IP Watchdog

JUNE 25, 2023

Public comments on the United States Patent and Trademark Office’s (USPTO) Advanced Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (ANPRM) on Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) practices continued to be posted this week, following the June 20 deadline. The USPTO is currently processing the 14,000+ comments, many of which are duplicative, and periodically publishing them online.

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Likelihood of Confusion

JUNE 25, 2023

Lawyers don’t do the Constitution any favor when every trifle becomes a matter of litigation — perhaps especially in lawsuits against schools over kids’ “free speech rights” over things like. The post Making a joke of the First Amendment appeared first on LIKELIHOOD OF CONFUSION™.

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LexBlog IP

JUNE 25, 2023

In the UAE, cheques are widely used and are a popular method of payment. A cheque is a written order by an account holder instructing their bank to pay a specified sum of money to a named person or entity. A cheque is a legally binding document, and it serves as a guarantee of payment to the payee. In the UAE, cheques are governed by the provisions of Federal Decree No. 50/2022, the commercial transactions law.

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TorrentFreak

JUNE 25, 2023

IPFS is a decentralized network that makes it possible to efficiently distribute high volumes of data between peers while avoiding downtime associated with regular hosting outages. The IPFS project describes the system as a peer-to-peer hypermedia protocol designed to preserve and grow humanity’s knowledge by making the web upgradeable, resilient, and more open.

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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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The IPKat

JUNE 25, 2023

This Kat has come across a curious case (curious even for a Kat) on the use of a geographical indication (GI) in a domain name by a producer, which is part of that GI producers’ association. The case concerned the use of “Piment D’Espelette” and it was recently decided by the Paris First Instance Court ( 22/11181 ). “Piment D’Espelette” (Espelette pepper) is a protected denomination of origin (PDO) from the French Basque Country since 2002.

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Copyright Lately

JUNE 25, 2023

In a first-of-its-kind lawsuit, Columbia Pictures claims that a writer’s use of a loan-out company prevents him from terminating the studio’s rights in the film Bad Boys. It’s finally happened. A major motion picture studio has filed a lawsuit challenging the termination of a copyright assignment made by a writer’s loan-out company.

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