Sun.Nov 20, 2022

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The Benefits of Trademark Monitoring

Erik K Pelton

The following is an edited transcript of my video The Benefits of Trademark Monitoring. Trademark monitoring is a tremendous tool in the toolkit for brand owners. Once you have an established, protected brand, there are benefits to staying on top of it and dealing with any infringement that might come up as quickly as possible. Traditionally, big, established, wealthy brands found out about all the things out there that might be problems with their trademarks by paying for monitoring services.

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Pirate Sites Calling Themselves Libraries are Pirate Sites

The Illusion of More

I know I’m arriving late to this party. It’s almost Thanksgiving, but it was back on November 3 that two Russian nationals—Anton Napolsky and Valeriia Ermakov—were arrested in Argentina at the request of the United States on charges of criminal copyright infringement, wire fraud, and money laundering. Concurrent with the arrests, authorities seized 241 domains […].

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Another Tough People Search Ruling–Spindler v. Seamless

Technology & Marketing Law Blog

Seamless offers a customer lead tool that displays the prospect’s personal information behind a subscription paywall with try-before-you-buy options. The plaintiff sued Seamless for violations of California’s publicity rights statute and related claims. The court denies Seamless’ motion to dismiss. Section 230. Plaintiff argues that CDA immunity does not apply, “because Seamless actively created the profiles and advertising webpages giving rise to this suit.

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On repatriation: Questions of copyright ownership and management of repatriated cultural heritage materials

The IPKat

In July 2022, the Governments of Nigeria and Germany executed a Joint Declaration regarding the repatriation to Nigeria of ancient Benin bronzes looted during the colonial era. This Declaration constituted part of the efforts by the Nigerian Government to engage foreign governments for the repatriation of various cultural heritage materials to Nigeria.

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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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Illusion Systems

Patently-O

Mike Brister is a theme park designer and I love his 2022 patent directed to a “vanishing illusion system.” U.S. Patent No. 11,235,258 . The basic idea is that a portion of the glass is reflective while other portions are transparent. But, the room on the other side is a mirror-image room–identical except that for the person trying to see himself in the mirror.

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Faceless Assessment and Appeals under the Income Tax Act, 1961

IP and Legal Filings

INTRODUCTION: It is an undisputable fact that this scheme is a time- saving process, establishes faith between the assessee and the concerned authorities. It also provides detailed and complete information related to tax compliance and also lessen the cost and burden of the said compliance but in spite of all this there are some major concerns of the scheme which exists.

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Mavexar under the microscope; IP strategy impact of self-driving cars; Samsung dispute with former exec; latest UPC firm partnership; FTC policy changes; 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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Computer and Internet Weekly Updates for 2022-11-19

Barry Sookman

The lawsuit against Microsoft, GitHub and OpenAI that could change the rules of AI copyright [link] 2022-11-13. It’s time to bring streamers giants inside the Canadian system [link] via @torontostar 2022-11-13. Computer and Internet Weekly Updates for 2022-11-12 [link] 2022-11-13. CPPA: problems and criticisms – service provider obligations [link] 2022-11-13.

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Mavexar under the microscope; IP strategy impact of self-driving cars; Samsung dispute with former exec; latest UPC firm partnership; FTC policy changes; 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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Unrequited love at the times of French maisons: the Museum vs Le Musée

Kluwer Copyright Blog

Image by WikiImages via Pixabay. When Sandro Botticelli depicted his beloved Simonetta Cattaneo de Vespucci as main character of “ the Birth of Venus” back in the fifteenth century, he possibly thought she would eventually fall in love with him. She was the painter’s very first love and was perhaps the most beautiful Italian lady of those times. Yet, she kept ignoring him.

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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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Sunday Surprises

The IPKat

Meow! December is just around the corner - and with it a few reminders, opportunities, and events for you to check out! " African Caracal " by jurvetson is licensed under CC BY 2.0. REMINDERS 21 November 2022 | IFIM-Stockholm University | " Overview and discussion of some of the most notable decisions of the EUIPO Boards of Appeal concerning distinctiveness and likelihood of confusion " (online) Tomorrow , 21 November 2022, the Institute of Intellectual Property and Market Law (IFIM) at Stockhol

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PornHub’s Sister Company Tops Google’s Chart of Top DMCA Notice Senders

TorrentFreak

MindGeek is one of the leading players in the adult entertainment industry. Formerly known as Manwin, MindGeek conquered the online adult market over the past decade by offering free porn to the masses. The Copyright Switch. With help from user-uploaded videos, the company created massive databases of adult entertainment, much to the frustration of incumbent adult industry companies that often found pirated copies of their content on the site.