Patently-O

MAY 10, 2025

by Dennis Crouch This is a follow-up on my recent discussion of Ingenico v. IOENGINE , a potentially groundbreaking decision that appears to have unintentionally upended fundamental principles of IPR estoppel. The Federal Circuit’s ruling threatens to undermine Congressional intent and, as a consequence, dramatically shift the AIA balance in favor of IPR challengers and against patent owners.

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TorrentFreak

MAY 10, 2025

If making content available to the public to consume legally is the most effective anti-piracy measure, pre-release piracy should be the most damaging form of piracy, or at least the theory goes. The logic seems solid. When movies leak online before their intended release date, pirate copies meet consumer demand in a market that officially shouldn’t exist.

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SpicyIP

MAY 10, 2025

Long Post Ahead! The Indian Patent Office has its own jurisprudence regarding nicotine/tobacco-related inventions. Bloggers have earlier noted instances wherein the patent office has rejected nicotine/tobacco-related patent applications as violating Section 3(b) (see here , here and here ). While we all were eagerly waiting for the Delhi HC to give its judgement on one such instance , the Calcutta High Court in ITC vs Controller had set aside an order from the Patent Office which had ostensibly

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IAM Magazine

MAY 10, 2025

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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?

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Hugh Stephens Blog

MAY 10, 2025

Image: Shutterstock (AI enhanced) First it was autos, then steel and aluminum, then anything made in Chinaand now its movies and presumably television series and streaming production–that have become targets of Donald Trumps tariff obsession.

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IAM Magazine

MAY 10, 2025

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