Plagiarism Today
NOVEMBER 21, 2023
Wizards of the Coast, the makers of Magic: The Gathering, are at the center of another plagiarism scandal. Here's what happened. The post Another “Magic: The Gathering” Art Plagiarism Scandal appeared first on Plagiarism Today.
Michael Geist
NOVEMBER 21, 2023
The government has taken the first step to creating a bailout for its disastrous Bill C-18 by agreeing to News Media Canada demands to increase the support under the Labour Journalism Tax Credit. While the current system covers 25% of the journalist costs up to $55,000 per employee (or $13,750), the government’s fall economic statement increases both the percentage covered and cap per employee.
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Plagiarism Today
NOVEMBER 21, 2023
Spotify announces plans to leave Uruguay, computer parts not copyright protected in India and Tupac song center of copyright lawsuit. The post 3 Count: Leaving Uruguay appeared first on Plagiarism Today.
TorrentFreak
NOVEMBER 21, 2023
Popular Internet infrastructure service Cloudflare serves millions of customers and provides a variety of connectivity and privacy features to the general public. People can freely use the company’s open DNS resolver 1.1.1.1 , for example, or use its IPFS and Ethereum gateways to access content on these decentralized web services. One of Cloudflare’s main aims is to make the Internet more secure while respecting the privacy of its users.
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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?
Copyright Alliance
NOVEMBER 21, 2023
I have been proud to serve as the CEO of the Copyright Alliance for the past eight years. During that time, I have witnessed our fair share of ups and […] The post A Copyright Alliance Thanksgiving 2023 appeared first on Copyright Alliance.
Christopher Roser
NOVEMBER 21, 2023
Overburden (muri) is one of the three evils of manufacturing, along with unevenness (mura) and waste (muda). Out of the three, overburden is probably the least understood. Hence, in this post I will look deeper at overburden, including plenty of examples as well as the effects of overburden on your people. Introduction There are three. Read more The post What Exactly Is Overburden (Muri)?
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Velocity of Content
NOVEMBER 21, 2023
As the Senior Director of Client Engagement and Solutions at CCC for the past 14 years, I spend a lot of time looking for ways to improve our customers’ experience. In fact, our entire company does, thanks to our “Customer Experience First” (CX1) program. Since its inception several years ago, this program has been an incredible vehicle to ensure the “voice of the customer” stays at the forefront of everything we do here at CCC; from the way we look critically at how we operate to how we deliver
TorrentFreak
NOVEMBER 21, 2023
According to data published by the UK’s Office for National Statistics, UK residents made 15.6 million visits to Spain in 2022, with holidays the most popular reason. Whether Brits are on a two-week vacation or embedded within the ex-pat community, there’s a tendency to appreciate things less available at home, sunshine in particular. For many, however, a longing for British things has created opportunities for those prepared to meet the demand.
IP and Legal Filings
NOVEMBER 21, 2023
Introduction Nowadays, most of the interaction between individuals takes place through phone calls, and physical interaction between individuals has become a rarity. Even business transactions take place through mobile calls, and thus, people have a tendency to record those calls to keep proof of the conversation so that the other person doesn’t back off from their statement.
JD Supra Law
NOVEMBER 21, 2023
The legal significance of President Joe Biden's "Executive Order on the Safe, Secure, and Trustworthy Development and Use of Artificial Intelligence" is immense, marking a pivotal moment in the governance of AI technologies in the United States, as it establishes an initial framework for regulating and governing the development and deployment of AI tools.
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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.
IP Law 360
NOVEMBER 21, 2023
The Patent Trial and Appeal Board has sided with Ford Motor Co.'s argument that all challenged claims in three university patents for fuel efficiency systems were invalid, a favorable finding for the automaker as it battles a related Delaware infringement lawsuit.
JD Supra Law
NOVEMBER 21, 2023
On Oct. 30, 2023, the president issued an Executive Order on the Safe, Secure, and Trustworthy Development and Use of Artificial Intelligence. The 117-page order includes a range of directives, many of which are aimed at promoting the domestic development of AI technologies while also addressing the perceived risks. The order lays the groundwork for further action by requiring federal executive agencies to conduct research studies and implement other measures to prepare for the further.
