Plagiarism Today
AUGUST 28, 2023
The Copyright Claims Board has issued another decision, this time awarding $3K to a photographer in a default judgment. The post CCB Awards Photographer $3K in Default Decision appeared first on Plagiarism Today.
Patently-O
AUGUST 28, 2023
by Dennis Crouch The publicly traded Australian company IPH Limited continues expanding its global intellectual property services empire. IPH’s latest acquisition is the Canadian IP firm Ridout & Maybee for $65 million Canadian dollars. This comes just 10 months after IPH purchased Canada’s largest IP firm, Smart & Biggar. Ridout & Maybee will merge into Smart & Biggar, further consolidating IPH’s presence in Canada.
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Plagiarism Today
AUGUST 28, 2023
Buffalo artist targets local companies over mural images, Nintendo Switch to get DRM and BMI sale just a rumor, for now. The post 3 Count: Non-Roaming Buffalo appeared first on Plagiarism Today.
IP Watchdog
AUGUST 28, 2023
This week in Washington IP news, as a new school year begins, the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) looks at the latest research on invention education. Congress is still on vacation, yet hot topic issues are still being discussed elsewhere, including the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) looking at the state of the Chinese economy, and the American Enterprise Institute discussing what the U.S. federal government can do to patent rights during a public health
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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?
Likelihood of Confusion
AUGUST 28, 2023
In 1989, when I was still a contributing editor to the ABA’s Student Lawyer magazine, I wrote an article describing, in somewhat purple hues, the experience of preparing for the. The post The New York bar exam — “The Endless Summer” appeared first on LIKELIHOOD OF CONFUSION™.
Michael Geist
AUGUST 28, 2023
Heritage Minister Pascale St-Onge went on a media offensive late last week, granting interviews to a wide range of publications. St-Onge noted that she had “positive” talks with Google and Meta that she was hoped would result in a compromise and improbably claimed concern for users’ rights to share information online, an odd position given that Bill C-18 undermines the free flow of information online with its mandated payments for links approach.
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TorrentFreak
AUGUST 28, 2023
The UFC, NBA and NFL are without a doubt among the most recognizable sports brands in the world. Their events attract millions of viewers and are monetized through multi-billion dollar licensing deals and expensive PPV events. Many sports fans are willing to pay to access these broadcasts but for some the costs involved are simply too steep. This has created a black market for pirated live streams which attract millions of users.
IP and Legal Filings
AUGUST 28, 2023
Introduction The nature of trade marks suggests that they are supposed to remain static over a period of time. However, we can trace the change in trend caused due to the evolution in trade marks over a span of time. The Reason Behind This Evolutionary Development Brand and companies have made it a trend to evolve from time to time creating variants over their original/ main or core mark.
IP Law 360
AUGUST 28, 2023
Apple Inc. has asked a California federal judge to award it roughly $5 million in attorney fees and expert costs following its recent defeat of a patent infringement suit brought by headphone maker Taction Technology Inc., arguing that Taction's "unreasonable" litigation tactics caused Apple to incur significant costs.
Selvam & Selvam Blog
AUGUST 28, 2023
The Appellants, Google India (P) Ltd., is a non-exclusive reseller of the Google Ads Programme in India, whereas the Respondents were DRS Logistics (P) Ltd., and Agarwal Packers and Movers (P) Ltd., who are leading packaging, moving and logistics service providers in the country. This case, Google LLC v. DRS Logistics (P) Ltd., (FAO(OS)(COMM) 2 of 2022), involved a dispute as to whether displaying/ encouraging the use of a registered trademark of the Respondent to display third party’s website l
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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.
IP Law 360
AUGUST 28, 2023
The blanket-like sweatshirt company that grew out of a "Shark Tank" pitch has lost two of its design patents in Arizona federal court after accusing a rival of infringement and then losing a priority date ruling that turned its own "Comfy" sweatshirts into patent-invalidating prior art.
