TorrentFreak
MAY 27, 2022
Two decades ago, when the file-sharing boom was just getting started, many people saw piracy as a mystical treasure hunt. At the time, record shops and video stores still dominated the street scene. That would soon be over, as offline entertainment swiftly moved online. Instead of listening to a CD at a local store, people started to sample music from the convenience of their own homes.
Michael Geist
MAY 27, 2022
Innovation, Science and Industry François-Philippe Champagne unveiled the government’s proposed new telecom policy directive yesterday, hailing it as a “ historic step.” However, a closer look at the policy suggests that the only thing that is history are any immediate hopes for a more competitive communications marketplace in Canada.
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TorrentFreak
MAY 27, 2022
After years of government censorship to suppress dissent and maintain authorized narratives, unfiltered internet access in Russia is seen as a threat. Russia’s measures include a massive domain name and IP address blocklist governing what services can be legally delivered by ISPs. Whether that’s the “extremist organization” behind Facebook and Instagram, BBC News, Google News, or thousands of streaming and torrent sites, access is routinely denied.
McKinsey Operations
MAY 27, 2022
The definition of transformation has evolved over the years. McKinsey senior partner Seth Goldstrom discusses that evolution and some of the core elements that remain essential to transformation success.
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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?
JD Supra Law
MAY 27, 2022
A movement is brewing among workers, perhaps emboldened by the robust labor market and pandemic-induced introspection. Whatever the reason, many are deciding to pursue success on their own terms — as entrepreneurs — now.
IP Law 360
MAY 27, 2022
A new U.S. Patent and Trademark Office process for reviewing draft Patent Trial and Appeal Board decisions before issuance provides welcome clarity about the board's behind-the-scenes operations and seeks to defuse concerns that the USPTO director influences outcomes, attorneys say.
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IP Law 360
MAY 27, 2022
A Texas federal jury held Friday that a Florida guitar maker sold counterfeit guitars that infringed the trademark on Gibson Brands Inc.'s Flying V guitar and other iconic models, and shot down the rival's efforts to cancel several Gibson trademarks as generic.
JD Supra Law
MAY 27, 2022
I did not want to write this week. What more can I say other than what has already been said after yet another callous, atrocious, evil, and (perhaps worst of all) familiar mass shooting in this country? Since this is a Sports and Entertainment blog, it is convenient to highlight the pre-game press conference from the other day by Golden State Warriors head coach, Steve Kerr — though they have nothing to do with sports and everything to do with common sense and exasperation with the utter.
IP Law 360
MAY 27, 2022
"Matrix Resurrections" co-producer Village Roadshow Pictures' suit challenging Warner Bros.' decision to release the film simultaneously in theaters and on HBO Max belongs in arbitration, a Los Angeles judge ruled Friday, also rejecting Village Roadshow's last-minute attempt to withdraw its motion for a preliminary injunction.
JD Supra Law
MAY 27, 2022
The introduction of the Unitary Patent and the corresponding Unified Patent Court (UPC) system is set to transform the patent litigation landscape in the European Union (EU). The potential impact on the business success of cell, tissue, and gene therapy (CTGT) companies is particularly significant, as patents are key assets in this highly innovative area.
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IP Law 360
MAY 27, 2022
Nikon Corp. was hit with a lawsuit in California federal court on Thursday accusing the Japanese camera giant of illegally copying RED.com's video data compression technology.
JD Supra Law
MAY 27, 2022
Last week, Senator Josh Hawley proposed a new copyright bill in the Senate that would have the effect of eviscerating existing copyrights for certain parties. The bill is known as the Copyright Clause Restoration Act.
IP Law 360
MAY 27, 2022
A New York state appeals court said Klutch Sports Group LLC can't employ an executive from a rival agency until a contract dispute between the two is adjudicated or till eight months have elapsed since the executive left his previous job, whichever happens first.
JD Supra Law
MAY 27, 2022
An NFT is one-of-a-kind digital asset that belongs to you and you alone – and some are selling for jaw-dropping prices. In November 2021, Christie’s auction house sold the first-ever NFT artwork by digital artist Beeple for an astounding $69.3 million, and has opened its own NFT marketplace. NFTs have also popped in the real estate market, with a Florida home recently auctioned off as a NFT for $653,000.
IP Law 360
MAY 27, 2022
Meta Platforms Inc. has been slapped with a patent suit in Texas federal court for allegedly poaching a developer's sensory-stimulating technology for virtual reality systems.
JD Supra Law
MAY 27, 2022
In the first federal appellate ruling on delta-8 THC, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals deemed the substance legal—at least for purposes of trademark protection—concluding that if “Congress inadvertently created a loophole legalizing vaping products containing delta-8 THC, then it is for Congress to fix its mistake.” AK Futures LLC v. Boyd St. Distro, LLC, No. 21-56133, 2022 WL 1574222 (9th Cir.
IP Law 360
MAY 27, 2022
An attorney for Swiss-born media and tech mogul Silvio Scaglia said Friday he would renew demands that Netflix stop using a Manhattan condo for Scaglia's estranged wife Julia Haart's reality show, after a Delaware court rejected claims that Haart has 50 percent control of their purportedly shared assets.
JD Supra Law
MAY 27, 2022
Delta 8 tetrahydrocannabinol ("THC"), an intoxicating form of THC often derived from hemp-derived cannabidiol (aka "CBD"), has been at the center of numerous hot button issues since its arrival in the broader hemp product market last year. . By: Ward and Smith, P.A.
