Plagiarism Today
APRIL 20, 2023
In September, we looked at four Copyright Claims Board cases to watch. Now we're revisiting them and seeing what's happened with them. The post Update: 4 Copyright Claims Board Cases to Watch appeared first on Plagiarism Today.
McKinsey Operations
APRIL 20, 2023
Even with recent industry layoffs, the tech talent shortage shows few signs of abating. To attract this critical segment, it’s important to understand what they want (hint: it’s not just compensation).
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Plagiarism Today
APRIL 20, 2023
Drake faces a copyright lawsuit over an uncleared sample, Nintendo wins big in France, and a new study says pirate losses to rise. The post 3 Count: Honestly, Nevermind appeared first on Plagiarism Today.
TorrentFreak
APRIL 20, 2023
The DMCA takedown process allows copyright holders to report infringing content and have it removed or taken down. It is a powerful tool that takes millions of URLs and links offline every day. In most cases, this happens for a good reason, but some takedown efforts are questionable. DMCA Takedown Abuse In recent years there have been numerous examples of clear abuse and impersonations , as revealed through Google’s transparency report.
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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?
McKinsey Operations
APRIL 20, 2023
Our latest analysis of talent trends suggests that employees of all ages seem to want the same things from their work experience—with a few important caveats.
TorrentFreak
APRIL 20, 2023
When a company like Nintendo puts out a press release, the entire world pays attention. This week was no different. Nintendo has been locked in a legal battle with French file-hosting service 1fichier for the past five years. The basic facts don’t appear to be in dispute; Nintendo informed 1fichier that it had found pirated copies of its games on the service, but 1fichier refused to take them down.
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TorrentFreak
APRIL 20, 2023
An announcement by the Brazilian government in February revealed that “the two biggest digital anime pirate sites” in Brazil had been “taken down” in Operation 404 offshoot, ‘Operation Anime’. The Ministry of Justice and Public Security said the objective was to “repress crimes committed against intellectual property” on the internet; more specifically, piracy of Japanese cartoons, better known as anime.
IP Watchdog
APRIL 20, 2023
The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) today published an Advanced Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (ANPRM) indicating it is considering changes to America Invents Act (AIA) proceedings before the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB). Perhaps most notably, one of the proposals it is asking for input on has to do with creating rules that would authorize discretionary denial of inter partes review (IPR) proceedings “to ensure that certain for-profit, non-competitive entities do not use the IPR
Michael Geist
APRIL 20, 2023
With Bill C-11 in the final stretch – Senate approval could come this week – the government finally provided a more detailed explanation for rejecting the Senate’s user content regulation fix. Indeed, after weeks of false or empty justifications for the rejection, Senator Marc Gold, the government’s representative in the Senate, at long last tried to make the case for rejecting the amendment.
The IP Law Blog
APRIL 20, 2023
In Ventex Co., Ltd. v. Columbia Sportswear North America, Inc. , IPR2017-00651 (PTAB Apr. 12, 2023) (per curiam), the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (the “Board”) found that petitioner Ventex Co., Ltd.’s (“Ventex) failure to disclose the existence of an agreement with a time-barred real party in interest unnecessarily delayed the proceedings and awarded over $32,000 in sanctions to the patent owner Columbia Sportswear North America, Inc.
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JD Supra Law
APRIL 20, 2023
A new track by Drake and The Weeknd is going viral on social media and is bound to top the charts. The song “Heart on my Sleeve” details the emotional trauma of The Weeknd’s breakup with pop star Selena Gomez in a tear jerker that extends just over two minutes. The song has been hailed as the “banger of the weekend” and was viewed more than 8.5 million times on TikTok.
Velocity of Content
APRIL 20, 2023
Finding the right content at the right time is essential for any R&D-intensive company, but it is equally important to consider how that content is acquired and managed, and when the time is right to consider a literature management software tool. With so many competing priorities and limited resources, many small to medium businesses (SMBs) may not be thinking about how their information assets are organized, how individual employees are accessing published articles, or the potential risk a
JD Supra Law
APRIL 20, 2023
Procedural History - Arbutus Biopharma Corp. v. Modernatx, Inc. is an appeal from a final written decision in an inter partes proceeding of the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (“PTAB”) that found claims 1-22 of U.S. Patent No. 9,404,127 (“’127 Patent”) invalid as anticipated by prior art. The Federal Circuit affirmed.
McKinsey Operations
APRIL 20, 2023
Elizabeth Maruma Mrema, co-chairperson of the Taskforce on Nature-related Financial Disclosures, discusses the urgency of reorienting business toward nature-positive activities.
JD Supra Law
APRIL 20, 2023
The construction industry is full of valuable business information including customer lists, pricing information, project budgets, and more. The value of such information may be lost if it becomes known to a competitor or the public at large. That is why it is important to take steps to protect confidential information from disclosure.
McKinsey Operations
APRIL 20, 2023
L’Oréal has been early to adopt a number of metaverse and Web3-related initiatives, all of which feed into its broader digital innovation ambition.
JD Supra Law
APRIL 20, 2023
On April 18, 2023, we submitted a Supreme Court amicus brief expressing our encouragement for the justices to rule on the question of whether it is proper for an artificial intelligence (AI) to be an inventor on a patent application. The issue has arisen in the Petition for Writ of Certiorari recently filed by Dr. Stephen Thaler.