IP Law 360
NOVEMBER 21, 2023
A Texas jury has sided with IT company Computer Sciences Corp., finding that rival Tata Consultancy Services Ltd. stole CSC's source code and documentation to use in its new insurance software and awarding a total of $210 million for the willful misappropriation of its trade secrets.
JD Supra Law
NOVEMBER 21, 2023
The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) and U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) have recently opened requests for stakeholder engagement regarding biotechnology regulatory frameworks. These requests provide the opportunity to influence government policy regarding federal and international biotechnology regulations that will affect anyone sourcing or manipulating genetic material.
IP Law 360
NOVEMBER 21, 2023
AbbVie has lodged 136 patent infringement claims against Sandoz and a handful of other pharmaceutical companies, accusing them of infringing dozens of AbbVie's patents with their proposed generic versions of its blockbuster immunosuppressant Rinvoq, according to a suit filed in Delaware federal court.
JD Supra Law
NOVEMBER 21, 2023
On September 15, 2023, New York Governor Kathy Hochul signed a law that made dramatic changes to the enforceability of invention assignment provisions in employment agreements and likely in related agreements including offer letters and Confidentiality, Information and Invention Assignment Agreements (CIIAAs). The law took effect immediately and adds New York to a growing list of states with laws placing limits on invention assignment provisions.
IP Law 360
NOVEMBER 21, 2023
Microchip patent licensing outfit VLSI asked U.S. District Judge Alan Albright to get around to a decision on the company's efforts to score a new trial after a jury cleared Intel from allegations in its $3 billion patent case more than two years ago.
JD Supra Law
NOVEMBER 21, 2023
Bayer’s aflibercept 8 mg recommended for approval in Europe: On November 10, 2023, Bayer announced that the Committee for Medicinal Products for Human Use (CHMP) of the European Medicines Agency (EMA) has adopted a positive opinion recommending aflibercept 8 mg for approval for extended treatment intervals in two major retinal eye diseases, neovascular (wet) age-related macular degeneration (nAMD) and diabetic macular edema (DME).
IP Close Up
NOVEMBER 21, 2023
Leica, one of the world’s leading camera manufacturers, has launched the M11-P camera, what the first camera with Content Credentials built-in.
JD Supra Law
NOVEMBER 21, 2023
The U.S. International Trade Commission (ITC) has broad power to issue exclusion orders blocking the importation of goods determined to have infringed or misappropriated complainants' IP rights. Moreover, the ITC’s in rem jurisdiction allows it to prohibit the importation of products developed through trade secret misappropriation, even where the misappropriation was extraterritorial (ET) and took place entirely outside of the United States.
The IPKat
NOVEMBER 21, 2023
In a recent decision ( T-299/22 ) that will be of interest to all trade mark practitioners , the Second Chamber of the General Court of the European Union (the Court) found that the documents submitted by Maradona's former lawyer in support of his request for the transfer of an EU trade mark (EUTM) to his company, did not comply with the necessary formalities and therefore could not be registered, regardless of whether the company was entitled to ownership of the mark or not.
JD Supra Law
NOVEMBER 21, 2023
If artificial intelligence is so great, why can’t it reliably predict the weather? The weekend has just closed on another very rainy Floridian ANA Masters of Advertising Law Conference (Last year we had a hurricane, so this would qualify as an uninspiring upgrade). The Masters Conference is the largest advertising, marketing and promotion law conference in the nation, bringing together major brands, storied advertising agencies, and prominent regulators to discuss cutting-edge topics impacting.
The TTABlog
NOVEMBER 21, 2023
Janelle Barbier, Editor-in-Chief of the Santa Clara High Tech Law Journal , has written an interesting and informative article on the CAFC's recent ruling in Great Concepts, LLC v. Chutter, Inc. [ TTABlogged here ], in which a divided court panel reversed the TTAB's finding of fraud because "a Section 14 cancellation proceeding is not available as a remedy for a fraudulent Section 15 incontestability declaration.
JD Supra Law
NOVEMBER 21, 2023
5 When our children were young, we started a tradition at Thanksgiving of going around the table and having each of us (around 20 with extended family) saying what we were thankful for. Of course, you hear a lot of being thankful for our family, our health (especially during the long days of COVID!), our jobs, etc.
