Plagiarism Today
APRIL 28, 2022
If you’re a student, budding journalist or just someone taking up writing, you definitely do not want to become known as a plagiarist. In schools, plagiarism carries with it severe penalties, including potential expulsion. Outside the classroom, being marked as a plagiarist, especially in a public way, is a permanent stain on one’s career. Though some careers move past it, the cloud is always there.
Patently-O
APRIL 28, 2022
by Dennis Crouch. Earlier this month, I posted a short essay about recent enablement cases at the PTAB. Section 112(a) includes three disclosure requirements: written description; enablement; and best mode. I would further divide written description into two categories: new matter and Ariad -style. Thus we get: New Matter Written Description : Any amendments made to the claims during prosecution must be supported by the originally filed specification.
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Plagiarism Today
APRIL 28, 2022
Have any suggestions for the 3 Count? Let me know via Twitter @plagiarismtoday. 1: Drake Dropped From Copyright Suit Over Chris Brown Collab “No Guidance,” Judge Makes “Started From the Bottom” Joke. First off today, Brad Callas at Complex reports that the rapper Drake has been dismissed from the No Guidance lawsuit, leaving Chris Brown as the only artist who worked on the track as a defendant.
IP Watchdog
APRIL 28, 2022
With an average 33 Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) filings (one post grant review, the rest inter partes reviews[IPRs]), a relatively high number (89) of district court terminations (including some high-profile settlements), and a somewhat low number (63) of suits this week, we are rolling into May. Chief Judge Connolly of the U.S. District Court for the District Court of Delaware filed a standing order in all of his cases requiring litigation funding disclosures; there were more filings b
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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?
JD Supra Law
APRIL 28, 2022
In a patent infringement action brought under subsection 6(1) of the Patented Medicines (Notice of Compliance) Regulations, in relation to sitagliptin phosphate monohydrate (Merck’s JANUVIA), Justice Furlanetto of the Federal Court found Canadian Patent No. 2,529,400 (the 400 Patent) to be valid and granted a declaration of infringement: Merck Sharp & Dohme Corp v Pharmascience Inc, 2022 FC 417.
The IP Law Blog
APRIL 28, 2022
Over two and a half years ago, this column analyzed a Ninth Circuit case titled HiQ Labs, Inc. v. LinkedIn Corporation , in which the Court agreed with a lower court that had issued a preliminary injunction against LinkedIn from taking certain technical measures to prevent HiQ, a data analytics company, from “scraping” information from publicly available profiles on LinkedIn’s site.
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IP Watchdog
APRIL 28, 2022
Senators Mazie K. Hirono (D-HI) and Thom Tillis (R-NC) sent a letter yesterday to U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) Director Kathi Vidal to express their concern over the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) decisions to institute inter partes review (IPR) proceedings in OpenSky Industries, LLC v. VLSI Technology LLC and Patent Quality Assurance, LLC v.
IP Law 360
APRIL 28, 2022
A federal judge in Seattle dismissed Bungie Inc.'s copyright infringement claim against a website that sells cheat codes for its Destiny video game franchise on Wednesday and sent several other claims to arbitration, but he allowed the game company to continue to pursue claims of trademark infringement and false designation.
JD Supra Law
APRIL 28, 2022
Since 2018, legal and privacy professionals have witnessed unprecedented change in the realm of data privacy regulation. Since the enactment of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) in Europe, jurisdictions across the globe have revisited past privacy laws and enacted new ones.
IP.com
APRIL 28, 2022
Since the Bayh-Dole Act went into effect in 1980, allowing entities to own and monetize IP stemming from federally-funded research, there has been much debate about to what extent universities. The post Removing Roadblocks to University Technology Commercialization appeared first on IP.com - IP Innovation and Analytics.
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JD Supra Law
APRIL 28, 2022
What do William Shatner, Snoop Dogg, Mark Cuban, Tom Brady, and patent owners have in common? They are all now minting non-fungible tokens (“NFTs”), turning assets into a token that is represented on the blockchain.
Velocity of Content
APRIL 28, 2022
Ongoing calls for social change have drawn attention to the need in scholarly publishing for greater equity, diversity, and inclusion, including for peer review, editorial practices, and business models. At CCC, we have developed RightsLink for Scientific Communication s to enable publishers to scale their global Open Access (OA) programs with institutions, consortia, and funders.