McKinsey Operations
APRIL 20, 2023
Green bank financing could mobilize hundreds of billions in investment toward net-zero emissions by 2050 as well as advancing environmental justice in the US.
JD Supra Law
APRIL 20, 2023
In Intel Corp. v. PACT XPP Schweiz AG, the Federal Circuit held that establishing a motivation to combine prior art for KSR analysis based on the “known-technique” rationale does not require showing that the “known-technique” is an improvement. The Court held that it only requires showing that the “known-technique” is a “suitable option.”. By: Rothwell, Figg, Ernst & Manbeck, P.C.
McKinsey Operations
APRIL 20, 2023
Energy-intensive companies in Europe are facing high and volatile natural-gas and electricity prices. An optimized energy procurement strategy can help them get a grip on energy costs.
IP Watchdog
APRIL 20, 2023
Yesterday, in a precedential decision, the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit (CAFC) affirmed a district court ruling that upheld the validity of several claims in two Amgen patents and barred Sandoz and Zydus from producing generic versions of Amgen’s psoriasis drug Otezla until 2028. The CAFC ruling also upheld the district court’s ruling that three claims in Amgen’s U.S.
McKinsey Operations
APRIL 20, 2023
Jennifer Morris, chief executive officer of The Nature Conservancy, discusses how non-governmental organizations can play a convening role in the global fight to tackle climate change and biodiversity loss.
IP Law 360
APRIL 20, 2023
Two international law professors are urging the Second Circuit to provide guidance on obligations of the U.S. under an international service treaty, pointing to a ruling allowing Chinese defendants in a "Baby Shark" counterfeiting case to be served by email that the judge later admitted was wrong.
McKinsey Operations
APRIL 20, 2023
Yvon Chouinard, founder of outdoor apparel retailer Patagonia, reflects on how companies can be responsible for the planet and its people while increasing growth and value.
IP Law 360
APRIL 20, 2023
An Illinois federal judge won't make a hemp-based rolling paper maker disgorge its profits to a rival following a finding that it falsely advertised its papers as being made in Alcoy, Spain, saying the facts of the case don't support disgorgement, only limited attorney fees.
Patently-O
APRIL 20, 2023
By Dennis Crouch In re Charger Ventures, — F.4th. —, 22-1094 (Fed. Cir. 2023) In this trademark case, the Federal Circuit affirmed a decision by the Trademark Trial and Appeal Board (TTAB) denying registration of the mark SPARK LIVING for residential real estate, based upon the prior registration of SPARK for commercial real estate. The prior registration is tied to Spark Co-working spaces that started in Baltimore and have now expanded to several other cities.
IP Law 360
APRIL 20, 2023
Neglecting law firm alumni programs after a merger can sever the deep connections attorneys have with their former firms, but by combining good data management and creating new opportunities to reconnect, firms can make every member in their expanded network of colleagues feel valued, say Clare Roath and Erin Warner at Troutman Pepper.
Cogency Global
APRIL 20, 2023
What this is: The Corporate Transparency Act is a law aimed at preventing criminals from using business entities to commit crimes. The goal of the CTA, along with its enforcement guidelines, is to supply vital data to law enforcement, national security organizations and other parties in order to thwart criminals, terrorists, weapons proliferators and unscrupulous oligarchs from concealing illegal funds or assets within the United States.
IP Law 360
APRIL 20, 2023
Paramount says Warner Bros. Discovery is the one that has violated their agreement over the streaming rights to the long-running animated comedy "South Park," according to counterclaims lodged Wednesday in the breach-of-contract suit initially filed by Warner earlier this year.
43(B)log
APRIL 20, 2023
Williams v. Reckitt Benckiser LLC, F.4th -, 2023 WL 2906311, No. 22-11232 (11 th Cir. Apr. 12, 2023) The court of appeals reversed approval of a settlement that would have provided injunctive relief and up to $8 million in monetary relief to a class of individuals who purchased one or more “brain performance supplements” manufactured and sold by defendants.
IP Law 360
APRIL 20, 2023
Since the Federal Circuit required experts to meet the definition of a person of ordinary skill in the art before opining on an issue in Kyocera v. U.S. International Trade Commission last year, subsequent patent decisions applying Kyocera's expert admissibility test raise questions about a court's role as gatekeeper, say attorneys at Akin Gump.
IP and Legal Filings
APRIL 20, 2023
Introduction Any literally or artistic work that is original and creative i.e.; not copied from anywhere by the owner is protected under Copyright Act, 1957. The Act is not providing protection to AI without human intervention from infringement instead it only provides protection to humans and AI generated work with human intervention from infringement.
McKinsey Operations
APRIL 20, 2023
Carlos Manuel Rodríguez, CEO and chairperson of the Global Environment Facility, says restoring and conserving nature demands multilateral, country-led, and private-sector action.
JD Supra Law
APRIL 20, 2023
This edition of Skadden’s quarterly Insights looks at the rising number of de-SPACed companies seeking Chapter 11 protection, the growth of a market designed to assume legacy liabilities, an effort to establish government-friendly case law in antitrust enforcement, and other important trends and developments.
McKinsey Operations
APRIL 20, 2023
Industry leaders know they must adopt new fuels in order to decarbonize. Is a multifuel future in store?
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