Hugh Stephens Blog

MARCH 1, 2023

Google is at it again. It has confirmed it is temporarily blocking some Canadian users from accessing news content through its online search function. According to the company, this is part of “product testing” in response to the Canadian government’s move to enact legislation, known as the Online News Act (Bill C-18), that would require … Continue reading "Google’s Threat to Block Canadian News Search: Will Its Intimidation Tactics Work?

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Plagiarism Today

MARCH 1, 2023

Authors have been reporting that Amazon has been pulling their books because of pirated copies that allegedly breaking an exclusivity clause. The post How Amazon is Punishing Victims of Piracy appeared first on Plagiarism Today.

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Erik K Pelton

MARCH 1, 2023

Recently a new scam targeting trademark filers features telephone calls purporting to be from USPTO examiners. This is yet another reason to work with an experienced attorney – the USPTO will never contact an applicant directly when they have counsel of record. For more about avoiding and dealing with trademark scams, see Is This A Trademark Scam® at www.isthisatrademarkscam.com.

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Plagiarism Today

MARCH 1, 2023

Omi in a Hellcat faces over 15 years in prison, Siemens wins a piracy case in Singapore as it files 268 more in the United States. The post 3 Count: Siemens Lawsuits appeared first on Plagiarism Today.

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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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IP Watchdog

MARCH 1, 2023

The United States Supreme Court is soon poised to decide the fate of the enablement requirement, and the patent community is collectively holding its breath, wondering if the Court will strike a deathblow to the biopharmaceutical industry—simultaneously making all patents harder to get and even easier to challenge than they already are. The Supreme Court does not have a strong track record of objectively getting patent issues correct, at least not from a pro-innovation standpoint, although the J

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TorrentFreak

MARCH 1, 2023

In common with most broadly comparable countries, internet users in Denmark enjoy movies and TV shows, music, videogames, and ebooks. The problem for rightsholders is that a subset of the population prefers not to pay for the privilege. Local anti-piracy group Rights Alliance (Rettigheds Alliancen) mitigates all types of piracy but for the past few years, has maintained a keen focus on torrent sites.

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TorrentFreak

MARCH 1, 2023

In an effort to make ends meet, many people in the UK are cutting back on luxuries. Fewer nights out or perhaps none at all. Downgrading Netflix or even dumping it altogether. Subscription television is even more expensive and often demands longer-term commitments people simply can’t afford. To some, cheap but illegal streaming services might prove tempting but it appears that Sky TV and police in the UK are working hard to limit supply.

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McKinsey Operations

MARCH 1, 2023

New data regulations from the European Union require organizational attention, and three key steps can help navigate the data privacy landscape.

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IPilogue

MARCH 1, 2023

Madeleine Worndl, Lilian Esene, Jennifer Manley, Ibrahim Arif & Natalie Bravo are competitors on Osgoode’s 2023 Harold G. Fox Intellectual Property Moot Team and JD Candidates at Osgoode Hall Law School. This past weekend, students from Osgoode Hall Law School participated in the Harold G. Fox Intellectual Property Moot. The students had an amazing experience participating in the moot and brought home some incredible awards.

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McKinsey Operations

MARCH 1, 2023

CBDCs are digital currencies issued by central banks. Their value is linked to the issuing country’s official currency.

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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.

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Michael Geist

MARCH 1, 2023

As the Standing Committee on Canadian Heritage summoned Google to appear next week before committee (and implausibly provide all internal documentation related to Bill C-18 by tomorrow), media coverage of the bill and Google’s response has intensified. I was pleased to appear on CBC’s Power and Politics to discuss the the bill, Google’s response, and the implications of mandated payments for links that the government expects could fund 35% of news expenditures in all news outlets in Canada.

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JD Supra Law

MARCH 1, 2023

After centuries of issuing paper patents to inventors, the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office will soon transition to only electronic issuance, with patent holders able to receive a printed “ceremonial” copy to display proudly if they wish. This long-awaited transition, effective April 18, 2023, should reduce costs associated with handling, storage and shipping, and the pendency between issue fee payment and grant of the patent is expected to be substantially reduced.

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IIPRD

MARCH 1, 2023

Introduction A fundamental postulate of Intellectual Property Rights is due recognition and benefits to creators, innovators, and artists over tangible creations of their original ideas. The rationale behind the same is to compensate/reward people for their original contributions to the world. Since an artist is responsible for the very conception of his painting, drawing, sculpting or a literary work, he is entitled to monetary compensation upon the artwork’s sale.

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JD Supra Law

MARCH 1, 2023

We previously reported on the ongoing dispute between Amgen and Sanofi regarding enablement of genus claims. But, the case is nearing a final decision. On January 31, the Supreme Court set arguments to address Question 2 presented by the petition for cert: Whether enablement is governed by the statutory requirement that the specification teach those skilled in the art to “make and use” the claimed invention, 35 U.S.C. § 112, or whether it must instead enable those skilled in the art “to reach.

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Velocity of Content

MARCH 1, 2023

From research to medical communications to legal to marketing, sharing content with colleagues across job roles and departments is critical. Employees in all job roles are sharing with more and more people. However, an intriguing insight from Outsell Inc.’s Information Seeking and Consumption Study, commissioned by CCC, is that executives share the most content and have the highest likelihood of copyright infringement.

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JD Supra Law

MARCH 1, 2023

The Highway to NIL Podcast analyzes the legal landscape concerning college athletics and the regulation of name, image, and likeness (NIL) rights of student athletes. It provides key insights into the current state of affairs, focusing on the NIL guidance and policies coming directly from the NCAA; the various passed and amended state NIL laws; and NIL enforcement, including how the NCAA, state attorneys general, and other regulators may investigate and punish schools for NIL violations.