JD Supra Law
APRIL 28, 2022
Innovation has been valued throughout the history of the United States. In fact, it was so important that Article I, Section 8 of the US Constitution gave Congress the power “To promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts, by securing for limited Times to Authors and Inventors the exclusive Right to their respective Writings and Discoveries.”.
IP Law 360
APRIL 28, 2022
Womble Bond Dickinson LLP will open a New York office with a five-attorney team from intellectual property boutique Abelman Frayne & Schwab, the firm said Thursday.
JD Supra Law
APRIL 28, 2022
Case Name: Bausch Health Ireland Ltd. v. Mylan Labs. Ltd., No. 21-10403 (SRC) (JSA), 2022 WL 683084 (D.N.J. Mar. 8, 2022) (Chesler, J.) Drug Product and Patent(s)-in-Suit: Trulance® (plecanatide); U.S. Patents Nos. 7,041,786 (“the ’786 patent”), 7,799,897 (“the ’897 patent”), 8,637,451 (“the ’451 patent”), 9,610,321 (“the ’321 patent”), 9,616,097 (“the ’097 patent”), 9,919,024 (“the ’024 patent”), 9,925,231 (“the ’231 patent”), and 10,011,637 (“the ’637 patent”).
The IPKat
APRIL 28, 2022
The UK Intellectual Property Office (IPO) has today published its Research Priorities for 2022-23. In it they are looking for expressions of interest for areas including the following: online copyright infringement tracker, counterfeit goods tracker, economics of streaming, trade secrets, AI and IP, IP and innovation, the cost of IP crime, OECD impact on the economic impact of trade in counterfeit goods, and the evaluation framework for the IPO’s counter-infringement strategy.
JD Supra Law
APRIL 28, 2022
In a recent case decided by the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York, the plaintiff, Max Rady, alleged that he developed a method to "record to a blockchain the individual identification signatures of physical items that have unique random properties." Mr. Rady's method involves.
Barry Sookman
APRIL 28, 2022
Yesterday, the Office of the Superintendent of Financial Institutions (OSFI) began a consultation on an updated Draft Guideline B-10 – Third-Party Risk Management. The draft guideline sets out enhanced third-party risk management expectations for federally regulated financial institutions such as banks, insurance companies, and some credit unions (FRFIs).
IPilogue
APRIL 28, 2022
Meena Alnajar is an IPilogue Writer, IP Innovation Clinic Fellow, and a 2L JD Candidate at Osgoode Hall Law School. In March 2021, Rogers Communication Inc. announced an upcoming deal to buy Shaw Communications Inc for a US$26 billion takeover. If successful, Rogers will become Canada’s second -largest cellular and cable company operator. Canada would resultingly have three wireless providers to choose from instead of four.
TorrentFreak
APRIL 28, 2022
The Office of the United States Trade Representative has just released its 2022 Special 301 Report detailing the state of intellectual property protection and enforcement by trading partners around the world. The annual report aims to spotlight laws, policies, and practices of foreign countries that fail to meet standards set by the United States. This public document seeks to inform the public and trading partners and hopes to be a “positive catalyst” for change.
IP Law 360
APRIL 28, 2022
A Missouri federal judge has barred the fintech company Block Inc. from using its name in connection with a tax service offering it operates, handing a win to H&R Block in its trademark lawsuit.
TorrentFreak
APRIL 28, 2022
Over the past several years a wave of copyright infringement lawsuits has targeted alleged cheaters and cheat makers. Several game companies including Take-Two Interactive and Epic Games , have taken cheaters to court. More recently, American video game developer Bungie joined in on the action. Bungie is known for the Halo and Destiny series, which have millions of fans around the world.
IP Law 360
APRIL 28, 2022
Netflix was handed a victory in a copyright dispute over its use of certain footage in the hit documentary series "Tiger King" when an Oklahoma federal judge ruled that the videos taken by a former zoo employee did not belong to him.
