Plagiarism Today
JANUARY 13, 2022
On Friday of last week, Rush Shalit Barrett filed a lawsuit against The Atlantic , seeking some $1 million in damages after, she claims, a retraction of an article she wrote “destroyed her reputation and career.” The lawsuit comes more than a year after an article Barrett published in The Atlantic came under fire for alleged fabrications and factual errors.
TorrentFreak
JANUARY 13, 2022
Copyright holders have tried a variety of measures to curb copyright infringement over the years, with varying levels of success. Site blocking has emerged as one of the preferred solutions. While these measures are not foolproof, the general idea is that they pose a large enough hurdle for casual pirates to choose legal options instead. This strategy has been rolled out in dozens of countries.
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Plagiarism Today
JANUARY 13, 2022
Have any suggestions for the 3 Count? Let me know via Twitter @plagiarismtoday. 1: Krafton Sues Garena, Apple, and Google over Free Fire Copyright Infringement. First off today, Aaron Orr at Pocket Gamer reports that the developer of the battle royale game PUBG has filed a lawsuit against competitor Garena after alleging that Garena’s mobile game Free Fire is a copyright infringement of PUBG.
TorrentFreak
JANUARY 13, 2022
An interesting lawsuit filed in a Texas court during the summer last year saw DISH Network and Sling TV partner up to sue the people behind SportsBay.org, SportsBay.tv, Live-NBA.stream, and Freefeds.com. Unlike lawsuits against regular pirate IPTV providers, the platforms were alleged to have circumvented the DRM technologies deployed by Sling TV’s streaming system (Widevine, Fairplay, and PlayReady) in order to provide their users with Sling programming, directly from Sling’s servers, for free.
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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?
IP Watchdog
JANUARY 13, 2022
Today, the full Senate Judiciary Committee officially voted to confirm the nomination of Katherine Vidal by a vote of 17-5 for Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property and Director of the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO). The Committee also voted 16-6 in favor of Judge Leonard Stark, President Biden’s nominee to replace U.S.
Patently-O
JANUARY 13, 2022
by Dennis Crouch. The chart below shows the number of Supreme Court patent decisions broken-up by decade. The ramp-up in the late 1800s is tied to the “second industrial revolution” in the US. The drop in cases after 1890 is largely procedural. Congress created the regional circuit courts of appeals as a buffer between the trial courts & Supreme Court.
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The IP Law Blog
JANUARY 13, 2022
Business owners often ask whether they should protect their intellectual property with a trade secret or a patent. The answer is: It depends. What Can Be Protected? . The first thing to consider is what it is that needs to be protected. A trade secret protects a business’s confidential and proprietary information. The information can be a formula, process, or customer list.
JD Supra Law
JANUARY 13, 2022
Addressing the issue of written description in a Hatch-Waxman litigation, the US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit affirmed the district court’s finding that the patent adequately described the claimed daily dose and no-loading dose negative limitation. Novartis Pharms. v. Accord Healthcare Inc., Case No. 21-1070 (Fed. Cir. Jan. 3, 2022) (Linn, O’Malley, JJ.
Kluwer Copyright Blog
JANUARY 13, 2022
Photo by Juliana Romão on Unsplash. CALL FOR PAPERS : Symposium on the Right to Research in International Copyright Law. American University International Law Review (AUILR). April 21-22, 2022. The American University Washington College of Law Program on Information Justice and Intellectual Property (PIJIP), American University International Law Review (AUILR), and the University of Amsterdam Institute for Information Law (IViR) are inviting papers for a Symposium on the Right to Research in Int
The Illusion of More
JANUARY 13, 2022
“The more desperate one is to get attention, rather than to accurately communicate what one believes a problem is, the more one ventures into the realm of sensationalist propaganda.” That observation was not written about anyone promoting the Stop the Steal narrative that led to the insurrection on January 6, 2020. No, that’s Chris Ruen, […]. The post Would You Fall for the Anti-SOPA Campaign Today?
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JD Supra Law
JANUARY 13, 2022
The Intellectual Property Office (IPO) in the United Kingdom just closed a consultation on policy options for changes to patent and copyright legislation to better protect technology created by artificial intelligence (AI).
Stock Legal Blog
JANUARY 13, 2022
Calling all Missouri-based start-ups! Missouri Technology Corporation (MTC) announced that they are seeking entrepreneurs to apply for its Idea Fund Co-Investment Program. According to MTC Executive Director, Jack Scatizzi, the group intends to distribute “$2M in funding for investment in the most promising Missouri-based early-stage technology companies for the fiscal year.”.
