IP Watchdog

AUGUST 13, 2023

The past year has provided decades' worth of developments across law and policy in the areas of artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) technologies. If 2022 was the breakthrough year for accessible AI, then 2023 can so far be deemed as the first year of likely many more to come in the era of an AI inquisition. “After years of somewhat academic discourse,” reflects Dr.

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TorrentFreak

AUGUST 13, 2023

In 2020, publishers Hachette, HarperCollins, John Wiley and Penguin Random House sued the Internet Archive (IA) for copyright infringement, equating its ‘Open Library’ to a pirate site. IA’s library is a non-profit organization that scans physical books, which can then be lent out to patrons in an ebook format. Patrons can also borrow books that are scanned and digitized in-house, with technical restrictions that prevent copying.

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Likelihood of Confusion

AUGUST 13, 2023

I generally avoid any invocation of the Internal Revenue Code around here, as I have explained. Others are less intimidated by the government’s brutally wielded power to destroy. One such. The post The power to destroy appeared first on LIKELIHOOD OF CONFUSION™.

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IP Watchdog

AUGUST 13, 2023

On August 9, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit issued a ruling in Dewberry Engineers Inc. v. Dewberry Group, Inc. in which the appellate court affirmed a series of district court orders, including a $43 million profit disgorgement award for trademark infringement. The Fourth Circuit also affirmed an attorneys’ fees award for pervasive breaches of a previous agreement settling trademark claims between the commercial real estate firms in the case.

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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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Patently-O

AUGUST 13, 2023

In re Theripion, Inc. , 2022-1346 (Fed. Cir. Aug. 10, 2023) (nonprecedential) (Opinion by Judge Stark, joined by Judges Hughes and Cunningham). ApoA1 is a key component of HDL, also known as “good cholesterol.” The founders of Therapin created a synthetic “fusion protean” of ApoA1 linked to the Fc portion of an antibody (the stem).

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

AUGUST 13, 2023

Image via Pixabay Introduction: Generative AI regulatory framework There is a huge debate around Generative AI and the need to regulate such disrupting technology (see here and here ). Very different approach has been adopted in the European Union , which is going to introduce by the end of 2023 a EU AI Act ( here ), in the UK , which is mainly working on some guiding principles to be further developed by the UK regulators ( here ), and in the US , where the NSTC (National Science and Technology

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