TorrentFreak

MARCH 20, 2022

Every day millions of people use YouTube rippers, tools that are often used to download music for free. The music industry is not happy with these services. Stream-ripping is viewed as the largest piracy problem, one that’s more serious than those posed by torrent sites and direct download portals. In response to this threat, the RIAA and its members have taken legal steps to shut down sites or have them blocked by Internet providers.

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IP Watchdog

MARCH 20, 2022

In February, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit (CAFC) agreed with the Patent Trial and Appeal Board’s (PTAB’s) decision that the original claims of Zaxcom’s U.S. Patent No. 9,336,307 for Engineering Emmy® and technical OSCAR award-winning wireless microphone technology were unpatentable as obvious, but upheld the substitute claims Zaxcom had proposed.

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Patently-O

MARCH 20, 2022

by Dennis Crouch. Cisco Systems v. SRI Int’l. (Supreme Court 2022) [ Petition for Writ of Certiorari ]. In a new petition for writ of certiorari , Cisco asks for guidance on whether enhanced damages under Section 284 require “egregious infringement behavior” or instead is it enough to find “deliberate or intentional infringement?”.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

MARCH 20, 2022

Plaintiff (Carfax) manages information regarding used cars and light trucks. It owns a “QuickVIN” tool that allows users to search vehicle-related information by license plate number, rather than by VIN number. Defendant Accu-trade is a valuation platform and is a part of a larger entity called “Hollenshead,” which is a major auto wholesaler. Defendants (Hollenshead and Accu-trade) talked with Carfax about using Carfax’s QV tool in exchange for the provision of data by defendants to Carfax

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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?

Technology

The IPKat

MARCH 20, 2022

Spring seems to be approaching and many IP events and opportunities are about to greet the new season. The IPKat has compiled some of them for your weekly Sunday evening overview. EVENTS ECTA ®etreat | 7 April 2022 | Milan, IT The ECTA ®etreat entitled " The never-ending challenge of shape protection: design, trade mark and copyright " will be held in Milan on April 7, 2022!

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Likelihood of Confusion

MARCH 20, 2022

And I’ll be presenting! How do you like them apples! See you in sunny #Camden next Thursday, @Rutgers_Camden! [link] — Ron Coleman (@RonColeman) May 10, 2016 By the time you. The post Rutgers, Archer and Me: Using Social Media to Power Your Business appeared first on LIKELIHOOD OF CONFUSION™.

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Barry Sookman

MARCH 20, 2022

Computer and Internet Weekly Updates for 2022-03-12 [link] 2022-03-13. [link] 2022-03-14. Court determining damages in this trade secret misappropriation and copyright infringement case, 2021 BCSC 2126 (Ca… [link] 2022-03-15. Russia declares war on patent owners, Russia adopts zero compensation to patent owners from unfriendly countries [link] 2022-03-15.

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Copyright Infringement Invention Copyright Patent 58

IAM Magazine

MARCH 20, 2022

Get ready for the new working week with a summary of all the stories posted on the IAM platform over the past seven days.

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