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Dismissing Digital News Outlets: Liberal MP Claims Online News Services Don’t Report News

Michael Geist

Since its introduction last spring, online news outlets have expressed fears that Bill C-18, the Online News Act, will primarily benefit large incumbent news organizations. Those concerns grew once the Parliamentary Budget Officer estimated that more than 75% of the revenues would go to broadcasters such as Bell, Rogers, and the CBC. After Postmedia and Torstar collect their share, there may be little left for innovative online startups.

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“Liking” a Facebook Post Isn’t Defamatory–Gallagher v. MaternityWise

Technology & Marketing Law Blog

[WISHING YOU AND YOUR FAMILY A HAPPY THANKSGIVING]. In 2018, Young posted a Facebook review accusing plaintiff Gallagher of being a sexual predator. Defendant Croudace allegedly “liked” Young’s post. The court says the “threshold issue is whether, as a matter of law, Croudace’s act of ‘liking’ the Young Review is ‘reasonably susceptible of a defamatory meaning.'” The court says that “clicking ‘Like’ on a Facebook post that

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Could this music law help Spotify dodge future copyright infringement battles?

IPilogue

Alice Xie is an IPilogue Writer and a 1L JD Candidate at Western University’s Faculty of Law. Do you remember contemplating whether you liked a trending pop song enough to spend $4.99? With the rise of online streaming services like Spotify and YouTube over the last two decades, listening to music has arguably changed for the better. However, with the convenience of streaming music through these digital platforms, the music industry has also had to deal with a wide range of copyright issues, inc

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EPO President puts ViCo in opposition and examination on a permanent footing

The IPKat

The EPO has announced the EPO President's decision to make ViCo the default format for all opposition and examining oral proceedings from 1 January 2023. The President's Decision precedes the end of the ViCo pilot program at the end of this year and puts the use of ViCo at first instance on a permanent footing. On Zoom According to the President's Decision , oral proceedings before the Examining or Opposition Divisions should, from January, be held by ViCo by default.

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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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Infographic | All-thanksgiving inventions and trademarks

Olartemoure Blog

What? Thanksgiving turkey is protected? Well, not the actual turkey: but there are various tools and recipes to prepare it for Thanksgiving that are patented and/or have a trademark. Without them, Thanksgiving would feel less like the holiday it is today. Although the protagonism of turkey isn’t very clear, it is the meal, by excellence, that has served various families, businesses and organizations to express gratitude.

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A tale of Black Friday

The IPKat

While many of our readers will be shopping over the weekend, this Kat has prepared a post on the German “Black Friday” litigation to keep you company while you’re queuing. On October 30, 2013, a German company applied to the German Trade Mark Office (DPMA) for a word mark “Black Friday”. On December 20, 2013, the trade mark was registered for a large number of goods and services in classes 9, 35 and 41.

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General Court reminds that in invalidity proceedings EUIPO Boards of Appeal can only review arguments submitted by parties (failing to do so also breaches EU Charter of Fundamental Rights)

The IPKat

In contrast to proceedings related to relative grounds for refusal, invalidity proceedings are different in that the examination by the Cancellation Division and the EUIPO Boards of Appeal are limited to the grounds and arguments submitted by the parties (Article 95 (1) of Regulation 2017/1001 (EUTMR)). The now said was made abundantly clear in an interesting judgment (Case T-486/20) from October this year in which the General Court considered that the Cancellation Division and the EUIPO Fifth B

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Managing financed emissions: How banks can support the net-zero transition

McKinsey Operations

Banks finance carbon-emitting businesses, and they finance decarbonization of the economy, as well. How effectively they address financed emissions can make all the difference.

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Piracy Relic ‘Putlocker.com’ Auctioned Off For $102,499

TorrentFreak

Roughly a decade ago, the online piracy landscape was fairly straightforward and easy to navigate. There were a dozen or so household names that drew most of the traffic, including KickassTorrents, Torrentz, YTS, EZTV, Rapidshare and Putlocker. All of these sites have long since disappeared, but interestingly their brands live on. Opportunistic copycats often use these familiar names to build their own piracy empires, something seen more recently with 123movies, Cuevana, and other icons.

