TorrentFreak

JANUARY 13, 2024

The Pirate Bay and search engines are not a happy marriage recently. On the contrary. For example, we previously reported on Google’s decision to remove thepiratebay.org from its search results in countries where ISPs are required to block the site. Searching for The Pirate Bay This type of deindexing is not unique to Google. As highlighted in the past, Bing has effectively wiped all Pirate Bay URLs from its index until only the main homepage was left.

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The IPKat

JANUARY 13, 2024

If you've had a rough time staying on top of things this week, not to worry! Here's the summary of what you missed: Trade Marks Clearly, this Kat is on top of things! Image from Pexels. Eleonora Rosati outlined the recent Board of Appeal decision about Prada's application to register its "iconic" upside-down isosceles triangle pattern, which held that the pattern would not be inherently distinctive.

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IP Law 360

JANUARY 13, 2024

A recent data analysis shows that the Federal Circuit's decision of patent invalidity in Cellect presents a significant risk to patent holders with subsequent child applications, which may be unpatentable under the judicially created doctrine of obvious-type double patenting, says Curtis Altmann at Hoffmann & Baron.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

JANUARY 13, 2024

Age Authentication * Axios : “Tech platforms struggle to verify their users’ age.” The article didn’t mention that mandatory online age authentication is also unconstitutional. * Guardian : Australia will not force adult websites to bring in age verification due to privacy and security concerns US * California AB-1394 : Commercial sexual exploitation: child sexual abuse material: civil actions: (g) (1) A social media platform shall not knowingly facilitate, aid, or abet c

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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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Patently-O

JANUARY 13, 2024

by Dennis Crouch The Leading pro-IP Senators, Thom Tillis (R-NC) and Chris Coons (D-DE) recently introduced a bill focusing on patents stemming from research paid-for by federal grants. The proposed legislation, titled the “ Improving Efficiency to Increase Competition Act ,” would require a government study on reporting requirements related to the landmark Bayh-Dole Act of 1980.

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