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The Fatal Attraction of Medical Device ‘Right to Repair’

IP Watchdog

The contentious issues surrounding Right to Repair are getting super-heated as the U.S. Copyright Office concludes its triennial rulemaking review of exemptions to section 1201 of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA). Exemptions granted would be in force for three years beginning October 2024. When is an exemption not an exemption? When it’s an exemption from common sense.

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Google Preemptively Banned Hundreds of Millions of ‘Pirate’ URLs Last Year

TorrentFreak

Under the current DMCA legislation, US-based Internet services are expected to remove infringing links, if a copyright holder complains. This process shields these services from direct liability. In recent years there has been a lot of discussion about the effectiveness of the system but it remains standard practice. Google has always maintained that the DMCA works well.

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Arnold & Porter is Seeking a Patent Law Clerk/Patent Agent

IP Watchdog

Arnold & Porter, an international law firm, is seeking a Life Sciences Patent Law Clerk or Patent Agent for the Intellectual Property practice group in the Washington DC office. The Patent Law Clerk/Patent Agent is a full-time, permanent position and will be directly supervised by an attorney and get individualized patent law training.

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Sunday Surprises

The IPKat

September has arrived, and with it, new IP events and content to enjoy. Here's the latest updates. Conference on the 25th Anniversary of the EU Biotechnology Directive 98/44/EC This two-day conference will take place on Thursday 14 and Friday 15 September 2023 at Maynooth University, Ireland. The event, organised by Professor Aisling McMahon (Maynooth University), Dr Karen Walsh (Maynooth University), and Professor Naomi Hawkins (University of Sheffield) aims to assess the role, operation and im

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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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Arnold & Porter is Seeking an IP Docketing Specialist

IP Watchdog

The Practice Support Services Department of Arnold & Porter has an opening for a full-time, permanent Intellectual Property (IP) Docketing Specialist in the Washington, DC office. The IP Docketing Specialist is responsible for assisting the IP Docketing Manager in facilitating actions required to efficiently operate the IP Docketing department by performing the day-to-day duties and functions relating to supervising the patent and trademark prosecution dockets.

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Rosetta Stone v. Google: Lost in translation

Likelihood of Confusion

[stextbox id=”alert”]This is a summary and analysis of the recent (August 2, 2010) decision in Rosetta Stone Ltd. v. Google Inc., 2010 WL 3063152 (E.D. Va.). The case has been. The post Rosetta Stone v. Google: Lost in translation appeared first on LIKELIHOOD OF CONFUSION™.