JD Supra Law
JANUARY 13, 2022
A weekly summary of the precedential patent-related opinions issued by the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit and the opinions designated precedential or informative by the Patent Trial and Appeal Board. Novartis Pharmaceuticals Corp. v. Accord Healthcare, Inc., et al., No. 2021-1070 (Fed. Cir. (D. Del.) Jan. 3, 2022). Opinion by O’Malley, joined by Linn.
The IPKat
JANUARY 13, 2022
Kat friend, Dr. Julia Hugendubel, describes recent developments concerning tokenization of IP rights to manage IP. Interest in blockchain technology, tokens, and IP, continues apace. Consider the recent WIPO webinar , "Blockchain Whitepaper for IP Ecosystems", at which the view was expressed that the future of IP management rights could include a solution that utilizes tokens, and, in particular, non-fungible tokens.
JD Supra Law
JANUARY 13, 2022
The increasing presence of data-driven solutions in the healthcare and life sciences sector is apparent from the rise in numbers of patents and patent applications. The number of published bioinformatics patents and patent applications in the last decade has nearly doubled. Bioinformatics patents face an uphill battle due to subject matter eligibility challenges.
IP Close Up
JANUARY 13, 2022
Frederick Shelton IV, arguably the most prolific and financially successful inventors ever, is a Johnson & Johnson medical device innovator unknown to pretty much everyone Continue reading.
JD Supra Law
JANUARY 13, 2022
On November 19th, Junior Party the University of California, Berkeley; the University of Vienna; and Emmanuelle Charpentier (collectively, "CVC") filed its Substantive Preliminary Motion No. 3 in Interference No. 106,132 (which names Sigma-Aldrich as Senior Party), asking the Patent Trial and Appeal Board to substitute the Count of the interference pursuant to 37 C.F.R. §§ 41.121(a)(1)(iii) and 41.208(a)(1).
IP Law 360
JANUARY 13, 2022
Venable LLP has landed an entertainment litigation expert from Wolf Rifkin Shapiro Schulman & Rabkin LLP to join its Los Angeles office.
Art Law Journal
JANUARY 13, 2022
Video editing and motion graphics go hand in hand—after all, they are both rooted in storytelling. Learn about a career in this industry! The post Video Editing and Motion Graphics Design: Creative Hobby to Creative Career appeared first on Art Business Journal.
IP Law 360
JANUARY 13, 2022
Following the recent settlement in McDonald's v. Easterbrook, in-house counsel should consider decision-tree analyses and values-driven communications plans to secure effective, early resolutions in litigation, saving time and money and moving the company mission forward, say Ronald Levine at Herrick Feinstein and Richard Torrenzano at The Torrenzano Group.
JD Supra Law
JANUARY 13, 2022
In a January 6, 2022, Federal Register notice, the US Patent and Trademark Office (PTO) announced its intention to implement a pilot program to evaluate the effects of permitting applicants to defer responding to subject matter eligibility (SME) rejections in certain patent applications. Under this pilot program, applicants may receive invitations to participate if their applications meet the program’s criteria, including a criterion that the claims in the application necessitate rejections on.
IP Law 360
JANUARY 13, 2022
Cox Communications has told a Virginia federal judge that a "recent revelation" by Sony Music and other music labels has shown that they lied about a key part of evidence used in a copyright infringement trial that led to a $1 billion verdict against the internet service provider.
43(B)log
JANUARY 13, 2022
Suski v. Marden-Kane, Inc., 2022 WL 103541, No. 21-cv-04539-SK (N.D. Cal. Jan. 11, 2022) Plaintiffs filed a putative class action “on behalf of themselves and persons who opted into Coinbase’s $1.2 million Dogecoin (DOGE) sweepstakes in June 2021, and who purchased or sold Dogecoins on a Coinbase exchange for a total of $100 or more between June 3, 2021 and June 10, 2021.
IP Law 360
JANUARY 13, 2022
A Federal Circuit panel questioned Chinese radio maker Hytera on whether the word "or" on its audio output patent was correctly interpreted by an Ohio federal judge, who ruled that Motorola didn't infringe on Hytera's patent covering a way to adjust the sound quality on radio communication devices.
