TorrentFreak
OCTOBER 31, 2022
While movie and music piracy tends to generate the most headlines, the publishing industry is facing similar issues. Pretty much every book ever written is available online for free, including through so-called ‘shadow libraries’ Z-Library is one of the largest shadow libraries on the Internet. Through a variety of domain names, the site offers over 11 million books and 84 million articles.
U.S. Department of Commerce
OCTOBER 31, 2022
NIST Award Recipient Cracks the Code on Public Safety Devices. October 31, 2022. KCPullen@doc.gov. Mon, 10/31/2022 - 12:12. University of the Basque Country broadens first responder app market and simplifies device certification process. Smartphones, mobile apps and strong network connections have become so ubiquitous that it’s easy to take for granted the technological progress that makes those features possible.
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McKinsey Operations
OCTOBER 31, 2022
COOs are increasingly important to corporations, but what skills will they need to perform at their best? Business leaders weigh in.
IPilogue
OCTOBER 31, 2022
Amin Hosseini is an IPilogue Writer and an LLM Candidate at Osgood Hall Law School. In recent years, many technical mechanisms to protect intellectual property have given their helping hands to IP owners and technology developers to enhance IP management and protection. ACR technology is a prominent example. Automatic content recognition (ACR) refers to the ability of an application to identify content based on sampling a portion and comparing it with a source service.
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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?
Patently-O
OCTOBER 31, 2022
By Jason Rantanen. George Washington University Law School Professor Dmitry Karshtedt has passed. Dmitry was a remarkable scholar, wonderful colleague, and incredible friend. We often had different ways of thinking about patent law, and I always hoped that some day we might have time to write something together. Sadly will never happen. The world was more with Dmitry and less without him.
McKinsey Operations
OCTOBER 31, 2022
As electric mobility gains momentum in India and other countries, it could prompt disruptions and structural shifts in the automotive industry. This report outlines possible strategies for India’s automotive component manufacturers to adapt to these shifts, turning disruptions into an avenue to tap new, emerging value pools.
Intellectual Property Pulse brings together the best content for IP professionals from the widest variety of industry thought leaders.
IP Law 360
OCTOBER 31, 2022
A real estate group hit with a roughly $29 million judgment on claims it undertook a smear campaign targeting a competitor has urged a Florida federal court to give it a new trial, saying the jury was "overwhelmed by complexity" and the damages were excessive.
JD Supra Law
OCTOBER 31, 2022
On September 28, 2022, the Federal Circuit reversed and remanded a decision from the Northern District of California granting a Rule 12 Motion to Dismiss on the basis that claims of U.S. Patent No. 9,432,452 were invalid under 35 U.S.C. § 101. Coop. Entm’t, Inc. v. Kollective Tech., Inc., 2022 U.S. App. LEXIS 27138 (Fed. Cir. Sept. 28, 2022). The ’452 patent claims systems and methods for structuring dynamic peer-to-peer (P2P) networks for distributing large files.
IP Law 360
OCTOBER 31, 2022
A Colorado federal judge on Monday awarded $4.2 million in damages to the copyright owners of 28 films, including "Hellboy" and "The Hitman's Bodyguard," against a defunct tech company that allowed pirated material to flow through its servers.
JD Supra Law
OCTOBER 31, 2022
This is the October edition of Anchovy News. Here you will find articles concerning ICANN, the domain name industry and the recuperation of domain names across the globe. In this issue we cover: Domain name industry news, including: Launch of.GIVING, Turkey introduces TRABIS, and Five million domain names registered under.BR.
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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.
43(B)log
OCTOBER 31, 2022
Lite-Netics, LLC v. Nu Tsai Capital LLC, NO. 8:22CV314, 2022 WL 15523245 (D. Neb. Oct. 27, 2022) A rare tortious interference/business defamation case that results in a preliminary injunction (converted from a TRO), based on claims of patent infringement made to plaintiff’s customers. The parties sell “magnetic light strands used to illuminate homes and businesses during the holidays” and related products, such as magnetic clips that convert plastic light sockets to magnetic ones. one relevant p
JD Supra Law
OCTOBER 31, 2022
The Metaverse presents a variety of possibilities: from technology that enables digital content to be laid over the real world to application of real-world characteristics to a purely online environment. It is also a combination of various features and goals, including at least a sense of immersion, real-time interactivity, user agency, platform and device interoperability, and concurrent interaction between thousands of people simultaneously.
