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The True Cost of Filing with Copyright Claims Board

Plagiarism Today

The Copyright Claims Board (CCB) is the new copyright small claims court in the United States. Passed into law in 2020 and opening its doors in June 2022, it promises a simple and affordable way to address copyright claims. . To that end, the CCB upholds many of its promises. There is not much doubt that it is far simpler and far less expensive than a regular copyright infringement lawsuit.

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Takeaways From the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office’s Artificial Intelligence and Emerging Technologies Partnership Series – Part One of Three

Intellectual Property Law Blog

On September 22, 2022, the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) conducted a live meeting for its Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Emerging Technologies (ET) Partnership Series. During this meeting, panelists from industry and the USPTO provided helpful tips on drafting and prosecuting patent applications that include AI components, including special tips for the biotech industry.

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3 Count: Glaring Omissions

Plagiarism Today

Have any suggestions for the 3 Count? Let me know via Twitter @plagiarismtoday. 1: Meta Criticizes Epidemic’s Copyright Lawsuit Over “Vague Assertions and Glaring Omissions”. First off today, Chris Cooke at Complete Music Update reports that Facebook has hit back at the music production sound Epidemic Sound, alleging that their recent lawsuit filed against them is vague and leaves them trying to guess what they did wrong.

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A better way to build a brand: The community flywheel

McKinsey Operations

Today’s fastest-growing brands participate in digital communities to earn engagement and loyalty—and do so with high returns and low risk by harnessing agile test and learn.

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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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Teen’s Destiny 2 Cheat Strategy Gifts Bungie Unlimited Lawsuit Ammo

TorrentFreak

After being sued by Bungie in a Washington court during the summer, a teenager accused of cheating in Destiny 2 and being abusive towards Bungie staff decided to fight back. The core of Bungie’s lawsuit is that L.L. repeatedly breached the terms of its Limited Software License Agreement (LSLA) by using third-party cheating software, getting banned by Bungie, and then repeatedly signing back up to breach the LSLA’s terms once again.

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Forward Thinking on talent, state capacity, and being hopeful with Tyler Cowen

McKinsey Operations

A prominent economist, author, podcaster, and talent investor discusses how to better match human talent to opportunities, de-bureaucratize philanthropy, achieve higher-quality governance, and identify fields of likely progress, and how to get it all done.

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Which Van Gogh is it? Immersive Van Gogh Exhibition and Its Controversy

IPilogue

Tianchu Gao is an IPilogue Writer and a 2L JD Candidate at Osgoode Hall Law School. Since 2017, the famous Japanese artist, Yayoi Kusama, was running a global tour of her retrospective show Infinity Mirror. She was known for creating kaleidoscopic obstacles and immersive experiences with colored lights, mirrors, and inundating polka dots. These spacey wonderlands, first created by Kusama in the 1950s, went viral on the Internet.

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Esports: an overview of a new(ish) frontier in digital entertainment

WIPO Magazine

Esports are growing in popularity, with the expanding esports industry expected to generate USD 1.38 billion in 2022 according to Newzoo. Andrea Rizzi explores the legal complexity surrounding e-sports and the need for a balanced and effective governance system.

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Determination of the closest prior art in the inventiveness examination of Chinese invention patents

JD Supra Law

In the practice of patent examination in China, to determine whether an invention has prominent substantive features is to determine, to the person skilled in the art, whether the claimed invention is non-obvious as compared with the prior art. Usually the following three steps are followed to determine whether a claimed invention is obvious as compared with the prior art.

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Building sustainable futures with traditional knowledge in New Caledonia

WIPO Magazine

Subama Mapou, a young Kanak scientist from New Caledonia comes from a long line of traditional healers. She discusses her work in supporting local Indigenous groups, and how IP is enabling her to leverage the value of New Caledonia’s natural resources and traditional knowledge.

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IPO Diversity in Innovation Toolkit

Women and diverse employees have the technical skill and knowledge, yet their contributions are not patented at the same rate as those of their male counterparts.This toolkit can help organizations move the needle on achieving gender parity in innovation.

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Protect software IP with Software Escrow

JD Supra Law

Nearly every business relies on intellectual property (IP) assets to remain competitive in the marketplace, so it’s essential to protect against theft and illegal use of your IP. Your company likely already has some level of protection via trade secrets, copyrights, trademarks, or patents, but sometimes you need more.

