. Excellent trademark “research” for the slower, or lower, moments.

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Velocity of Content

JULY 22, 2021

In my first post , after touching on the need/wisdom of copyright registration for bloggers (and other creators whose distribution is primarily through social media sites), I went on to discuss the DMCA and how it is a useful first-line-of-defense bit of IP protection for content first appearing on such sites. Part 2: Group Registration.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

JUNE 27, 2022

To do the authentication, businesses will be forced to collect personal information they don’t want to collect and consumers don’t want to give, and that data collection creates extra privacy and security risks for everyone. It will erect barriers to roaming around the Internet. Bye bye casual browsing.

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Intellectual Property Law Blog

DECEMBER 7, 2023

VIP Products LLC , which held that the First Amendment did not protect infringing works that “use [the complainant’s] mark [ ] as a mark,” the Second Circuit upheld an Eastern District of New York order enjoining art collective MSCHF from offering its “Wavy Baby” sneaker that likely infringed Vans’ marquee “Old Skool” sneaker. See Vans, Inc.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

OCTOBER 13, 2021

Working with the Knight Foundation team, including John Sands, we assembled a remarkable collection of essays and a conference to explore them fully. The essays: we collected over a dozen submissions from some leading figures in Internet history and online communities. 2-3, 2021 appeared first on Technology & Marketing Law Blog.

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Patently-O

MAY 25, 2023

Editor’s note: this post is part of a series by the Diversity Pilots Initiative , which advances inclusive innovation through rigorous research. The first blog in the series is here and resources from the first conference of the initiative are available here.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

AUGUST 16, 2021

Blackbaud “provides data collection and maintenance software solutions for administration, fundraising, marketing, and analytics to social good entities such as non-profit organizations, foundations, educational institutions, faith communities, and healthcare organizations.” Prior CCPA/CPRA Posts. * LEXIS 151831 (D.S.C.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

For the last few years, Meta has had a team of attorneys dedicated to policing unauthorized forms of scraping and data collection on Meta platforms. The post Facebook Drops Anti-Scraping Lawsuit Against Bright Data (Guest Blog Post) appeared first on Technology & Marketing Law Blog.

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Velocity of Content

JULY 15, 2021

The course addresses areas of copyright that relate to CCC’s June 9 Town Hall, The Future of Collective Licensing—Copyright in the Digital Marketplace. Wasoff, who co-wrote the free ebook, Creating Solutions Together: Lessons to Inform the Future of Collective Licensing. Speakers included R. Bruce Rich, Mark Seeley, and Lois F.

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Plagiarism Today

AUGUST 10, 2022

For example, if you publish a collection of photographs at once you only have to input one change for all the works. So, if you want to register a blog post, you’ll first have to either export it or save it as a file on your computer. RightsClick also makes it easy to bulk edit a large number of works. Copyright Office.

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LexBlog IP

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

This enforcement action should serve as a warning shot to companies dealing in health information, reminding them that just because they do not fall under the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) does not mean they are free to use the data they collect without potential regulatory consequences.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

APRIL 28, 2023

by guest blogger Jess Miers, Legal Advocacy Counsel at Chamber of Progress [Eric’s intro: last year I blogged about Minnesota’s flirtation with mandatory age verification. Since this bill is substantially similar to the California AADC, I recommend reading Eric Goldman’s post for more in-depth coverage.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

JUNE 7, 2023

Rather, the harm animating Plaintiffs’ claims “is directly related to the posting of third-party content on [Snapchat].”…Plaintiffs’ More SESTA/FOSTA-Related Posts * The Ninth Circuit’s FOSTA Jurisprudence Is Getting Clearer (and More Defense-Favorable) * Defendants Get Important FOSTA Win in 9th Circuit–Doe v. June 5, 2023).

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Plagiarism Today

FEBRUARY 24, 2022

According to H&M, the registration was invalid as Unicolors registered the work as part of a collection when it should have been a separate registration. . Copyright Office didn’t even have a system for registering blogs until 2020. Were blogs registered before, then registered properly? For example, the U.S.

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TorrentFreak

DECEMBER 18, 2023

“For example, libraries cannot use ebook licenses to build permanent collections. “Controlled digital lending, by contrast, allows libraries to lend only books from their own permanent collections. The licensing models make these libraries more flexible.

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U.S. Department of Commerce

MARCH 15, 2023

Census Bureau as a field representative in 2008, I knew I was fulfilling my purpose after learning the importance of collecting quality data and how it impacts the nation’s communities. I hope my hard work and dedication can make a difference in collecting quality data for our nation. After joining the Commerce Department’s U.S.

