The Trichordist
FEBRUARY 6, 2022
By now you’ve probably heard of the website HitPiece.com and their outrageous scheme to mint a “NFTs” of virtually every song and album in existence. If you… Read more "HITPIECE NFT RIPOFF: What you need to know and what can you do about it.".
Patently-O
FEBRUARY 6, 2022
by Dennis Crouch. Patent attorneys expect an initial office rejection, but clients often want to know: how long must this go on before we get our patent? The chart below provides some data on how many office-action rejections you might expect before a patent issues. To collect the data, I wrote a short bit of code to parse through the file histories of all the issued patents from the past several years and count the number of non-final and final rejections.
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SpicyIP
FEBRUARY 6, 2022
We’re pleased to announce that NLU Jodhpur’s Journal of Intellectual Property Studies (JIPS) is inviting original, unpublished manuscripts for publication for its upcoming issue (Volume V, Issue II). The last date for submissions is March 27, 2022. For further details, please read the journal’s call for papers below: Call for Papers: NLU Jodhpur’s Journal of Intellectual Property Studies [Vol.
Copyright Lately
FEBRUARY 6, 2022
Inside HitPiece, an NFT site where the only things in scarce supply are common sense, self-awareness and basic decency. Last week’s HitPiece fiasco may go down in history as the biggest debacle in the brief history of NFTs, combining audacious hubris and disastrous execution with an inevitable yet spectacular crash and burn. It’s the kind of thing that typically only happens when a company spends its start-up budget on celebrity launch parties instead of a competent legal team.
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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?
The IPKat
FEBRUARY 6, 2022
IPKat friend Professor Jens Schovsbo, President of ATRIP (International Association for the Advancement of Teaching and Research in Intellectual Property) has informed us that the yearly conference of ATRIP, that would have take place in Copenhagen, Denmark, during the 22th to the 24th of June will be now held online. The decision was taken by the EXCo of the Association, in order to give everyone the possibility to continue to share research with the wider ATRIP community.
IAM Magazine
FEBRUARY 6, 2022
Get ready for the new working week with a summary of all the stories posted on the IAM platform over the past seven days.
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Likelihood of Confusion
FEBRUARY 6, 2022
Read about the case here and here. Originally posted 2014-08-11 18:52:28. Republished by Blog Post Promoter. The post Kimberlin v. All the bloggers — The Patterico / Liberty Chick Motion to Dismiss appeared first on LIKELIHOOD OF CONFUSION™.
The IPKat
FEBRUARY 6, 2022
EVENTS UIC John Marshall Law School Center for Intellectual Property, Information & Privacy Law “ Music Copyright Infringement: Global Perspective ” (18 March 2022 | online) On March 18, 2022, UIC LAW's Center for Intellectual Property & Privacy Law will host a conference on how courts in Asia, Europe, and North America adjudicate music copyright infringement disputes.
IP Watchdog
FEBRUARY 6, 2022
Friday, February 4, marked the deadline for submission of comments on the latest iteration of the Joint Department of Justice (DOJ)-U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO)-National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) Policy Statement on Remedies for Standards-Essential Patents Subject to Voluntary FRAND Commitments. The request for comments came on the heels of President Joe Biden’s July 2021 Executive Order on Promoting Competition in the American Economy, which asked the three agenci
The IPKat
FEBRUARY 6, 2022
February is finally here, Mercury retrograde is over and we can finally breathe lightly! Take this opportunity not only to renew your energies but also to check what has been going on around the IP blogs. A Kat relaxing after a long January Copyright The Kluwer Copyright Blog published a handful of interesting posts over the past few days: (i) a summary of and comment to a decision of the Dutch Supreme Court, which held that DJs should also be considered phonogram producers in a case involving a
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Patently-O
FEBRUARY 6, 2022
Recent Headlines in the IP World: Kate O’Flaherty: Apple Patent Hints At Ground-Breaking New AirPods Feature (Source: Forbes). Ben Lovejoy: Ericsson Trying to Ban Reselling in Brazil; Apple Tries to Invalidate Ericsson Patents (Source: 9to5 Mac). Blake Brittain and Jonathan Stempel: Apple, Broadcom Win New Trial in $1.1 Billion Caltech Patent Case (Source: Reuters).
IAM Magazine
FEBRUARY 6, 2022
Get ready for the new working week with a summary of all the stories posted on the IAM platform over the past seven days.
Barry Sookman
FEBRUARY 6, 2022
Computer and Internet Weekly Updates for 2022-01-29 [link] 2022-01-30. [link] 2022-01-30. Quebec Ink: Liberals to give news publishers right to bargain collectively with Big Tech over payments – The Logic [link] 2022-01-31. [link] 2022-01-31. BCFSA finalizes information security and outsourcing guidelines [link] 2022-02-01. Case of xenobots part 2 AI assisted inventions [link] 2022-02-01.
CoCal IP Law Institute
FEBRUARY 6, 2022
On Monday, February 7, 2022 at 1:00 pm, Marina Lang will present on recent caselaw dealing with Generic trademarks. Eleven years into a dispute, a federal court ruled that the "Pretzel Crisps" brand is a generic. See the opinion. Ms. Lang will discuss the "not so simple" legal standard that is required for a [.].
The IPKat
FEBRUARY 6, 2022
Thank you to readers for voting in the IPKat book of the year awards, here are your 2021 nominees and winners! Best Patent Law Book The nominations were: EPC.App and PCT.App (Self-editable EPC and PCT reference books) Patent Subject Matter Eligibility: A Global Guide, (eds) Paul W Browning, Christopher C Johns and Sara A Leiman The Genome Defense: Inside the Epic Legal Battle to Determine Who Owns Your DNA, by Jorge L.
TorrentFreak
FEBRUARY 6, 2022
After we published an article about the prolonged downtime at the ETTV torrent site, the operator has confirmed what many users already feared. Another piracy icon bites the dust. “The website is shut down indefinitely. I couldn’t afford to run it anymore. I will not renew the domains,” ETTV informs TorrentFreak. ETTV Shuts Down. These comments come from ‘sidekickbob,’ an admin who took over the helm when the original ETTV operator disappeared two years ago.
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