Erik K Pelton

JANUARY 2, 2023

The following is an edited transcript of my video 3 Steps to Protect Your Brand in the New Year. Protecting your brand has tremendous benefits for your business, and there are three things in particular to focus on at the beginning of the year and ensure that you are protected. Check your renewal deadlines for any trademark registrations you have. Whether they’re at the USPTO or internationally, look at all your registrations for any renewals that might be coming due this year.

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TorrentFreak

JANUARY 2, 2023

Top-tier Spanish football league LaLiga has been waging war against pirate sites and services for the past several years. In common with the UK’s Premier League and Serie A in Italy, LaLiga focuses on unlicensed live-streaming platforms that offer cheap or even free access to subscription-based content. LaLiga’s prime targets include free web-based streaming sites and subscription IPTV providers.

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JD Supra Law

JANUARY 2, 2023

A quick look at some of the most widely read Trademark Law updates and commentary published on JD Supra throughout 2022.

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TorrentFreak

JANUARY 2, 2023

A few years ago, Malibu Media was one of the most active ‘copyright trolls’ in the United States. The California-based company behind the adult brand ‘X-Art’ filed thousands of lawsuits targeting Internet subscribers whose accounts were allegedly used to share Malibu’s films via BitTorrent. In recent years this activity ground to a halt, and in the cases that remained active, things didn’t go to plan.

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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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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

JANUARY 2, 2023

Trademark. * Illinois’ Fair Food and Retail Delivery Act : “A third-party delivery service may not purchase or use the name, likeness, registered trademark, or intellectual property belonging to a merchant, and may not take or arrange for the pickup or delivery of an order from a merchant through a digital network, without first obtaining written consent from the merchant.” The statute defines merchants as any retailers (not just restaurants), so this statute seems to give all

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The TTABlog

JANUARY 2, 2023

E-mail subscriptions to the TTABlog are available. Just enter your e-mail address in the box on the right to receive a daily update via Feedblitz. Please report any broken or inoperative links, as well as any errors and omissions, to the TTABlogger at jwelch at wolfgreenfield.com. Section 2(a) - false suggestion of a connection Precedential No. 36: TTAB Sustains Section 2(c) Opposition to DANA DESIGN Due to Lack of Consent Updated TTABlog Collection of Section 2(a) False Connection Cases Section

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JD Supra Law

JANUARY 2, 2023

This Sunday, the Washington Commanders are set to introduce their new mascot, which the team has indicated will either be a hog or a dog. The former, however, may lead to a trademark dispute between former Washington players and the current organization.

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IP Law 360

JANUARY 2, 2023

Copyright and trademark attorneys this year will be keeping an eye on intellectual property agencies' joint study on non-fungible tokens, developments involving artificial intelligence, as well as a Trademark Modernization Act provision that could speed up the trademark registration process. Here, Law360 looks at the top copyright and trademark policy issues to track in 2023.

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IP.com

JANUARY 2, 2023

By applying key IP analytics to determine the full technical and commercial potential of your burgeoning invention, you can act quickly to protect and market it. In the past, this. The post Lower the Cost of Innovation With IP Search Automation appeared first on IP.com - IP Innovation and Analytics.

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IP Law 360

JANUARY 2, 2023

Before the New Year's Eve confetti has even been swept up, lawyers specializing in health care and life sciences already have enough litigation to keep them busy for much of 2023, which is kicking off with federal courts eyeing suits that carry sweeping significance for administrative law, the False Claims Act, drug approvals, the opioid crisis and abortion rights.

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IP and Legal Filings

JANUARY 2, 2023

Introduction. The decision of the Trademark Registry to permit Debanjan Mandal, the partner of the Fox & Mandal, to get the brand name Fox & Mandal registered in the names of himself and the other partners Arun Mandal and Ashok Dhar, while fraudulently dropping the name of partner late Dinaba, has been contested by Som Mandal, the managing partner of Fox Mandal (FM), through a writ petition before the Calcutta high court.

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IP Law 360

JANUARY 2, 2023

The continuing fallout from a decision that changed how patent cases are assigned to Western District of Texas judges, and a Delaware judge's investigation into the funding and ownership of patent plaintiffs are set to continue commanding the patent world's attention in 2023.

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Larson & Larson

JANUARY 2, 2023

When used correctly, IPR can be an extremely valuable tool for protecting intellectual property rights. However, it is important to understand the process and the potential risks involved before embarking on an IPR challenge. This blog will provide an overview of the IPR process and offer some tips on how to use it to your advantage. The first step in initiating an IPR is to file a petition with the USPTO.

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IP Law 360

JANUARY 2, 2023

The major intellectual property fights that the U.S. Supreme Court plans to weigh in on include two cases at the intersection of art and free speech — a copyright battle over Andy Warhol's prints of the music icon Prince and a dispute involving a dog toy that parodies a Jack Daniel's whiskey bottle.

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Patently-O

JANUARY 2, 2023

Most of the action in the House of Representatives begins in committees and subcommittees. Over the past several terms, patent law legislation and USPTO oversight have primarily been handled by the Judiciary Committee , and particularly the Subcommittee on Courts, Intellectual Property, and the Internet , with the subcommittee chair often driving the discussion and proposals.

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IP Law 360

JANUARY 2, 2023

The sports and betting world will closely follow a pair of consolidated class actions in college athletics related to concussion liability and NIL rights, trademark infringement cases that could tilt the playing field across sports and gaming, and major cases involving the NFL and PGA Tour. Here, Law360 looks at the top sports and betting cases the legal world will be watching in the new year.

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LexBlog IP

JANUARY 2, 2023

“That was good, wasn’t it?” This was the question that Republican Senator John McCain asked Democratic Senator Ted Kennedy, after having one of their heated debates on the floor of the United States Senate. Two men putting aside their staunch differences because of a friendship. Now over the years, I have noticed that more and more of my fellow students have become more politically engaged and opinionated.

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IP Law 360

JANUARY 2, 2023

In 2022, Colorado became the second state to approve legislation regulating psilocybin, state and local lawmakers advanced proposals to decriminalize some psychedelics and lawsuits over patients' rights and trade secrets hit federal courts. Here are some of the major law and policy developments in the world of psychedelics from the past year.

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IP Law 360

JANUARY 2, 2023

U.S. Patent and Trademark Office Director Kathi Vidal spent her first year in office rolling out initiatives on everything from patent eligibility to discretionary denials of patent challenges, efforts that attorneys still plan to watch as the new year unfolds. Here's a look at the policies that Vidal and others have set in motion and could advance in 2023.

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IP Law 360

JANUARY 2, 2023

Attorneys at Knobbe Martens anticipate a lively 2023 in intellectual property law, and discuss what to expect from developments in the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, trademarks and patent litigation.

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IP Law 360

JANUARY 2, 2023

The coming year's big cases developing in New York courts involve market-shaking Wall Street and crypto meltdowns, insider trading allegations and the legal woes of Donald Trump, among other politicians.

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