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The Growth of AI in Plagiarism Detection

Plagiarism Today

Earlier today, the Israeli-based plagiarism detection service Copyleaks announced a new $6 million round of funding to help them further develop their product. Though a relative upstart in this field, being founded in 2013, Copyleaks has been making steady progress both in their product and their business. Much of that success and interest is based upon the fact their product is powered by artificial intelligence.

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Copyright References in the Budget: Good Intentions Are Welcome but Early Action is Needed

Hugh Stephens Blog

Last week I discussed the copyright needle buried in the 2022 Canadian budget haystack, a reference to impending legislation to amend the Copyright Act to fulfill Canada’s obligation under the USMCA/CUSMA to extend its term of copyright protection from the life of the author plus 50 years to “life plus 70”.

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3 Count: Clubbed Penguin

Plagiarism Today

Have any suggestions for the 3 Count? Let me know via Twitter @plagiarismtoday. 1: Three Arrests Over Unofficial Club Penguin Site. First off today, Joe Tidy at the BBC reports that the City of London Police have arrested three people and shuttered the website of a group that was running an unauthorized clone of Club Penguin, the Disney social media site/game that shuttered in 2017.

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Cybersquatting Web3 Domain Names

Traverse Legal Blog

There are new domain extensions in Web3, including.crypto,eth, and.nft. What happens when someone registers your trademark or personal name on these web3 extensions? There are two videos in this web3 domain squatting educational series. Both videos are linked in the description below for easy navigation and reference. Watch video one below. This is a ‘one of kind’ video series on token squatting.

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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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DuckDuckGo ‘Restores’ Pirate Sites and Points to Bing as Culprit

TorrentFreak

It’s not a secret that Google and Bing are tweaking their search results to accommodate copyright holders. However, it was a surprise to see that pirate and related sites also started to disappear from DuckDuckGo, as we reported last week. An initial review revealed that the official domains for sites such as The Pirate Bay, Fmovies, and YouTube-DL were no longer showing up.

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How Did News Media Canada Get Bill C-18? The Lobbying Records Tell the Story

Michael Geist

Bill C-18, the Online News Act , represents a massive win for News Media Canada, the lobbying arm for news organizations such as Postmedia and Torstar. After obtaining hundreds of millions in taxpayer support with programs such as the Local Journalism Initiative (made permanent in Budget 2022), the Journalism Labour Tax Credit, and the Digital Subscription Tax Credit, the organization set its sights on the Internet platforms.

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Shhh… Tiffany knows your (trade) secrets!

IPilogue

Photo by minxlj ( Flickr ). . Jasmine Yu is an IPilogue Writer and a 1L JD Candidate at the University of Toronto Faculty of Law. All that glitters is not gold, but trade secrets in the sparkling world of luxury jewellery might just be worth the gold and diamonds they sell. On February 28, French luxury jeweller Cartier sued its competitor, Tiffany & Co.

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Generative art NFTs - what brand owners need to know about copyright protection

JD Supra Law

This is part 4 of our IP Update series exploring the evolving landscape for Internet, Digital Media and e-Commerce. Overview Non-Fungible Tokens (NFTs) continue to generate significant commercial value for brands through the licensing or transfer of intellectual property and commercial rights.

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Photography Copyright Cases Photographers Should Know?

Copyright Alliance

On March 29, the U.S. Supreme Court made the huge announcement that it will take on Andy Warhol Foundation v. Goldsmith, a case that may result in one of the […]. The post Photography Copyright Cases Photographers Should Know? appeared first on Copyright Alliance.

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85 ‘Pirate’ IPTV Apps Reported as Illegal But Most (If Any) Carry No Content

TorrentFreak

Over the past several weeks, numerous rightsholders have filed submissions to the European Commission hoping that sites and services will be added to the upcoming ‘Counterfeit and Piracy Watch List’. Today, we look at the submission of Spanish football league LaLiga which has been fighting a prolonged battle against pirates for several years. Regular site-blocking , dynamic injunctions targeting IPTV services and criminal investigations are all part of its toolkit.

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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.

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Del. Judge Requires 3rd Party Litigation Funding Disclosures

IP Law 360

Delaware's chief federal judge has issued a standing order requiring litigants to disclose whether their cases or defenses are being financed by third parties — and whether there are conditions tied to that funding — in a move that could impact the court's number of patent infringement cases, according to a legal expert.

