Plagiarism Today

JANUARY 4, 2023

Google, like many tech companies, is facing increased scrutiny from international regulators. Back in 2018, that resulted in the European Commission handing down a 4.1-billion-euro ($4.3 billion) fine over allegations that the company abused its ownership of the Android mobile operating system to unlawfully push its other products. According to the EU Commission, Google exploited its agreements with phone manufacturers to require them to promote various other Google products such as search and Y

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Erik K Pelton

JANUARY 4, 2023

A great tool for brands to connect with customers is a catch jingle. Listen for more about some great jingles and why they are so valuable. The post The Power of Brand Jingles appeared first on Erik M Pelton & Associates, PLLC. A great tool for brands to connect with customers is a catch jingle. Listen for more about some great jingles and why they are so valuable.

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McKinsey Operations

JANUARY 4, 2023

Although a fully immersive, interconnected metaverse remains years away, mobility stakeholders can already capture real business value from the technologies designed to enable it.

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JD Supra Law

JANUARY 4, 2023

A significant portion of the workforce has adapted to working in today’s modern “office”— which includes working from a variety of locations (homes, corporate offices, coffee shops, airports, etc.) on any number of personal devices, including mobile phones, laptops, and tablets. But, have corporate information governance programs kept pace with this revolution?

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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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IPilogue

JANUARY 4, 2023

Serena Nath is an IPilogue Writer and a 2L JD candidate at Osgoode Hall Law School. Recently, a controversial trade deal proposal between India and the United Kingdom (UK) was leaked. The leaked portion pertains to the trade of intellectual property between the two countries. UK-India Free Trade Agreement. In January 2022 , India and the UK began negotiating a free trade agreement (FTA), aiming to double bilateral trade to $100 billion by 2030 via reduction or elimination of import-export tarif

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IP Watchdog

JANUARY 4, 2023

Paul Morinville, Founder of US Inventor, recently published a response to my column criticizing RALIA, a bill in Congress that would abolish the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB). I offer a few observations in reply. I argued in “The Made in China Act,” November 16, 2022, that juries are not an effective or reliable check on patent validity and that eliminating contested validity reviews at the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) would be a disaster for U.S. manufacturing.

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IP Watchdog

JANUARY 4, 2023

The United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) stayed active over the holiday period with several big announcements, and today Director Kathi Vidal continued that trend by designating as precedential the December 21 decision in Apple v. Zipit Wireless. Also in December, the United States Government Accountability Office (GAO) released its full report on the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB), recommending, among other suggestions, that the Office make public any policies and directives

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IP Tech Blog

JANUARY 4, 2023

The author would like to thank John Hodges and Elisa Li for their contributions to this post. The emergence of blockchain-supported Non-Fungible Tokens (NFTs) has captured the interest of the entertainment and business worlds in the past couple of years. Large digital transactions like that of Beeple NFT that sold for $69 million and the ever-mounting numbers of more or less successful NFT cooperations like that between Tiffany and CryptoPunks or millions-heavy NBA Top Shot NFT have made the hea

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SpicyIP

JANUARY 4, 2023

We’re pleased to bring to our readers a guest post by Akshat Agrawal on the Supreme Court’s decision in Kaushal Kishor v. State of U.P. Akshat is an LLM student at Berkeley Law specialising in IP policy. He is a graduate of Jindal Global Law School and has previously clerked at the Delhi High Court. He’s written several posts for us in the past and they can be found here.

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Patent Trademark Blog

JANUARY 4, 2023

What is a utility nonprovisional patent application? Unlike design patents , utility patents protect functionality. To get a utility patent, you have to file a utility nonprovisional patent application and ultimately get it allowed. What makes the utility patent process unique and a bit more complicated is the option of filing a preliminary placeholder application called a provisional patent application (PPA).

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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.

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Velocity of Content

JANUARY 4, 2023

This article was originally published in The Scholarly Kitchen. This year’s Charleston Hub (again) included a significant focus on open access (OA) from the perspectives of both the publisher and library communities. The advent of the OSTP’s Nelson Memo is driving hope, change, and concern. With these impressions still fresh in my mind, I thought I’d share some of my key takeaways.

