Sat.Mar 19, 2022

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Watch Tower vs. McFree: Nonprofit Defends Critic’s Fair Use & Anonymity Rights

TorrentFreak

Since 2017, the Watch Tower Bible and Tract Society, the supervising body and publisher for the Jehovah’s Witness religious group, has filed more than 70 DMCA subpoena applications in the United States. When taken at face value, they all tell a straightforward story. Someone on the internet has breached Watch Tower’s copyrights and, as a result, their true names and addresses should be handed over so that the group can seek remedy for infringement.

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Instagram Influencer Denied Section 230 For Reposting Reader Submissions–Zuckerbrot v. Gellis

Technology & Marketing Law Blog

This case involves the high-fiber diet system “F-Factor,” developed by dietitian Tanya Zuckerbrot. Emily Gellis is an Instagram influencer currently with 182k followers, but no training as a dietitian or journalist. Gellis believed that F-Factor harmed consumers, a message she delivered in 4,500 posts over 75 days. Some of Gellis’ posts republished material submitted by readers, such as first-hand testimonials about the problems they allegedly experienced with the F-Factor diet

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Judge Stark Denies Defendants’ Motion to Dismiss Plaintiff’s First Amended Complaint in Patent Infringement Action Claiming Defendants’ Lung Cancer Diagnostic Test Product Infringes Plaintiff’s Patent Technology

Delaware Intellectual Property Litigation Blog

By Memorandum Opinion entered by the Honorable Leonard P. Stark in Natera, Inc. v. Inivata, Inc. et al. , Civil Action No. 21-56-LPS (D.Del. March 14, 2022), the Court denied defendants’ motion to dismiss plaintiff’s first amended complaint asserting claims of patent infringement against defendants arising from defendants’ lung cancer diagnostic test product.

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Sheppard Mullins’s Copyright Top Ten List

Likelihood of Confusion

The big law firm‘s sleepy but snazzy Intellectual Property Law Blog lists “The Top Ten Ways Copyright Law Can Mess Up Your Transaction.” I link to this here because: Too. The post Sheppard Mullins’s Copyright Top Ten List appeared first on LIKELIHOOD OF CONFUSION™.

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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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Judge Stark Denies Defendants’ Motion to Dismiss Plaintiff’s First Amended Complaint in Patent Infringement Action Claiming Defendants’ Lung Cancer Diagnostic Test Product Infringes Plaintiff’s Patent Technology

LexBlog IP

By Memorandum Opinion entered by the Honorable Leonard P. Stark in Natera, Inc. v. Inivata, Inc. et al. , Civil Action No. 21-56-LPS (D.Del. March 14, 2022), the Court denied defendants’ motion to dismiss plaintiff’s first amended complaint asserting claims of patent infringement against defendants arising from defendants’ lung cancer diagnostic test product.

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Court Prohibits Convicted Lawyer from Filing New Copyright Lawsuits

TorrentFreak

In 2019, a U.S. District Court in Minnesota sentenced Paul Hansmeier to 14 years in prison , to be followed by two years of supervised release. Hansmeier was a key player at the Prenda Law firm, which pursued cases against people who were suspected of downloading pirated porn videos via BitTorrent. While suing alleged pirates is not illegal, Prenda Law went much further.

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