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Andy Warhol, Prince, and the First Amendment: U.S. Supreme Court Grants Review of Questions Concerning “Fair Use” Under Copyright Act

JD Supra Law

The U.S. Supreme Court recently granted a petition for writ of certiorari to review the extent to which a work of art is a “transformative” fair use under the Copyright Act. The Court will review a Second Circuit decision holding Andy Warhol’s set of silkscreened portraits of Prince (“Prince Series”), stemming from an original photograph, were not transformative.

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The International Electrotechnical Commission Participating in CCC’s Document Delivery with RightFind

Velocity of Content

The International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC), the world’s leading organization for the preparation and publication of international standards for electrotechnology, is now offering document delivery through CCC’s RightFind. Document delivery is an integral part of the award-winning RightFind Suite , a cloud-based content workflow solution that is the fastest way to find, manage, and collaborate with content from a database of 146+ million citations and 5+ million open access articles.

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Senior Party Sigma-Aldrich Files Opposition to Junior Party Substantive Preliminary Motion No. 1 in Interference No. 106,133

JD Supra Law

On December 3rd, Junior Party the Broad Institute, Harvard University, and MIT (collectively, Broad) filed its Substantive Preliminary Motion No. 1 in Interference No. 106,133 (which names Sigma-Aldrich as Senior Party), asking the Patent Trial and Appeal Board to substitute the interference Count, pursuant to the provisions of 37 C.F.R. §§ 41.121(a)(1)(i) and 41.208(a)(2).

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Judicial Estoppel and Changing Claim Construction

Patently-O

by Dennis Crouch. Intel Corp. v. XMTT, Inc. (Fed. Cir. 2022). Chief Judge Moore is known (1) for her keen ability to identify logical flaws in appellate arguments and (2) her willingness to use those flaws to quickly dispose of the appeal. In this case, the court only needed a few lines to reject Intel’s appeal: The Board adopted the claim construction for which Intel advocated.

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Notice Letters and Communications May Form a Basis for Personal Jurisdiction

JD Supra Law

APPLE INC. v. ZIPIT WIRELESS, INC. [OPINION]- PRECEDENTIAL - Before Hughes, Mayer and Stoll. Appeal from the United States District Court for the Northern District of California. Summary: Notice letters and related communications may be sufficient to establish personal jurisdiction within a given forum.

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China and India have Increased their Collaborative Research with Russia in Science and Technology

IP Close Up

For more than a decade prior to the start of the war in Ukraine, scientific research collaborations between Russia and U.S. and EU-member nations were declining. Continue reading.

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Australia Appeal Decision Reverses Direction on AI Inventorship

JD Supra Law

Over the past few years technology evangelist and inventor Stephen Thaler, together with the Artificial Inventor Project, has campaigned for patent law changes across jurisdictions to recognize artificial intelligence (AI) as an inventor on patent applications. To further their goal, the group filed patent applications in various jurisdictions around the world listing an AI agent named “DABUS” as the sole inventor.

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Getting the Public Involved: Third Party PreIssuance Submissions

Patently-O

by Dennis Crouch. If you have never tried a third-party pre-issuance submission with the USPTO or UKIPO Observation. Give it a whirl. [ [link] ]. The UK Intellectual Property Office recently announced its plans to provide the public with a bit more access to the patent examination system—making it easier for third parties to provide pre-grant observations that can be used by examiners and seen by others. [1] UK law already allows any person to offer observations “on the question whether the inv

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Build a great wall of trademark protection for your business on China’ e-commerce platforms

JD Supra Law

With the increasing protection of IP rights on e-commerce platforms, trademark registrants’ rights are respected and protected. It is difficult to sell counterfeit products on e-commerce platforms. For example, according to the IP protection rules of Taobao.com (an e-commerce platform under Alibaba Group), the punitive measures of ‘three strikes policy’ will be implemented for merchants’ serious infringement of IP rights.

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Takedown Services Under Copyright Law

IP and Legal Filings

The author or creator of any theatrical, literary, creative, or musical work has an exclusive right to copyright. It also allows the owner or creator to replicate the protected work, make it public, change it, and translate it into any other format. It was recently uncovered that numerous internet platforms are posting infringing content on their websites without the approval of the copyright owners.

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Australian Full Court clarifies the meaning of "first approval" for the purpose of patent term extension (PTE)

The IPKat

Last month, the appeal division of the Australian Federal Court, the Full Court, delivered 2 judgments in two patent term extension (PTE) cases. Both cases dealt with the question of what constitutes a "first approval" for the purpose of PTE. In both cases, the Full Court found that a previous approval, either for one component of a subsequent combination product, or for an earlier product covered by the patent, constituted the "first approval".

