Plagiarism Today

AUGUST 9, 2022

Recently, the website Academic Influence, best known for its custom college ranking tool , released a free tool that it says can help instructors detect ghostwritten content. The new tool is entitled GhostDetect , and it works by analyzing a reference text that is known to be written by the author and a query text that is in question. The two works are then put through roughly a dozen different tests, each that produce quantifiable results that can be compared between each other.

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Erik K Pelton

AUGUST 9, 2022

What branding lessons can be gleaned from other successes? In this episode, Erik shares several great examples of such branding lessons and how they might help boost your branding. The post Examples of Great Branding appeared first on Erik M Pelton & Associates, PLLC. What branding lessons can be gleaned from other successes? In this episode, Erik shares several great examples of such branding lessons and how they might help boost your branding.

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Plagiarism Today

AUGUST 9, 2022

Have any suggestions for the 3 Count? Let me know via Twitter @plagiarismtoday. 1: Charter Settles Piracy Liability Lawsuits With Major Record Labels. First off today, Ernesto Van der Sar at Torrentfreak writes that internet service provider Charter Communications has reached a second settlement with the major record labels over allegations that it failed to do enough to stop piracy on its service.

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TorrentFreak

AUGUST 9, 2022

As the first major legal subscription streaming service on the Internet, Netflix paved the way for a streaming revolution. The company began competing with piracy from the get-go, branding itself as a superior alternative. In the early years, the strategy paid off. Millions of subscribers switched from casually consuming pirated content on unlicensed platforms in favor of a convenient and reasonably-priced legal alternative.

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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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McKinsey Operations

AUGUST 9, 2022

Business building is increasingly important for company resilience, and CEOs are uniquely suited for the job. Here are five tasks that CEOs can undertake to build successful new businesses.

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IP Watchdog

AUGUST 9, 2022

On August 3, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit issued a ruling in McGucken v. Pub Ocean Ltd. that reversed a Central District of California’s sua sponte grant of summary judgment to Pub Ocean on McGucken’s copyright infringement claims. The case involved Pub Ocean’s unauthorized use of photos of a lake that formed in Death Valley, California, in March 2019.

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IPilogue

AUGUST 9, 2022

Emily Chow is an IPilogue Writer and a 2L JD Candidate at Osgoode Hall Law School. I recently attended the Copyright Society of the USA’s event, “Breaking News Series: Supreme Court of Canada Rules on ‘Making Available’” , which featured IP Osgoode’s own Professor David Vaver alongside Professor Ysolde Gendreau from the University of Montreal in a discussion regarding the Supreme Court of Canada’s recent decision in Society of Composers, Authors and Music Publishers of Canada (“SOCAN”) v Enterta

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JD Supra Law

AUGUST 9, 2022

In This Issue - Transformative Fair Use: Does Andy Warhol Qualify? On March 28, 2022, the Supreme Court granted certiorari in Andy Warhol Foundation v. Goldsmith, a case concerning whether Andy Warhol’s use of Lynn Goldsmith’s photograph of Prince (the musician) to create illustrations in his classic pop art style was fair use.

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Velocity of Content

AUGUST 9, 2022

When in Pittsburgh several years ago, I visited the Warhol museum on a whim. I knew a bare minimum about him, but my trip to the museum immersed me in a whole world of Warhol that included a panoply of works from installation art to his more iconic pieces. One work , which I had not previously known about, consisted of a black room with silvery balloons moved by fans this way and that.

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JD Supra Law

AUGUST 9, 2022

Before Moore, Taranto, and Stark. Appeal from the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia. Summary: Under the Patent Act , an “inventor” must be a natural person. Therefore, an AI system cannot be an inventor. Thaler filed two patent applications with the PTO listing DABUS, an AI system, as the sole inventor.

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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.

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McKinsey Operations

AUGUST 9, 2022

Sellers typically control what retail marketplaces charge for their products, but retailers have options to keep pricing competitive—and customers loyal.

