TorrentFreak

JANUARY 15, 2022

While pirate sites offering mainstream movies and TV shows regularly pull in millions of visits every month, just a few years ago it would’ve been unthinkable that those operating in niches could become equally ranked. These days, however, sites offering Japanese comics and animation are immensely popular with ever-increasing audiences in the West, making some manga and anime sites just as highly visited as their ‘mainstream’ content counterparts.

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Patently-O

JANUARY 15, 2022

We have snow on the ground here in Missouri. That makes me think of Gary Reinert’s new patent entitled “method and apparatus for rapid stopping of a motor vehicle particularly on snow or ice.” U.S. Pat. No. 11,091,154. The image below from the patent tells the story. Conventional brakes are awful. Antilock Brakes are much better, but the Reinert Snow Brakes take the cake.

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Patent 119

Likelihood of Confusion

JANUARY 15, 2022

As Lara Pearson puts it: For the past 3 days my in-box has been lighting up at a blistering pace with news alerts about every trademark attorney’s favorite celebrity infant. The post Oh, yeah, Blue Ivy baby thing appeared first on LIKELIHOOD OF CONFUSION™.

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The IPKat

JANUARY 15, 2022

This is a guest book review of the Research Handbook on Design Law , edited by Henning Hartwig, Attorney-at-Law, Bardehle Pagenberg, Munich, Germany. Contributors to the edited collection include expert scholars and practitioners; Estelle Derclaye, Jason Du Mont, Tracy-Gene G. Durkin, Ádám György, Mark D. Janis, Annette Kur, Charles Lee Mauro, Christopher Daniel Morley, David Musker, Margaret Polson, Robert Mirko Stutz, Uma Suthersanen, Anna Tischner, Bernard Volken and Alexander Von Mühlendahl.

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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

Fish & Richardson Trademark & Copyright Thoughts

JANUARY 15, 2022

This post summarizes two federal patent decisions from Texas courts that issued in December 2021. In the first decision, Judge Albright granted a motion to dismiss under a § 101 challenge. The second decision looks at a comparable § 101 analysis by Judge Gilstrap. This summary focuses on the Alice step one analysis performed by each court. Health Discovery Corp. v.

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IAM Magazine

JANUARY 15, 2022

Saturday Opinion : the popularity of Judge Alan Albright’s court as a venue for plaintiffs in patent cases comes down to so many of them not feeling they have a fair chance elsewhere.

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IAM Magazine

JANUARY 15, 2022

Saturday Opinion : the popularity of Judge Alan Albright’s court as a venue for plaintiffs in patent cases comes down to so many of them not feeling they have a fair chance elsewhere.

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LexBlog IP

JANUARY 15, 2022

We recently spoke with Marcello do Nascimento regarding trademark and brand protection strategies in Brazil. Marcello is the managing partner of David do Nascimento , an IP boutique firm with offices in São Paulo city and Rio de Janeiro city. Marcello is a recognized IP leader in Brazil and the international trademark community. Thank you, Marcello.

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