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Sprint Snags $9.7M Jury Award In TM Suit Over Nextel Fakes

IP Law 360

A Florida federal jury has awarded Sprint Communications Inc. $9.7 million for trademark infringement claims against a Nextel imitation brand and the company that helped launch it, finding that counterfeit phones and walkie-talkies diluted two of the Sprint unit's marks.

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Material Flow and Traffic Flow – An Analogy

Christopher Roser

In lean, the concept of “flow” is important. But what is it? In this post I would like to look deeper into this important concept using another flow we are all (much too) familiar with: traffic flow! The Analogies There are a lot of similarities between material flow and traffic flow. Both parts and cars. Read more. The post Material Flow and Traffic Flow – An Analogy first appeared on AllAboutLean.com.

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Judge Probes If T-Mobile's 'Simply Prepaid' Name Confuses

IP Law 360

A Virginia federal judge delved Tuesday into whether T-Mobile trampled the trademark rights of a company called Simply Wireless by selling mobile phones and services under that name or whether the smaller company lost its claim to the moniker when it rebranded.

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What the New York Times got right about patents

IAM Magazine

The newspaper's position set out in a recent and controversial editorial is too harsh on the US system as a whole, but some of its proposed reforms would bring greater balance.

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Fed. Circ. Revives Rovi Patent That Comcast Got PTAB To Ax

IP Law 360

The Federal Circuit has reversed a Patent Trial and Appeal Board decision to invalidate an interactive television patent asserted against Comcast by media company Rovi Guides, holding Tuesday that the PTAB used an incorrect claim construction to find that all of the claims were obvious based on prior art.

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What the New York Times got right about patents

IAM Magazine

The newspaper's position set out in a recent and controversial editorial is too harsh on the US system as a whole, but some of its proposed reforms would bring greater balance.

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Prospectively Appointing Jackson To High Court Is Unlawful

IP Law 360

The White House Office of Legal Counsel's recent opinion that the president can prospectively appoint Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson to the U.S. Supreme Court contradicts that court's holding under Marbury v. Madison, and thus Biden should refrain from signing her commission until after Justice Stephen Breyer's retirement takes effect, says attorney John Reeves.

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Fish Principals Author The Licensing Journal Article “Patent Licensing”

Fish & Richardson Trademark & Copyright Thoughts

When a patentee enters into an agreement with a third party that does not expressly include a pat­ent license ( e.g. , a covenant not to sue between a non-practicing patentee and a third-party prac­ticing entity), does that agreement render the third party’s products a “patented article” that requires marking? Although it does not appear that the Federal Circuit has spoken squarely on the scope of what kinds of agreements are subject to Section 287(a), most district courts have answered this que

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Prosecution Pointer 325

LexBlog IP

The United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) announced a new Patent Public Search tool that provides more convenient, remote, and robust full-text searching of all U.S. patents and published patent applications. The Patent Public Search tool is based on the advanced Patents End-to-End (PE2E) search tool USPTO examiners use to identify prior art.

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Gibson Dunn Adds Biopharma IP Partner From Ropes & Gray

IP Law 360

Gibson Dunn & Crutcher LLP has expanded its intellectual property group by adding a specialist in patent litigation with more than 15 years of experience in the life sciences, pharmaceutical and biotechnology sectors.

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Federal Circuit Reverses PTAB Decision in Amgen Biosimilar-Related IPR Appeal

LexBlog IP

On April 14, 2022, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit reversed the PTAB’s determination in IPR2016-01542 that claims of Amgen’s U.S. Patent No. 8,952,138 are obvious. The ’138 patent claims are directed to methods of refolding proteins by “contacting the protein with a refolding buffer comprising a redox component comprising a final thiol-pair ratio” of a specified range and a certain redox buffer strength to form a refold mixture.

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Akerman Adds Former McDermott Partner To Boost IP Team

IP Law 360

Akerman LLP has added a former McDermott Will & Emery LLP partner to its intellectual property practice, bolstering its Atlanta office with a seasoned litigator who helped guide Endo Pharmaceuticals in persuading the Federal Circuit in 2019 to uphold the validity of a patent related to an opioid painkiller.

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FTC Brings Complaint for False “Made in USA” Claims

LexBlog IP

Last summer, we posted about the Federal Trade Commission’s (“FTC’) new labeling rule on products that allege to be “Made in USA”, which you can read here. Last week, the FTC used its authority under this rule to bring a complaint against Lithionics Battery LLC and its owner, Steven Tartaglia. Lithionics designs and sells battery products for recreational vehicles, amusement park rides, marine applications and low-speed vehicles.