LexBlog IP
AUGUST 28, 2023
Introduction In the United Arab Emirates, inheritance and wills are governed by a combination of Sharia law and civil laws. The legal framework for Muslim individuals’ wills and inheritance is primarily based on the Federal Law No. 28/2005 on Personal Status (known as the Personal Status Law), which adheres to Sharia law principles. Additionally, Federal Law No. 5/1985 On Civil Transactions (known as the Civil Code) and Federal Law No. 41/2022 On Civil Personal Status have been introduced
IP Law 360
AUGUST 28, 2023
An Illinois federal judge has awarded a dietary supplement owner nearly $550,000 in disgorged profits as damages after a jury found the owners of a competing company individually liable for selling a similarly packaged product that infringed on his trademark.
IP Watchdog
AUGUST 28, 2023
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit (CAFC) issued a precedential decision today in In re Cellect holding that patent term extension (PTE) and patent term adjustment (PTA) are not the same for purposes of an obviousness-type double patenting (ODP) analysis. Specifically, the court said that “ODP for a patent that has received PTA, regardless whether or not a terminal disclaimer is required or has been filed, must be based on the expiration date of the patent after PTA has been added
IP Law 360
AUGUST 28, 2023
A manufacturer of THC- and CBD-infused beverages has accused a rival of marketing drinks under a "confusingly similar and nearly identical" name in a trademark infringement lawsuit filed in Illinois federal court Friday.
JD Supra Law
AUGUST 28, 2023
A federal court in Pennsylvania has held that a confidentiality agreement signed five months after an employee was hired can be enforced after the employee leaves even if the employee received no consideration other than continued employment.
IP Law 360
AUGUST 28, 2023
Owners of the titular theme song for the 1996 live-action/animated comedy film "Space Jam" performed by Quad City DJ's on Monday filed a copyright infringement suit against a Minor League Baseball team in Wisconsin federal court, complaining over the team's use of the song in a Facebook video published in 2017.
JD Supra Law
AUGUST 28, 2023
Last week, in a decision that was largely expected, the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia sided with the United States Copyright Office, ruling that works generated entirely by artificial intelligence absent human involvement are not eligible for copyright protection under U.S. law.
IP Law 360
AUGUST 28, 2023
Citing a major Chinese radio company's "recalcitrance" to paying money of any kind in its blockbuster intellectual property war with the Motorola brand, a federal judge in Illinois has decided to try banning it "from selling any products containing two-way radio technology anywhere in the world.
JD Supra Law
AUGUST 28, 2023
On August 18, 2023, the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia granted summary judgment in favor of the Copyright Office in Thaler v. Perlmutter, 1 holding that the office did not act arbitrarily or capriciously or otherwise violate the Administrative Procedure Act (APA) when it rejected a copyright application for a work generated autonomously by a computer algorithm without human input.
IP Law 360
AUGUST 28, 2023
U.S. District Judge Mark Scarsi has said he could find "no cognizable technological improvement" in a patent covering a purportedly novel way of verifying identity, a decision that knocked out separate patent lawsuits aimed at dating app brands like eHarmony and Tinder.
JD Supra Law
AUGUST 28, 2023
In its appeal from an adverse decision on priority by the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) in Interference No. 106,115 (directed to CRISPR-mediated gene editing), Junior Party the University of California/Berkeley, the University of Vienna, and Emmanuelle Charpentier (collectively, "CVC") filed on May 19th its Response and Reply Brief to earlier briefing by Senior party Broad Institute, Harvard University, and MIT (collectively, "Broad").
IP Law 360
AUGUST 28, 2023
A Brooklyn federal judge has recommended dismissing a trademark infringement action against actor John Krasinski's production company because counsel for the sports talk website that sued failed to comply with discovery deadlines for more than a year.