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McKinsey Operations

MARCH 1, 2023

Southeast Asia is a top producer of base metals, including nickel and copper, but its downstream-processing industry is lagging behind. Investing in digital and analytics could enhance productivity.

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JD Supra Law

MARCH 1, 2023

In Short - The Situation: The Court of Justice of the European Union ("CJEU") recently ruled that operators of online marketplaces may be held directly liable for trademark infringement in a context where third-party sellers place infringing goods on their marketplace and the user of such a marketplace establishes a link between the services of the marketplace operator and the sign at issue.

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Michael Geist

MARCH 1, 2023

My Fair Dealing Week series of posts on Canadian copyright, fair dealing, and education concludes with a few thoughts on the role of fair dealing within Canadian universities and colleges. Copyright lobby groups have spent years perpetuating multiple myths, including the false notion that today’s fair dealing policies are largely a function of 2012 reforms (they actually stem chiefly from two decades of Supreme Court jurisprudence) and that fair dealing has resulted in universities refusing to l

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JD Supra Law

MARCH 1, 2023

On the heels of a class action lawsuit filed by visual artists against Stability AI and others, alleging copyright infringement by image-generating web sites, Getty Images (US) Inc. has filed its own lawsuit against Stability AI. Getty filed its lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the District of Delaware.

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McKinsey Operations

MARCH 1, 2023

“I’m increasingly talking about the need to build a planetary restoration industry,” says a prominent investor in sustainability. “This, to me, is one of the great industries that we need to be building together over the next decades, and indeed beyond—the next centuries.

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JD Supra Law

MARCH 1, 2023

Artificial intelligence (AI) models are transforming industries and the workplace. While few companies will create AI models from scratch, most will find themselves licensing AI models from others. Negotiating those licenses requires a keen understanding of the risks and rewards of AI licensing.

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IP Watchdog

MARCH 1, 2023

A manufacturer of Radio Frequency Identification Device transponders (RFIDs), Avery Dennison Corporation, yesterday petitioned the U.S. Supreme Court to grant certiorari in its appeal of a decision upholding ADASA, Inc.’s patent for RFID technology as patent eligible. Avery Dennison is urging the Court to take up the case, which it says “illustrates the depths of the Federal Circuit’s division” and represents “the other side of the coin” in the eligibility debate, in order to balance competing p

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JD Supra Law

MARCH 1, 2023

Design protection continues to be a priority for governments around the world. Global design protection is gradually becoming more modern and harmonized. Building on earlier developments, China made progress to implement examination of partial designs. Australia implemented a grace period for designs. By: Sterne, Kessler, Goldstein & Fox P.L.L.C.

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IP Law 360

MARCH 1, 2023

A California company has filed lawsuits in Washington federal court claiming two Puget Sound-area firms have infringed its technologies that extract oils and compounds from plants including cannabis.

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JD Supra Law

MARCH 1, 2023

On February 24, the USPTO extended the written comment period for Joint USPTO–FDA Collaboration Initiatives until March 10, 2023.

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IP Law 360

MARCH 1, 2023

MGA Entertainment is continuing to encourage a California federal judge to sanction an attorney for hip-hop moguls T.I. and Tameka "Tiny" Harris, saying racism allegations made against MGA's attorney in their intellectual property battle is a bad faith effort to gain a "tactical advantage" in the retrial.

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The Trichordist

MARCH 1, 2023

David Lowery comments to the Georgia Legislature on ticket scalpers, "futures" contracts on tickets, and the Georgia Scalper Resale Royalty.

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IP Law 360

MARCH 1, 2023

A six-year saga in Georgia federal court over products used to clean up the odor of smoking products has resulted in a nearly $2 million jury verdict against a wholesaler accused of selling knockoffs of a line of air fresheners, incense sticks and sprays that are sold in stores under the brand name Blunteffects.

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43(B)log

MARCH 1, 2023

Please circulate widely! Anyone with an interest in teaching is invited to this free Harvard Law School webinar in which expert teachers share their insights. Teaching First-Generation Students March 10, Noon EST -- register here. First-generation students face unique challenges. Anthony Abraham Jack’s The Privileged Poor recently highlighted many of the invisible-to-professors barriers such students, especially first-generation students of color, face in college.

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IP Law 360

MARCH 1, 2023

North Carolina's cultural preservation agency improperly posted online a marine research company's footage of Blackbeard's sunken shipwreck without credit, a state court judge ruled, paring down the long-running skirmish over media rights.

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JD Supra Law

MARCH 1, 2023

Starting a high-tech company is a difficult, exhausting, and thrilling endeavor – one in which founders will face seemingly endless challenges, deadlines, and make or break decisions. From a venture’s inception, founders face numerous decisions that if not thoughtfully considered can result in significant legal and financial risk.

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IP Law 360

MARCH 1, 2023

An attorney for video editing company Stitch Editing told a California federal jury during opening statements on Wednesday that TikTok caused $116 million in damages by stealing Stitch Editing's trademarked name with the app's "Stitch" editing feature while TikTok's attorney said it's protected by fair use

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JD Supra Law

MARCH 1, 2023

American musician and rapper Lizzo recently scored a victory in the Trademark Trial and Appeal Board (the “Board”), reversing the Trademark Office’s refusal to register the “100% THAT B H” mark for “clothing, namely, t-shirts” because of an alleged failure to function as a trademark.

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IP Law 360

MARCH 1, 2023

A California man who allegedly sold the original art used for a classic "Blade Runner" movie poster to a Pennsylvania attorney wants out of a dispute between the attorney and the artist's estate over ownership of the piece, arguing a Pittsburgh federal court lacks jurisdiction.

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