SpicyIP

MAY 14, 2023

On attributes of a researcher, Prof. Basheer said here “ As a researcher, you need to keep asking yourself why? You cannot take anything for granted. So you must be curious about everything in the world… ” Along with our launch of the SpicyIP Empirical Database series today, on Prof Basheer’s 47th birth anniversary, we are also very happy to open up applications for the recently announced SpicyIP Doctoral Fellowship.

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IP Watchdog

MAY 14, 2023

The issue of AI inventorship in the United States remains at large following the Supreme Court’s denial of cert in Thaler v. Vidal, meaning that the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) finding that AI cannot be considered a named inventor to a patent application remains the law of the land. Now that the agency is seeking public comments on the issue of AI inventorship, I reached out to Dr.

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SpicyIP

MAY 14, 2023

Prof Shamnad Basheer Moving from Faith-based positions to Fact-based positions has been a topic that Prof Shamnad Basheer had long been propounding on this blog, with several prominent examples such as the petition to the Government to make Indian patent information available online more than 15 years ago, to displaying glaring gaps in Form 27 declarations , from the “ Indian Bayh Dole” issues , to countering claims about textbook prices , and more.

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TorrentFreak

MAY 14, 2023

There’s no denying that the Alliance for Creativity and Entertainment (ACE) has been rather successful over the past few years. The anti-piracy group, which represents prominent rightsholders such as Apple, the BBC, Canal+, Disney, Sky, Netflix, and Warner Bros, systematically hunts down key piracy players and works to shut them down. ACE expanded its reach once again this week when it added sports streaming service DAZN to its roster.

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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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Barry Sookman

MAY 14, 2023

I had the pleasure to speak at the McCarthy Tetrault AI Summit along with my colleague Mike Scherman. The AI summit was attended by over 1,000 McCarthy Clients eager to hear about AI legal and regulation issues. Mike and I spoke on the topic of Contracting for tech under the AI provisions of CPPA, AIDA and Law 25. We stressed the importance of including present and future AI regulatory issues in the tech contracting process.

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Likelihood of Confusion

MAY 14, 2023

But mediation isn’t it — in the Jimi Hendrix vodka case, that is, which Mike Atkins has been all over since last year, as we reported back then. No settlement, The post There must be some kind of way out of here appeared first on LIKELIHOOD OF CONFUSION™.

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The Trichordist

MAY 14, 2023

By Chris Castle [Editor Charlie sez this post first appeared on MusicTechPolicy] Over the years I have had a number of posts about negotiating record producer agreements.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

MAY 14, 2023

I previously described this lawsuit: Both Facebook and Twitter restricted Hart’s account access due to various posts over COVID, masking, and other culture war issues. Hart sued them for violating the First Amendment. You can guess how that went. Hart sought to revive his case based on new information he acquired from a FOIA request, discovery from another lawsuit (Missouri v.

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