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IP Law 360

AUGUST 9, 2022

Oprah Winfrey's company filed a trademark infringement suit Tuesday in New York federal court against the team behind the "Oprahdemics" podcast, arguing the program wrongfully incorporates the media icon's trademarks and misleads consumers into thinking Winfrey is affiliated with the podcast.

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McKinsey Operations

AUGUST 9, 2022

WeBank CFO Arthur Wang discusses how the company balances innovation, technology, and compliance to move itself forward.

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Christopher Roser

AUGUST 9, 2022

Running smooth operations is difficult enough in peacetime. But it becomes much trickier if you are located in an area experiencing an active armed conflict. Yet, there are many active armed conflicts on the world, like Ukraine, Myanmar, Afghanistan, and others, many of which have been ongoing for decades. I have put together some of. Read more. The post Manufacturing in a War Zone – Part 1 first appeared on AllAboutLean.com.

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McKinsey Operations

AUGUST 9, 2022

In this interview, Patrick Hylton, CEO of NCB Financial Group, shares his experience launching a digital mobile-payments business and what it takes to succeed.

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IP Law 360

AUGUST 9, 2022

Though some suggest the U.S. Supreme Court’s recent decision in West Virginia v. U.S. Environmental Protection Agency marked the end of a doctrine requiring judicial deference to federal regulators, the ruling merely articulated well-developed precedent on the limits of agency authority, say Dan Wolff and Eryn Howington at Crowell & Moring.

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McKinsey Operations

AUGUST 9, 2022

In such a tight hiring market, companies need more emphasis on retaining and developing their own employees, writes McKinsey Global Institute director Kweilin Ellingrud in Forbes.

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IP Law 360

AUGUST 9, 2022

Universal Music Group asked a Florida federal court Tuesday to sanction energy drink maker Bang Energy for deleting social media videos that used copyrighted music despite requests to preserve them and orders to compel their production in UMG's infringement suit.

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IP Watchdog

AUGUST 9, 2022

June Cohan, Senior Legal Advisor in the Office of Patent Legal Administration at the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) today explained to attendees of an event about the Office’s patent eligibility guidance that there are no plans to revise the guidance in light of the denial of certiorari in American Axle. She also acknowledged several areas of “divergence,” or “outlier cases,” between the USPTO and the U.S.

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IP Law 360

AUGUST 9, 2022

Anti-abortion activists who secretly video recorded conversations with abortion providers at two conferences urged the Ninth Circuit on Tuesday to lift an injunction preventing the footage from being shown, while the National Abortion Federation argued the defendants waived any free speech rights by signing confidentiality agreements before entering the gatherings.

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IP Watchdog

AUGUST 9, 2022

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit (CAFC) today denied Hewlett Packard’s petition for a writ of mandamus ordering the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Texas to transfer its case to Massachusetts. Intellectual Ventures (IV) sued Hewlett Packard Enterprises (HPE) in the Western District of Texas, alleging infringement of a patent directed to data storage solutions assigned to IV.

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IP Law 360

AUGUST 9, 2022

The Federal Circuit on Tuesday turned down a legal effort by hoverboard manufacturers to disqualify a Chicago federal judge for "a preconceived bias" against "foreign entities" in a design patent infringement suit launched by a Chinese hoverboard manufacturer.

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JD Supra Law

AUGUST 9, 2022

Precedential Federal Circuit Opinions - REALTIME ADAPTIVE STREAMING LLC v. NETFLIX, INC. [OPINION] (2021-1484, 2021-1485, 2021-1518, 2021-1519, July 27, 2022) (Newman, Reyna, and Chen) - Chen, J. Affirming district court decisions regarding award of attorneys’ fees pursuant to inherent equitable powers. Following certain adverse patent eligibility rulings in the District of Delaware, plaintiff voluntarily dismissed its Delaware litigation and rebooted the same litigation by filing new.

