Sat.Aug 06, 2022

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Leaseweb Asks Court to Dismiss Copyright Infringement Lawsuit

TorrentFreak

With datacenters in Europe, Asia and the United States, Leaseweb is a big player in the hosting space. The Dutch company has thousands of customers that come in all shapes and sizes. This includes some that are labeled as pirate sites or otherwise find themselves accused of copyright infringement. This hasn’t gone unnoticed. Ten years ago it was revealed that Megaupload hosted hundreds of servers at Leaseweb and, at one point, Hollywood even considered taking the company to court.

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School Can Discipline Student for Impersonating Teacher Online, Even if Other Students Added the Worst Content–Kutchinski v. Freeland School District

Technology & Marketing Law Blog

This case involves a 14 year old student HK (and his friends) who, while off-campus, thought it would be funny to create a fake Instagram profile of his biology teacher, Schmidt. I’ve blogged SO MANY similar cases since 2005 (see the list of posts below). The principal immediately suspended HK for 5 days. After a hearing, the superintendent gave HK a 10-dy suspension “for his actions on May 11-13, 2019, including: gross misbehavior for his posting a fake Instagram account impersonati

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Tillis’s 101 bill will rev the US innovation engine once again

IAM Magazine

Paul Michel, former Chief Judge of the US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, and ex-USPTO Director David Kappos urge Congress to embrace legislation designed to repair patent eligibility law which they believe the US Supreme Court has distorted

Designs 52
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Protection of Colour Trademarks

Biswajit Sarkar Copyright Blog

A trademark as defined under the Trade Marks Act, 1999 includes any word, name, symbol, configuration, device, shape of goods, packaging, combination of colours or any combination thereof that one trader adopts and uses to identify and distinguish his goods from those of others. For a mark to qualify as trademark it must satisfy three conditions: It should be a mark as defined under Section 2(1)(m) of the Trade Marks Act, 1999.

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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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Tillis’s 101 bill will rev the US innovation engine once again

IAM Magazine

Paul Michel, former Chief Judge of the US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, and ex-USPTO Director David Kappos urge Congress to embrace legislation designed to repair patent eligibility law which they believe the US Supreme Court has distorted

Designs 52
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Tweetmark infringement

Likelihood of Confusion

When I first retired from my utter misues of Twitter (it was all the rage!), I did so by politely bidding farewell to my 500 or so “followers” and then scattering. The post Tweetmark infringement appeared first on LIKELIHOOD OF CONFUSION™.