The IPKat
NOVEMBER 21, 2023
New acquisition: Merpel and Girl with a Pearl Earring As The IPKat reported a while ago, on 22-24 January 2024, the Pharma and Biotech Patent Litigation Summit will return to Amsterdam (Netherlands). A UPC Litigation Forum will take place on 22 January too. This 3-day conference promises to offer 200+ private practice and in-house participants a forum of practical discussions surrounding the leading patent litigation topics in Europe, with a compare-and-contrast method with jurisdictions further
JD Supra Law
NOVEMBER 21, 2023
Genentech, Roche, and Biogen filed a Complaint on November 17 against Dr. Reddy’s Laboratories (“DRL”) and Fresenius in the U.S. District Court for the District of New Jersey, alleging infringement of 15 patents under the BPCIA based on DRL’s submission of an aBLA for DRL_RI, a proposed biosimilar of RITUXAN (rituximab) and DRL’s provision of Notice of Commercial Marketing with respect to the same.
IP Watchdog
NOVEMBER 21, 2023
On Monday, the United States Supreme Court denied inventor Jeffrey Killian’s petition for a rehearing in his case asking the Court to provide clear guidance on – or else throw out – the Alice/Mayo test for patent eligibility. The Supreme Court denied Killian’s original petition in early October, but Killian filed a request for rehearing several weeks later.
JD Supra Law
NOVEMBER 21, 2023
What You Need to Know The USPTO has reiterated its position that Dynamic Drinkware, LLC v. National Graphics, Inc. does not apply to patents and patent applications that fall under the America Invents Act (AIA) by designating the PTAB’s decision in Penumbra, Inc. v. RapidPulse, Inc., as precedential.
Patently-O
NOVEMBER 21, 2023
By Sarah Burstein, Professor of Law at Suffolk University Law School USPTO Notice, 88 FR 80277 (Nov. 17, 2023) Last week, the USPTO released a document entitled “Supplemental Guidance for Examination of Design Patent Applications Related to Computer-Generated Electronic Images, Including Computer-Generated Icons and Graphical User Interfaces.” In it, the USPTO reaffirmed its prior interpretation of the phrase “design for an article of manufacture” and did not—as many had hoped—expand its interpr
JD Supra Law
NOVEMBER 21, 2023
The legal landscape for trademark owners changed significantly in 2023 because in Spireon v. Flex Ltd, 2023 USPQ2d 737, the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit flipped the burden of proof for third-party registration evidence for identical marks in trademark oppositions.
LexBlog IP
NOVEMBER 21, 2023
Introduction In a significant development for family matters in the UAE, particularly in the field of Medically Assisted Reproduction, recent amendments to Federal Law No. 7/2019 have introduced some essential provisions. This article provides a detailed examination of the key amendments and their implications for the regulation of assisted reproduction in the UAE.
JD Supra Law
NOVEMBER 21, 2023
As outlined in our previous post, on June 1, 2021 the Fourth Amendment to the Chinese Patent Law came into effect, allowing partial claiming in design patent applications. Until this past May, examination of most Chinese partial claim design patent applications had been held up by the China National Intellectual Property Administration (“CNIPA”), since the CNIPA had not published formal Examination Guidelines for partial design claiming.
IP Watchdog
NOVEMBER 21, 2023
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit (CAFC) ruled in a precedential decision today that the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) does not lose its statutory authority to issue a Final Written Decision when it misses the 1.5-year deadline to do so, as established by the patent statute. According to the opinion, which was authored by Judge Dyk, “[t]his appears to be the only proceeding in which the Board has failed to meet the statutory deadline, and this is accordingly a matter of fi
JD Supra Law
NOVEMBER 21, 2023
In this week’s Case of Week, the Federal Circuit affirmed inter partes review decisions upholding as patentable Teleflex’s challenged patent claims directed to a method for use of a guide extension catheter in arteries. This case is the latest development in the Medtronic and Teleflex saga—our write-up of a previous precedential opinion in the same matter is available.
IP Law 360
NOVEMBER 21, 2023
A former college running back has filed a proposed class action against the NCAA in Colorado federal court saying student athletes deserve a share of the "ever-increasing" revenue generated from television deals.
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