Fish & Richardson Trademark & Copyright Thoughts
OCTOBER 31, 2022
Fish & Richardson was proud to commemorate Pro Bono Week 2022 – an occasion to recognize the important work of attorneys who offered their time and expertise to serve those in need year-round. Pro bono matters at Fish because everyone deserves equal access to justice. With 82% of Fish attorneys participating in over 18,000 hours of pro bono work this year, our efforts resulted in significant and meaningful gains for clients in a wide range of areas including immigration, anti-human trafficki
McKinsey Operations
OCTOBER 31, 2022
Finding large tracts of land for solar and wind farms is getting harder. Developers will have to strengthen capabilities and enhance their operational effectiveness.
Michael Geist
OCTOBER 31, 2022
The proposed Rogers-Shaw merger was back in the news last week as Canadian Industry minister Francois Philippe Champagne held a mid-week press conference to announce that the original deal was dead, but that a reworked deal that brings in Videotron might be a possibility if certain government expectations on restrictions on transferring spectrum licences and consumer pricing outside of Quebec were met.
McKinsey Operations
OCTOBER 31, 2022
New sources of value are available for businesses that use their procurement function to combat persistent inflation and build resilience amid ongoing turbulence.
Patently-O
OCTOBER 31, 2022
Here is a new example of a Schedule-A case filed in the Northern District of Illinois. Dyson Tech. Ltd. v. Persons listed on Schedule A , Docket No. 1:22-cv-05946 (N.D. Ill. Oct 27, 2022). DysonAnonComplaint. The list of defendants is apparently in Schedule-A, but that document was filed under seal. The complaint alleges that the defendants are all counterfeiters who operate in “foreign jurisdictions with lax intellectual property enforcement systems” such as “the People’s Re
IP Law 360
OCTOBER 31, 2022
District court invalidity rulings can't be used to preclude a later Patent Trial and Appeal Board challenge, Intel has said in a bid to invalidate the VLSI Technology patents at the heart of a $2.2 billion infringement verdict.
Likelihood of Confusion
OCTOBER 31, 2022
Some of my best (online-who-I-never-met-but-believe-me-they-have-your-back) friends among legal bloggers don’t believe in legal blogging at all. For example, Scott Greenfield both excels at it and is absolutely contemptuous of it — if, The post “Inside Straight” on blogging for lawyers appeared first on LIKELIHOOD OF CONFUSION™.
IP Law 360
OCTOBER 31, 2022
For more than a decade, patent owners have been able to list their patent numbers online instead of on products. But despite many advantages, attorneys say the option can cause problems if it's not done right, and presents some murky questions that courts haven't yet answered.
IP Watchdog
OCTOBER 31, 2022
Intellectual property (IP) law developments may not be high up on most people’s list of worst nightmares this Halloween, but for IP owners and lawyers, they can cause a fright. From patent eligibility to the economy, here are some thoughts on the scariest IP issues out there; add yours in the comments—if you dare.
IP Law 360
OCTOBER 31, 2022
Massachusetts U.S. Attorney Rachael Rollins looks back at how Judge Charles Spurlock's trial advocacy class at Northeastern University School of Law challenged her to apply what she had already learned about civil and criminal procedure, evidence and criminal law to solving real-world problems.
McKinsey Operations
OCTOBER 31, 2022
The global head of information solutions for a leading healthcare provider explains the importance of technological and management innovation in helping to serve patients in new ways.
IP Law 360
OCTOBER 31, 2022
A federal jury in Texas has ordered the original host of the reality show "Cheaters" to hand over nearly $400,000 to the production company that owns the copyright to the program, after he uploaded clips of the show to the internet without permission.
McKinsey Operations
OCTOBER 31, 2022
In an interview at the M30 Mobility Summit, EVgo’s Cathy Zoi shares her views on the latest developments in mobility.
