Wed.Apr 28, 2021

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Vaccinate Your Brand with Trademark Registration

Erik K Pelton

Just like a vaccine strengthening and boosting your immune system, so does protecting your brand by registering it in the USPTO database. What else can you do to boost your brand protection in this age of the pandemic and beyond? In this episode, Erik injects his insights on how to get better trademark protection. The post Vaccinate Your Brand with Trademark Registration appeared first on Erik M Pelton & Associates, PLLC.

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Nominative fair use (maybe) and Amazon

43(B)log

I've recently seen two examples of the following phenomenon: off of Amazon, an advertiser uses images of its product with another well-known product, and they do go together, but on Amazon, the advertising is different. Anyone know if there's an Amazon policy driving this? For those circuits that require the advertiser to have a good reason to refer to the trademark owner in order to justify nominative fair use, the Amazon ads would seem to show it's possible to advertise without using the other

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Authors Guild CEO: ‘The artist is a visionary; AI is not’

Managing IP

Mary Rasenberger talks about her work protecting authors’ rights, the CASE Act, and why we shouldn’t expect the next Great American Novel to come from AI

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Is Fanfiction Legal?

JIPEL Copyright Blog

Since the past year in quarantine has given most folks considerably more free time on their hands to explore old hobbies and interests, fanfiction has notably been on the rise. In fact, at the very start of lockdown in March and April 2020, Archive of Our Own (AO3), a very popular fanfiction site, found that their weekly site visits had gone up 60% from the same time the previous year.

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Software Composition Analysis: The New Armor for Your Cybersecurity

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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Canopy v GW is new cannabis case everyone’s watching

Managing IP

With UCANN v Pure Hemp dead in the water, counsel are turning to a CBD case in the Western District of Texas for answers on cannabis patent law

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IP judges report: interviews from the world’s key jurisdictions

Managing IP

Managing IP has compiled 30 interviews from 12 jurisdictions, giving insight on what makes judges tick and what this means for you