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3 Count: Livestream Drama

Plagiarism Today

Menu Search for About About the Author Reprint & Permissions Consulting Stop Plagiarism 1. How to Find Plagiarism 2. Contacting a Plagiarist 3. Finding the Host 4. Contacting the Host 5. When All Else Fails 6. The Long Haul Stock Letters Your Copyrights Online 1. What is a Copyright? 2. Limitations of Copyright 3. Copyright Myths Contact Facebook YouTube RSS Mastodon Bluesky Search for 3 Count: Livestream Drama Jonathan Bailey July 1, 2025 2 minutes read Have any suggestions for the 3 Count

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Hold the Champagne: The Two AI Training/Copyright Decisions Released in the US Last Week Were a Mixed Bag for AI Developers

Hugh Stephens Blog

Image: Shutterstock.com Last week I wrote about the questionable ethics of META’s use of pirated content to train its AI model, Llama, pointing out the ethical issues involved with META’s admitted use of pirated online libraries, such as LibGen (Library Genesis), to feed content to Llama for training purposes.

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Cloudflare Launches Tool to Monetize AI Crawlers

Plagiarism Today

Menu Search for About About the Author Reprint & Permissions Consulting Stop Plagiarism 1. How to Find Plagiarism 2. Contacting a Plagiarist 3. Finding the Host 4. Contacting the Host 5. When All Else Fails 6. The Long Haul Stock Letters Your Copyrights Online 1. What is a Copyright? 2. Limitations of Copyright 3. Copyright Myths Contact Facebook YouTube RSS Mastodon Bluesky Search for Cloudflare Launches Tool to Monetize AI Crawlers Jonathan Bailey July 1, 2025 4 minutes read Earlier today

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Mapping trade secrets litigation to national security concerns and patenting behaviours suggests striking relationship

IAM Magazine

Visit WTR About Archive ☰ Login | Register ☰ ☰ IAM Trade Secrets News & Analysis Categories News & Analysis Long Reads Opinion Topics Copyright, designs & trademarks Finance & valuation FRAND/SEPs Law & policy Licensing Litigation Transactions Sectors Artificial Intelligence Automotive Banking & Financial Services Internet & IoT Life Sciences Mobile communications Semiconductors Telecommunications Regions Africa & Middle East Asia-Pacific Europe Latin America & Caribbean North America Report

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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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Understanding Section 12 of the Trademark Act 1999: Honest Concurrent Use and Its Implications

IP and Legal Filings

Maintaining a brand persona and ensuring fairness is a twain pillar of trademark law landscape. One such area quires interest in Trademark Act 1999 Section 12, dealing with “Registration in case of honest concurrent use, etc.” The section inculcates a way of permitting identical or similar trademarks to be entered ‘in the name of more than one proprietor with respect to the same or similar goods or services’ The article here attempts contextual analysis of Section 12 alon

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[Part I] Obiter > Ratio: The Good and Bad in the First Two American Decisions on Generative AI and Copyright

SpicyIP

On the recent decisions by the Court in the Northern District of California on the copyright vs. Gen AI debate, Akshat Agrawal highlights the conflicting findings of the judges on fair use in this two-part post. In Part I, he examines the disagreement between the judges on the ‘lawfully acquired first copy’ requirement under the fair use exception, from the lens of the Indian Copyright law.

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[Part II] Obiter > Ratio: The Good and Bad in the First Two American Decisions on Generative AI and Copyright

SpicyIP

Following the discussion on Judge Alsup and Judge Chhabria’s findings in Anthropic and Meta cases respectively on lawfulness of the acquired copy, Akshat Agrawal discusses their findings on market dilution and assesses these findings from the lens of the Indian Copyright law. Akshat is a practicing litigator working at Saikrishna and Associates.

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TTAB Quarterly Index: April - June 2025

The TTABlog

E-mail subscriptions to the TTABlog are available. Just enter your e-mail address in the box on the right to receive a daily update via Feedblitz. Please report any broken or inoperative links, as well as any errors and omissions, to the TTABlogger at jwelch at wolfgreenfield.com. Section 2(a) - False Suggestion of a Connection: USPTO Fails to Prove Section 2(a) False Connection of ENAIRA with the Central Bank of Nigeria CAFC Affirms TTAB: US SPACE FORCE Falsely Suggests a Connection with the Un

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Official EU Website Exploited to Advertise Shady IPTV Services

TorrentFreak

Last month, the EU published the fourth edition of its ‘Counterfeit and Piracy Watch List’, providing a detailed overview of piracy-linked sites and services located outside the EU. The report covered many unlicensed IPTV services, including VolkaIPTV, GenIPTV, and King365TV, noting that these are merely the tip of the iceberg. “There are likely to be thousands of pirate IPTV apps and services in the world.

