Plagiarism Today

JULY 2, 2025

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 Google: From Symbiote to Parasite Jonathan Bailey July 2, 2025 5 minutes read I launched my first website

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Velocity of Content

JULY 2, 2025

Generative AI has caused a legal earthquake that has sent shockwaves through the world of copyright. Disruptive technologies like the VCR in the early days of home video and peer-to-peer file-sharing sites have caused their own legal storms, but this time is different. What makes this different is the unprecedented speed and number of lawsuits directly targeting the developers of the technology.

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Plagiarism Today

JULY 2, 2025

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: Shein Again Jonathan Bailey July 2, 2025 2 minutes read Have any suggestions for the 3 Count?

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IP Watchdog

JULY 2, 2025

We have written before about the Patent Trial and Appeal Board’s (PTAB’s) 70% all-claims invalidation rate. That article explained (using numbers from the PTAB statistics page) that when a patent is subjected to an IPR, the all-claims invalidation rate is 70%. The all-claims invalidation rate is the rate at which the PTAB finds all challenged claims invalid (unpatentable), effectively killing off the patent.

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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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Likelihood of Confusion

JULY 2, 2025

Originally posted 2014-11-11 16:34:14. Republished by Blog Post PromoterUnsurprisingly, you have to strain just to pick up this nugget in a TTABlog® post from last Friday about the latest exciting edition of the Trademark Reporter: Tomorrow is the 10th anniversary of the birth of The TTABlog. Ten years ago I was (figuratively) rubbing elbows […] The post Ten years of The TTABlog® appeared first on LIKELIHOOD OF CONFUSION™.

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JD Supra Law

JULY 2, 2025

The US Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) introduced the Accelerated Examination program in 2006 to help applicants receive expedited examination of important patent applications. The USPTO is ending the Accelerated Examination program on July 10, 2025, for utility patent applications, as we noted in a prior alert. This article provides patent applicants with some strategic options for faster initial examination of a utility patent application that can be used instead of the Accelerated.

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JD Supra Law

JULY 2, 2025

On June 16, 2025, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit (“CAFC”) vacated a $300 million damages award because the district court used a flawed verdict form, which included only a single, blanket question as to infringement when the case involved five asserted patents. Optis Cellular Tech., LLC v. Apple Inc., No. 2022-1904, 2025 WL 1680253 (Fed.

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IP Law 360

JULY 2, 2025

A ruling by the full Federal Circuit invited greater scrutiny of patent damages testimony, and the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office's acting director established new criteria for rejecting patent challenges. Here's a look at the top patent decisions from the first half of 2025.

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JD Supra Law

JULY 2, 2025

To help you stay on top of the latest news, our AI practice group has compiled a roundup of the developments we are following.

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IAM Magazine

JULY 2, 2025

In setting aside an Indian Patent Office refusal of a pharma patent application, the Delhi High Court has provided much-needed clarity on Section 3(d) of the Patents Act. The decision reinforces the notion that the office is duty bound to identify known substances from the prior art when seeking comparative therapeutic efficacy data.

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JD Supra Law

JULY 2, 2025

On June 11, 2025, Disney and several affiliated production companies filed a federal lawsuit against Midjourney, Inc., a leading artificial intelligence (AI) image-generation platform. The suit alleges “calculated and willful” copyright infringement—marking the first major clash between Hollywood and a generative AI provider.

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IP Law 360

JULY 2, 2025

The Patent Trial and Appeal Board has sided with Apple in its challenge to various claims in an authentication patent, finding that the claims were too obvious to warrant patent protection.

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IAM Magazine

JULY 2, 2025

Companies that quantify and communicate their intangible edge will capture equity premiums, while those who relegate IP to a footnote risk ceding strategic ground to competitors

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The TTABlog

JULY 2, 2025

Finding that the primary significance of the word "BUCKEYE" is not a geographic location, the Board reversed a Section 2(e)(2) refusal of the mark BUCKEYE CUSTOM E-BIKES for "On-line retail store services featuring electric bicycles and electric bicycle accessories; Retail store services featuring electric bicycles and electric bicycle accessories.” However, the Board required a disclaimer of CUSTOM E-BIKES.

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JD Supra Law

JULY 2, 2025

After previously dismissing infringement claims on the ground that using copyrighted works to train a large language model qualified as fair use, a federal judge in California has now also dismissed a key Digital Millennium Copyright Act claim in the same case against Meta. The ruling clarifies the boundaries of DMCA liability when the underlying use of copyrighted material is considered lawful under the fair use doctrine.

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IP Law 360

JULY 2, 2025

The Patent Trial and Appeal Board decided Tuesday that all the claims are invalid in two trading platform patents that Intercurrency Software LLC has accused cryptocurrency exchange Binance and others of infringing.

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JD Supra Law

JULY 2, 2025

REALTEK SEMICONDUCTOR CORPORATION v. ITC - Before Reyna, Bryson, and Stoll. Appeal from the United States International Trade Commission. The Federal Circuit lacks jurisdiction to hear appeals of non-final determinations from the United States International Trade Commission.

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TorrentFreak

JULY 2, 2025

As rightsholders in the live sports sector continue to face unprecedented levels of online piracy, Italy decided that an extraordinary challenge could only be tackled with an extraordinary response. The ‘Piracy Shield’ blocking notification system has attracted significant criticism, although the legal and regulatory frameworks that support it, built on a theory that faster, heavier blocking will eventually solve the problem, are the real drivers behind the ongoing controversy.