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JD Supra Law

JANUARY 4, 2023

While the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit made clear this year that only humans can be inventors and that an AI program itself cannot obtain a patent (see our prior coverage of Thaler v. Vidal ), this in no way means that AI-assisted inventions are not patentable.

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IAM Magazine

JANUARY 4, 2023

It is rare for SEP holders and standards implementers to arbitrate disputes, but it’s on the horizon for a cellular licence renewal with the Korean smartphone maker

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Art Law Journal

JANUARY 4, 2023

From a distinctive Parisian childhood steeped in creativity to spiritual explorations that aim to give her adult life meaning, painter Linda Clerget opens up about how she navigates her path as an artist.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

JANUARY 4, 2023

Courtney Desilet was a police officer for the East Hartford police department. She alleges she was the victim of workplace discrimination and harassment. Her allegations sparked chatter on the union’s message board, including anonymous messages attacking her. She sued (among others) the union and its president/sysop Iacono for those messages. The court grants their motions to dismiss based on Section 230 grounds.

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Nelligan Law

JANUARY 4, 2023

Reading Time: 2 minutes What do we need to consider? One of the most common issues to iron out after an employee is terminated is calculating Termination Entitlements. When there is no cause for termination, Termination Entitlements under the Employment Standards Act (“ESA”) must include two veins of payments: statutory notice and statutory severance.

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SpicyIP

JANUARY 4, 2023

We’re pleased to bring to you a guest post by Akshay Ajayakumar on exemptions granted to certification marks. Akshay is a lawyer based in Munich, Germany. He is a graduate of National Law University, Jodhpur, and has an LL.M in IP and Competition Law from the Munich Intellectual Property Law Center (MIPLC) – A cooperation project of the Max Planck Society, the University of Augsburg, the Technical University of Munich, and The George Washington University.

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Fish & Richardson Trademark & Copyright Thoughts

JANUARY 4, 2023

From judicial retirements to global crises, 2022 was an exceptionally busy year at the International Trade Commission compared to previous years. In an article for IPWatchdog , Principal Daniel Tishman and Associate Joshua Rosefelt assessed the landscape at the ITC and reviewed a few developments and important decisions from 2022. Read the full article at IPWatchdog.

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IP Watchdog

JANUARY 4, 2023

The patent world is trained on the upcoming Supreme Court Amgen v. Sanofi case. That case is the first time in over 75 years that the Supreme Court is evaluating the meaning and scope of the enablement requirement of 35 U.S.C. § 112. The case offers the Court an opportunity to correct a negative trend in enablement law that has made it more difficult to protect groundbreaking, pioneering inventions.

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43(B)log

JANUARY 4, 2023

A gift given to my daughter (the cat kindly agreed to stop sitting on it for 10 seconds to allow this picture to be taken): Some other vacation TM T-shirts: 2012 , 2014 , 2016. [link].

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IP Law 360

JANUARY 4, 2023

U.S. Patent and Trademark Office Director Kathi Vidal has vacated Patent Trial and Appeal Board decisions invalidating claims of two instant messaging patents challenged by Apple, saying it was not clear the patent owner abandoned the case, as the board found.

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The IPKat

JANUARY 4, 2023

A new year begins and will certainly bring with it new developments in intellectual property. But, first, it is time to review the IPKat posts issued over the holiday season. New Year, new cats Copyright This Kat analysed the recent decision issued by the Court of Appeal of Aix-En-Provence concerning unauthorised sculptures of Tintin and the Moon rocket.

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IP Law 360

JANUARY 4, 2023

Attorneys at WilmerHale discuss China-related priorities for the new Congress, including likely areas of focus for the new select committee on strategic competition between the U.S. and China, and suggest steps potentially affected businesses can take to prepare for heightened scrutiny.

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McKinsey Operations

JANUARY 4, 2023

Everest CEO Juan C. Andrade discusses how to be a proactive insurer and the mindset required to succeed despite and amid the challenges of today.

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The TTABlog

JANUARY 4, 2023

After reading the COHIBA decision, I decided that I had to turn to Professor Christine Haight Farley of American University Washington College of Law for her help in explaining what this is all about. Many thanks to Prof. Farley for providing the insightful comments below. You’ve Heard of COHIBA Cigars, But Have You Heard of the Pan-American Convention?

