Mon.Dec 26, 2022

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ACE Expands to Become a Lean and Mean Anti-Piracy Machine

TorrentFreak

Five years ago , several of the world’s largest entertainment industry companies teamed up to create a brand new anti-piracy coalition. The Alliance for Creativity and Entertainment ( ACE ) brought together well-known Hollywood companies including Disney, Warner Bros, NBCUniversal, media giants such as Sky and BBC, as well as streaming-based newcomers Amazon, Netflix, and Hulu.

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Key U.S. Supreme Court Developments in 2022 and Outlook for 2023

IP Watchdog

It’s that time again. As 2022 has come and (almost) gone, it’s time to look back at the exciting grants and surprising denials of certiorari petitions involving patent and trademark matters by the Supreme Court of the United States, and what to look forward to from the Court in 2023. In 2022 the Supreme Court docket was relatively light on intellectual property matters.

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Navigating Open Source Pitfalls in Transactions

JD Supra Law

With technology deals increasingly involving open source software (OSS), clients are seeking our help analyzing OSS licenses, developing open source policies and negotiating contract terms for open source. In this episode, partner Paul Chandler and host Julian Dibbell discuss how OSS is impacting deals and how to address and mitigate the legal risks.

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Simple homage to pre-existing work doesn't qualify as parody under French law

The IPKat

One of the alleged parodic busts The comic strip "The adventures of Tintin" and its characters, created by the Belgian cartoonist Hergé, have been the source of numerous copyright infringement disputes in recent years [ here ]. Such is the case with a recent decision issued by the Court of Appeal of Aix-En-Provence, concerning unauthorised sculptures of Tintin and the Moon rocket.

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Software Composition Analysis: The New Armor for Your Cybersecurity

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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Federal Court of Appeal dismisses appeal challenging amended basket of comparator countries in PMPRB Regulations

JD Supra Law

On December 5, 2022, the Federal Court of Appeal (FCA) dismissed Innovative Medicines Canada (IMC) and sixteen innovative pharmaceutical companies’ appeal regarding the validity of the amended basket of comparator countries in the Patented Medicines Regulations: Innovative Medicines Canada v Canada (Attorney General), 2022 FCA 210 (Appeal Decision).

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My Trustcon 2022 Keynote Talk

Technology & Marketing Law Blog

In September, I attended Trustcon , the first annual membership conference for the Trust & Safety Professional Association (TSPA), followed by Stanford Internet Observatory’s first Trust & Safety Research Conference (co-sponsored by the Trust & Safety Foundation). For more on Trustcon, see the TSPA recap. * * *. At Trustcon, I delivered a closing keynote talk.

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Part I: Diagnostic method patents in India

SpicyIP

In March 2023, the Delhi High Court will consider two significant rejections by the Patent Office (PTO) that will determine the fate of diagnostic method patents in India. The PTO recently rejected EMD Millipore’s patent application involving IR based spectroscopy and Sequenom’s patent application involving non-invasive prenatal genetic diagnostics on the grounds that both inventions were not patent eligible under Section 3(i) of the Patents Act, 1970.

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shipping facilitator escapes direct (c)/TM claims; alleged hinkiness not enough for contributory liability either

43(B)log

AK Futures LLC v. LCF Labs Inc., No. 8:21-cv-02121-JVS (ADSx), 2022 WL 17887590 (C.D. Cal. Sept. 28, 2022) Brick and mortar infringement still exists, and this opinion considers both copyright and trademark claims. AKF sued LCF etc. for unlawfully manufacturing, importing, advertising, marketing, selling, and distributing unauthorized, counterfeit versions of its popular CAKE brand of hemp-derived Delta-8 products.

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Evidence of Actual Physician Practice is Relevant in Determination of Direct Infringement

JD Supra Law

GENENTECH, INC. V. SANDOZ INC. Before Newman, Lourie, and Prost. Appeal from the United States District Court for the District of Delaware. Summary: The district court did not clearly err in considering evidence of actual physician practice when determining whether generic drug’s instructions encourage, recommend, or promote infringement.

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Intuitive Technologies That Drive Successful Human-AI Interaction

IP.com

The post Intuitive Technologies That Drive Successful Human-AI Interaction appeared first on IP.com - IP Innovation and Analytics.

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IPO Diversity in Innovation Toolkit

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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Current State and Emerging Challenges of SEP Licensing for Intelligent Connected Vehicles in China (II)

JD Supra Law

III. Principles and Methods Adopted by Chinese Courts for Calculating SEP Royalties in Lawsuits in the Field of Communications - 1. Regarding Justiciability of SEP License Disputes in China - Interpretation of the Supreme People’s Court on Several Issues Concerning the Application of Law in the Trial of Disputes over Infringement of Patent Rights (II) provides in paragraph 3, Article 24: “Licensing conditions as stated in Paragraph 2 of this Article shall be determined through negotiation.

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NY appellate court uses per-patient measure to assess statutory civil penalties for false advertising

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State v. Image Plastic Surgery, LLC , N.Y.S.3d -, 210 A.D.3d 444, 2022 WL 16640767, 2022 N.Y. Slip Op. 06181 (App. Div. Nov. 3, 2022) The trial court found Image liable for false advertising of an unapproved medical procedure (removing fat cells and reinjecting them elsewhere in the patient’s body). It awarded $1,193,150 in restitution and assessed $2,962,500 in civil penalties.

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European Commission investigation into Teva’s potential abuse of dominance – misuse of patent procedures and disparagement

JD Supra Law

On 10 October 2022, the European Commission (EC) sent a Statement of Objections to Teva Pharmaceutical Industries Limited and Teva Pharmaceuticals Europe BV (Teva). The EC has provisionally found that Teva abused its dominant position in the market for the treatment of multiple sclerosis by misusing patent procedures and engaging in a disparagement campaign.

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IPTV: Anti-Piracy Coalition Reveals ‘Offshore Hosting’ Challenges

TorrentFreak

An awful lot has changed in the online piracy world over the last decade, but key fundamentals still underpin the entire ecosystem. Many platforms depend on IP addresses, domain names, and a functioning DNS, but none can exist without some kind of hosting facility. Numerous options are available, but service operators who value consistent uptime and a reduced chance of being linked to a piracy-facilitating server, tend to make their choices more carefully than others.

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