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IP Close Up

AUGUST 9, 2022

Earlier this year China issued a detailed “Outline for Building a Powerful Intellectual Property Country.” It is an impressive document which needs to be taken Continue reading.

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McKinsey Operations

AUGUST 9, 2022

Despite life-threatening circumstances, refugees are some of the most entrepreneurial people in the world. Andrew Leon Hanna knows why.

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Trading Secrets

AUGUST 9, 2022

On August 10, 2022, Colorado’s new statute further restricting non-competition and non-solicitation provisions becomes effective. The new law, which passed earlier this year, continues Colorado’s trend toward increased scrutiny of post-employment restrictions and adds Colorado to the growing list of states that restrict the use of out-of-state choice of law and forum provisions in agreements that contain such restrictions.

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JD Supra Law

AUGUST 9, 2022

In our first post, we discussed the scope of trade secret protection, as well as how a trade secret is established and enforced. In this second post, we discuss trade secret “hygiene” – that is, best practices for maintaining trade secret protection over time.

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Patently-O

AUGUST 9, 2022

by Dennis Crouch. The Federal Circuit is now considering a pending en banc petition in Novartis Pharm. Corp. v. Accord Healthcare, Inc., Docket No. 21-1070; petition from 38 F.4th 1013 (U.S. Fed. Cir. 2022). The case involves a negative limitation added to a drug treatment method claim during prosecution, and substantive question on appeal is whether the claim limitation lacks written description support.

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JD Supra Law

AUGUST 9, 2022

PATENT CASE OF THE WEEK - Thaler v. Vidal, Appeal No. 2021-2347 (Fed. Cir. Aug. 5, 2022) - In its only precedential patent decision this week, the Federal Circuit answered a question that had long occupied the musings of law professors, students, and legal theorists everywhere: whether artificial intelligence software can be listed as an inventor on a patent application.

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The TTABlog

AUGUST 9, 2022

Every five years or so, like clockwork, the Board decides a Section 2(b) case. This time it affirmed refusals to register the two proposed marks depicted below, for various governmental services (e.g., maintaining parks and libraries), on the ground that they constitute insignia of a governmental entity, i.e., a "municipality." The Board rejected the argument that Orange County is not a municipality, and also rejected the argument that because Orange County already has an "official" seal, these

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JD Supra Law

AUGUST 9, 2022

???????On August 5, 2022, the Federal Circuit in Thaler v. Vidal ruled that an artificial intelligence (AI) system cannot be listed as a named inventor on a patent application, affirming the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) and Eastern District of Virginia rulings. The Federal Circuit concluded that the Patent Act requires an “inventor,” as defined in Section 100(f), to be a “natural person.”.

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Trading Secrets

AUGUST 9, 2022

On August 10, 2022, Colorado’s new statute further restricting non-competition and non-solicitation provisions becomes effective. The new law, which passed earlier this year, continues Colorado’s trend toward increased scrutiny of post-employment restrictions and adds Colorado to the growing list of states that restrict the use of out-of-state choice of law and forum provisions in agreements that contain such restrictions.

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IAM Magazine

AUGUST 9, 2022

The Federal Circuit’s recent Thaler v Vidal ruling may create opportunities for accused infringers to challenge the validity of rights that claim inventions obtained, even in part, through such systems

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LexBlog IP

AUGUST 9, 2022

A consideration when filing international at, e.g., the PCT, is whether a contracting state has national legislation which restricts the filing of international applications with patent offices for reasons of national security. The International Bureau is aware of filing restrictions for reasons of national security in the following PCT Contracting States here.

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Herbert Smith Freehills

AUGUST 9, 2022

Leading international law firm Herbert Smith Freehills has advised Morgan Stanley and China International Capital Corporation as joint sponsors and underwriters of Linmon Media Limited (09857.HK)’s mainboard listing on the Stock Exchange of Hong Kong. Linmon Media, which listed on 10 August 2022, produces and distributes Chinese television drama series, and provides content marketing, derivative licensing and overseas distribution services.

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