Plagiarism Today
MARCH 24, 2025
The Bernie Mac Show was based heavily on the legendary comedian's life. So it's no surprise that it tackled joke theft with grace and nuance. The post Plagiarism in Pop Culture: The Bernie Mac Show appeared first on Plagiarism Today.
TorrentFreak
MARCH 24, 2025
In Denmark, law enforcement authorities and rightsholders have worked hard to shut down the thriving local torrent tracker scene over the past five years. These efforts targeted private torrent trackers including DanishBits, NordicBits, Superbits, Asgaard and ShareUniversity. More than two dozen uploaders and admins connected to these sites were convicted as a result.
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Patently-O
MARCH 24, 2025
The copyright dispute over Ed Sheeran's song "Thinking Out Loud" has made its way to the Supreme Court's doorstep. The petition raises questions about judicial deference to administrative interpretations and the scope of copyright protection for musical compositions under the 1909 Copyright Act. In the case, the Second Circuit had sided with Sheeran -- affirming dismissal of the infringement claim based largely on a technical limitation of pre-1976 copyright law.
The IPKat
MARCH 24, 2025
Earlier this month, the Fifth Board of Appeal (BoA) of the EUIPO, refused the registration of a colour combination for agricultural machines and implements, namely field sprayers in Class 7 of the Nice Classification due to the absence of sufficient evidence demonstrating acquired distinctiveness through use under Article 7(3) EU Trade Mark Regulation (EUTMR).
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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?
IP Watchdog
MARCH 24, 2025
Last Tuesday, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit issued an opinion in Thaler v. Perlmutter affirming the denial of a copyright application filed by artificial intelligence (AI) developer Dr. Stephen Thaler to an image created by one of Thalers generative AI systems. Although the appellate court did not categorically reject registrability of all AI-generated works, the D.C.
SpicyIP
MARCH 24, 2025
Image from here [ This post is authored by Khushi Jain and Vishno Sudheendra. Khushi is a third-year B.A., LL.B (Hons) student at the National Law University Delhi with a keen interest in the intersection of law and policy. Vishno is a third-year B.A., LL.B (Hons) student at the National Law School of India University, Bangalore with a keen interest in various aspects of IPR and technology law. ] In Part I , we examined the Delhi HCs method of imposing liability on Amazon Technologies, Inc.
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SpicyIP
MARCH 24, 2025
[ This post is authored by Khushi Jain and Vishno Sudheendra. Khushi is a third-year B.A., LL.B (Hons) student at the National Law University Delhi with a keen interest in the intersection of law and policy. Vishno is a third-year B.A., LL.B (Hons) student at the National Law School of India University, Bangalore with a keen interest in various aspects of IPR and technology law. ] In a recent judgment on February 25, 2025, the Delhi High Court (DHC) in Lifestyle Equities CV & Anr. v.
JD Supra Law
MARCH 24, 2025
In its recent decision in Lashify, Inc. v. International Trade Commission, the Federal Circuit opened the door for patent owners to include expanded categories of domestic investment to satisfy the economic prong of the domestic industry requirement under Section 337(a)(3)(B). App. No. 2023-1245, Opinion (Mar. 5, 2025). Post-manufacture activities that previously were not consideredlike sales, marketing, warehousing, quality control, and distributionare now likely includable as domestic.
TorrentFreak
MARCH 24, 2025
Regardless of club, region or country, football fans across Europe have been warned for years about the potential for financial crisis. With rising prices for those who love the stadium experience, and a similar picture for those burdened with rising costs while juggling multiple subscriptions at home, awareness among fans is already typically high.
JD Supra Law
MARCH 24, 2025
Key Takeaways: - Confirming the position of the Copyright Office and past precedent considering the possibility of non-human authors, the D.C. Circuit held this week that the Copyright Act does not protect works created entirely by AI. This decision follows a similar conclusion by the Federal Circuit regarding the possibility of patent rights for an invention by an AI. - The D.C.