IP Watchdog
JANUARY 13, 2022
Apologies for missing last week, which was a light, short holiday recap—nothing much of note beyond less-than-average filings, given the holidays. This week was back to the new normal at the Board, with 24 petitions—one post grant review (PGR) and 23 inter partes reviews (IPRs)—and 50 new filings, with fewer than usual file-and-settle suits (as it’s the beginning of a quarter, year, and month).
Trading Secrets
JANUARY 13, 2022
What You Need to Know about the Recent Cases and Developments in Trade Secrets, Restrictive Covenants, and Computer Fraud. Thursday, January 27, 2022. 2:00 p.m. to 3:00 p.m. Eastern. 1:00 p.m. to 2:00 p.m. Central. 12:00 p.m. to 1:00 p.m. Mountain. 11:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m. Pacific. REGISTER HERE. In the first installment of the 2022 Trade Secrets Webinar Series, Seyfarth attorneys will review noteworthy legislation, cases, and other legal developments from across the nation over the last year in
IP Watchdog
JANUARY 13, 2022
This article, originally published on 12/27/2021, was updated on 1/12/2022 and republished on 1/13/2022 to include information that was omitted in error, beginning after "Conclusions and Outlook". In Part I of this post, we provided an update on three lead pioneers in the mRNA IP space, Moderna, BioNTech and CureVac. In this post we profile Sanofi, Arcturus, eTheRNA and other mRNA companies and offer conclusions.
JD Supra Law
JANUARY 13, 2022
On December 28, in Intel Corp. v. Qualcomm Inc., the Federal Circuit held that the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) may not decline to consider the patentability of a claim challenged in an inter partes review (IPR) petition simply because it contains a potentially indefinite claim term. Despite lacking the authority to invalidate claims based on indefiniteness, the PTAB must make its own definiteness determinations and further must make a patentability determination on each challenged claim
Art Law Journal
JANUARY 13, 2022
Creativity is a way of life…but making creativity into a living can seem daunting — particularly when you don’t have an educational or professional background in art. If you are a non-professional artist who is eager to turn your artistic talents into a career, you’ve come to the right place. Together, Artrepreneur and Creative Circle have put together this comprehensive article series to support budding artists in the early stages of their art careers.
Olartemoure Blog
JANUARY 13, 2022
Colombian Decree 282 of 2019 ´s main purpose is to protect homeowners from all damages they might suffer in case of total or partial property destruction. The Decree imposes new obligations to builders and sellers enforcing the existing statute of repose. The deadline for this protection should be 10 years following the issue of the technical certification of property occupation, and it can be constituted by a trust fund, a bank guarantee, an insurance policy, or other mechanisms.
IAM Magazine
JANUARY 13, 2022
Redesigned platform launched today allows subscribers to get the most out of our offering, with easy access to up-to-date intelligence, data and insights – plus our deep archive of IP value creation coverage.
LexBlog IP
JANUARY 13, 2022
NEWS RELEASE. FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE. JAN. 13, 2022. Contact: Lauren Hawksworth. Marketing Administrator. 404-592-5182. lhawksworth@founderslegal.com. Founders Legal® promotes Senior Patent Attorney Kevin Bastuba to Vice Chair. Kevin T. Bastuba, Senior Patent Associate. Atlanta, GA – January 13, 2022 – Founders Legal ® , is pleased to announce the promotion of Attorney Kevin Bastuba to Vice-Chair of the Intellectual Property team.
IAM Magazine
JANUARY 13, 2022
Redesigned platform launched today allows subscribers to get the most out of our offering, with easy access to up-to-date intelligence, data and insights – plus our deep archive of IP value creation coverage.
LexBlog IP
JANUARY 13, 2022
Good News! In 2021, applications filed in Canada went up 13.7%, partly due to Canada’s accession to the Madrid Protocol. When Canada is designated via the Madrid Protocol, the Canadian Intellectual Property Office (CIPO) will communicate directly with the applicant if a Canadian trademark agent is not appointed. Correspondence from the CIPO, such as office actions, default notices, opposition notices, and non-use cancellation proceedings, is sent directly to the applicant and not the forei
Herbert Smith Freehills
JANUARY 13, 2022
Leading international law firm Herbert Smith Freehills has advised high-performance rare earth permanent magnets (REPMs) producer JL MAG Rare-Earth Co., Ltd. JL Mag produces high-performance NdFeB rare earth permanent magnets (REPMs), which are used in new energy vehicles and automotive parts, permanent magnetic wind turbine generators, energy-saving variable-frequency air conditioners and other sectors.
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