SpicyIP

JANUARY 27, 2024

Image from here [ This tidbit is authored by Pranav Aggarwal. Pranav is a second-year student pursuing B.A.LL.B.(Hons) at Rajiv Gandhi National University of Law, Punjab. His previous post can be accessed here.] I have heard that imitation is the sincerest form of flattery. But, the PAN card service provider- UTI Infrastructure Technology and Service Limited ( UTIITSL ) was definitely not flattered, and neither was the Court.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

JANUARY 27, 2024

I previously summarized this case: This case involves two Snapchat users who repeatedly received threatening messages from other Snapchat users despite the victims’ efforts to block the perpetrators. A victim flagged messages for Snapchat, allegedly to no effect, and law enforcement may have felt like Snapchat ghosted them and then dragged its feet in replying.

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The IPKat

JANUARY 27, 2024

If you're still recovering from a big week and haven't had the energy to catch up on the IP news, here's the summary of everything you missed: Patents This Kat is still recovering too. Image from Pixabay. Rose Hughes discussed the EPO Board of Appeal decision T 0438/22 on the legality of the requirement for the description of a patent to be amended in line with the allowed claims, especially the deletion of "claim-like clauses".

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TorrentFreak

JANUARY 27, 2024

Almost half a decade ago, eight Las Vegas men were indicted by a grand jury for conspiring to violate criminal copyright law. The U.S. government labeled Jetflicks and iStreamitAll as two of the largest pirate streaming platforms in the United States. Disguised as an aviation service, Jetflicks allegedly offered a library of 183,285 pirated TV episodes. iStreamitAll allegedly made available more than 118,479 TV shows and 10,980 movies to its customers; at the time more content than Netflix, Hulu

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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

JANUARY 27, 2024

Here is your weekly update of IP news and events! News PatKat reviewing this week's IP news The EPO Boards of Appeal have issued a Notice on accelerating proceedings in light of the potential need for accelerated proceedings in view of the now operational Unified Patent Court (UPC). The notice sets out the criteria for requesting accelerated appeal proceedings at the EPO: The conditions for accelerating proceedings are set out in Article 10(3) to (6) of the Rules of Procedure of the BoA (RPBA).

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SpicyIP

JANUARY 27, 2024

Image from here 2023 has become yesteryear. 2024 has arrived. (Hope you all had a wonderful year beginning!). January is bidding adios now. In short, I am late in my sifting of SpicyIP pages. (Sorry!) But as they say, … ‘tis better late than never. So, here’s the “Decembers” post for the “ Sifting Through SpicyIP Pages ” series. We have traversed through Junes , Julys , Augusts , Septembers , Octobers , and Novembers and shared some stories like 10 years of the Google Books Library P

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