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Plagiarism Today
MARCH 24, 2025
Strike 3 Holdings wins three default judgments, Italian court orders Google to block pirate sites and GTA modder gets copyright strike. The post 3 Count: Poison Pill appeared first on Plagiarism Today.
SpicyIP
MARCH 24, 2025
[ The Post has been authored by SpicyIP Intern Suhani Chhaperwal. Suhani is a third-year law student at NLSIU who loves to write on IP and tech issues. Her previous posts can be accessed here. ] After a plethora of orders over the last couple of years (see below) directing the Controller to pass reasoned orders, on February 24, we saw another drop in this bucket.
JD Supra Law
MARCH 24, 2025
On March 13, 2025, the US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit (Federal Circuit) issued a decision titled In Re: Xencor, Inc. (the Xencor decision). The Xencor decision affirms the decision of the Appeals Review Panel (ARP) of the US Patent and Trademark Office, which held both pending claims of US Patent Application No. 16/803,690 (the 690 application) unpatentable for lacking written description for their preambles.
BYU Copyright Blog
MARCH 24, 2025
Case Closeout University,Work for Hire,Settled Out of Court,Private School Joshua Potter March 24, 10:09 AM March 24, 10:09 AM Weisblat v. John Carroll University In February 2023, we first published a post describing the Complaint by Gina Weisblat ("Weisblat") against her former employer, John Carroll University ("JCU"). Weisblat claims that JCU appropriated and reused a grant application she wrote in order to apply for other grants without her permission.
Michael Geist
MARCH 24, 2025
With a federal election just called and the campaign now underway, the focus will turn – at least in very small part – to party policies. It is certainly possible that digital issues such as AI regulation, online harms, and the fate of Internet laws will merit a mention. Im hoping to cover those issues in the weeks ahead, but this week, I offer one last look back.
Nelligan Law
MARCH 24, 2025
Reading Time: 2 minutes Move over, Batman. Theres a new comeback story in town, and its about as dramatic as a Snyder Cut reveal. Mattel has successfully clawed back the lucrative rights to make DC-themed action figures and other toys, wresting them from the hands of competitor Spin Master. Its like watching a classic superhero arcMattel, once the undisputed king of molded plastic heroes, fell into the shadows, trained in the art of strategic licensing deals, and has now returned, battle-scarred
The IPKat
MARCH 24, 2025
Another week, another round up of whats going on at the moment! Super kids Seven-year-old named Callie from Manchester won the Kids Invent Stuff and Taskmaster Education Competition supported by the UK's Intellectual Property Office. The competition coincided with Science Week and involved 1,600 inventors aged 4-11 creating solutions to problems. The winning invention was a bath tub that shoots tasks out one end and poops rubber ducks out of the other, which as the winning idea got made IRL.
BYU Copyright Blog
MARCH 24, 2025
More March Case Updates Music,Settled Out of Court,Pictorial Works,Code March 24, 11:32 AM March 24, 11:32 AM Charming Beats LLC v. Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority A short-lived case ended just two months after we first reported it. On September 19, 2022, we published a post involving a music composer doing business as Charming Beats (Beats) and Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority (Alpha).
IP Watchdog
MARCH 24, 2025
This week on IPWatchdog Unleashed I speak with my friend Jason Harrier, former Chief Patent Counsel at Capital One and current co-founder and General Counsel of artificial intelligence (AI) company IP Copilot. I started our conversation by asking Harrier about invention harvesting, which I know from many conversations with in-house attorneys is one of the more difficult but critical important aspects of their job.
Indiana Intellectual Property Law
MARCH 24, 2025
Shezan Services (Private) Limited and Shezan International Limited have filed a legal complaint seeking declaratory judgment and injunctive relief against Indiana companies, Intershez Corporation and Shezan, LLC. The plaintiffs claim that Intershez and Shezan, LLC fraudulently registered Shezan Services trademarks in the United States and used these registrations to have U.S.
JD Supra Law
MARCH 24, 2025
The National Collegiate Athletic Associations (NCAA) name, image, and likeness (NIL) recruiting restrictions, referred to as the NIL recruiting ban, are about to become a thing of the past.
