Plagiarism Today
JANUARY 3, 2024
Harvard President Claudine Gay has resigned her position following a month-long plagiarism scandal that could have easily been avoided. The post Harvard President Claudine Gay Resigns appeared first on Plagiarism Today.
Hugh Stephens Blog
JANUARY 3, 2024
Image:www.shutterstock.com There is no better way to start out the New Year, 2024, with a commentary on Artificial Intelligence (AI) and copyright. It was the big emerging issue in 2023 and is going to be even bigger in 2024.
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Plagiarism Today
JANUARY 3, 2024
RCN faces another copyright lawsuit, New Japan Pro Wrestling files takedown against themselves and Steamboat Willie horror film announced. The post 3 Count: Self Strike appeared first on Plagiarism Today.
Erik K Pelton
JANUARY 3, 2024
Brand protection is our business—and that includes our own brand. Erik shares a recent trademark registration our firm received for one of our own logos in this podcast. The post Trademark Lawyers Have Trademarks Too appeared first on Erik M Pelton & Associates, PLLC. Brand protection is our business—and that includes our own brand. Erik shares a recent trademark registration our firm received for one of our own logos in this podcast.
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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?
Barry Sookman
JANUARY 3, 2024
Introduction The question as to whether the generative AI (GenAI) systems and their use infringes copyright is a hotly debated one, with no fewer than 12 proposed class actions and 3 lawsuits in the United States and one in the United Kingdom already focused on resolving this question. The question is a central one for the creative community as well as for the GenAI platforms and, as the recent suit involving the New York Times against Open AI and Microsoft shows, it is permeated with significan
JD Supra Law
JANUARY 3, 2024
Regular consumers now enjoy a front-row seat to the long-running intellectual property dispute between Apple, the tech giant based in Cupertino, California, and Masimo, a medical device company based in Irvine, California.
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JD Supra Law
JANUARY 3, 2024
Trying some healthy habits in 2024? Your trademarks want you to do the same! A trademark has value when it is distinct and enforceable. Even registered marks can lose value if proper “trademark hygiene” is not followed throughout the year. Now is the perfect time for a check-up on the status of your company’s brands.
IP Watchdog
JANUARY 3, 2024
The U.S. Copyright Office issued a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking in the Federal Register today offering a new group registration option for frequently updated news websites. According to the Federal Register Notice (FRN), the option would allow online news sites to register “a group of updates to a news website as a collective work with a deposit composed of identifying material representing sufficient portions of the works, rather than the complete contents of the website.
Copyright Alliance
JANUARY 3, 2024
2023 was an extremely busy year for artificial intelligence (AI). That was especially true for copyright issues related to AI, which sparked several Congressional hearings, a study by the U.S. […] The post AI and Copyright Law in 2023: Federal Government Activities appeared first on Copyright Alliance.
Velocity of Content
JANUARY 3, 2024
The FAIR Principles are vital to enabling the use of data, not just for people, but more importantly for machines. The FAIR principles are designed to address the necessary steps to make research data and the metadata attached to it FAIR (Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, and Reusable). FAIR enables the use of data and metadata for a wide range of use cases and without it, data is not consumable in a way that is needed to build upon research, to make it reproducible, or to provide it as a tru
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IP Close Up
JANUARY 3, 2024
IP CloseUp, weekly perspective on intellectual property trends and business, broke through 392,000 views and 272,000 visits in 2023, on its way to 400,000 plus Continue reading
U.S. Department of Commerce
JANUARY 3, 2024
Census Bureau Projects U.S. and World Populations on New Year’s Day January 3, 2024 KCPullen@doc.gov Wed, 01/03/2024 - 10:26 Population statistics As the nation rang in the new year, the U.S. Census Bureau projected the U.S. population will be 335,893,238 at midnight EST, on Jan. 1, 2024. This represents an increase of 1,759,535 (0.53%) from Jan. 1, 2023, and 4,443,957 (1.34%) from Census Day (April 1) 2020.
