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DMCA Robocops Give 20 Seconds to Comply, But Can’t Muster a Reply

TorrentFreak

Faced with millions of instances of copyright infringement every day, many rightsholders use anti-piracy companies to help stem the tide. More often than not, that involves sending DMCA takedown notices on an industrial scale, in the hope that Google and Bing delist infringing URLs from search results before the cycle begins again. Huge volumes of DMCA notices and similar requests are handled directly by companies including YouTube, Twitter, Facebook and Instagram.

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CAFC Revives Vape Patent Lawsuit Against Phillip Morris

IP Watchdog

On Wednesday, the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit (CAFC) reversed a district court’s dismissal of a Florida vape company’s patent lawsuit against tobacco company Phillip Morris. Healthier Choices Management (HCM) filed the appeal to the CAFC after a district court ruled in Phillip Morris’s favor, dismissing the patent infringement case.

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Delhi High Court says no FRAND trial needed to obtain SEP injunction in Intex v Ericsson

The IPKat

At the time of writing this post, this Kat was currently halfway through Mr Justice Mellor’s Interdigital v Lenovo FRAND decision (see here ) this Kat is made aware of an appellant judgment from the High Court of Delhi in the same area: Intex v Ericsson 2023:DHC:2243-DB. This appeal is against the Judgement of 13 March 2015 by Mr Justice Singh (a text of this Judgment under appeal appears to be available here ; the official website of the court appears offline) where he held that Ericsson’s eigh

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Overlapping Ranges in Claims and Prior Art Result in Invalidation of Patent on Transdermal Patch for Parkinson’s Disease

Patently-O

By Chris Holman UCB, Inc. v. Actavis Lab’ys UT, Inc. , 2023 WL 2904757, — 4th — (Fed. Cir. Apr. 12, 2023) Rotigotine is a drug used to treat Parkinson’s disease. People with Parkinson’s disease experience significant gastrointestinal dysfunction, such as difficulty swallowing, which can frustrate the oral administration of drugs. However, the complications associated with oral treatment can be avoided by means of a transdermal patch that delivers the drug through the patient’s skin.

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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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Poland’s preliminary injunctions set to become a scarce commodity

The IPKat

Richard, the Polish Kat, is not a fan of change The AmeriKat has been in New York this week for the 30th Fordham IP Conference. This is the first time the conference has been held in person since before the pandemic. It was equally exciting, overwhelming and emotional to see old and new friends, debate important IP issues and look to the future changes in IP.

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Rocket Scientist Aisha Bowe on a Mission to Inspire Others to Reach for the Stars 

WIPO Magazine

Aisha Bowe is a rocket scientist and successful entrepreneur. She is also a passionate advocate for women and girls in STEM. She is soon to make space history aboard the next Blue Origin flight and is committed to inspiring others to reach for the stars.

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Closing the IP and Innovation Gender Gap in Canada

WIPO Magazine

In highlighting some of Canada’s trailblazing women inventors, creators and entrepreneurs David Durand, current President of FORPIQ (Forum International de la Propriété Intellectuelle - Québec) in Montréal, Canada, discusses the importance of raising IP awareness among women scientists and the challenges they face.

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Never too late: if you missed the IPKat last week!

The IPKat

At the end of the second week of April with the sun starting to emerge , here are the latest Katposts. Copyright Image by Francesco Ungaro Nedim Malevich reported the words of Deborah De Angelis, who discussed the recent conflict between SIAE and Meta in relation to Italian music on Facebook and Instagram. Anna Maria Stein discussed the recently issued “Copyright registration guide: works containing material generated by artificial intelligence” by the US Copyright Office.

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Closing the IP and Innovation Gender Gap in Canada

WIPO Magazine

In highlighting some of Canada’s trailblazing women inventors, creators and entrepreneurs David Durand, current President of FORPIQ (Forum International de la Propriété Intellectuelle - Québec) in Montréal, Canada, discusses the importance of raising IP awareness among women scientists and the challenges they face.

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Closing the IP and Innovation Gender Gap in Canada

WIPO Magazine

In highlighting some of Canada’s trailblazing women inventors, creators and entrepreneurs David Durand, current President of FORPIQ (Forum International de la Propriété Intellectuelle - Québec) in Montréal, Canada, discusses the importance of raising IP awareness among women scientists and the challenges they face.

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IPO Diversity in Innovation Toolkit

Women and diverse employees have the technical skill and knowledge, yet their contributions are not patented at the same rate as those of their male counterparts.This toolkit can help organizations move the needle on achieving gender parity in innovation.