The Trichordist

JULY 30, 2023

If you had a chance to watch the CLE panel that David Lowery, Mala Sharma and Chris Castle did for the University of Texas School of Law… Read more "I Grift Therefore I Am: Jared Polis Supports Silicon Valley’s “Speculative Tickets” Grift in Colorado"

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The IPKat

JULY 30, 2023

The IPKat is pleased to publish a guest post by Kat friend Theodora Goula (Hugo Boss), discussing second-hand fashion and trade mark rights per European law. Over to Theodora: Second-hand fashion and trademark rights’ exhaustion under EU law, a guide for brand owners to “wear” this new trend by Theodora Goula Every day, more and more consumers are joining the second-hand fashion movement.

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Likelihood of Confusion

JULY 30, 2023

In 2010 I wrote this post about a now-notorious case, eventually ensconced as Louis Vuitton Malletier, S.A. v. Hyundai Motor America, 2012 WL 1022247 (S.D.N.Y., March 22, 2012) and covered. The post Trademark parodies and iconic marks: can foul become fair? appeared first on LIKELIHOOD OF CONFUSION™.

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TorrentFreak

JULY 30, 2023

In October 2021 when DISH Network filed yet another lawsuit against a pair of IPTV sellers in the United States, nothing stood out as particularly unusual. The lawsuit named Kevin Hibdon and James Meadows, the alleged operators of Louisville Media Box, a local one-stop-shop catering to the community’s pirate IPTV needs. Based on a simple Google search, the good people of Kentucky and indeed residents of any town or city on the planet, would’ve had no problem finding the business.

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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

The IPKat

JULY 30, 2023

This Kat is happy to review “ 25 things you should know about artificial intelligence, art and copyright ” by Pablo Fernández Carballo-Calero (Aranzadi, 2023, 160 p.). Now in its second edition, the book offers a primer on copyright-related challenges that artificial intelligence (AI) presents. As advanced in the book’s title, this monograph is composed of 25 short chapters, distributed in six parts.

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Sander Law

JULY 30, 2023

2024 CIPO fee increases The Canadian Intellectual Property Office (CIPO) is applying a one-time fee increase of 25% to most of its fees for trademarks, patents, copyright and industrial design registrations. This increase is in addition to its annual fee adjustments. For many services, this effectively amounts to a 30% increase from 2023 CIPO fees !

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The IPKat

JULY 30, 2023

The IPKat has received and is pleased to host the following guest post by Katfriend Vicente Zafrilla (University of Alicante) on a recent Indian decision. Here’s what Vicente writes: Competition Commission of India cannot decide on patent royalties in cases of abusive behaviours, says High Court of Delhi by Vicente Zafrilla As SEP-aware Kat readers might know, on 13th of July the High Court of Delhi decided in a single judgment four appeals and a written petition ( LPA 247/2016 and connected mat

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