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TPAC slides from meeting March 12, 2021

Erik K Pelton

TPAC met last Friday. I was waiting for the USPTO to post the full slide deck, but that hasn’t happened yet and I wanted to share these very important data points and slides. See some of the most important slides that I captured below. TLDR: All of the following are rising considerably : Applications, revenues, examination pendency, USPTO employment, scams and bad faith actors.

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Infographic | Anticounterfeiting and Antipiracy in a digital era in Colombia

Olartemoure Blog

If you need brand protection in Colombia, this information might be useful: Colombian Customs’ Authorities issue alerts by email. Ask your attorney to include your email address as a reference for authorities, so you receive the same alerts your attorney gets. Training sessions in Colombia are still necessary. This way authorities will remember your trademark and provide a way for you to clearly show what your company is doing and what your main products are.

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Build an Art Collection that Supports Emerging Artists

Art Law Journal

Whether or not an artist’s work is selling or being shown extensively shouldn’t be the only factor considered when building an art collection. The post Build an Art Collection that Supports Emerging Artists appeared first on Art Business Journal.

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Priority Documents Digital Access Service (DAS) And IPO

Intepat

? Under the WIPO-INDIA Cooperation agreement, Indian Patent Office (IPO) started the WIPO Digital Access Services (DAS) with effect from 31st January, 2018 for priority documents submitted by the applicants from participating Patent offices. The agreement was entered into to facilitate the electronic exchange of data and documents including priority documents, search and examination reports and other related information between IPO and WIPO through WIPO CASE and WIPO DAS.

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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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Extraterritorial Application of the Defend Trade Secrets Act

Fish & Richardson Trademark & Copyright Thoughts

Can you be sued for misappropriation of trade secrets in the U.S. based on foreign activities? U.S. courts are taking an increasingly broad view of the scope of U.S. trade secret law , and have allowed trade secret cases to proceed even if plaintiffs only allege a generic or small connection to U.S. activities. Generally, in the U.S. legal system, there is a presumption that U.S. law only applies domestically and “does not rule the world.

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The U.S. - E.U. Alcohol Trade Wars: A Welcome Pause

GDB Firm Blog

On Friday, March 5, 2021, the United States and the European Union made an announcement that will likely cause many in the alcohol and restaurant industries to pop open a bottle of Champagne - a temporary truce in the tariff wars.

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