Sat.Sep 03, 2022

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Google Removes YouTube Rippers from UK Search Results

TorrentFreak

Last year, the UK music industry claimed a major victory in its fight against online piracy. Following a two-year process initiated by the British Recorded Music Industry Ltd (BPI) and Phonographic Performance Ltd (PPL), the High Court ordered major ISPs to block access to several YouTube rippers. The order aims to make these sites, including Flvto and 2Conv, harder to reach.

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Addressing the challenges of plastic waste: Circularity and leakage

McKinsey Operations

Circularity alone won’t stop leakage. Emerging economies still need to have proper waste management systems for their plastic and other materials.

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AD-ttorneys@law - September 2022

JD Supra Law

CSPI to FDA: Move to the Front! Watchdog barks at industry efforts to highlight nutrition facts - Gesundheit FOPNL. It’s sweeping the globe. What is it, you ask? A new government agency? An awful skin condition? A variant of the common cold?

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Book review: Copyright, Creativity and Big Media

The IPKat

This is a book review of ‘ Copyright, Creativity, Big Media and Cultural Value: Incorporating the Author ’, by Professor Kathy Bowrey , UNSW, Sydney. Bowrey is a legal historian and socio-legal researcher whose research explores laws and practices that inform knowledge creation and the production, distribution and reception of technology and culture.

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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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Interesting Case on Assignability of Legal Malpractice Claims

Patently-O

By David Hricik, Mercer Law School. After Prince, the musician, died an engineer who had unreleased recordings hired a Massachusetts firm who advised the engineer that he was a joint author of the recordings and jointly owned copyright in them, and so could distribute the recordings subject to paying Prince’s estate a share of royalties. He arranged to do so, and in part arranged it so the law firm would receive a percentage of sales.

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Are cats and tigers alike? EU General Court considers that there is a likelihood of confusion between ‘Tigercat’ and ‘Cat’

The IPKat

The IPKat is pleased to learn that, at least according to the General Court, Kats are indeed like tigers. In a judgment (Case T?251/21 Tigercat Inc v EUIPO) released earlier this summer, the General Court held indeed that there was a likelihood of confusion, pursuant to Article 8(1)(b) of Regulation 2017/1001 (EUTMR), between the word mark ‘Tigercat’ and Caterpillar’s earlier word EU trade mark (EUTM) ‘Cat’ and figurative EUTM below: It reasoned that, in view of the identity of the goods, it cou

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Should You Put LLC in Your Logo?

Patentably Defined

Many small businesses choose to form an LLC for the liability protection it provides. However, there is no requirement to put LLC in your logo. In fact, adding “LLC” to your company name and logo can be detrimental in the long run. Here are three reasons why: 1. It can make your business look small and unprofessional. When you add “LLC” to your logo, it can make your business look like a mom-and-pop operation—even if you’re anything but.

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Moderna is likely regretting its covid-19 patent pledge

IAM Magazine

The company’s October 2020 non-enforcement promise may be a roadblock for its legal action against Pfizer/BioNTech

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Outlook Therapeutics Re-Submits Its Ophthalmic Bevacizumab BLA

LexBlog IP

On August 30, 2022, Outlook Therapeutics, Inc. announced that it has re-submitted its Biologics License Application (BLA) to the FDA for ONS-5010, “an investigational ophthalmic therapy which, if approved, will be branded as LYTENAVA (bevacizumab-vikg) for the treatment of wet age-related macular degeneration (wet AMD).” As we previously reported , Outlook Therapeutics had announced in May 2022 that the FDA requested additional information in order to complete the filing of the compa

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Best of 2009: “Keeping it real — the ultimate use in commerce”

Likelihood of Confusion

This was first posted on May 7, 2009. The TTABlog® reports, again, on the fraud issue, but that’s not what interests me here so much this time. Rather, it’s the. The post Best of 2009: “Keeping it real — the ultimate use in commerce” appeared first on LIKELIHOOD OF CONFUSION™.

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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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Japan Launches Free Legal Service to Help Fight Overseas Pirate Sites

TorrentFreak

From a single piece of handcrafted manga to an entire musical album, copyright law offers protection to all creators. At least that’s the basic theory behind creators’ rights. The reality can be a somewhat less comforting and at times entirely more confusing experience. Smaller Copyright Holders, Fewer Options. The truth is that the ability to act against infringers is often linked to a copyright holder’s resources.

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Other Barks & Bites for Friday, September 2: Third Circuit Finds No Agency Relationship Violating Patent Settlement, Delhi High Court Orders Disclosure of Copyright Infringing IP Addresses, and Novo Nordisk Purchases Forma for Blood Treatment Portfolio

IP Watchdog

This week in Other Barks & Bites: the Ninth Circuit finds that a Hong Kong-based adult website was expressly aimed at the U.S. market, overturning a dismissal of copyright claims; Senator Tillis pledges to hold a series of patent eligibility hearings with the Senate IP Committee if the Republicans take a majority this November; the Third Circuit finds no agency relationship between patent challenging firm Askeladden and members of The Clearing House, which owns Askeladden; the U.S.