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Silicon Valley’s Unsuccessful Attempts to Export Section 230 through International Trade Agreements

Hugh Stephens Blog

A couple of weeks ago I wrote about the Omegle case, a potentially ground-breaking suit in the US in which an internet platform, Omegle, was denied the use of the Section 230 liability immunity defence by a judge in Oregon.

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Google Received DMCA Takedown Notices For 4 Million Unique Domains

TorrentFreak

For many people, Google is the go-to starting point when they need to find something on the web. With just a few keystrokes, the search engine can find virtually anything. This makes life easier but for copyright holders, there’s a drawback too, as the web is littered with pirate sites. Over the past decade, Google has removed more than five billion ‘infringing’ URLs from its search results.

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Fortnite Emotes Don’t Infringe Dance Choreography–Hanagami v. Epic

Technology & Marketing Law Blog

Kyle Hanagami is a choreographer. He made a video called “ How Long ” featuring his choreography. It now has 36M+ views. Fortnite offered an emote called “It’s Complicated.” “Ten of the poses in the video and the emote are the same.” Hanagami sued Epic for copyright infringement. The court shows the moves at issue side-by-side: There is no doubt that Fortnite “copied” the video.

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Law360 MVP Awards Go To 188 Attys From 78 Firms

IP Law 360

The attorneys chosen as Law360's 2022 MVPs have distinguished themselves from their peers by securing hard-earned successes in high-stakes litigation, complex global matters and record-breaking deals.

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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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[Guest post] 'Can't Be Evil' NFT license - A tentative NFT worldwide license standard

The IPKat

The IPKat is pleased to host the contribution below by Katfriend Paolo Maria Gangi (Studio Gangi) on yet another NFT-related development [for previous instalments, see here , here , and here ]. Here's what Paolo writes: 'Can't Be Evil' NFT license – A tentative NFT worldwide license standard by Paolo Maria Gangi Can't Be Evil. The NFT art market, that is NFTs which specifically link an artwork or a digital file (a song, for example), have already gone mainstream and, of course, artists and proje

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Do More with Your Invention Disclosures

IP.com

The proper authorship of invention disclosures as an internal document meant to record and communicate the processes and products of early-stage innovation can be overlooked. It is an internal document, The post Do More with Your Invention Disclosures appeared first on IP.com - IP Innovation and Analytics.

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How General Plastic changed the PTAB serial petition landscape

IAM Magazine

Docket Navigator data shows court cited the precedential case in 603 institution decisions with a 34% institution denial rate from October 2017 to now

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mRNA Patent Litigation: The ‘Sport of Kings’

SpicyIP

Image from here. Battle lines are being drawn in the fight over the lucrative mRNA vaccine technology used in certain Covid 19 vaccines. Moderna recently sued Pfizer alleging patent infringement of three out of eight patents that cover its Covid 19 vaccine (Spikevax). Moderna has supplied over 299 million doses of its Covid 19 vaccine to the United States and has, reportedly , lined up supply deals worth USD 35 billion through the end of 2022.

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How General Plastic changed the PTAB serial petition landscape

IAM Magazine

Docket Navigator data shows court cited the precedential case in 603 institution decisions with a 34% institution denial rate from October 2017 to now

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Pirate IPTV: Couple Sold Illegal Subscriptions & Laundered Money

TorrentFreak

For more than 15 years, most piracy headlines in Sweden had some connection to The Pirate Bay. Perhaps anti-piracy groups grew tired of chasing and then the media moved on, but today it’s barely mentioned, despite providing the same functionality as it ever has. Web-based streaming sites have been relegated too, largely thanks to a newer scourge – pirate IPTV services.

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IPO Diversity in Innovation Toolkit

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.

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How General Plastics changed the PTAB serial petition landscape

IAM Magazine

Docket Navigator data shows court cited the precedential case in 603 institution decisions with a 34% institution denial rate from October 2017 to now

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Nokia/Oppo dispute to provide interesting test of new German injunction rules

IAM Magazine

The Chinese handset maker is seeking to shut down the Finnish company’s base stations

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Nokia/Oppo dispute to provide interesting test of new German injunction rules

IAM Magazine

The Chinese handset maker is seeking to shut down the Finnish company’s base stations

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