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3 Count: Navy Piracy

Plagiarism Today

1: US Navy Fined for Acts of Software Piracy. First off today, Nicholas Slayton at Task & Purpose reports that the United States Navy has been ordered to pay $154,400 in damages to a software firm after a court found the Navy had violated the copyright in one of their applications. Let me know via Twitter @plagiarismtoday.

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No, the Federal Circuit Did Not Just Kill Off Software Copyrights – Knock It Off

IP Intelligence

Many people were disappointed when the most-watched copyright case of the past 10 years, Oracle’s lawsuit against Google over Google’s copying Java application programming interface (API) code, failed to yield better guidance on the scope of copyright protection for computer programs. The software company SAS Institute Inc.

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IP Protection for a GUI – Part 1 of 2: Design Patents

LexBlog IP

Over a hundred years ago, Congress created “design patents” to offer companies a way to protect the “ornamental” features of products. For example, a GUI makes an otherwise complex piece of software look fun, easy, or joyful to a user. This is the function of a utility patent.) Scope of Protection.

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Central Role of IP and Marketing in Business Design

azrights

It frustrates me that people turn to me when they’re copied, assuming this is the kind of work I’m engaged in doing, when they’ve never consulted me before about their IP. Although I engaged a designer for my “branding”, all I essentially got from the expensive exercise was a logo, and a website.

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Can You Copyright or Trademark a Logo Designed by AI?

LexBlog IP

Keep in mind the generators are trained on existing material, including things that are protected by copyright and trademark law and registration and patents. I’m particularly nerding out over these issues, because my master’s degree project involved training of artificial intelligence systems.

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Navigating Intellectual Property In The Era of Quantum Computing

Intepat

The unique nature of quantum innovations poses novel challenges in patenting, necessitating legal frameworks that acknowledge the intricate dance of particles in the quantum realm. Quantum computing is a mosaic of sophisticated algorithms, advanced software, and state-of-the-art hardware.

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Copyrightability of Software: The Next Big Case

Patently-O

The next big software copyright case is before the Federal Circuit in the form of SAS Institute, Inc. WPL is a UK based software company who obtained several copies of SAS statistical software and made a clone version. SAS sued in E.D.Tex for both copyright infringement and patent infringement. by Dennis Crouch.

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