Erik K Pelton

JUNE 10, 2023

Last week, Erik provided comments to the USPTO’s Trademark Public Advisory Committee regarding proposed changes (increases) to many trademark fees. My comments touched on numerous topics, but focused in large part on the impact that USPTO trademark filing fee increases will have on small businesses, as well as the USPTO’s IT expenditures. Below are the remarks Erik presented at the hearing last week.

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TorrentFreak

JUNE 10, 2023

The success of OpenAI’s ChatGPT inspired Microsoft to add more AI features to its Bing search engine. The idea is that this will allow users to receive more elaborate answers compared to an ordinary list of links. Whether this strategy will pay off has yet to be seen, but in our tests, something else stood out. People are not the only ones asking questions.

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The IPKat

JUNE 10, 2023

After the opening part and the keynote speech, reported by Eleonora here , and the first panel on the best and worst copyright and design cases of the past 20 years, reported by Anastasiia here , the second panel of The IPKat’s 20th Birthday Conference held earlier this week in London, focused on the best and worst trade mark and geographical indications (GI) of the past 20 years.

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Likelihood of Confusion

JUNE 10, 2023

Blawg Review #124 for Labor Day is an all-labor law a regular fun issue — at George’s Employment Law Blog, naturally! Originally posted 2011-10-24 22:45:06. Republished by Blog Post Promoter The post Labor of love appeared first on LIKELIHOOD OF CONFUSION™.

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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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The IPKat

JUNE 10, 2023

Following the other reports on The IPKat’s 20th Birthday Conference held earlier this week in London ( Part 1 , Part 2 , Part 3 ), here's the final report, covering the panel session. Perceived dullness of patent cases there was none in the third panel discussion of the day on the best and the worst ones in the last 20 years, which had entirely opposite views peppered with anecdotes.

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