TorrentFreak

JANUARY 8, 2022

In the summer of 2018, a report from anti-piracy company Irdeto examined the payment processing abilities of 400 pirate IPTV supplier sites. It found that the majority (76%) openly advertised their payment options with Visa, Mastercard and PayPal leading the way. The strong message from Irdeto was that such payment processors should be supporting legitimate media organizations by conducting better due diligence and stopping support for pirate streaming services.

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IP Watchdog

JANUARY 8, 2022

Reexaminations continue to gain favor, seeing a 47% increase over last year; the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) sees fewer filings; and filings by non-practicing entities (NPEs) rose by 4%, according to Unified Patents’ 2021 Patent Dispute Report: Year in Review, published earlier this week. The PTAB saw a nearly 12% decline in filings from the previous year, whereas district court proceedings remained unchanged, said the report.

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Reporting Publishing Patent Patent Infringement 119

IAM Magazine

JANUARY 8, 2022

Saturday Opinion: Technology solutions that have helped the world through the pandemic would look very different absent a sophisticated IP licensing ecosystem, argues Dolby GC Andy Sherman.

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The IPKat

JANUARY 8, 2022

We have slowly entered 2022, which gives us a chance to take one last look at last week's (and year's) posts, in case you missed them! TRADE MARKS Remember the James Bond theme? Is it "too long" to be registered as a sound mark? Merpel and TechieKat Verónica Rodríguez Arguijo reported on a March 2021 decision of the Fifth Board of Appeal ( R 1996/2020-5 ) of the European Union Intellectual Property Office (EUIPO) that answers this question.

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Intellectual Property Social Media Reporting Publishing 76

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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Delaware Intellectual Property Litigation Blog

JANUARY 8, 2022

By Memorandum Opinion entered by the Honorable Maryellen Noreika in TRUSTID, Inc. v. Next Caller, Inc. , Civil Action No. 18-172-MN (D.Del. January 5, 2022), the Court granted Defendant Next Caller’s post-trial renewed motion for judgment as a matter of law of no false advertising under the Lanham Act and to take away the jury’s award of punitive damages.

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False Advertising Advertising Advertising Law 68

IAM Magazine

JANUARY 8, 2022

Saturday Opinion: Technology solutions that have helped the world through the pandemic would look very different absent a sophisticated IP licensing ecosystem, argues Dolby GC Andy Sherman.

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Licensing Technology IP Patent 52

Likelihood of Confusion

JANUARY 8, 2022

Michael Atkins writes about the frustrations of a restaurant owner who seems to think — oddly, for someone who’s already hired a lawyer — he can’t stop someone from copying. The post Restaurant knockoffs appeared first on LIKELIHOOD OF CONFUSION™.

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