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Roblox Piracy: Developer Demands Thousands of Gamers’ Personal Details

TorrentFreak

Every day an estimated 30 million players jump into Roblox, an online game where players can play games created by other users. Around 40 million games is the current estimate. Developing games for Roblox can be extremely lucrative. The company behind Roblox revealed that developers and creators earned more than $500 million on the platform in 2021 alone, a huge amount considering that most developers are mostly young adults, some earning around $2m a year.

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How Wimbledon Tennis Trademarked its Signature Colors

IP Watchdog

July 10 marks the end of one of the most important events in the sporting calendar and one of the most iconic tennis tournaments in the world: Wimbledon. The All England Lawn Tennis Club (the “Club”) has owned multiple registered trademarks for the famous Wimbledon name and other prominent signs for some time. However, the dark green and purple colorway – which has been associated with the Wimbledon tennis tournament for over a Century – has only been protected as a registered trademark in the U

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Law Prohibits All Federal Employees from Representing Private Clients before the USPTO

Patently-O

by Dennis Crouch. The Federal Circuit has agreed that Kevin Correll’s 5-year suspension from patent law practice should move forward. Correll v. Vidal (Fed. Cir. 2022) ( non-precedential ). Unfortunately, the per curiam decision appears poorly reasoned and seems to lack sufficient legal grounding. The panel included Chief Judge Moore, and Judges Prost and Hughes.

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Best of 2011: “Life rights”? (Making things with life?)

Likelihood of Confusion

First posted May 23, 2011. Pittsburgh Trademark Lawyer Daniel Corbett brings us an NBA star’s attempt at a four-point shot: Post-relationship drama takes many forms, but federal court litigation under the. The post Best of 2011: “Life rights”? (Making things with life?) appeared first on LIKELIHOOD OF CONFUSION™.

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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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Pure Storage’s patent team reveals strategy; how REATISS responded when Ukraine was invaded; Nokia wins German SEP injunction; 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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How Investigators Use OSINT to Track Down IPTV Pirates

TorrentFreak

Measures to tackle online piracy are often described as a game of whac-a-mole, in this case a game where pirates get bashed on the head only to pop up somewhere else – supply of movies, TV shows, live sports and music intact. From the average pirate’s perspective, the game is completely pointless – futile even. But for anti-piracy groups all around the world, engaging pirates in this irritating game is an important form of disruption.

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Court Slips Up in Duct-Taped Banana Copyright Case

Copyright Lately

A banana taped to a wall may qualify as art, but as a copyright infringement lawsuit it should have been left to rot. A jury may need to decide whether one banana attached to a wall with a piece of duct tape infringes the copyright in another banana attached to a wall with a piece of duct tape—which pretty well sums up the state of the American judicial system in 2022.

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Responding to the Rogers Outage: Time to Get Serious About Competition, Consumer Rights, and Communications Regulation

Michael Geist

Like many Canadians, I spent most of the massive Rogers outage completely offline. With the benefit of hindsight, my family made a big mistake by relying on a single provider for everything: broadband, home phone, cable, and wireless services on a family plan. When everything went down, everything really went down. No dial tone, no channels, no connectivity.

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Computer and Internet Weekly Updates for 2022-07-09

Barry Sookman

UEFA welcomes Kenya High Court ruling blocking access to sports pirate websites [link] 2022-07-03. Kanye West sued over alleged unauthorized sample in 'Donda 2' track [link] 2022-07-03. Trump hires former 9th Circuit judge Kozinski for Twitter court fight [link] 2022-07-03. Italy Joins France and Austria in Banning Google Analytics [link] 2022-07-03.

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