IP Law 360
MAY 27, 2022
In Law360's latest roundup of new actions at the Trademark Trial and Appeal Board, X Development LLC, previously known as Google X, was hit with a software firm's opposition against its bid to register "Tidal" as a trademark — plus four other cases you need to know.
IP Watchdog
MAY 27, 2022
This week in Other Barks & Bites: The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit rejects Arthrex, Inc.’s arguments that denial of Director Review by the Commissioner for Patents violates the Appointments Clause of the U.S. Constitution; the USPTO updates the interim Director Review process and issues interim processes for PTAB decision circulation and internal review; Judge Alsup denies a request by Sonos seeking more information on a law clerk who used to work for Google; Broadcom agree
JD Supra Law
MAY 27, 2022
On March 3, 2022, Andrew Hirshfeld, the Commissioner for Patents and acting Director of the USPTO, issued the third post-Arthrex grant of Director Review for two separate Final Written Decisions issued by the PTAB based on a Federal Circuit claim construction in a related case that ran counter to the PTAB’s construction. The ’635 Patent pertains to a unified system of programming communication and its challenged claims relate to the methods of controlling the decryption of programming at a.
IAM Magazine
MAY 27, 2022
Practitioners say justices are more likely to listen now that the solicitor general urged review, and they hope for a ruling that reigns in patent eligibility law and creates safeguards for the Mayo/Alice test.
JD Supra Law
MAY 27, 2022
Conn Kavanaugh's Managing Partner Erin Higgins joins LISI's Director of Client Strategy Kristyn Brophy for a special episode of News + Views + To-Do's to discuss the very timely topic of Elon Musk's negotiations to purchase Twitter. Kristyn and Erin discuss potential ethical concerns, the impact of the sale to Mr. Musk, and more broadly the ethics of having an online presence.
LexBlog IP
MAY 27, 2022
In this episode of The Briefing by the IP Law Blog , Scott Hervey and Josh Escovedo discuss Senator Josh Hawley’s proposed copyright bill and its implications for the Walt Disney Company. Watch this episode on the Weintraub YouTube channel, here. Listen to the podcast version of this episode on your favorite platform or online, here. Read more about this case on the IP Law Blog, here.
Likelihood of Confusion
MAY 27, 2022
Posted on August 6, 2009. Traverse Legal: Mary Roach has a great post at CircleID on an area that we have talked about extensively, namely, copyright takedowns under the Digital Millennium Copyright. The post Best of 2009: The DMCA and the search engine appeared first on LIKELIHOOD OF CONFUSION™.
The IP Law Blog
MAY 27, 2022
In this episode of The Briefing by the IP Law Blog , Scott Hervey and Josh Escovedo discuss Senator Josh Hawley’s proposed copyright bill and its implications for the Walt Disney Company. Watch this episode on the Weintraub YouTube channel, here. Listen to the podcast version of this episode on your favorite platform or online, here. Read more about this case on the IP Law Blog, here.
JD Supra Law
MAY 27, 2022
In this episode of The Briefing by the IP Law Blog, Scott Hervey and Josh Escovedo discuss Senator Josh Hawley’s proposed copyright bill and its implications for the Walt Disney Company.
IP Law 360
MAY 27, 2022
Mintz Levin Cohn Ferris Glovsky and Popeo PC is again boosting the firm's intellectual property practice at the U.S. International Trade Commission with a new hire, adding a lawyer from Maynard Cooper & Gale PC who says she's excited to get back to work litigating at the Washington, D.C., trade commission.
JD Supra Law
MAY 27, 2022
On May 6, 2022, the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) issued a Notice, proposing to amend the Rules of Practice in Patent Cases to allow electronic submissions of patent term extension (PTE) applications, interim PTE applications, and any related submissions to the USPTO via the USPTO patent electronic filing system (EFS-Web or Patent Center).
IP Law 360
MAY 27, 2022
The Federal Circuit on Friday held that Drew Hirshfeld had the authority to conduct U.S. Patent and Trademark Office director reviews mandated by the U.S. Supreme Court in Arthrex, despite his not being appointed by the president and confirmed by the Senate.
IAM Magazine
MAY 27, 2022
Practitioners say justices are more likely to listen now that the solicitor general urged review, and they hope for a ruling that reigns in patent eligibility law and creates safeguards for the Mayo/Alice test.
IP Law 360
MAY 27, 2022
The past week in London has seen eBay sued over a soured acquisition, a hacked cryptocurrency company caught up in a data protection suit, and the Financial Conduct Authority launch a case against a wealth manager. Here, Law360 looks at these and other news claims in the U.K.
Herbert Smith Freehills
MAY 27, 2022
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IAM Magazine
MAY 27, 2022
BoA President Carl Josefsson also tells IAM that backlog reduction efforts are on track and the organisation is turning its attention toward timeliness of proceedings.
LexBlog IP
MAY 27, 2022
Earlier this week, Shanghai Henlius Biotech, Inc. announced that it has entered into a semi-exclusive license agreement with Abbott Operations Uruguay S.R.L. for the commercialization of HANLIKANG (rituximab) and HANQUYOU (trastuzumab, trade name in Europe: Zercepac ® ), two products developed by Henlius, in Brazil. According to the announcement, Abbott will pay Henlius an up-front fee of $3 million (USD), and up to an aggregate of $1.4 million (USD) for certain regulatory milestone payment
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