TorrentFreak

JULY 30, 2022

Pirate IPTV services disappear on a regular basis but when SmoothStreams.tv ran into trouble mid-July, there were ominous signs that this wasn’t just a regular technical problem. One early confusion was that not all of SmoothStreams’ channels had gone dark and presumably some kind of raid would’ve ensured a complete shutdown of the platform.

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IP Watchdog

JULY 30, 2022

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit (CAFC) on Thursday reversed a district court’s denial of judgment as a matter of law (JMOL) to Amazon of no induced infringement and vacated a jury verdict finding that it had induced infringement of Vocalife LLC’s patent for a method of enhancing acoustics. Judge Hughes authored the opinion. The asserted patent was U.S.

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McKinsey Operations

JULY 30, 2022

Three of four frontline workers want to be promoted, but less than one in four achieves it. Companies can take targeted actions to better support these workers.

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Likelihood of Confusion

JULY 30, 2022

The New York Law Journal reports online (registration required) that the Southern District of New York has, thankfully, put a rare brake on the copyright rent grab. The defendant, Dorling. The post Grateful Defendant appeared first on LIKELIHOOD OF CONFUSION™.

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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

JULY 30, 2022

Episode 12 of Fairly Competing is out and we discuss the high profile Wisk Aero litigation in California. In this episode, Ben , Russell and I explore the decision by U.S. District Court Judge William Orrick in Wisk Aero LLC v. Archer Aviation Inc. Readers will remember that I wrote about this case last year. The case provides some interesting lessons for lawyers seeking a preliminary injunction in a trade secret case, including that compelling circumstantial evidence alone — i.e., a forme

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Biswajit Sarkar Copyright Blog

JULY 30, 2022

Besides traditional trademarks that include device, brand, heading, label, name, there is a new category of modern marks that are protected in some countries which are known as non-traditional or unconventional trademarks. They include three dimensional marks, colour marks, sound marks, smell marks, taste marks, etc. In this blog, we will take a look at the types of unconventional trademarks and some of the challenges faced by them in registration.

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CoCal IP Law Institute

JULY 30, 2022

Summer time and the living is easy, so I’m a bit delayed in this week’s post. Apologies. In this week’s post, I highlight shifts in the patent litigation environment in Texas. The Eastern District of Texas, especially Marshall and Tyler, used to be the top venue choice for patent owners who wanted a fast path [.].

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IAM Magazine

JULY 30, 2022

A recent decision handed down by the Boards of Appeal may mean greater patenting opportunities for innovators using AI to help create their inventions

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