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Amici for Sanofi Add Their Two Cents as Amgen’s Day in High Court Approaches

IP Watchdog

Late last week, a slew of additional amicus briefs were filed with the U.S. Supreme Court in Amgen v. Sanofi, a closely-watched case that will consider the scope of the enablement inquiry under 35 U.S.C. § 112. More than 30 amici in total have now weighed in on the case. The Court granted certiorari in November 2022 over the U.S. Solicitor General’s recommendation to deny the petition.

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Models v. Strip Clubs and the Lanham Act

Patently-O

by Dennis Crouch Rights to use a person’s Name-Image-and-Likeness or NIL generally fall within two categories of intellectual property: rights of publicity and rights of privacy. Rights of publicity protect commercial value that a person has developed in becoming a celebrity. Rights of publicity can also protect against resulting false impressions created by a seeming endorsement.

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Trademark, trademark, trademark!

Likelihood of Confusion

In February, 2011 I wrote about Trademark™, a design studio with the domain name www.trademark-trademark.com. I was looking to refer back to that post because I wanted to link to it, as. The post Trademark, trademark, trademark! appeared first on LIKELIHOOD OF CONFUSION™.

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Snapchat Defeats Lawsuit Over User-to-User Harassment–Ziencik v. Snap

Technology & Marketing Law Blog

[I’m backlogged on several 230 cases. I’ll get to them eventually] This case involves two Snapchat users who repeatedly received threatening messages from other Snapchat users despite the victims’ efforts to block the perpetrators. A victim flagged messages for Snapchat, allegedly to no effect, and law enforcement may have felt like Snapchat ghosted them and then dragged its feet in replying.

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Software Composition Analysis: The New Armor for Your Cybersecurity

Speaker: Blackberry, OSS Consultants, & Revenera

Software is complex, which makes threats to the software supply chain more real every day. 64% of organizations have been impacted by a software supply chain attack and 60% of data breaches are due to unpatched software vulnerabilities. In the U.S. alone, cyber losses totaled $10.3 billion in 2022. All of these stats beg the question, “Do you know what’s in your software?

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20 Years of The IPKat - Celebrate with us in London or online on 8 June 2023!

The IPKat

Can you believe that, this coming June, The IPKat will turn. 20?! It's really true that time does fly when you're having (IP) fun! Launched in June 2003 as a teaching aid for IP law students in London, The IPKat’s blog has become a popular source of material, comment, and amusement for IP owners, practitioners, judges, students, and administrators ever since.

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Anti-Piracy Outfits Target TorrentFreak in PikaShow Crackdown

TorrentFreak

Day in and day out, millions of people use pirate sites and services to download or stream movies and TV shows. In recent years, a large percentage of this activity has taken place through apps that run on Android, the dominant operating system for phones and tablets globally. These pirate apps come and go, but over the past year, Pikashow has made quite a name for itself.

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Intellectual Property Rights And Competition Laws : A Study Of Interface

IP and Legal Filings

Introduction The globalization has changed the world economy more drastically than any other thing. Markets all around the world has been specially targeted the most under the globalization. Thus, brought many effects on all the markets globally; some have been reengineered, some have been revamped and the rest have been in a state of flux. One of the major observations which have been accorded during this is that the unregulated markets have been the tendency to assume monopolistic or more mono

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SB Commercial Debate 2023

LexBlog IP

Would it even be the Super Bowl if there wasn’t a blog post asking about your favorite commercials? Are you top choices dictated by the product, the celebrity, or the content? Did you prefer the spoofs on something familiar or the entirely new and unexpected? I look forward to this debate every year. It all stems back to 2006, when a friend and I traveled to Italy and happened to stumble upon the set of something being filmed.

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SB Commercial Debate 2023

Above the Fold

Would it even be the Super Bowl if there wasn’t a blog post asking about your favorite commercials? Are you top choices dictated by the product, the celebrity, or the content? Did you prefer the spoofs on something familiar or the entirely new and unexpected? I look forward to this debate every year. It all stems back to 2006, when a friend and I traveled to Italy and happened to stumble upon the set of something being filmed.

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Cannabis litigation landscape; plummeting smartphone sales; Nokia offers arbitration to Oppo; quarterly litigation report; Deutsche Telekom on EPO transparency; plus much more

IAM Magazine

Get ready for the new working week with a summary of all the stories posted on the IAM platform over the past seven days

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IPO Diversity in Innovation Toolkit

Women and diverse employees have the technical skill and knowledge, yet their contributions are not patented at the same rate as those of their male counterparts.This toolkit can help organizations move the needle on achieving gender parity in innovation.

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Grecia is the Word, Have You Heard, His Complaints were Dismissed?

CoCal IP Law Institute

Judges won't readily dismiss a lawsuit. Usually, they will give the plaintiff several chances to correct flaws in a complaint before dismissing with prejudice. It's especially rare to see a judge dismiss a patent suit with prejudice because the infringement allegation is so weak that the patentee has no chance of success. These rare cases [.

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Cannabis litigation landscape; plummeting smartphone sales; Nokia offers arbitration to Oppo; quarterly litigation report; Deutsche Telekom on EPO transparency; plus much more

IAM Magazine

Get ready for the new working week with a summary of all the stories posted on the IAM platform over the past seven days

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Aussie Piracy “Disturbingly High” Despite 97% Using Legal Sources

TorrentFreak

Commissioned by the Australian Attorney-General’s Department, the annual Consumer Survey on Online Copyright Infringement is now available for 2022. The Australian Government has commissioned these surveys since 2015, with the goal of understanding internet users’ consumption habits related to several core content types: music, video games, movies, TV shows and live sports, with the latter appearing more recently in 2019.

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Sunday Surprises

The IPKat

Masterclasses, conferences, and job openings. Here are the latest opportunities and events. Events Masterclass on Copyright & Platform Liability in the European Digital Single Market Professor Eleonora Rosati of Stockholm University will be giving this masterclass on February 16, hosted by the Intellectual Property and Technology Students Association (IPTSA) of Cornell Law School.

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Computer and Internet Weekly Updates for 2023-02-11

Barry Sookman

Computer and Internet Weekly Updates for 2023-02-04 [link] 2023-02-05 Copyrights and Artificial Intelligence: The Battle Between Content Creators and AI Developers [link] 2023-02-05 Belarus Follows Russia's Lead & Creates Unfriendly Countries List For Legalized Piracy [link] 2023-02-05 WhatsApp Faces Copyright Infringement Cases at Delhi HC [link] 2023-02-05 The High Court of England & Wales [link] 2023-02-05 Trump Files Ridiculous Copyright Lawsuit Over Bob Woodward's Audio Bo

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Sunday Surprises

The IPKat

Masterclasses, conferences, and job openings. Here are the latest opportunities and events. Events Masterclass on Copyright & Platform Liability in the European Digital Single Market Professor Eleonora Rosati of Stockholm University will be giving this masterclass on February 16, hosted by the Intellectual Property and Technology Students Association (IPTSA) of Cornell Law School.