Likelihood of Confusion

FEBRUARY 8, 2025

Originally posted 2015-02-24 13:39:38. Republished by Blog Post PromoterFor years I’ve been kvetching here about the phenomenon of municipal overreach on intellectual property claims, whether it’s catchphraseswith no particular geographic association;transit line symbols that do convey meaning but when licensed don’t convey meaningful claims of endorsement or affiliation; skyline features that belong to no one; […] The post Never trust a hippie?

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Patently-O

FEBRUARY 8, 2025

by Dennis Crouch The Federal Circuit has affirmed a US International Trade Commission (ITC) determination that Wuhan Healthgen violated Section 337 through importation of clinical-grade recombinant human serum albumin (rHSA) products that infringe Ventria Bioscience’s U.S. Patent No. 10,618,951. Wuhan Healthgen Biotechnology Corp. v. International Trade Commission , No. 2023-1389 (Fed.

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TorrentFreak

FEBRUARY 8, 2025

A little over a week ago, Rep. Zoe Lofgren introduced the Foreign Anti-Digital Piracy Act (FADPA). Should it become law, FADPA would allow rightsholders to obtain site blocking orders in the United States aimed at piracy sites believed to be operated from overseas. The no-fault injunctions envisioned by the bill would require local ISPs and public DNS providers to prevent their users from accessing these illicit foreign platforms, without being held liable for customers’ infringements.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

FEBRUARY 8, 2025

A prior ruling summarized the facts the court describes as “harrowing”: In April 2022, Defendant Bendjy Charles (Charles) and Romelus raped Plaintiff. Charles and Romelus filmed each other while they raped Plaintiff. Romelus subsequently uploaded video footage of Romelus and Charles raping Plaintiff, with Plaintiff crying and screaming while they raped her, to OnlyFans and began to sell the footage on OnlyFans as a part of a monthly subscription package.

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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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SpicyIP

FEBRUARY 8, 2025

Explaining the recent Delhi High Court order in Saregama v. Vels on copyright ownership over the song En Iniya Pon Nilave, Tanishka Goswami writes on the implication of the decision on the composers. Tanishka is an advocate at the High Court of MP. She graduated from National Law University, Delhi in 2023 & enjoys reading and writing on copyright laws.

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Patently-O

FEBRUARY 8, 2025

by Dennis Crouch USPTO Commissioner of Patents Vaishali Udupa has resigned after just over two years in office. Under 35 U.S.C 2, the Commissioner is appointed by Secretary of Commerce for a term of 5-years. For much of US history, the Commissioner of Patents was the top dog at the patent office. However, in the 1990s Congress created an additional layer of the Director and Deputy Director - both having undersecretary roles within Commerce.

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