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‘I Know What You Download’ Overwhelmed By Bogus DMCA Notices

TorrentFreak

More than a decade ago, TorrentFreak reported on YouHaveDownloaded.com, a new service dedicated to BitTorrent tracking. Knowing that most BitTorrent-based sharing is conducted in public, the site’s operators harvested torrents and captured the IP addresses connected to them. When we discovered the project, YouHaveDownloaded had 103,200 torrents in its database and IP address data on 51.2 million users.

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Parody on Trial: The Onion Submits Amicus Brief in Novak v. Parma

The Illusion of More

On October 3, the satirical news organization The Onion filed a delightfully irreverent amicus brief with the U.S. Supreme Court in support of the petitioner seeking cert in Novak v. City of Parma, Ohio, et al. Even if you have no interest in the case, the brief is a good time—a deftly written panegyric to […]. The post Parody on Trial: The Onion Submits Amicus Brief in Novak v.

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The Patent Cup 2022

Patently-O

One of my favorite of all global patent law events is the Patent Cup–a regatta that takes the battle of wits beyond the courtroom or patent offices. The idea was hatched in 1989 by two friends, German patent attorney Peter Franck and French patent attorney Frederic Benech. The idea was to have a sailing patent attorney or agent organize in his or her own country a friendly race among IP professionals to showcase local sailing venues that might otherwise not be discovered.

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Computer and Internet Weekly Updates for 2022-10-22

Barry Sookman

[link] 2022-10-16. Is a ‘software engineer’ an engineer? Alberta regulator says no, riling the province’s tech sector /via… [link] 2022-10-16. Supreme Court Struggles with Warhol’s Transformative Use Theory [link] via @Unite4Copyright 2022-10-16. Computer and Internet Weekly Updates for 2022-10-15 [link] 2022-10-16. PIPEDA Findings #2022 -006: Investigation into Trimac’s use of an audio and video surveillance device in its truck c… [link] 2022-10-17.

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Software Composition Analysis: The New Armor for Your Cybersecurity

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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Eligibility Comments to USPTO Suggest Alice/Mayo Framework Changes, While PTAB Practices RFC Sees Copy-Paste Campaign

IP Watchdog

The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) is currently assessing comments collected pursuant to a pair of requests for public input, one focused on the agency’s subject matter eligibility guidelines for examining patent applications for 35 U.S.C. § 101 issues, and the other seeking feedback on several practices surrounding patent validity trials at the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB).

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IPR Procedure: motion to exclude evidence, and motion to terminate

CoCal IP Law Institute

Two cases of interest in IPR practice, Provisur Technologies, Inc. v. Weber, Inc., and Polaris Innovations, Ltd. v. Brent. Both of these are precedential opinions of the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit.In Provisur, the PTAB invalidated claims directed to classifying slices or a portion cut from a food product according to an optical [.

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US bill moots new court; IEEE policy criticised; Ericsson and Nokia Q3 reports; UPC judges revealed; Big Tech weighs-in on 101 guidance; plus much more

IAM Magazine

Get ready for the new working week with a summary of all the stories posted on the IAM platform over the past seven days

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Patently-O Bits and Bytes by Juvan Bonni

Patently-O

Recent Headlines in the IP World: Ian Pedersen: AgriFORCE Granted Patent from the United States Patent and Trademark Office Related to its Automated Growing Facility, FORCEGH+ (Source: Yahoo Finance). Supantha Mukherjee and Stine Jacobsen: Nokia, Ericsson Slump as Patent Fights Hit Margins (Source: Reuters). Kelcee Griffis: Litigation Finance Gains Traction in Patent Infringement Cases (Source: Bloomberg Law).