IP Watchdog

JULY 16, 2023

In a precedential decision authored by Judge Tiffany Cunningham on Friday, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit (CAFC) ruled that two patents for methods of connecting users based on their answers to polling questions were directed to patent ineligible subject matter under 35 U.S.C. § 101. U.S. Patent Nos. 9,087,321 and 10,936,685 are owned by Trinity Info Media, LLC and are titled “Poll-Based Networking System.

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TorrentFreak

JULY 16, 2023

Three years ago, Danish law enforcement carried out a series of raids and arrests , effectively dismantling several popular torrent trackers. These actions were supported by the local anti-piracy group Rights Alliance , which eventually declared victory , noting that all notable pirate sites with Danish roots had reportedly shut down. Such statements can be dangerous since pirates can be quite resilient, but there is no doubt that the law enforcement actions and subsequence convictions left a ma

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Likelihood of Confusion

JULY 16, 2023

What’s all this I hear about the Supreme Court saying copyrights having to be registered for some reason? This thread provides a good summary of the competing policy considerations in. The post Registration and copyrights appeared first on LIKELIHOOD OF CONFUSION™.

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IP Watchdog

JULY 16, 2023

Cineflix Media is currently searching for adult inventors, creators, and entrepreneurs for a new TV series. This is a part-time, temporary position. Do you have an exciting, original product ready to take to market? Do you want the chance to get priceless advice from one of the leaders in new product launch? If so, please submit via email a 60-second video of yourself speaking generally about your product.

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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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LexBlog IP

JULY 16, 2023

Empirical Studies Refute Oft Repeated Fallacies The PTAB released two studies on historical petition filing practices this month. One directed to the frequency of so-called serial/parallel petition filings , and the other pertaining to Orange Book/Biologics patents. As with the agency’s earlier studies on these same topics (2021), the refreshed data again demonstrates that Orange Book patents are very rarely subject to AIA trial proceedings, and that abusive, serial petition filings have b

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Patently-O

JULY 16, 2023

by Dennis Crouch In re Float’N’Grill LLC , 2022-1438 ( Fed. Cir. 2023 ) Just in time for my early August floating trip down in the Ozarks, the Federal Circuit has affirmed the USPTO’s rejections of Float’N’Grill’s proposed reissue claims. The problem: the reissue claims omit an “essential element” of the original invention in violation of 35 U.S.C. 251.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

JULY 16, 2023

To ensure you don’t miss out on interesting IP law developments reported on our other IP blogs, we will, on a regular basis, provide you with an overview of the most-read posts from each of our IP law blogs. Here are the most popular posts over the past few months. Top 3 Kluwer Copyright Blog posts 1) Generative AI, Copyright and the AI Act by João Pedro Quintais “ Generative AI is one of the hot topics in copyright law today.

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LexBlog IP

JULY 16, 2023

In the UAE legal system, the admissibility of evidence is governed by specific rules that dictate what evidence is admissible in court. These rules aim to ensure that only relevant, reliable and trustworthy evidence is considered in reaching a just and fair decision. In the UAE, evidence in civil and commercial matters is governed and regulated under the Federal Decree Law No. 35/2022 on evidence in civil and commercial transactions, which replaced the previous evidence law which was the federal

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

JULY 16, 2023

Armslist publishes users’ classified ads for guns. Two estates sued Armslist for allegedly facilitating illegal gun sales that led to murders. My blog post on the district court rulings. Section 230’s availability in such situations is uncertain, but on appeal, a TAFS[FN] judge displays the obvious-in-retrospect bias of preferring more guns in the hands of more people, no matter how many tragic outcomes might ensue.

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