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Securing Serbia’s cultural heritage: the case of “Kilim of Pirot”

WIPO Magazine

Vladimir Mari?, Director of the Intellectual Property Office of Serbia explores the cultural significance of Kilim weaving in the Serbian town of Pirot and the benefits of securing geographical indication status for these distinctive, high-quality textiles.

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Realizing Tomorrow’s Future Today with Standards

Velocity of Content

On a daily basis, our lives are impacted by established formulas distilled from the collective wisdom of technical experts that affect a wide range of activities including, but not limited to, how we educate our children, manufacture products, impact the environment, supply materials, deliver services, regulate safety, privacy, and security, and monitor our health.

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Nation branding: beyond a cosmetic symbol

WIPO Magazine

Argentinian IP specialist, Patricio Murphy explores the challenges of “branding” a country. He outlines the various indices developed to assess a country’s brand value and the importance of protecting the sign or graphical representation of a nation’s brand.

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The Law Bytes Podcast, Episode 140: Anthony Housefather Reflects on the Fight Against Anti-Semitism Online and the Laith Marouf Incident

Michael Geist

The Law Bytes podcast returns with a special episode focused on combatting online anti-semitism with a particular emphasis on an incident involving the department of Canadian Heritage and Laith Marouf , a well known anti-semite. As part of Heritage’s anti-hate program, the government had provided funding to the Community Media Advocacy Centre (CMAC), led by Marouf, to develop an anti-racism strategy for Canadian broadcasting.

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The Future of Copyright. In memory of Luigi Carlo Ubertazzi (Report 1/2)

The IPKat

Many, if not all, the readers of this blog will have sincere admiration for the academic world of intellectual property. It is a world of jurists who have a mixed practical-theoretical approach and a 'philosophical' attitude to legal matters. In this context, this GuestKat thought it might also please an international audience to read an account of the meeting held last week at the University of Milan in honour of Professor Luigi Carlo Ubertazzi.

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CAFC Says PTAB Got it Wrong in Mixed Ruling on Food Slicer Patent

IP Watchdog

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit (CAFC) yesterday issued a precedential decision, in part holding that the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) violated the Administrative Procedure Act (APA) by failing to “fully and particularly set out the bases upon which it reached its decision” to render obvious certain claims of Provisur Technologies’ patent.

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Telecom collaboration and competition at the edge: GSMA director general Mats Granryd

McKinsey Operations

The leader of the mobile communications organization talks about the importance of partnerships and federated solutions as the industry seizes new opportunities like edge computing and tackles challenges like broadening its talent pool.

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Vidal's Director Reviews Show Hands-On Approach With PTAB

IP Law 360

U.S. Patent and Trademark Office Director Kathi Vidal is closely monitoring the Patent Trial and Appeal Board, invoking her authority to review its holdings multiple times in an indication that she aims to be proactive in clearing up ambiguity, attorneys say.

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Best of 2012: The way of all flash

Likelihood of Confusion

First posted March 27, 2012. So, what happens when a trademark registration lapses? The post at the link, by Corsearch, is, yeah, kind of an advertisement for Corsearch. But it. The post Best of 2012: The way of all flash appeared first on LIKELIHOOD OF CONFUSION™.

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Apple's New Messaging Features Will Complicate E-Discovery

IP Law 360

Apple's newest mobile operating system allows users to edit and recall messages and recover deleted messages, which could significantly increase the time, burden and expense of processing and analyzing cellphones if messages or their associated metadata become an area of scrutiny in a case, says Jarrett Coco at Nelson Mullins.

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Coons Announces He Will Co-Sponsor Tillis’ Patent Eligibility Restoration Act

IP Watchdog

On Wednesday night, during a launch event for the Council for Innovation Promotion (C4IP), Senator Chris Coons (D-DE) announced that he has come on as a co-sponsor of the Patent Eligibility Restoration Act of 2022. Senator Thom Tillis (R-NC) introduced the first draft of his bill in August, but had no co-sponsors at the time, which caused some to question the chances of the bill passing anytime soon.

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Texas Barge Co. Can't Escape Newsletter Copyright Suit

IP Law 360

A newsletter publisher that's accusing Houston-based barge company Kirby Inland Marine LP of sharing each edition to its employees despite having a subscription for only one user can move forward with its copyright infringement claims, a Texas federal judge ruled Wednesday.