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Patently-O

JANUARY 4, 2023

by Dennis Crouch. In the USA, civil litigation typically involves substantial discovery — with each party demanding to see the other side’s secrets. In patent law, these secrets are often at the core of the business process: product development and manufacturing processes, key product details, detailed market and sales data, etc. That information may be needed to resolve the infringement litigation, but you could imagine a competitor also using the information for a competitive adv

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LexBlog IP

JANUARY 4, 2023

Goodwin and the Big Molecule Watch team are looking forward to participating in the 41 st Annual JP Morgan Healthcare Conference, bringing together industry leaders from across the country. If you are at the conference in San Francisco, we hope you will join the team on January 11, 2023 for the Goodwin + KPMG 4 th Annual Symposium which will include a discussion by Matt Wetzel on hot topics in 2023 and beyond in the healthcare regulatory environment.

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JD Supra Law

JANUARY 4, 2023

Precedential Federal Circuit Opinions - 1. ADASA INC. v. AVERY DENNISON CORPORATION [OPINION] (2022-1092, 12/16/2022) (Moore, Hughes, and Stark) - Moore, C.J. The Court affirmed in part, vacated in part, and remanded for further proceedings in a patent case involving radio-frequency identification (RFID) tags used to identify and track objects in the stream of commerce.

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LexBlog IP

JANUARY 4, 2023

Chinese Regulations on International Data Transfer. @media screen and (max-width: 1023px) {.thegem-vc-text.thegem-custom-63b69d9ebec6c3181{display: block!important;}}@media screen and (max-width: 767px) {.thegem-vc-text.thegem-custom-63b69d9ebec6c3181{display: block!important;}}@media screen and (max-width: 1023px) {.thegem-vc-text.thegem-custom-63b69d9ebec6c3181{position: relative !

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JD Supra Law

JANUARY 4, 2023

In its 2021 Arthrex decision, the US Supreme Court found the Congressionally created inter partes review (IPR) system unconstitutional because it gave too much authority to the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) administrative judges. The issue was that PTAB judges have the authority to cancel substantial intellectual property (IP) rights but aren’t appointed by the President as the US Constitution, Art.

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LexBlog IP

JANUARY 4, 2023

Terminal Moraine Inc. (“Applicant” or “Terminal Moraine”) sought registration on the Principal Register of the mark: for the following goods and services: Backpacks and shoulder bags for use in camping, and hiking, sold exclusively at sporting goods, outdoor, and mountaineering stores and websites or through the sporting goods departments of general retailers; and.

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JD Supra Law

JANUARY 4, 2023

A recent amendment addresses key loopholes and aims to align Hong Kong’s copyright regime with international standards. On 16 December 2022, the Hong Kong Copyright (Amendment) Ordinance 2022 (Amendment) was finally gazetted, providing a long-overdue update of the Copyright Ordinance (Cap. 528) (Ordinance). The Amendment introduces. Please see full Alert below for more information.

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LexBlog IP

JANUARY 4, 2023

2022 was a momentous year in trade secret and restrictive covenant law. Join Ben , Russell and I as we take a look back on some of the more significant developments in trade secret and restrictive covenant law from the past year and what we are expecting in the coming year. We discuss recent criminal prosecutions for use of no-poach agreements, legislative changes to state noncompete and nonsolicitation laws, federal regulatory and legislative efforts to limit or ban noncompetes, eye-popping tra

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IP Law 360

JANUARY 4, 2023

Three patent lawyers from the recently defunct Middleton Reutlinger have made the move to Dinsmore & Shohl LLP, helping build out the firm's Louisville, Kentucky, presence.

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LexBlog IP

JANUARY 4, 2023

The author would like to thank John Hodges and Elisa Li for their contributions to this post. The emergence of blockchain-supported Non-Fungible Tokens (NFTs) has captured the interest of the entertainment and business worlds in the past couple of years. Large digital transactions like that of Beeple NFT that sold for $69 million and the ever-mounting numbers of more or less successful NFT cooperations like that between Tiffany and CryptoPunks or millions-heavy NBA Top Shot NFT have made the hea

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