TorrentFreak

JULY 2, 2023

More than forty years ago in the early eighties, Texas Instruments home computers were all the rage. The world wide web didn’t exist yet and most people interested in these new devices saw themselves as tinkerers or hackers. These original ‘hackers’ tried to put the hardware to use in ways that others hadn’t envisaged. This was also the case for a Canadian teenager named Gary Bowser, who founded the company “Oasis Pensive Abacutors” (OPA) in March of 1985, a f

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

JULY 2, 2023

[A special post for my Canadian friends as a belated celebration of Canada Day. ] This case involves a Canadian transaction for flax. The court summarizes: Mr. Mickleborough had a contract drafted for Achter to sell SWT 86 metric tonnes of flax to SWT at a price of $17.00 per bushel (which amounts to $669.26 per tonne) with a delivery period listed as “Nov”.

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JD Supra Law

JULY 2, 2023

The Chinese Patent Law, specifically Article 24, prescribes that an invention-creation for which a patent is applied does not lose its novelty where, within six months before the date of filing, one of the following events occurred: (1) where it was first made public for public interest when the country is in an emergency or an abnormal state; (2) where it was first exhibited at an international exhibition sponsored or recognized by the Chinese government; (3) where it was made public at a.

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Likelihood of Confusion

JULY 2, 2023

Bill Heinze writes about Patent Terrorism and whether it fits into the model, oft discussed here, of improper use of the intellectual property system as a sort of arbitrage. Originally. The post Absolutely Non-Boring Patent Story! 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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Patently-O

JULY 2, 2023

Guest post by Paul R. Gugliuzza & Joshua L. Sohn One of the oddest things about the Federal Circuit is that, in the court’s view, it’s powerless to decide many issues of federal law that arise in the appeals presented to it. Sure, on matters of patent law , what the Federal Circuit says binds district courts, the Patent Office, and future panels of the Federal Circuit itself.

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