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SpicyIP Weekly Review (June 23- June 29)

SpicyIP

And that’s a wrap on the inaugural edition of the SpicyIP Summer School! After a dynamic week packed with discussions on IP law and valuable life lessons, the first-ever SpicyIP Summer School concludes on a high note. Last week also featured a two-part post delving into the new performance metrics recently adopted by the Patent Office. Highlights of the Week First Ed. of the SpicyIP Summer School Wraps up!

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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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Is unauthorised fashion upcycling lawful? Not according to French first instance court

The IPKat

On 10 April last, the Tribunal Judiciaire de Paris ruled that S.A.S. MAISON R&C, S.A.S. ATELIER R&C, and Géraldine Lugassy Demri (defendants) had infringed the copyrights and the word mark ‘Hermès’ owned by SOCIÉTÉ HERMES INTERNATIONAL and S.A.S.

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Legal Lens on the UPC | Q2 2025

JD Supra Law

The Unified Patent Court (UPC) is revolutionizing the way patents are enforced in Europe, and McDermott’s intellectual property (IP) team is here to help you navigate this dynamic landscape. Our Legal Lens on the Unified Patent Court newsletter aims to keep patent holders and legal departments well-informed. McDermott’s on-the-ground team in Germany, France, the United Kingdom, and the United States offers a unique cross-border perspective on the issues to help put them in a global context.

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Apple Hit With $111M Patent Verdict In Delaware

IP Law 360

A Delaware federal jury has found that Apple owes more than $110.7 million for infringing a Spanish company's wireless communications systems patent with the tech giant's products, including mobile phones and tablets.

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Earn a One-Day Certificate in Fashion Law Fundamentals; CIPU Readers Get a 10% Discount

IP Close Up

It is hard to get it right when it comes to understanding the most basic laws that apply to the rapidly evolving fashion and retail sectors, especially when it comes to intellectual property rights.

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Google Damages Ruling Offers Lessons For Testifying Experts

IP Law 360

The Federal Circuit's recent decision in EcoFactor v. Google represents a shift in how courts evaluate expert testimony in patent cases, offering a practical guide for how litigators and testifying experts can refine their work, says Adam Rhoten at Secretariat.

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Sterne Kessler’s Reissue, Reexamination, and Supplemental Examination Practice Tips – June 2025

JD Supra Law

In the mid-2000s, the U.S. Patent Office (USPTO) determined that reexaminations would be more consistent and legally correct if performed by a centralized set of experienced and specially trained Examiners. As a result, the USPTO formed the Central Reexamination Unit (CRU) and staffed it with 15 year+ Examiners and legal experts. Later, after the loss of Inter Partes Reexamination in 2012, the USPTO added all newly filed reissue applications to the CRU Examiner’s regime.

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5 Federal Circuit Clashes To Watch In July

IP Law 360

The Federal Circuit's argument calendar this month includes Apple's bid to undo a ruling that caused a blood oxygen monitor feature to be pulled from the Apple Watch, and a challenge by Sonos to a decision that torpedoed its $32.5 million speaker patent verdict against Google.

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TTAB Posts July 2025 Hearing Schedule

The TTABlog

The Trademark Trial and Appeal Board (Tee-Tee-Ā-Bee) has scheduled two oral hearings for the month of July 2025. Both will be held virtually. Briefs and other papers for each case may be found at TTABVUE via the links provided. July 22, 2025 - 1 PM [Virtual]: Sueros y Bebidas Rehidratantes, S.A. de C.V. v. Bebidas Electromas S.A. de C.V. , Opposition No. 91285906 [Opposition to registration of the mark ELECTROMAS for "food supplements," "Fruit drinks; Mineral water; Preparations for making non-a

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Full Fed. Circ. Rejects Mylan Rehearing Bid In Patent Case

IP Law 360

The full Federal Circuit on Tuesday shot down Mylan's request for the court to reconsider a March ruling that the company's planned generic version of schizophrenia drug Invega Trinza would cause physicians to infringe a Janssen patent.

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"local" can be literally false when a company is foreign

43(B)log

El Paso Disposal, LV. v. Ecube Labs Co., 2025 WL 1766310, No. EP-24-CV-97-KC (W.D. Tex. Jun. 26, 2025) Plaintiffs operate waste collection companies that collect trash from customers in Texas, New Mexico, and Oklahoma. Defendant Haulla, a “waste broker” that acts as an intermediary between waste haulers and their customers, allegedly fraudulently obtained their confidential customer information by posing as customers, accessing plaintiffs’ customer portal in violation of its terms of use.

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Breaking Down Part 3 Of The Copyright Office's AI Report

IP Law 360

On May 9, the U.S. Copyright Office published a prepublication version of the third and final part of its three-part report on artificial intelligence, offering key insights on the unauthorized use of copyrighted material by AI systems, says Courtney Sarnow at CM Law.

