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Free trade agreement: New Zealand and the UK reach agreement in principle

Managing IP

Kathleen Henning and Kieran O’Connell of AJ Park describes the agreement in principle between New Zealand and the UK for the free trade agreement from an IP perspective

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Guest Post: Design Protection and Functionality: Does the PTO or the Copyright Office Apply a More Rubbery Stamp?

Patently-O

Guest post by Peter S. Mennell, Koret Professor of Law; Director, Berkeley Center for Law & Technology; Faculty Director, Berkeley Judicial Institute; University of California at Berkeley School of Law, and Ella Corren, University of California at Berkeley School of Law, J.S.D. Candidate. In Design Patent Law’s Identity Crisis , presented at the Berkeley Center for Law & Technology’s February 2021 “ Design Patents” symposium, we traced the origins of design patent law’s ornamentality/non

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Around the IP Blogs

The IPKat

The IPKat is always paying attention to what IP stories are running around out there. The leaves are falling, the colours are changing, and we bring our latest catches from the blogs to you! TRADE MARKS According to Professor Barton Beebe of NYU School of Law, more than 77% of the 20,000 most common English words identically match a EUTM registration, and the remaining 23% of words have negative connotations.

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Facebook in your soup?

Likelihood of Confusion

Eric Goldman makes an interesting point about too-clever-by-half lawyering (“what the hell, let’s throw everyone in”) that’s actually pretty stupid. I’ve highlighted that point at the bottom: A New York. The post Facebook in your soup? appeared first on LIKELIHOOD OF CONFUSION™.

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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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Best time ever for C-suite IP pitch; Munich patent docket soars; Western Digital's WiLAN deal; Nobel laureate’s patent woes; A memorable IPBC Global; plus much more

IAM Magazine

Get ready for the new working week with a summary of all the stories posted on the IAM platform over the past seven days.

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Computer and Internet Weekly Updates for 2021-11-20

Barry Sookman

Computer and Internet Weekly Updates for 2021-11-13 [link] 2021-11-14. Bitcoin taproot upgrade: What it means for investors [link] 2021-11-15. SEC Commissioner: DeFi must address transparency and pseudonymity [link] 2021-11-15. RT @StaceyLantagne : Oh, look, a completely unpredictable copyright-related dispute over NFTs. Miramax v. Tarantino, 21-cv-08979 (C.D.

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Are Individual Emoji Depictions Copyrightable? Yes…Well, Sometimes…It Depends…

Technology & Marketing Law Blog

Though it might surprise you, copyright can protect individual emoji depictions. However, determining when they are copyrightable is a subtle art. This summer, the Copyright Review Board issued an interesting decision about the registrability of emojis. Though it won’t be the final word on the topic, the decision gives us more insights into the Copyright Office’s thinking on the matter.

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Piracy Reporter Retracts Takedown Notices After Misconfiguration Targets Legitimate Sites

TorrentFreak

The UK piracy tracking firm MUSO has quite a balanced view on the piracy problem, framing it as an opportunity rather than a threat. MUSO believes that by understanding what motivates pirates, copyright holders can gain great insights that will ultimately help to generate new revenue streams. At the same time, however, the company offers classic anti-piracy services.

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Miramax, Tarantino and a Fight Over Bright Shiny Objects

Copyright Lately

Breaking down Miramax’s copyright infringement lawsuit against Quentin Tarantino, a dispute about NFTs that isn’t really about NFTs. Depending upon which side of the fence you’re sitting on, non-fungible tokens (NFTs) are either the greatest economic innovation of the twenty-first century or the biggest grift since Lyle Lanley sold Springfield a monorail.

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FDA Resists FOIA Request for Vaccine Approval Info as Biden Administration Offers to Share it with the World

IP Watchdog

From the “one hand doesn’t know what the other hand is doing” category, believe it or not, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is effectively refusing to release documents it possesses relating to the approval of the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine. More precisely, Public Health and Medical Professionals for Transparency (PHMPT), a group of doctors and scientists, submitted a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request for documents relating to the approval of the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine.

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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.