Plagiarism Today
MAY 8, 2025
Finding high-quality sources is one of the biggest challenges when researching online. Fortunately, these free tools can help. The post The Free Tools I Use to Find Quality Sources appeared first on Plagiarism Today.
IP Law 360
MAY 8, 2025
Former Federal Circuit Judge Kathleen O'Malley has left Sullivan & Cromwell LLP and started her own consulting firm, she announced Thursday.
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Plagiarism Today
MAY 8, 2025
DISH Network sues UK hosting service, Fmovies operators avoid jail time and Bakar song Hell N Back subject of dispute over sample. The post 3 Count: Suspended Sentence appeared first on Plagiarism Today.
TorrentFreak
MAY 8, 2025
Fmovies first appeared online in 2016 and rapidly escalated into a severe headache for Hollywood as an incredibly resilient pirate operation. Despite early intelligence from the MPA ‘s anti-piracy arm, ACE, pinpointing the piracy ring to Vietnam, shutting down the operation required countless hours of enforcement work and significant diplomatic efforts.
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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?
JD Supra Law
MAY 8, 2025
The US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit affirmed a district courts denial of foreign sovereign immunity to a Chinese company accused of stealing trade secrets related to the production of proprietary metallurgy technology. United States v. Pangang Grp. Co., Ltd., Case No. 22-10058 (9th Cir. Apr. 29, 2025) (Wardlaw, Collins, Bress, JJ.).
Copyright Alliance
MAY 8, 2025
Last week, a much-anticipated hearing on motions for summary judgment was held in an ongoing infringement lawsuit brought by a group of authors against Meta for the unauthorized use of […] The post Glaring Omissions from the Kadrey v. Meta Hearing appeared first on Copyright Alliance.
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SpicyIP
MAY 8, 2025
Recently, the BCCI has been dragged to the Court by the publisher of the popular children magazine “Champak” over adopting an identical name for their AI robot dog. Although the Delhi High Court has issued notice in the case, as per media reports it seems like the plaintiff has made a glaring omission of not adding Section 29(4) in their plaint!
JD Supra Law
MAY 8, 2025
The Department of Defense (the DoD) recently released a new comprehensive guidebook to help navigate intellectual property laws and regulations. The guidebook states: In todays global military competition, DoD needs to encourage continuous technological innovation and question the notion that a single solution from a single vendor will necessarily meet the warfighters needs for the life of a capability requirement.
Cogency Global
MAY 8, 2025
Beginning April 2025, the UK will require identity verification for directors and key company officers under the Economic Crime and Corporate Transparency Act, a major reform aimed at combating fraud and improving business transparency. The post Director’s ID Verification in the UK: What You Need to Know appeared first on Cogency Global.
JD Supra Law
MAY 8, 2025
On August 22, 2024, Hulu, LLC (Hulu) filed two separate petitions for inter partes review (IPR) of U.S. Patent No. 11,463,768 (the 768 Patent), assigned to Piranha Media Distribution, LLC (Piranha). The 768 Patent describes digital media systems configured to insert and display advertisements within media content.
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Women and diverse employees have the technical skill and knowledge, yet their contributions are not patented at the same rate as those of their male counterparts.This toolkit can help organizations move the needle on achieving gender parity in innovation.
IP Law 360
MAY 8, 2025
The parenting skills we use to help our kids through challenges like rehearsing for stressful situations, modeling confidence and taking time to reset our emotions can also teach us the fundamentals of leading clients through a corporate crisis, say Deborah Solmor at the Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation and Cara Peterman at Alston & Bird.
JD Supra Law
MAY 8, 2025
Acquiring a company in the aerospace, defense, and critical manufacturing sectors requires more than just financial readiness. These industries come with unique regulatory challenges, security concerns, and government contract obligations.
Kluwer Copyright Blog
MAY 8, 2025
Photo by Tim Mossholder on Unsplash Regular readers of the Kluwer Copyright Blog may already be familiar with the excellent reviews of the first two rulings on the European Unions new text and data mining (TDM) exception one from Germany (see the Kneschke v. LAION ruling here , here and here ) and one from the Netherlands (see the DPG Media v. HowardsHome ruling here ).
JD Supra Law
MAY 8, 2025
A well-orchestrated intellectual property strategy requires carefully and thoughtfully leveraging copyright, trademark, and patent laws, as highlighted by a recent decision handed down by the United Sates Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit: CeramTec GMBH v. CoorsTek Bioceramics LLC.
IP Intelligence
MAY 8, 2025
Starting May 13, the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) will accelerate the time between issue notification and the issue date of a patent. That is, the time frame will be cut from about three weeks to two weeks – roughly 33 percent shorter. This change will apply to all utility, design and plant issued patents. The shift will be made possible by the use of electronic grants via the USPTO’s Patent Center which eliminates some internal redundancies streamlining the issuance process.
JD Supra Law
MAY 8, 2025
The use of microorganisms in human industry is ancient, but has increased markedly in recent years. The modern recognition of the role of microbial communities in the human body has intensified innovation in fields like fermented foods, probiotics, and postbiotics. Increasing global agricultural demand and the resulting soil depletion has renewed interest in microbial regenerative agriculture approaches.
IAM Magazine
MAY 8, 2025
UK businesses using generative AI must implement key measures to satisfy the “reasonable steps” requirement. Robust access controls, regular AI risk audits and stricter security protocols are some of the ways in which companies can prove that they are taking necessary steps to protect their confidential information as the threat of leaks is on the rise.
JD Supra Law
MAY 8, 2025
The US Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit affirmed a district courts jury verdict that found trade dress infringement and liability under state deceptive practices law, and the courts order entering a nationwide permanent injunction. The Seventh Circuit found the district courts agreed jury instruction accurate and determined that there was no error in refusing to further clarify the instruction for the jury.