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The IPKat

NOVEMBER 14, 2021

Come with this Kat for a stroll around this week’s posts from IP blogs. This is the question Miquel Peguera raises on Kluwer Copyright Blog, alongside his analysis of the topic. As good Kats, we are always paying attention to our surroundings. Copyright A Kat walking and enjoying its freedom.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

DECEMBER 27, 2022

Aside from a single post that defendant Parker made to his personal Instagram profile—“THIS FRIDAY Jan. Moreover, it is a stretch to characterize the single Instagram post as a D.C.-targeted The post was published on the shop’s social media account, a platform often used for advertising and promotional purposes.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

NOVEMBER 20, 2022

Prior blog posts on Yearbook and Related Cases. The post Another Tough People Search Ruling–Spindler v. Seamless appeared first on Technology & Marketing Law Blog. The Court agrees…Here, Defendant is not alleged to have merely hosted user-created contact. Ugh, these people search rulings suck. Whitepages.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

JULY 31, 2021

There are also provisions that disclose that Instacart’s “partners”—again without limitation—“use various technologies” to “collect information about your online activity over time and across different websites or online services.” The post Instacart’s Privacy Policy Protects Stripe from Consumer Privacy Claims–Silver v.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

OCTOBER 22, 2021

I’ve blogged some recent cases showing how it’s become really, really hard to win defamation cases over social media content (e.g., The post went viral; it received over 36,000 shares and thousands of comments. Steak N Shake wasn’t pleased with this post, and it sued White for defamation. Rapaport v.

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The IPKat

MAY 11, 2022

The IP blogs were very active during the last week of April! That's why the IPKat is here to collect some of the most notable posts for you! The Kluwer Trademark Blog reported on the proposed independent EU regime for CIPs and other findings in a related article. What are the next steps?

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

JULY 16, 2023

To ensure you don’t miss out on interesting IP law developments reported on our other IP blogs, we will, on a regular basis, provide you with an overview of the most-read posts from each of our IP law blogs. Here are the most popular posts over the past few months.

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TorrentFreak

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

According to Bell’s complaint, the bank used his photo without permission in a blog post. The blog post in question was written by Rebecca Marsh, the bank’s Vice President of Marketing & Communications. One of these cases targeted the Merchants Bank of Indiana. From $5,000 to $150,000.

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The IPKat

JUNE 9, 2023

As our readers know, yesterday current and past Kats, Katfriends, and several Katreaders alike gathered at the London offices of Allen&Overy and online to celebrate the (first) 20 years of our beloved IP blog , which has always had – as its core mission – to bring IP news and fun to everyone. and idea and vision for the blog.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

APRIL 29, 2023

Ripps created an NFT collection, the “Ryder Ripps Bored Ape Yacht Club,” that “point to the same online digital images as the BAYC [NFT] collection but use verifiably unique entries on the Ethereum blockchain.” ” Most of the opinion discusses the trademark implications of Ripps’ rival NFT collection.

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The IPKat

JULY 9, 2023

She enjoys sharing her growing collection of plant puns, regardless of whether her students and colleagues want to hear them. Wilkof (see Katposts here and here ), GuestKat Giorgio Luceri , and InternKat Benjamin Goh , who continued to contribute to the blog. More details on Jocelyn here.

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SpicyIP

MAY 18, 2022

We’re pleased to bring to you this guest post by our former blogger Aparajita Lath. The views expressed in this post are personal. Her previous posts on the blog can be viewed here, here , here , here and here. Aparajita is a lawyer based in Bangalore. She works in a law firm that advises technology companies.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

JUNE 9, 2022

This blog post will show how data snarfers vex the courts and expose unfortunate gaps in existing legal doctrines. * * *. BrandTotal’s initial software proactively pinged Facebook and collected responsive information. ” It also uses its own Facebook accounts (called Muppets) to collect information.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

MAY 31, 2022

This is a pop quiz, so you have to answer the question before you read the rest of the post. BONUS: The court also applies Van Buren to a CFAA claim, saying “Wilson alleges that Triller misused the information it collected about her, which is insufficient to state a claim under the CFAA.” OK, did you make your choice yet?

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IP Tech Blog

MARCH 23, 2022

This blog has reported on this trend here and here. Budweiser, for example, launched a collection of NFTs with customized beer cans on the NFT commerce platform Opensea. Data collected from the Metaverse can be used to increase sales in the real world. Why you need new trademark registrations now.

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