Plagiarism Today
NOVEMBER 10, 2022
In Australia late last month, the Courier-Mail published a 12-page “Special Investigation” by Peter Gleeson entitled Power and Palaszczuk , an unflattering look at the Queensland premier, Annastacia Palaszczuk, and her government. However, shortly after publication, another journalist, Josh Bavas, took to Twitter to ask why the article copied four paragraphs from a piece that he wrote two years prior.
TorrentFreak
NOVEMBER 10, 2022
In early January 2012, many operators of successful, public file-hosting sites were looking forward to another productive year. Over the space of just a few days, everything changed. The destruction of Megaupload by the US government had serious implications for sites with a similar business model. Sites that paid cash to uploaders based on file popularity seemed particularly vulnerable, so it was not unexpected when some threw in the towel.
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Plagiarism Today
NOVEMBER 10, 2022
Have any suggestions for the 3 Count? Let me know via Twitter @plagiarismtoday. 1: ByteDance’s U.S. Copyright Lawsuit Over ‘League of Legends’ Duplicative, Says Judge. First off today, Blake Brittain at Reuters reports that Moonton Technology, a company owned by ByteDance, will not have to a face a United States lawsuit filed by Riot Games after a judge said the lawsuit is duplicative and can be better heard in China.
McKinsey Operations
NOVEMBER 10, 2022
A strategy to both increase the number of start-ups and facilitate their ability to scale can elevate the Netherlands to a global leader in the world of entrepreneurship ecosystems.
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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?
IPilogue
NOVEMBER 10, 2022
Anita Gogia is a IPilogue Writer and a 2L JD Candidate at Osgoode Hall Law School. iRobot Corp was recently issued a decision in its favour against its competitor SharkNinja Operating LLC for patent infringement at the International Trade Commission (“ITC”). The product in question was the innovative Roomba robotic vacuum and floor cleaning device. While the final decision is yet to be given in February 2023 , the recent holding recommends an order to ban imports of any infringing SharkNinja dev
McKinsey Operations
NOVEMBER 10, 2022
When faced with an unfamiliar crisis, most leaders spring into action. But wait—here’s why it’s better for those in charge to pause instead of pounce.
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SpicyIP
NOVEMBER 10, 2022
[This post is co- authored by Swaraj Barooah and Praharsh Gour.] . Bombay HC Orders Public Notice Regarding CL to Translate Mira Behn’s Autobiography. Image from here. Recently, in the matter of Anil G Karkhanis v. Kirloskar Press, the Bombay High Court (BHC) began proceedings on what may become the first instance of a literary work being compulsory licensed in India.
IP Law 360
NOVEMBER 10, 2022
The American Bar Association's ethics committee recently issued two opinions concerning the no-contact rule — one creates an intuitive and practical default for electronic communications, while the other sets a potential trap for pro se lawyers, say Lauren Snyder and Deepika Ravi at HWG.
JD Supra Law
NOVEMBER 10, 2022
Do "traditional" geographic boundaries mean anything in the Metaverse? Under what law should international parties dealing in intangible assets, recorded only on decentralised, unregulated, global ledgers transact?
Likelihood of Confusion
NOVEMBER 10, 2022
I am fascinated with IP disputes over costumes, and have written about a few of them. I have also linked to this piece by Bill Patry, which would seem to. The post The dark side clouds everything appeared first on LIKELIHOOD OF CONFUSION™.
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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.
JD Supra Law
NOVEMBER 10, 2022
???????The U.S. Patent Trials & Appeals Board (Board) recently issued an Order granting Celltrion’s motion to submit supplemental information in its IPR (2022-00578) against U.S. Pat. No. 8,580,264, owned by Chugai Seiyaku Kabushiki Kaisa, Genentech, Inc, and Hoffmann La Roche, Inc. As we previously reported, this is one of two instituted IPRs brought by Celltrion against tocilizumab-related patents.
McKinsey Operations
NOVEMBER 10, 2022
Although agtech investment has fallen from last year’s peak, the surge in capital for start-ups over the past decade has created opportunities for smaller companies.
IAM Magazine
NOVEMBER 10, 2022
Head of Singapore-based startup reflects on the importance of patents in ensuring its products are proprietary and unique
McKinsey Operations
NOVEMBER 10, 2022
Growth rebounds in the United States and China; eurozone inflation reaches new heights as tightening continues; energy, climate reports paint a sober picture.
Managing IP
NOVEMBER 10, 2022
Investors and NPEs have mixed feelings on pushes for more disclosure from Delaware and possibly Congress.
McKinsey Operations
NOVEMBER 10, 2022
An expert on value creation shares insights from 20 years of leading McKinsey on Finance.
IP Law 360
NOVEMBER 10, 2022
Copyright law will inevitably be forced to address issues of artificial intelligence, including the distinction between fully AI-generated pieces and AI-assisted pieces, as the technology continues to become more sophisticated and prevalent in arts and literature, say Michael Kasdan and Brian Pattengale at Wiggin and Dana.
JD Supra Law
NOVEMBER 10, 2022
The Supreme Court of the United States agreed to review the geographic scope of the Lanham Act and the extent to which trademark owners can use US trademarks to police foreign sales. Abitron Austria GmbH et al. v. Hetronic International Inc., Case No. 21-1043 (Supr. Ct. Nov. 4, 2022) (certiorari granted).