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Protection of Small and Medium Enterprises in China

IP and Legal Filings

Introduction. In China, SMEs have largely emerged in the previous 15 years. Private SMEs were eventually acknowledged as being crucial to the nation’s economic development with the opening up of China to the market economy in the 1980s as part of the market-oriented reforms implemented by Chinese leader Deng Xiaoping. State-owned companies (SOEs) in China were affected by the succeeding economic reforms; major SOEs quickly transitioned into small and medium non-SOEs till the end of 2004.

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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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Man Arrested Following “Large Scale” Pirate IPTV Investigation

TorrentFreak

In a country where more than 770 burglaries go unsolved every day, it’s no surprise that some people consider free Sky streams the least of the UK’s worries. If the topic was switched to fraud, opinions would likely be quite different, and herein lies the problem. In 2022, piracy might form the basis of an investigation, but more often than not, fraud, money laundering, and other serious charges are the outcome.

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Copyright and Internet: the Court of Milan confirms injunction of Cloudflare’s DNS service

LexBlog IP

On November 4, the Court of Milan confirmed its first instance PI decision by which it ordered Cloudflare, a US company which provides i.a. DNS (Domain Name System) services, to block the DNS resolution of several torrent websites (and their aliases ) which were found infringing Sony, Universal and Warner’s copyright by illegally making music tracks available to the public.

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Verizon: We got rights!

Likelihood of Confusion

Instapundit: “This is audacious lawyering.” Best kind! Originally posted 2007-05-08 21:05:28. Republished by Blog Post Promoter. The post Verizon: We got rights! appeared first on LIKELIHOOD OF CONFUSION™.

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Gap-Owned Athleta Defends UK TMs In Infringement Suit

IP Law 360

Sports brand Athleta, part of U.S. clothing company Gap, has claimed that its brand name has generated enough goodwill in the U.K. to warrant trademark protection, firing back at an attempt by a Danish sportswear rival to nix the trademarks.

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Trademark registration: Banksy laughs last and longest

Garrigues Blog

The EUIPO Board of Appeal has declared the validity of a trademark containing the well known work of the graffiti artist Banksy ‘ Laugh Now But One Day We’ll Be In Charge ’, having deemed that it was not registered in bad faith. In recent years, the EUIPO Cancellation Division has decided to invalidate several trademarks by the famous graffiti artist Banksy on the basis that they were registered in bad faith (article 59.1b) of the European Union Trademark Regulation– EUTMR ).

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Design patent enforcers must mind procedural requirements for injunctive relief

IAM Magazine

Enforcing IP rights against China-based online counterfeiters has always been like ‘whack-a-mole’ and now the Federal Circuit has introduced a new hole into the game

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How IP firms handle clients that don’t pay their bills

Managing IP

It’s easy for lawyers to drag their clients to court, but settling disputes amicably could often be a win-win scenario for everyone.

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Design patent enforcers must mind procedural requirements for injunctive relief

IAM Magazine

Enforcing IP rights against China-based online counterfeiters has always been like ‘whack-a-mole’ and now the Federal Circuit has introduced a new hole into the game

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The Evolution of Harnessing Betavoltaic Power

IP.com

The post The Evolution of Harnessing Betavoltaic Power appeared first on IP.com - IP Innovation and Analytics.

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What success for the UPC will look like

IAM Magazine

Europe’s new unitary system could be a global gamechanger but there are some key developments to look for when deciding whether it has actually become one

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What success for the UPC will look like

IAM Magazine

Europe’s new unitary system could be a global gamechanger but there are some key developments to look for when deciding whether it has actually become one

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Key Delhi decision imminent as Nokia suffers Oppo dispute setback in India

IAM Magazine

High Court rejects Finnish company’s application for interim payments

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Key Delhi decision imminent as Nokia suffers Oppo dispute setback in India

IAM Magazine

High Court rejects Finnish company’s application for interim payments

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