IAM Magazine
MAY 8, 2025
UK businesses using generative AI must implement key measures to satisfy the “reasonable steps” requirement. Robust access controls, regular AI risk audits and stricter security protocols are some of the ways in which companies can prove that they are taking necessary steps to protect their confidential information as the threat of leaks is on the rise.
JD Supra Law
MAY 8, 2025
In refusing registration of the color green for chloroprene medical examination gloves, the Federal Circuit adopted for the first time a legal test for genericness of color marks. The decision underscores the high bar for registering colors as trademarks under US law and further highlights the importance of identifying and promoting colors as marks as well as the need for careful drafting of applications seeking to protect such marks.
Patently-O
MAY 8, 2025
by Dennis Crouch The Supreme Court recently received a petition for certiorari from NexStep, Inc., challenging a Federal Circuit decision that epitomizes a four-decades-long trend of restricting the doctrine of equivalents (DOE). The petition in NexStep, Inc. v. Comcast Cable Communications, LLC (No. 24-1137), presents a fundamental question: Has the Federal Circuit improperly shackled the doctrine of equivalents with rigid, formulaic requirements contrary to Supreme Court precedent?
JD Supra Law
MAY 8, 2025
A bipartisan group of senators and congressional representatives reintroduced thePatent Eligibility Restoration Act (PERA), which aims to reform the law of patent eligibility under 35 U.S.C. 101. PERA seeks to address the challenges posed by recent Supreme Court decisions and restore clarity and predictability in the US patent system.
IP Law 360
MAY 8, 2025
Recent guidance from the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office marks a swing back toward procedural discretion in Patent Trial and Appeal Board trial institution decisions, bringing unpredictability but also opportunities for drafting petitions, and making and responding to discretionary denial arguments, says Taylor Stemler at Merchant & Gould.
JD Supra Law
MAY 8, 2025
The US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit reversed and remanded a district court decision, allowing collection of actual damages in a default judgment where the complaint only sought damages in an amount to be determined at trial. AirDoctor, LLC v. Xiamen Qichuang Trade Co., Ltd., Case No. 24-215 (9th Cir. Apr. 11, 2025) (Friedland, J.) (Berzon, Kennelly JJ., concurring) (per curiam).
IP Law 360
MAY 8, 2025
Current and prospective college athletes whose spots on their team rosters were jeopardized by the NCAA's settlement of a name, image and likeness antitrust class action will be allowed to play again, according to the latest version of the deal, which a California federal judge found last month needed a revision.
JD Supra Law
MAY 8, 2025
Addressing for the first time the test for determining whether a color mark is generic, the US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit adopted the Trademark Trial & Appeal Boards Milwaukee test as the appropriate standard, affirming the Boards determination that a dark green color mark used on medical examination gloves was generic. In re PT Medisafe Technologies, Case No. 2023-1573 (Fed.
TorrentFreak
MAY 8, 2025
The frontline of online piracy liability keeps moving, and core internet infrastructure providers are increasingly finding themselves in the crosshairs. For rightsholders, site blocking remains the go-to response in many cases. Until recently, the majority of blockades were implemented by consumer ISPs, but expanded legal efforts are now targeting standalone DNS resolvers.
JD Supra Law
MAY 8, 2025
On April 23, 2025, the Federal Circuit rendered an opinion inValve Corp. v. Ironburg Inventions Ltd.surrounding U.S. Patent No. 9,289,688 (the '688 patent").This marks the second time that the Federal Circuit has weighed in on this patent (the Federal Circuit has also issued an opinion in a related case between the same two litigants over U.S. Patent No. 8,641,525).
The IPKat
MAY 8, 2025
In recent years, Novo Nordisk's weight loss drug semaglutide, marketed as Wegovy for obesity and Ozempic for diabetes, has become a pharmaceutical phenomenon. As with most successful pharmaceutical products, the remarkable success of semaglutide means we can also expect some high profile IP disputes.
JD Supra Law
MAY 8, 2025
In a patent-infringement case involving fiber-optic-cable assemblies, Magistrate Judge Steven I. Locke (E.D.N.Y.) recently rejected defendants arguments that two terms in the patent claims were indefinite under 35 U.S.C. 112: bend radius of 5D and slightly greater than..
IP Law 360
MAY 8, 2025
Silicon Valley-based social media platform Fizz Social Corp. has accusedInstacart and Partifulof ripping off its event planning platform's "FIZZ" trademark to launch a rival "Fizz app" that specifically targets the so-called Gen Z demographic, according to atrademark infringement and anti-cybersquatting lawsuit filed in California federal court.
JD Supra Law
MAY 8, 2025
Fintiv, Inc. v. PayPal Holdings, Inc., No. 2023-2312 (Fed. Cir. (W.D. Tex.) Apr. 30, 2025). Opinion by Prost, joined by Taranto and Stark. Fintiv sued PayPal for infringement of four patents directed to cloud-based transaction systems. After claim construction, the district court held the claim terms payment handler and payment handler service invalid for indefiniteness.
IP Law 360
MAY 8, 2025
The Patent Trial and Appeal Board has designated as informative an April decision where the acting head of the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office ended Hulu's challenges to a patent on inserting ads in media content.
JD Supra Law
MAY 8, 2025
Welcome to Wilmer Hale's PTAB/USPTO Update for May 2025.
IP Law 360
MAY 8, 2025
Haynes Boone announced Thursday that it has rehired an attorney who previously worked for the firm's trademark and advertising practice group, before leaving to do in-house work for Yum Brands and TGI Fridays, to enhance its brand strategy and management services.
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