Plagiarism Today
JULY 24, 2023
Judge dismisses case against AI image systems, Louis Vuitton accused of music infringement and new survey looks at piracy in Russia. The post 3 Count: Louis Vuitton Song appeared first on Plagiarism Today.
Erik K Pelton
JULY 24, 2023
B-I-N-G-O … have fun with our new game board as you look for brands around you to try to complete the BINGO! The post Trademark Bingo appeared first on Erik M Pelton & Associates, PLLC.
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IP Watchdog
JULY 24, 2023
The European Patent Office (EPO) today launched a dashboard on Unitary Patents, which will be updated daily and breaks down data on requests for Unitary Patents by technology field, country of origin, language of translation, proprietors’ profile and status of registration. According to an EPO press release, there have been 670 requests filed on average per week since the Unitary Patent went into effect on June 1, “demonstrating high interest in the new system.
TorrentFreak
JULY 24, 2023
It’s no secret that the majority of mainstream movies appear on pirate sites soon after their release. In that respect, not much has changed since the early 2000s. Pirate site aesthetics, on the other hand, have undergone a transformation. Today’s pirate movie and TV show sites are considerably more polished, often carrying official poster images and metadata to give that Netflix-style feel.
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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?
Michael Geist
JULY 24, 2023
ChatGPT has taken the world by storm in recent months with the potential of generative AI – both positive and negative – top of mind in just about every sector. That is certainly true for the legal profession, where AI tools are becoming increasingly common and courts and regulators try to grapple with the implications. Amy Salyzyn is a colleague at the University of Ottawa who has written extensively in the area of legal ethics, lawyer regulation, the use of technology in the delivery of legal
TorrentFreak
JULY 24, 2023
In 2021, Canada’s Federal Court of Appeal upheld the first pirate site-blocking order in the country. The landmark decision opened the door to additional and more advanced blocking requests. Indeed, it didn’t take long before NHL broadcasters asked the court for a pirate IPTV blocking order of their own. The Federal Court eventually granted this request for the ongoing season, with some safeguards.
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U.S. Department of Commerce
JULY 24, 2023
CALL FOR: 2023 Sustainability, Energy, and Environmental Ambassador Nominations July 24, 2023 ASowah@doc.gov Mon, 07/24/2023 - 08:00 The photo above was submitted by Gary Haney, Office of the Secretary, in a prior Earth Day Photo Challenge. The Department of Commerce is calling for nominations for the 2023 Sustainability, Energy, and Environmental (SEE) Ambassadors program.
IP Law 360
JULY 24, 2023
U.S. Patent and Trademark Office Director Kathi Vidal on Monday ended the long-stagnant Precedential Opinion Panel, greenlighted director review requests of Patent Trial and Appeal Board institution decisions, de-designated joinder precedent and announced two new review panels.
JD Supra Law
JULY 24, 2023
This case addresses the construction of the articles “a” and “said” in relation to subsequently recited functions and whether “a” can be restricted to be singular in its meaning.
IP Law 360
JULY 24, 2023
The Federal Circuit's recent decision that Float'N'Grill's original patent claims may not be broadened to cover an entire class of structures highlights the importance of reissue claims' additional statutory requirements, specification drafting and alternative-embodiment disclosure, and keeping patent families open, say Paul Stewart and Brandon Smith at Knobbe Martens.
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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.
Likelihood of Confusion
JULY 24, 2023
Matal v. Tam was highly influential in the subsequent Supreme Court case Iancu v. Brunetti, which also overturned the provisions of the Lanham Act prohibiting the registration of “immoral” and “scandalous” trademarks on the same grounds. Mr. Coleman will speak about both of these cases, including his experience in the Tam case, and provide his insights regarding the future of registration of these types of controversial trademarks with the USPTO.
IP Law 360
JULY 24, 2023
While suits challenging federal regulations have become commonplace, such cases against state agencies are virtually nonexistent, but many states have provisions that allow litigants to bring suit for regulations with inadequate cost-benefit analyses, says Reeve Bull at the Virginia Office of Regulatory Management.
