TorrentFreak

JANUARY 21, 2024

Last week, new data published by piracy tracking firm MUSO and consulting firm Kearney showed that video piracy is growing globally. With over 141 billion annual visits worldwide, there’s a massive audience outside of legal channels. The full report was yet to be made available at the time of our initial report. While that doesn’t change any of the overall conclusions, there are some extra details worth highlighting.

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IP Law 360

JANUARY 21, 2024

Law360 would like to congratulate the winners of its Practice Groups of the Year awards for 2023, which honor the attorney teams behind litigation wins and major deals that resonated throughout the legal industry this past year.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

JANUARY 21, 2024

My SAD Scheme paper provided some data indicating that 88% of SAD Scheme cases involved trademarks, with only 6% each in copyright and patents. So SAD Scheme copyright cases aren’t unheard of, but they are rare. * * * A copyright owner, Viral DRM, brought SAD Scheme cases against YouTube uploaders in the Northern District of California (not the more typical N.D.

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IP Law 360

JANUARY 21, 2024

Eight law firms have earned spots as Law360's Firms of the Year, with 55 Practice Group of the Year awards among them, steering some of the largest deals of 2023 and securing high-profile litigation wins, including at the U.S. Supreme Court.

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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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The IPKat

JANUARY 21, 2024

The recent decision in T 0438/22 is a relatively lengthy justification of the EPO's idiosyncratic requirement for the description of a patent to be amended in line with the allowed claims. The decision is yet another contribution to the ongoing debate over whether the EPO's strict approach to amendment of the description has legal basis, In the meantime, we await a potential referral to the Enlarged Board of Appeal (EBA) on the issue ( IPKat ).

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IP Watchdog

JANUARY 21, 2024

As reported on IPWatchdog, the UK Supreme court recently ruled that a trained neural network (an Artificial Intelligence known as DABUS) could not be listed as the inventor on two patent applications filed by Dr. Stephen Thaler at the UK Intellectual Property Office (UKIPO). As a result, the two applications were treated as withdrawn for failing to comply with the requirements of the UK Patents Act 1977.

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Likelihood of Confusion

JANUARY 21, 2024

Nicholas Lemann writes in The New Yorker: Reporting—meaning the tradition by which a member of a distinct occupational category gets to cross the usual bounds of geography and class, to. The post Is the Internet replacing “journalism”? appeared first on LIKELIHOOD OF CONFUSION™.

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