TorrentFreak

JUNE 18, 2023

Copyright holders send out millions of takedown notices a day, hoping to remove pirated content or make it harder to find. The efficacy of the DMCA takedown process is open for debate, but it certainly doesn’t help when companies flag legal websites as copyright-infringing. It is particularly ironic when these mistakenly targeted sites are supposed to help the public find their way to the right streaming service.

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IP Watchdog

JUNE 18, 2023

With the comment period set to close on June 20, more than 11,000 comments had been filed as of Friday, June 16, in response to the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office’s (USPTO’s) Advanced Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (ANPRM) on Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) practices. Only 265 of those had been posted as of Friday, however.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

JUNE 18, 2023

This case involves two anti-threat software vendors, Enigma and Malwarebytes. In 2016, Malwarebytes classified Enigma’s software as “malicious,” a “threat,” and a “potentially unwanted program” (or PUP), because the programs allegedly were “scareware.” Enigma challenged Malwarebytes’ classifications in court.

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The IPKat

JUNE 18, 2023

On June 19, 2022, Belgium adopted a copyright law that transposed Directive (EU) 2019/790 into the Belgian Code of Economic Law. This copyright reform entered into force on August 1, 2022. Some of its provisions have now been challenged in front of the Belgian Constitutional Court. Of particular note was that the copyright reform introduced a new, non-waivable right to obtain remuneration from streaming for authors and performers who have assigned their communication to the public right by strea

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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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LexBlog IP

JUNE 18, 2023

Proposed Changes to U.S. Patent Practice: Creation of a Design Patent Practitioner Bar by John DeStefano The United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) has proposed a significant change to the rules of practice in patent cases. This proposal seeks to create a separate design patent practitioner bar, a move that would fundamentally alter the landscape of patent practice in the United States.

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The IPKat

JUNE 18, 2023

Readers may have been following the IPKat reporting on the UK Economics of Music Streaming Inquiry [background here , previous update here ]. Progress continues to be made and here are the latest developments: Progress! Music to our ears. Image: Riana Harvey Meta Data Agreement As part of the Industry Working Group on Data Transparency, established by the UK IPO after the Government followed the recommendations of the then DCMS Select Committee Report, an agreement has been reached.

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