JD Supra Law
JANUARY 3, 2024
As we close out 2023, we would like to share with you some of our most popular legal alerts from this year. Our top alerts reflect the broad array of our capabilities – ranging in topics from construction, corporate & securities, labor & employment, immigration, litigation, retail, intellectual property, and white collar & regulatory enforcement.
IP Law 360
JANUARY 3, 2024
A safety equipment manufacturer has told a federal court in Waco, Texas, that it has settled a legal fight over patents covering notifications used in fire alarms, with a company that calls itself one of the world's largest manufacturers of fire safety products.
JD Supra Law
JANUARY 3, 2024
Recently, the new Rules for the Implementation of Patent Law (hereinafter referred to as "the Rules") has been approved and promulgated by the State Council, and will come into force on January 20, 2024. There are many amendments in the new Rules, and we have summarized the need-to-know points for your reference. 1. Regarding the principle of good faith The Rules establishes the breach of the principle of good faith as a reason for rejection both in the preliminary and substantive examination.
IP Law 360
JANUARY 3, 2024
Media coverage of new lawsuits exploded last year, demonstrating why defense attorneys should devise a public relations plan that complements their legal strategy, incorporating several objectives to balance ethical obligations and advocacy, say Nathan Burchfiel at Pinkston and Ryan June at Castañeda + Heidelman.
JD Supra Law
JANUARY 3, 2024
"We provide security and performance for millions of Internet properties and offer great functionality such as SSL and content distribution to every website on our network. Our services run silently in the background, keeping many of the websites and services you depend on up and running. Your Internet provider, and anyone else listening in on the Internet, can see every site you visit and every app you use — even if their content is encrypted.
IP Law 360
JANUARY 3, 2024
An Illinois federal judge said Wednesday a jury should decide the issues in a lawsuit claiming a brand of helmets made by sporting goods manufacturer Certor Sports infringes a patent owned by another company, refusing to let Certor out of the suit.
JD Supra Law
JANUARY 3, 2024
Recently, the new Rules for the Implementation of Patent Law (hereinafter referred to as "the Rules") has been approved and promulgated by the State Council, and will come into force on January 20, 2024. There are many amendments in the new Rules, and we have summarized the need-to-know points for your reference.
SpicyIP
JANUARY 3, 2024
Discussing the Mahatma’s take on copyright and the interplay between the 1955 Copyright Bill and the Berne Convention, we are pleased to bring to you this post by Shivam Kaushik. The post is a part of our IP History series. Shivam is a 2020 law graduate from Benaras Hindu University and is a former law researcher at the Delhi High Court. His previous posts can be accessed here.
JD Supra Law
JANUARY 3, 2024
Not surprisingly, the Federal Circuit visited upon Plaintiff/Appellant PureCircle two of the Four Horsemen of the Biotech Patent Apocalypse* in a decision affirming the District Court's invalidation of the claims asserted against Defendant SweeGen in PureCircle USA Inc. v. SweeGen, Inc.
IP Law 360
JANUARY 3, 2024
A Texas federal magistrate judge on Wednesday recommended resolving Samsung's claims of misconduct against two of its former in-house intellectual property attorneys through a bench trial, as the electronics giant is set to face patent infringement claims brought by the attorneys' new company at a jury trial later this month.
JD Supra Law
JANUARY 3, 2024
In Elekta Limited v. Zap Surgical Systems, Inc., No. 21-1985 (Fed. Cir. Sept. 21, 2023), the case addresses the interplay between findings related to motivation to combine and reasonable expectation of success in determining obviousness under 35 U.S.C. § 103.
IP Watchdog
JANUARY 3, 2024
Ipsilon USA, LLP is seeking a part-time patent attorney in the life sciences field, preferably with a Ph.D. and over 5 years of prosecution experience. The successful candidate will be mostly managing and prosecuting before the USPTO US filings for an international pharma manufacturer. This position can be either in-person or remote.