LexBlog IP
JULY 24, 2023
No Role For POP Post-Arthrex As of Monday July 24th, the USPTO has discontinued the use of its Precedential-Opinion-Panel (POP) in favor of the interim Director Review (DR). This move was not unexpected as the POP panel (an early attempt to cure the Arthrex infirmity with partial Director oversight) was effectively replaced by the SCOTUS decision in Arthrex (Director Only).
IP Law 360
JULY 24, 2023
E-commerce software brand Shopify doubled-down on its legal attack on the business practices of IP Edge, urging a San Antonio federal judge to reject a Waco magistrate judge's holding that an allegedly affiliated licensing company does not have to participate in what Shopify's lawyers have called a campaign to "expose patent trolls.
IP Watchdog
JULY 24, 2023
Today, the Information Technology & Innovation Foundation (ITIF) published a white paper titled Innovation Wars: How China Is Gaining on the United States in Corporate R&D showing that, while the United States continues to enjoy a lead in several key sectors when surveying the world’s largest corporate investors in research and development (R&D), its largest economic rival is gaining and could achieve parity with the U.S. in about a decade.
IP Law 360
JULY 24, 2023
Online marketplaces like Redbubble are liable for user-submitted trademark infringement only when they have specific knowledge of the infringement, the Ninth Circuit ruled Monday, telling a California federal judge to take a fresh look at fashion retailer Brandy Melville's case against the print-on-demand marketplace.
IP Watchdog
JULY 24, 2023
The United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) today announced that it is retiring the Precedential Opinion Panel (POP) and extending the Director Review process to decisions on institution in America Invents Act (AIA) proceedings. The POP was established in 2018 under Director Andrei Iancu. Earlier this year, Vidal said that guidance on replacing the POP was one of the issues she expected to announce in the first part of her second year in office.
JD Supra Law
JULY 24, 2023
Established through the Charter of the French Language, French is the official language of the Province of Québec. The Charter applies to businesses located in Québec and to other businesses providing services and selling goods in this province, making the use of French mandatory in connection with these business activities.
LexBlog IP
JULY 24, 2023
Couldn’t be more pleased and thankful to collaborate and share insights on the timely topic of Trademarks, Parody, and the First Amendment, with esteemed Professor of Law Christine Farley during our upcoming Strafford webinar on Tuesday July 25, 2023, at 1 PM ET, check out the details here , hope you can join us!
JD Supra Law
JULY 24, 2023
Senators Chris Coons and Thom Tillis recently introduced the bipartisan 2023 Patent Eligibility Restoration Act that would make significant changes to U.S. patent eligibility law. The “Findings” section of the Act states that “Efforts by judges of district courts and courts of appeals of the United States to apply the [judicially-created] exceptions [to patent eligibility] … have led to extensive confusion and a lack of consistency.”.
LexBlog IP
JULY 24, 2023
l. to r. Dan Weiner, Michael Salzman, Derek J.T. Adler and Meaghan Gragg For the fourth year running, the Chambers High Net Worth guide, which focuses on the private wealth sector, recognized HHR as one of the nation’s leading law firms for Art and Cultural Property Law. Chambers ranked HHR’s Art Law practice in the second-highest band among the top firms nationwide. “I am happy with their service, they are very responsive and kind,” said market insiders. “I think o
JD Supra Law
JULY 24, 2023
At the beginning of the pandemic, concerns were raised that trade secret misappropriation might take a new form. Indeed, with large swaths of the workforce working from home, spouses, roommates, or others living in the same area had an increased opportunity to purloin confidential information that might not have been available to them previously.
LexBlog IP
JULY 24, 2023
Comedian Sarah Silverman and authors Richard Kadrey and Christopher Golden recently filed class-action lawsuits against Meta Platforms (parent company of Facebook) and ChatGPT maker OpenAI (backed by Microsoft Corp.) for allegedly using their copyrighted content without authorization to train artificial intelligence (AI) language models. Meta and OpenAI’s AI language models, known as large language models, aim to replicate human conversation and automate tasks.