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JD Supra Law

JULY 2, 2025

In the last week, Amgen, Inc and Amgen Manufacturing Ltd, LLC (“Amgen”) filed three more BPCIA complaints against companies seeking approval for a denosumab biosimilar.

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IP Watchdog

JULY 2, 2025

At first glance, certain comments by U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) Director nominee John Squires during his Senate Judiciary Committee confirmation hearing raised questions about whether he sees the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) in the same way as Acting Director Coke Morgan Stewart. But on closer examination, and when viewed in context, Squires’s comments could reflect alignment not only with Acting Director Stewart, but with Congress’s objective when it passed the Leahy-Smith

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IAM Magazine

JULY 2, 2025

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JD Supra Law

JULY 2, 2025

The Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit recently affirmed a denial by the U.S. Trademark Trial and Appeal Board (TTAB) of an application filed by fashion house Vetements Group AG for VETEMENTS for various articles of clothing and related online retail store services. In re Vetements Group AG, No. 2023-2050, 2023-2051 (Fed. Cir. May 21, 2025).

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IAM Magazine

JULY 2, 2025

From disclosure dilemmas to creating a policy that evolves with time, our expert panellists weighed in on some of the major factors IP strategists need to consider

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JD Supra Law

JULY 2, 2025

In Adaptive Energy LLC v. Central Coast Agriculture, Inc., the Trademark Trial and Appeal Board (“Board”) dismissed two oppositions for failure to prosecute. Oppositions Nos. 91275644 and 91280840 (April 11, 2025). The Board granted Central Coast Agriculture Inc.’s (“Central”) motion to dismiss because Adaptive Energy LLC (“Adaptive”) failed to timely introduce evidence or testimony during the necessary period.

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The IPKat

JULY 2, 2025

This Kat is pleased to bring readers the weekly summary of IP news, events and opportunities!Thank you, Anastasiia!Image by Uschi Leonhartsberger-Schrottvia PixabayWe begin this week with a huge thank you to Anastasiia Kyrylenko, who is departing the IPKat after more than five years of contributions. She joined as an InternKat in early 2020 while she was completing her PhD in IP Law.

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JD Supra Law

JULY 2, 2025

In an appeal from an inter partes review, the Federal Circuit recently clarified that the enablement inquiry applied to prior art references in the context of an anticipation defense differs from the enablement inquiry applied when evaluating the claims of a patent.

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IP Law 360

JULY 2, 2025

Subject matter eligibility has posed challenges for patentees due to courts' arbitrary and confusing reasoning, but adopting a two-part preemption test could align the applicant, the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office and the courts, says Manav Das at McDonnell Boehnen.

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JD Supra Law

JULY 2, 2025

Almost two decades ago, the Supreme Court handed down what has turned out to be one of its most significant patent decisions of this century: eBay v. MercExchange. The eBay case has had the effect of precluding prevailing patentees from being able to expect or rely upon obtaining an injunction against an adjudged infringer. And it has led to the era of "efficient infringement," creating circumstances where.

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IP Law 360

JULY 2, 2025

A New Jersey federal judge let a medical communications agency pursue contract and trade secret claims against three former employees it accused of launching a rival firm while still on the payroll, but dismissed all claims against PharmaEssentia and its former executive.

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JD Supra Law

JULY 2, 2025

On June 12, the nominee for USPTO Director John Squires was voted out of the Senate Judiciary Committee by a vote of 20-2. His nomination has been placed on the Senate’s Executive Calendar and will proceed to a floor vote.

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IP Law 360

JULY 2, 2025

The Second Circuit on Wednesday affirmed that an arbitral award issued by a Swiss tribunal to a Singapore company in a dispute over a medical imaging joint venture cannot be vacated in New York, concluding in a published opinion that the court lacks the power to do so.

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JD Supra Law

JULY 2, 2025

Kadrey v. Meta! On the merits! A doozy of a summary judgment opinion in form and substance. "The devil is in the details," but even for non-lawyers, at least the first five pages are a must-read - there are almost no legal citations to bog you down. The Court's take is that while "in many circumstances it will be illegal to copy copyright-protected works to train generative AI models without permission," it wasn't here: using these thirteen plaintiffs' books was fair use as a matter of law.

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IP Law 360

JULY 2, 2025

After the acting director of the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office last month undid her predecessor's decision canceling all the claims of five Longhorn Vaccines & Diagnostics LLC patents as a sanction for misconduct, the company dropped its appeal in the case Wednesday.

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JD Supra Law

JULY 2, 2025

Angel Reese—the former LSU basketball superstar who now plays for the Chicago Sky in the WNBA—made headlines recently when she filed an application to register MEBOUNDS as a trademark for clothing and related items (Serial No. 99,234,613). “Mebounds” was a phrase used by some of Ms. Reese’s critics, referring to rebounds Ms. Reese grabs after missing a shot.

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IP Law 360

JULY 2, 2025

Tru Kids Inc., the parent of retailer Toys R Us, has asked a Connecticut federal judge to issue a default liability judgment and a permanent injunction against a New Haven e-cigarette and cannabis store accused of tarnishing its registered trademarks that date back to 1970.

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