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‘Innovation Race’ Film Sheds Light on America’s Invention Battle with China and Itself

IP Close Up

A new documentary film featuring a broad range of industry experts is a call to action for the U.S. to get its research and intellectual Continue reading.

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Spotify Knocks Out Advertising Tech Patent

IP Law 360

A New York federal judge has tossed a patent owner's infringement suit against streaming service Spotify over music advertisement technology, ruling Wednesday that the asserted patent is invalid since it covers an abstract idea.

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Federal Circuit Clarifies Alice Step Two Analysis in Reversal of District Court’s Rule 12 Dismissal

IP Watchdog

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit (CAFC), with Chief Judge Moore writing, today reversed and remanded a district court’s dismissal of an amended complaint in a case where the district court found a patent directed to a method of distributing large video files via a peer-to-peer (P2P) network patent ineligible under Section 101. While the CAFC did not rule on whether the claims are patent eligible, it held that “there are plausible factual allegations that the claims include inven

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IPR Limbo During the Arthrex Decisions

JD Supra Law

In Polaris Innovations Ltd. v. Brent, No. 2019-1483, 2022 WL 4241665 (Fed. Cir. Sept. 15, 2022), the Federal Circuit faced an appeal that had bounced back and forth between the Court and Patent Trial and Appeal Board (“the Board”) several times while it was caught in the administrative ambiguity resulting from the Arthrex decision. By: Rothwell, Figg, Ernst & Manbeck, P.C.

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Eligibility: Patent’s Claims of Inventive Concept Overcome Eligibility Dismissal

Patently-O

By Dennis Crouch. Cooperative Entertainment, Inc. v. Kollective Tech, Inc., — F.4th — ( Fed. Cir. 2022 ). This pro-patentee eligibility decision offers some ideas for patentees seeking to help ensure that their patents survive eligibility challenges. The district court dismissed the case for lack of eligibility. On appeal, the Federal Circuit has reversed.

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Warby Parker Beats Back 1-800's Infringement Claims - Kattison Avenue | Issue 9

JD Supra Law

Court applies Polaroid factors to determine likelihood of confusion - In our Fall 2021 issue, we reported on the Second Circuit's decision in 1-800-Contacts, Inc. v. Federal Trade Commission, 1 F.4th 102 (2d Cir. 2021). In that case, the Second Circuit reviewed the online contact lens retailer's practice of filing trademark infringement lawsuits against competitors who purchased 1-800-Contacts related "keywords" so that their own paid advertisements would appear in the search results of.

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The Power of Aesthetic Intelligence to Transform Your Business

Art Law Journal

Pauline Brown, renowned expert on luxury branding and founder of Aesthetic Intelligence Labs, discusses the definition of aesthetic intelligence and how it can drive business interests.

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Queen’s Death Gives Birth to A Flood of NFTs and a Question About the Right of Publicity

JD Supra Law

With the passing of Queen Elizabeth II, the crypto space has been flooded with memecoins and NFTs portraying the Queen. As one might expect, the creators behind these projects are unlikely to have sought or obtained permission in connection with the use of the Queen’s image on such projects. But is permission required?

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Hungary – a new go-to forum for patent litigation?

IAM Magazine

In Hungary, the recent changes to Act XXXIII of 1995 on the protection of inventions by patents (the Patent Act) aim to achieve more expeditious and comprehensive solutions in case of a patent dispute.

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China leverages the blockchain to advance the development of “smart courts”

WIPO Magazine

In May 2022, the Supreme People’s Court of the People’s Republic of China issued a series of Opinions on Strengthening Blockchain Application in the Judicial Field. The Opinions seek to advance the development of the smart rule of law in China.

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The trademark used as evidence to challenge a design patent in China

IAM Magazine

On 2 June 2022, data from the Chinese Patent Office showed that a Renault SAS design patent (ZL202130363449.5) with the name “Automobile” was declared as invalid in its entirety for conflict with a registered trademark owned by Human Horizon, who filed the invalidation action.

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Digital economy: the search for new governance mechanisms

WIPO Magazine

The expansion of the digital economy is raising important ethical questions about the use, governance and regulation of big data and artificial intelligence. Can the search for new digital governance approaches benefit from consideration of Eastern philosophies and approaches.