JD Supra Law
AUGUST 28, 2023
Lately, we are witnessing an uptrend in the discourse over the interfaces between artificial intelligence systems, particularly text and image generators, and intellectual property law, specifically as pertains to copyrights. One main question in this context is if copyrights can protect works created by an artificial intelligence system. A few days ago, a DC District Court judge ruled that the answer to this question is no.
IP Law 360
AUGUST 28, 2023
Attorneys at Covington consider generative AI's impact on intellectual property infringement as it applies to the trademark arena, assessing the risks of compromises in key scenarios including when AI-generated output is related to another entity's marks, goods or services.
LexBlog IP
AUGUST 28, 2023
Alafair Biosciences is a privately held medical device company commercializing a clinically-driven technology platform using natural biopolymers to address postoperative soft tissue recovery. For over 10 years, Alafair has produced HA-rich class II medical devices for the protection of tendon, ligament, skeletal muscle, and peripheral nerve (including nerve root in spine procedures).
IP Law 360
AUGUST 28, 2023
Thomson Reuters Enterprise Centre GmbH failed to prove its patent analyzing client leads was anything more than an unpatentable abstract idea, the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office's Patent Trial and Appeal Board said Monday.
LexBlog IP
AUGUST 28, 2023
PatentNext Takeaway: To date, the Federal Circuit has not reviewed many cases involving artificial intelligence (AI). However, in a recent case, the Federal Circuit found that a “machine learning” claim element lacked sufficient enablement because both the claim itself and the written description of the patent to which it belonged failed to describe “ how ” the claimed invention implemented this element.
Velocity of Content
AUGUST 28, 2023
Jane Friedman , an author who writes on writing, has a very good name in the book business. For 25 years, Jane Friedman has put her name to books and blogs about the publishing industry, including The Hot Sheet , a biweekly newsletter for authors. Bogus books that trick readers into buying a work because they unsuspectingly recognize a familiar title or an author’s name have long polluted Amazon and e-commerce bookselling sites.
LexBlog IP
AUGUST 28, 2023
Counterfeiting is a global problem that affects a wide variety of entrepreneurs and innovators – from small businesses to global corporations. Action in China can be an important tool for combating these problems. Head of the firm’s China Intellectual Property team, Paolo Beconcini covers the complex challenges of fighting global counterfeiting for INDICAM (Italian Association for the Protection of Intellectual Property), with focus on the “offline” counterfeiting issues
JD Supra Law
AUGUST 28, 2023
As today’s society continues to increase its consumption of alternative (“alt”) animal products, the number of food tech entities entering this market continues to grow. As these entrants continue to expand their respective patent portfolios, so do they focus on registering trademarks for both their company names and for their alt-animal products in multiple countries.
IP Tech Blog
AUGUST 28, 2023
Counterfeiting is a global problem that affects a wide variety of entrepreneurs and innovators – from small businesses to global corporations. Action in China can be an important tool for combating these problems. Head of the firm’s China Intellectual Property team, Paolo Beconcini covers the complex challenges of fighting global counterfeiting for INDICAM (Italian Association for the Protection of Intellectual Property), with focus on the “offline” counterfeiting issues in China.
JD Supra Law
AUGUST 28, 2023
In an August 18, 2023 decision, a judge ruled that works generated by artificial intelligence (AI) are not copyrightable. This may have significant ramifications for protecting works created, in whole or in part, by AIs.
The TTABlog
AUGUST 28, 2023
Here are three recent appeals from Section 2(d) refusals. At least one of the refusals was reversed. How do you think these came out? Answers will be found in the first comment. In re Neptune Eyewear Pty. Ltd. , Serial No. 90544913 (August 22, 2023) [not precedential] (Opinion by Judge Christopher C. Larkin). [Section 2(d) refusal of the mark AVANTI for "Frames for spectacles and sunglasses, excluding frames for protective eyeglasses," in view of the registered mark AVANTÉ for "protective eyegla
The Trichordist
AUGUST 28, 2023
George Johnson’s campaign to repeal the compulsory mechanical license.
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