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World IP Day: IP and Youth-Innovating for a Better Future (Kidovate as an Example)?

Hugh Stephens Blog

This year the theme of World Intellectual Property (IP) Day, April 26, is “IP and Youth: Innovating for a Better Future”. As the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) puts it; “Across the globe, young people are stepping up to innovation challenges, using their energy and ingenuity, their curiosity and creativity to steer a course towards … Continue reading "World IP Day: IP and Youth-Innovating for a Better Future (Kidovate as an Example)?

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IP Reveries: Class 1 – IPR: A Tantalising Term or Troubling Terminology?

SpicyIP

IP Reveries: Class I – “IPR” – A Tantalising Term or Troubling Terminology? Swaraj Barooah & Lokesh Vyas. The introduction to this new series is laid out in a previous blogpost here. If you haven’t already, please read that to help make sense of this new series! Fair warning, this introductory post is longer than usual but we hope it makes for some easy Sunday reading!

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CAFC Continues Its Censure of Albright on Transfer Analyses

IP Watchdog

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit (CAFC) on Friday directed Judge Alan Albright’s Waco Division of the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Texas to transfer a case brought by CPC Patent Technologies PTY Ltd against Apple to the Northern District of California. The CAFC said the district court erred in weighing the convenience of the witnesses factor as only slightly favoring transfer, noting that the court has historically rejected the view that this factor should be

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IP Reveries – An Introduction

SpicyIP

Intellectual Property Rights – a fascinating ‘subject’ that inadvertently touches upon so many aspects of our day to day life, whether we’re conscious of it or not. A few decades ago, even most lawyers wouldn’t have been able to clearly explain what a patent is. Fast forward to today, and while there’s still plenty of misunderstanding – patents, copyrights, trademarks, inventions, innovations, 4th industrial revolution, etc have all become buzzwords!

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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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Doctrine of Equivalents in Patent Litigation

Patently-O

15 years ago, several studies announced the “death of the doctrine of equivalents” post Festo. The chart below shows that courts have continued to write opinions about the DOE, and there have been several major cases where the doctrine was an important element of the patentee’s win.

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PTAB Director Review to be Formalized Via Rule Making

LexBlog IP

New Director Turns Attention to Rule Making. This past Friday, Director Vidal announced that the agency will be keeping the current interim Director review process that was put in place post- Arthrex. The Director added that the process (or some variant thereof) will be formalized via Notice-and-Comment Rulemaking after collecting stakeholder input.

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Move on, already

Likelihood of Confusion

Yet another chapter in the abuse of supposed trademark rights in “catchphrases” — now from MoveOn, the “freedom” people. The purveyor of an “infringing” T-shirt ran for the hills, intimidated. The post Move on, already appeared first on LIKELIHOOD OF CONFUSION™.

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Computer and Internet Weekly Updates for 2022-04-23

Barry Sookman

Computer and Internet Weekly Updates for 2022-04-16 [link] 2022-04-17. A Mandatory and Exclusive Forum-Selection Clause in an Agreement May Prevent Lawsuits Outside That Forum for Matter… [link] 2022-04-18. WIPO The Direction of Innovation [link] 2022-04-18. It’s just human nature: AI cannot be a patent inventor in Australia [link] 2022-04-18. Digital Economy Partnership Agreement Is a Big Step Forward: Canada Should Join [link] 2022-04-19.

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Samsung deal with ex-IP leader; Europe's largest portfolios named; Oppo CIPO on Nokia fight; What the NYT got right on patents; Big fall in NPE suits; plus much more

IAM Magazine

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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AI Music Outputs: Challenges to the Copyright Legal Framework – Part II

Kluwer Copyright Blog

Imagen de Gordon Johnson en Pixabay. This post is the second instalment of an analysis of a recent report , a part of the reCreating Europe project, on the application of EU copyright and related rights law to outputs generated by or with the assistance of artificial intelligence (AI) systems, tools or techniques (AI outputs), with a focus on outputs in the musical domain.

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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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Samsung deal with ex-IP leader; Europe's largest portfolios named; Oppo CIPO on Nokia fight; What the NYT got right on patents; Big fall in NPE suits; plus much more

IAM Magazine

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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Google Voluntarily Removes More Pirate Sites From its Search Results

TorrentFreak

For more than a decade, various copyright industry groups have called on Google and other search engines to help contain the piracy problem. Google was initially hesitant to take action, but the company has gradually tweaked its algorithms over the years to accommodate the complaints. The first step was to demote results for domain names for which it receives many DMCA takedown notices.

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Samsung deal with ex-IP leader; Europe's largest portfolios named; Oppo CIPO on Nokia fight; What the NYT got right on patents; Big fall in NPE suits; plus much more

IAM Magazine

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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Facebook Loses Jurisdictional Ruling in Texas Sex Trafficking Lawsuit–Facebook v. Doe

Technology & Marketing Law Blog

After Facebook ill-advisedly helped FOSTA pass, in 2018 it was sued using FOSTA for facilitating sex trafficking in Texas state court. Facebook tried to end the lawsuit using Section 230. This resulted in a Texas Supreme Court opinion reluctantly granting Facebook’s Section 230 dismissal for many of the claims, but not for the state anti-sex trafficking claims.

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Samsung deal with ex-IP leader; Europe's largest portfolios named; Oppo CIPO on Nokia fight; What the NYT got right on patents; Big fall in NPE suits; plus much more

IAM Magazine

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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