IP Law 360
NOVEMBER 10, 2022
The Ninth Circuit decided Thursday that under a recent U.S. Supreme Court ruling, Unicolors Inc. has a valid copyright on the fabric pattern it successfully sued fast-fashion chain H&M for infringing, although the appeals court said that the damages award must be trimmed.
McKinsey Operations
NOVEMBER 10, 2022
Engaging with auto customers directly is becoming a make-or-break strategy for OEMs.
IP Law 360
NOVEMBER 10, 2022
A Washington federal judge has tossed Phoenix Digital's counterclaims against game developer Bungie Inc. in a suit seeking to stop the distribution of "cheat software," saying Phoenix hasn't shown enough evidence to back up its allegations that Bungie unfairly analyzed its software.
Copyright Alliance
NOVEMBER 10, 2022
This week we’d like to introduce you to Artist JL Cook. You can follow her on Instagram @jlcook_3d. What was the inspiration behind becoming a creator? What do you enjoy […]. The post Creator Spotlight with Artist JL Cook appeared first on Copyright Alliance.
IP Law 360
NOVEMBER 10, 2022
A California federal judge agreed Thursday to dismiss blockchain platform Dfinity’s trademark suit against Meta Platforms over purported similarities between their infinity-loop logos, determining that Dfinity hadn’t plausibly alleged a likelihood of consumer confusion.
JD Supra Law
NOVEMBER 10, 2022
In a precedential opinion, the Trademark Trial & Appeal Board (Board) dismissed an opposition filed against an application for registration of a logo mark containing the word “SMOKES,” finding no likelihood of confusion with the opposer’s registered mark SMOK. The Board cited the dissimilarity of the marks and the weakness of the common mark element SMOK, as well as a lack of evidence that the parties’ trade channels overlapped.
IP Law 360
NOVEMBER 10, 2022
A California federal judge again tossed a copyright lawsuit by Riot Games against a subsidiary of TikTok's parent ByteDance Inc. over the video game League of Legends, saying it represents a "second bite of the apple" because the claims still belong in China, just as the court held in 2017.
JD Supra Law
NOVEMBER 10, 2022
The UK has again demonstrated the ongoing trend against hold-out, approving an order forcing Apple to commit to take a license on FRAND terms, to be determined by the court, or face an injunction. This ruling is the latest in a line of decisions favorable to SEP holders across Europe and the United States that seem to be retilting SEP licensing towards more balance between innovators (patent owners) and implementers (alleged infringers).
LexBlog IP
NOVEMBER 10, 2022
In Unified Patents, LLC v. Caselas, LLC , IPR2021-00799, Paper 21 (P.T.A.B. Oct. 17, 2022), the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (“the Board”) issued a final written decision, holding all challenged claims of U.S. Patent No. 9,715,691 (“the ’691 patent”) unpatentable. Read more.
JD Supra Law
NOVEMBER 10, 2022
Last month, in OpenSky Industries v. VLSI Technology LLC, IPR2021-01064 (Oct. 4, 2022), the Director of the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) issued a precedential decision regarding abuse of process. The decision from the Director held that Petitioner OpenSky had abused the IPR process by (1) filing an IPR in an attempt to extract payment from both Patent Owner VLSI and joined Petitioner Intel, and (2) offering to undermine the proceeding in exchange for a monetary payment from VLSI.
LexBlog IP
NOVEMBER 10, 2022
The Court of Rome sets a landmark precedent by granting an injunction against the creator of NFTs displaying images of a football player, reproducing without authorization the registered trademarks owned by Italian football club Juventus FC. This is the first known judgement by a European court holding that NFTs reproducing a third party’s trademarks without authorization are infringing and hence granting a related injunction.
IP Law 360
NOVEMBER 10, 2022
A California federal judge has handed a win to Walmart and a supplier in a suit accusing them of selling razors that were knockoffs of an inventor's patented product, saying the designs of the two products were not all that similar.
LexBlog IP
NOVEMBER 10, 2022
For the American Intellectual Property Law Association’s 125th Anniversary, John and Russell (both former chairs of the AIPLA Trade Secret Law Committee) and Ben (the current chair) went on the road to talk to the current AIPLA President, Brian Batzli , immediate past-President, Patrick Coyne , and Executive Director, Vince Garlock , at this year’s AIPLA Annual Meeting in Washington, D.C.
IP Law 360
NOVEMBER 10, 2022
Patent Trial and Appeal Board Judge Kal Deshpande has come a long way from the early-stage food services company he helped start after law school, when he and a friend came up with a novel way to make potato chips.
LexBlog IP
NOVEMBER 10, 2022
Hermès is suing an artist for trademark infringement over his series of digital artworks called MetaBirkins. Scott Hervey and Josh Escovedo discuss the case on this episode of The Briefing by the IP Law Blog. Listen to this podcast episode here.
JD Supra Law
NOVEMBER 10, 2022
Paraphrasing the famous line from the father of modern acting technique, in establishing the Copyright Claims Board (CCB) on June 16, the Copyright Office effectively declared that there are no small copyrights, only small copyright infringement claims. Time will tell whether this new stage will serve as a well-respected and well-run forum for copyright owners, seeking redress (perhaps a summer “Shakespeare in the Park” to continue shamelessly flogging this analogy) or the legal equivalent of a.
Stock Legal Blog
NOVEMBER 10, 2022
We have a robust M&A Department at Stock Legal comprised of attorneys who have practices in this field for the vast majority of their careers. This is the team to build out fixed fee work here at Stock Legal, along with our talented corporate lawyers who already have experience in fixed fee work for to build out corporate infrastructure for our clients.
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