JD Supra Law
JANUARY 3, 2024
K-fee System GmbH v. Nespresso USA, Inc., No. 2022-2042 (Fed. Cir. (C.D. Cal.) Dec. 26, 2023). Opinion by Taranto, joined by Clevenger and Stoll. K-fee owns multiple patents that describe and claim coffee-machine portion capsules. The capsules display information that, when read by a device associated with the coffee machine, can prevent the capsules from being used in incompatible machines.
SpicyIP
JANUARY 3, 2024
The Patent Agent Examinations are due on January 07, 2024. And looking at some of the previous discussions on the blog (indicatively see here , and here ), this one surely seems like a tough nut to crack. In light of the approaching exams, we are pleased to bring to you news from one of our former bloggers Rajiv Kr. Choudhary about a wonderful new initiative he’s put together online, Prepare for the Patent Agent Examination (PAEP), a free for all website for the aid and assistance of the p
JD Supra Law
JANUARY 3, 2024
K-Fee System GmbH v. Nespresso USA, Inc., Appeal No. 2022-2042 (Fed. Cir. Dec. 26, 2023) In an appeal from a district court judgment of noninfringement, the Federal Circuit reversed the underlying claim construction ruling. The case concerned the import of statements made during the prosecution of a foreign counterpart application. Specifically, the issue was the meaning of the word “barcode.”.
IP Tech Blog
JANUARY 3, 2024
In a much anticipated judgment, the UK Supreme Court delivered on 20 December 2023 its ruling in the case of Thaler v Comptroller-General of Patents, Designs and Trade Marks ( Thaler (Appellant) v Comptroller-General of Patents, Designs and Trademarks (Respondent) – The Supreme Court ) on whether an artificial intelligence ( AI ) system can be named as the inventor for a UK patent application.
JD Supra Law
JANUARY 3, 2024
Naturally occurring compounds generically referred to as steviols are used as sugar substitutes because they impart sweetness without contributing calories. These compounds exist in different forms, with some being sweeter than others. One particular form, referred to as both rebaudioside M and rebaudioside X, is said to be more potent and have a better flavor….
Likelihood of Confusion
JANUARY 3, 2024
MacUser reports: The boss of Warner Music has made a rare public confession that the music industry has to take some of the blame for the rise of p2p file. The post Bronfman looks all over that barn, finds no horse appeared first on LIKELIHOOD OF CONFUSION™.
IP Watchdog
JANUARY 3, 2024
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit (CAFC) today issued a precedential ruling that affirmed a district court’s denial of preliminary injunction to DexCom, Inc., holding that the language of the governing contract's forum selection clause expressly allowed for the filing of inter partes review (IPR) proceedings in certain circumstances.
43(B)log
JANUARY 3, 2024
LoanDepot.com, LLC v. CrossCountry Mortgage, LLC, 2023 WL 9022893, No. 22-cv-5971 (AS) (S.D.N.Y. Dec. 29, 2023) loanDepot alleged that CCM, its chief competitor, “improperly poached” 32 employees, and CCM and various former employees. CCM counterclaimed for abuse of process and for violations of the Lanham Act and related state laws; one ex-employee also brought counterclaims against loanDepot for breach of contract and breach of the implied covenant of good faith and fair dealing.
IP Law 360
JANUARY 3, 2024
With AI regulation agreed upon in Europe and a U.K. regulatory authority on the horizon, organizations developing AI should consider deploying governance, addressing accountability and establishing internal guardrails to achieve a balanced approach to responsible innovation while managing risk, says Chris Eastham at Fieldfisher.
Trademark and Copyright Law Blog
JANUARY 3, 2024
As we ring in 2024, sip some champagne and make a resolution to check in on your trademark portfolio more often. It misses you! Here are a few productive questions to ask: Do your registrations cover your reality? You may have launched new brands or drastically redesigned your logo since you last interacted with the USPTO. Or perhaps your business has expanded or evolved, and the scope of your registrations ignores some now-crucial products or services.
IP Law 360
JANUARY 3, 2024
A Florida federal judge on Tuesday sided with online education company Stride Inc. in a trademark infringement dispute over its now-renamed "Florida Online School," slamming the Florida Department of Education sub-agency that sued for trying to use "weak trademarks to bully its competitors.
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