43(B)log
APRIL 28, 2022
Here, as filed (the court granted the motion so it is no longer "proposed"). Dilution is content-based, viewpoint-based, and so vague and pervaded with exceptions as to be unconstitutional. An interest in fixing meaning on behalf of famous trademarks is not a legitimate government interest! [link].
IP Law 360
APRIL 28, 2022
Dunkin' Brands Group and Beyond Meat teamed up to sell a meat-free breakfast sandwich, but the food giants stole their "Great Taste Plant-Based" slogan from a Philadelphia company that specializes in plant-based meat substitutes, according to a trademark infringement lawsuit filed Thursday in Florida federal court.
The TTABlog
APRIL 28, 2022
The Board dismissed Kate Spade LLC's opposition to registration of the mark WOLV & Design (shown below left) for watches, finding the mark to be too dissimilar to the KATE SPADE word mark and the "spade logo" mark (below right) to support opposer's Section 2(d) likelihood-of-confusion and its Section 43(c) dilution-by-blurring claims. Despite identical goods, presumably identical channels of trade and classes of consumers, and the high level of strength of opposer's marks, the Board deemed t
IP Law 360
APRIL 28, 2022
Fox Sports and the long-defunct U.S. Football League said Wednesday they will try to hash out their trademark dispute through mediation, after a California federal judge signaled that Fox's reboot of the USFL may have infringed on the original league's intellectual property.
Legal Zoom
APRIL 28, 2022
If you miss the tax filing deadline, you will be subject to failure-to-file penalties. To avoid this, you should file an extension prior to the deadline. Extensions allow extra time to file a tax return, but it does not give you extra time to pay.
IP Law 360
APRIL 28, 2022
A New York federal judge on Wednesday dismissed, for now, a composer's copyright infringement suit against Procter & Gamble and several others for allegedly ripping off a song he wrote in the 1980s for their Febreze commercials, ruling that the composer didn't show how his song was copied.
43(B)log
APRIL 28, 2022
Harley’s Hope Found. v. Harley’s Dream, 2022 WL 1154526, No. 22-cv-0136-WJM-STV (D. Colo. Apr. 19, 2022) Harley’s Hope launched in 2010; it owns a 2021-issued registration for “HARLEY’S HOPE FOUNDATION,” for “Charitable foundation services, namely, providing financial support to pet parents for veterinary assistance and programs” and a 2012 Colorado state registration.
IP Law 360
APRIL 28, 2022
The Federal Circuit next week will hear a challenge to a Coca-Cola trademark win that stopped a smaller rival from selling drinks in the U.S. with brand names that the beverage giant primarily uses in India. Here's a look at that case — plus all the other major intellectual property matters facing the court in the coming week.
Fish & Richardson Trademark & Copyright Thoughts
APRIL 28, 2022
The European Patent Office has published a decision that the new WIPO Standard ST.26 for sequence listings will replace the former WIPO Standard ST.25. European patent applications or international applications that disclose nucleotide and/or amino acid sequences and are filed on or after July 1, 2022, must include a sequence listing as part of the description, in compliance with the new WIPO Standard ST.26 (Rule 30(1) EPC / Rule 5.2 PCT).
LexBlog IP
APRIL 28, 2022
Tillis/Hirono Demand Answers on OpenSky. Barely on the job for a week, Director Vidal is already being politically pressured to address a festering issue of patent policy. That issue—the use of a recycled IPR petition as a means to collaterally attack large damage verdicts— is a self-inflicted wound for the agency. The OpenSky business model wouldn’t exist absent the ill conceived expansion of discretionary denial practices under former Director Iancu.
Fish & Richardson Trademark & Copyright Thoughts
APRIL 28, 2022
Despite the value trade secrets create for companies that hold them, they are often-overlooked intellectual property assets. But, unlike patents, trade secrets require their owners to take affirmative steps to maintain the intellectual property protection they provide. Without a comprehensive trade secret strategy, trade secret owners risk the loss of their intellectual property assets and expose themselves to the risk of trade secret misappropriation litigation.
IP Law 360
APRIL 28, 2022
An Ohio federal jury has awarded more than $700,000 in lost profits to a drilling tool materials company in its patent suit against two metal importers over dissolvable alloys, finding that the manufacturers infringed two patents covering the metal composition but did not do so willfully.
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