IP Law 360
MARCH 24, 2025
The Federal Circuit on Monday backed a lower court's finding that a patent covering a type of marking tape was invalid as anticipated, while also mostly upholding a sanctions award that tape manufacturer ShieldMark secured in the case accusing it of infringement.
JD Supra Law
MARCH 24, 2025
This spring, the Supreme Court of Canada (SCC) will consider the scope of patentable subject-matter as it relates to methods of medical treatment. In the underlying action, Janssen asserted that Pharmascience would infringe its Canadian Patent No. 2,655,335 (335 Patent) relating to paliperidone palmitate (INVEGA SUSTENNA) with its generic version.
IP Law 360
MARCH 24, 2025
The maker of a poop-themed dog toy that mimics Jack Daniel's bottles is appealing a permanent injunction that an Arizona federal court entered after finding the company tarnished the whiskey-maker's brand by associating it with feces.
JD Supra Law
MARCH 24, 2025
Is copyright limited to human authorship? Or, may artificial intelligence create a work of art or write a novel that qualifies for copyright protection? Recently a federal appeals court concluded that only humans are entitled to copyright protection for their works.
IP Law 360
MARCH 24, 2025
A generic-drug industry organization and a group of scholars are urging the U.S. Supreme Court to scrutinize a Federal Circuit decision they say undermines the process for getting generic drugs to market under so-called skinny labels.
JD Supra Law
MARCH 24, 2025
Early last year, Aurobindo, one of the Defendants* in ANDA litigation against Merck, advanced the proposition that in cases where a patent had been reissued patent term extension ("PTE") under 35 U.S.C. 156 should be calculated based on the grant date of the reissue patent and not of the "original" patent from which the reissue was obtained.
IP Law 360
MARCH 24, 2025
Amgen has urged a Delaware federal court to grant it a new trial after a federal jury last year found that it owed Germany's Lindis Biotech $50.3 million in damages for encouraging healthcare providers to infringe immunotherapy patents by administering a leukemia treatment.
JD Supra Law
MARCH 24, 2025
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit affirmed the Copyright Offices position that artificial intelligence cannot be an author under the Copyright Act.
IP Law 360
MARCH 24, 2025
Cameo videos recorded by former U.S. Rep. George Santos were designed to be satirical jokes, and their rebroadcast by ABC comedian Jimmy Kimmel was not a transformative work protected by the copyright law's fair use doctrine, Santos' attorney told the Second Circuit on Monday.
The Trichordist
MARCH 24, 2025
The Artist Rights Institute’s news digest newsletter for 3/24/25
IP Law 360
MARCH 24, 2025
A New York federal magistrate judge granted Google's request Monday for sanctions against Ramey LLP for filing an allegedly "baseless" suit on behalf of EscapeX IP accusing YouTube of infringing its social media chat-function patent, finding that counsel failed to conduct a presuit investigation and needlessly drew out litigation.
Likelihood of Confusion
MARCH 24, 2025
Originally posted 2014-01-27 21:24:33. Republished by Blog Post PromoterRemember when Vietnam was communist and stuff? Probably not. Well, I do. And yes, I look it. And yes, GET OFF MY LAWN! Anyway, even if it was, it probably mostly isn’t any more. (UPDATE: Funny you should mention it!) And even if it were, though, still […] The post The (Lang) Van guards of the proletariat (updated) appeared first on LIKELIHOOD OF CONFUSION.
IP Law 360
MARCH 24, 2025
After seeing its trademark lawsuit against a Samsung subsidiary transferred to a court where the case was outside the statute of limitations, a small New Jersey company that sells electronics accessories now wants the nation's highest court to address trademark law's "patchwork of inconsistent limitations periods.
IP Watchdog
MARCH 24, 2025
The Supreme Court today nixed several high-profile IP petitions, including two that touch on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuits (CAFCs) controversial use of one-word affirmances under Rule 36.
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