Mon.Apr 05, 2021

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Synergizing Patents to Drive Innovation and Growth

Intellectual Property Law Blog

This article originally appeared in The Intellectual Property Strategist. © 2021 ALM Media LLC. Reprinted with permission. Companies have historically turned to patent pools as vehicles for achieving shared objectives. A patent pool can be formed when a group of patent holders agree to pool their patents for some purpose. For instance, members of a patent pool may agree to pool and license their patent rights to a third party in exchange for fees or royalties.

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Diagnosis: Alleged Infringement

BYU Copyright Blog

On March 24, 2021, MMAS Research LLC ("MMAS") and Dr. Donald E. Morisky ("Morisky") (MMAS and Morisky jointly "Plaintiffs") filed a Complaint against Duke University and various university researchers (jointly "Defendants"). The Plaintiffs claim that the Defendants continued to use a diagnostic tool called the Morisky Medical Adherence Scale (the "Scale"), after their license to the Scale had expired.According to the Complaint, on August 19, 2013, the Plaintiffs and Defendants entered into a Lic

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"Last month, three federal appellate judges in Manhattan decided they knew more about art than any old critic or philosopher" (UPDATED)

The Art Law Blog

"Whether they quite meant to or not, their ruling had the effect of declaring that the landmark inventions of Duchamp and Warhol — the 'appropriation' they practiced, to use the term of art — were not worthy of the legal protection that other creativity is given under copyright law." Blake Gopnik on the recent Warhol fair use decision. UPDATE: More Gopnik here : "It’s a really messy situation.

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Fair Use Month Continues

The Art Law Blog

The Supreme Court issued its Google v. Oracle decision today. Adam Liptak's New York Times story is here. The opinion is here.

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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?