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Amgen asserts swathes of patents against Biocon, Henlius and Hikma in latest biosimilar spats

IAM Magazine

Visit WTR About Archive ☰ Login | Register ☰ ☰ IAM Trade Secrets News & Analysis Categories News & Analysis Long Reads Opinion Topics Copyright, designs & trademarks Finance & valuation FRAND/SEPs Law & policy Licensing Litigation Transactions Sectors Artificial Intelligence Automotive Banking & Financial Services Internet & IoT Life Sciences Mobile communications Semiconductors Telecommunications Regions Africa & Middle East Asia-Pacific Europe Latin America & Caribbean North America Report

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Apple Says Ex-Engineer Stole Vision Pro IP To Take To Snap

IP Law 360

Apple has accused a former senior engineer of stealing trade secrets for its Vision Pro headset computer before starting a new job at Snap Inc. working on that company's augmented reality glasses.

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Taking a business-critical approach to supplier nth-party IT risk management

McKinsey Operations

Supply chain cybersecurity vulnerabilities frequently make headlines, so being prepared must be a priority. Here’s a new approach to protecting business-critical processes from nth-party risks.

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Fed. Circ. Won't Revisit Jepson Claim Ruling In Xencor IP Case

IP Law 360

The Federal Circuit won't rethink the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office's decision rejecting Xencor's application for an antibody patent that used the so-called Jepson claim format.

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Law blogging: Time is of the essence. Not.

Likelihood of Confusion

Originally posted 2014-05-29 01:48:43. Republished by Blog Post PromoterHad a delightful lunch with a couple of very interesting lawyers yesterday. It would have been perfect if they hadn’t both lingered over salad nicoise while I sat there attacking my steak au poivre. I too love salad nicoise, but this was a legitimate IRS-approved T&E write-off luncheon!

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Weil Patent Pro Jumps To WilmerHale In Silicon Valley

IP Law 360

WilmerHale is expanding its intellectual property team, announcing Tuesday that it is bringing on a longtime Weil Gotshal & Manges LLP patent expert as a partner in its Silicon Valley office.

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Hard Math in Lean: Selected Equations

Christopher Roser

I am a scientist, and I try to understand how the world works, particularly in my field of manufacturing and lean production. (I also try to teach others about this, e.g., through this blog.) Hence, in this post I will look at different equations used in lean. Somehow, there are not that many… Takt Time.

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Calif. Panel Backs Warner Bros.' Win In Writer's Film Theft Suit

IP Law 360

A California appeals court refused to revive a writer's lawsuit alleging Warner Bros.' film "Life of the Party" was a "cinematic clone" of her concept about a mother going to college with her daughter, ruling Monday the evidence shows the film was independently created without knowledge of the plaintiff's ideas.

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Scotts loses trade dress claim over green & gold for Miracle-Gro

43(B)log

Scotts Co. v. Procter & Gamble Co., 2025 WL 1779167, No. 2:24-cv-4199 (S.D. Ohio Jun. 27, 2025) A different Scotts trade dress claim than the one I blogged last year. While it’s hard to get rid of trademark claims on a motion to dismiss, a preliminary injunction may be a different matter—as it is here, where the court does a thorough job with an expansive trade dress claim (which frankly should have John Deere’s lawyers taking notice, given its own reliance on green and yellow).

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Alnylam Pharma Beats Inventorship Suit Tied To COVID-19 Jab

IP Law 360

A Delaware federal judge Tuesday tossed Acuitas Therapeutics' lawsuit seeking to have its scientists added as inventors on seven Alnylam Pharmaceuticals patents tied to mRNA technology, saying the complaint doesn't plausibly allege the scientists have a financial or reputational interest in the outcome of the litigation.

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Moratorium on State AI Regulation Scrapped in Senate Version of Trump’s ‘Big Beautiful Bill’

IP Watchdog

As the U.S. Senate disbanded from its 24-hour “vote-a-rama” debating amendments to President Donald Trump’s “One Big Beautiful Bill Act” earlier today, one major provision that would have impacted the regulation of artificial intelligence has been scrapped. The AI modernization provision of the original version of the bill would have banned state and local governments from regulating AI for 10 years if they wanted access to funds aimed at improving AI infrastructure.

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GM Can't Escape Obviousness Challenge To Fender Design IP

IP Law 360

A company that got the Federal Circuit to set more flexible standards for assessing whether a design patent is obvious might have a shot at proving that two General Motors Co. design patents are indeed obvious under that new test, an Illinois federal judge ruled Monday.

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Deploying AI at speed and scale: Talking with ING’s Marnix van Stiphout

McKinsey Operations

Skip to main content Deploying AI at speed and scale: Talking with ING’s Marnix van Stiphout July 1, 2025 | Interview How a focus on scope, safety, and speed helped the Dutch multinational bank deploy its gen AI transformation quickly and effectively. In the short time since generative AI became available to all, ING has moved rapidly to adopt, deploy, and scale the technology.

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Justices Face Busy Summer After Nixing Universal Injunctions

IP Law 360

The U.S. Supreme Court's decision to limit nationwide injunctions was one of its biggest rulings of the term — a finding the court is likely going to be dealing with all summer. Here, Law360 takes a look at the decision, how it and other cases on the emergency docket overshadowed much of the court's other work, and what it all means for the months to come.