43(B)log
OCTOBER 31, 2022
Zamfir v. CasperLabs, LLC, No. 21-CV-474 TWR (AHG), 2022 WL 14915618 (S.D. Cal. Oct. 25, 2022) Previous discussion. Note that plaintiff loses on all claims where he has to allege damage, but for TM claims one doesn't, so his proceed. Zamfir is a researcher in blockchain technology and adopted the name “Casper” for his blockchain consensus protocol. He alleged trademark and related claims based on CasperLabs’ use of the name.
IP Watchdog
OCTOBER 31, 2022
This week in Washington IP news, both house of Congress remain quiet during regularly scheduled work periods. Elsewhere, the Hudson Institute explores the growing right-to-repair movement and potential conflicts with federal policy on intellectual property protections. The Center for Strategic & International Studies explores the first three-year strategic plan for the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency and how it should be implemented.
Barry Sookman
OCTOBER 31, 2022
Canada is planning to revamp its comprehensive privacy law by repealing the existing comprehensive privacy law, PIPEDA, and by enacting Bill C-27, the Digital Implementation Act ( “DIA”) to enact the Consumer Privacy Protection Act (CPPA), Personal Information and Data Protection Tribunal Act (PIDTA), and Artificial Intelligence and Data Act (AIDA).
The TTABlog
OCTOBER 31, 2022
The September-October 2022 issue of The Trademark Reporter [pdf here ], as described by Willard Knox, Editor-in-Chief, "offers our readers an article mapping out how to navigate the doctrine of foreign equivalents and a commentary proposing a reinvention of the Rogers v. Grimaldi infringement test that the author argues would better balance trademark rights and free speech rights.
LexBlog IP
OCTOBER 31, 2022
A multi-year effort is underway to modernise the financial market infrastructure of Malaysia. Various initiatives have been undertaken by Bank Negara Malaysia to promote market stability and develop new payment and settlement systems. The goal of these projects is to enhance the market’s resiliency and internationalisation. These initiatives will support the development of the country’s financial sector and strengthen the country’s economy.
IP and Legal Filings
OCTOBER 31, 2022
Introduction. The objective of the Singapore Treaty is to create a modern and dynamic international framework for the harmonization of administrative trademark registration procedures. Building on the Trademark Law Treaty of 1994, the Singapore Treaty has a wider scope of application and addresses more recent developments in the field of communication technologies.
IP Law 360
OCTOBER 31, 2022
A putative class of direct HIV medication buyers asked a California federal judge to give final approval to a $10.8 million deal that would end claims that Bristol-Myers Squibb engaged in anti-competitive conduct to block generics competition and keep the medication's prices artificially high.
Fish & Richardson Trademark & Copyright Thoughts
OCTOBER 31, 2022
Last week, Fish & Richardson was proud to support ChIPs and sponsor the attendance of 19 attorneys and business professionals at the 2022 ChIPs NextGen and Global Summits. ChIPs is a nonprofit organization that advances and connects women in technology, law, and policy. For the first time, ChIPs brought together its NextGen and Global Summits for three days of content, which included panels featuring Fish principals Juanita Brooks and Esha Bandyopadhyay.
Velocity of Content
OCTOBER 31, 2022
Publishing industry analyst Bill Rosenblatt wrote for Publishers Weekly that higher education is the publishing segment undergoing the most disruptive changes today. “It’s certain that the textbook market of 10 years from now will bear little resemblance to today’s market, even if we don’t know exactly what it will look like,” Rosenblatt declared.
LexBlog IP
OCTOBER 31, 2022
On June 11, 2022, Plaintiffs Matthew Sinatro and Jessica Prost filed a class action lawsuit in the Northern District of California against the Barilla pasta company over alleged false advertising. The plaintiffs claim Barilla deliberately deceives shoppers into believing fifty-four of Barilla’s pasta products are made in Italy by labeling some pastas as “ITALY’S #1 BRAND OF PASTA” while replicating Italy’s national flag’s green, white, and red colors: Contrary
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