IP Watchdog
JULY 24, 2023
This week in Washington IP news, a House subcommittee is turning its attention to self-driving cars and how U.S. companies can compete with their Chinese counterparts. The Senate Small Business Committee will host several women entrepreneurs to testify on how women’s participation in business can be increased. Elsewhere, the U.S. Copyright Office (USCO) is meeting to discuss generative AI’s impact on copyright law and policy.
LexBlog IP
JULY 24, 2023
A potato-chip brand once famously boasted, “No one can eat just one.” And of course, no one can. But according to the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), you aren’t going to eat more than 16 (or 28 grams), because that is the “serving size” on the nutrition facts label. But seriously, who stops at 16 unless the bag runs out?
IP Law 360
JULY 24, 2023
Greenberg Traurig is expanding its practice for handling standard essential patent cases by scooping up a longtime Quinn Emanuel partner who has been picking up that kind of work from Samsung for more than a decade.
JD Supra Law
JULY 24, 2023
Lurline Bay LLC v. Harbor Classic LLC, Case No. 23-cv-05652 (C.D. California, July 13, 2023) - Recently, we wrote about a Chicago-area furniture retailer Darvin Furniture & Mattress suing e-commerce company Wayfair for using the “Darvin” trademark on Wayfair’s websites and social media accounts.
DuetsBlog
JULY 24, 2023
Couldn’t be more pleased and thankful to collaborate and share insights on the timely topic of Trademarks, Parody, and the First Amendment, with esteemed Professor of Law Christine Farley during our upcoming Strafford webinar on Tuesday July 25, 2023, at 1 PM ET, check out the details here , hope you can join us! The post Trademarks and the First Amendment appeared first on DuetsBlog ®.
JD Supra Law
JULY 24, 2023
Last weekend, July 14 and July 15, 2023, TC Summer Fest put on an event, touted as the “biggest rock weekend of the year” with a “two-day festival-style music event” which included The Killers, The Flaming Lips, Death Cab For Cutie, and Imagine Dragons. This was the TC Summer Fest’s first year; Milwaukee’s Summerfest has been a summer staple in Wisconsin for 55 years.
Kluwer Copyright Blog
JULY 24, 2023
Photo by mohamed_hassan from PxHere In a period when the COVID-19 pandemic is occupying less and less space in the daily news and in our thoughts, with the World Health Organization (WHO) having stated that it “no longer constitutes a public health emergency of international concern”, things may seem to be returning to the normal. This is, of course, a simplification.
JD Supra Law
JULY 24, 2023
A weekly summary of the precedential patent-related opinions issued by the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit and the opinions designated precedential or informative by the Patent Trial and Appeal Board.
LexBlog IP
JULY 24, 2023
Nella serata di martedì 18 luglio, la Camera dei Deputati ha definitivamente approvato il Disegno di legge di riforma del Codice della Proprietà Industriale (D.lgs. 10 febbraio 2005, n. 30). La riforma – nel perseguire gli obiettivi già fissati dalla Commissione Europea nel suo Action Plan [1] del 2020, successivamente inseriti nel PNRR – mira a rafforzare il vigente sistema di protezione della proprietà industriale, assicurando ai titolari di diritti su beni imma
JD Supra Law
JULY 24, 2023
With summer in full swing, it’s the perfect time to hang out in the pool and grill some burgers. Our case of the week involves an invention for doing both of those activities at the same time—and provides some insight on when claims can be broadened through the reissue process.
Velocity of Content
JULY 24, 2023
TikTok challenges can range from the sublime to the ridiculous and even the dangerous. There are challenges over art projects, school bathrooms, and sometimes fatally, boat jumping. Now, TikTok may have a challenge for publishers. In May, TikTok’s China-based parent company, ByteDance, sought a trademark for its own book publishing imprint, to be called 8th Note Press.
JD Supra Law
JULY 24, 2023
Last week, the Federal Court of Canada issued its long-awaited decision in Energizer Brands, LLC v Gillette Company, 2023 FC 804. The case is noteworthy because it is a “comparative advertising” case, and one of only a few that have dissected section 22 of the Trademarks Act.
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