Plagiarism Today
NOVEMBER 3, 2022
From a plagiarism standpoint, this has been a very bad week for comedian and host of The Late Late Show, James Corden. On Tuesday, accusations were leveled against Corden that he had retold a joke originally performed by Ricky Gervais in 2018. In which James Corden basically does a Ricky Gervais joke word for word pic.twitter.com/8MfkrBo8Y0 — Rupert Myers (@RupertMyers) November 1, 2022.
The Illusion of More
NOVEMBER 3, 2022
Are you gifted in the art of b t, but the popular conspiracy theories just aren’t for you? Do you enjoy riling people up about threats that are demonstrably false, but you just can’t get comfortable with QAnon or election deniers? Well, maybe you should consider an exciting career with the Electronic Frontier Foundation writing about […]. The post On Copyright, the EFF Will Say Anything to Scare You appeared first on The Illusion of More.
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Plagiarism Today
NOVEMBER 3, 2022
Have any suggestions for the 3 Count? Let me know via Twitter @plagiarismtoday. 1: Disney Sued by Musician Over Song from ‘Frozen II’ Soundtrack. First off today, Blake Brittain at Reuters reports that songwriter Daniel Grigson has filed a lawsuit against Disney and others that worked on the film Frozen 2 alleging that one of the tracks from the film is an infringement of his earlier work.
IP Watchdog
NOVEMBER 3, 2022
Security issues have long dogged the U.S. trademark system. Unscrupulous operators – sometimes competitors, sometimes bad actors with nothing better to do – too frequently muck up the application process by modifying those filings or filing improper submissions. This is no small problem given the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (the USPTO) remains a mammoth and international hub of trademark filings.
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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?
IPilogue
NOVEMBER 3, 2022
Michelle Mao is an IPilogue Writer and a 2L JD Candidate at Osgoode Hall Law School. Moderna and Pfizer battle’s over the inventive process of their respective mRNA COVID-19 vaccines revisit the negative associations of profit, monopolies, and optics in patent litigation. On August 26, 2022, Moderna released a press statement that they will pursue a patent infringement lawsuit against Pfizer/BioNTech for their use of Moderna’s registered mRNA patents in creating the Pfizer COVID-19 mRNA vaccine.
TorrentFreak
NOVEMBER 3, 2022
The Motion Picture Association ( MPA ) represents several of the world’s largest movie industry companies. Traditionally its members were restricted to top Hollywood studios such as Disney and Warner Bros, but three years ago streaming giant Netflix joined the exclusive club. The newcomer hasn’t changed the MPA’s main goal of protecting its members’ content from piracy.
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IP Law 360
NOVEMBER 3, 2022
Grande Communications must pay more than $46.7 million to Universal Music Group and a host of other recording companies, a Texas federal jury determined Thursday, finding that the internet service provider willfully infringed copyrights for more than 1,400 songs.
TorrentFreak
NOVEMBER 3, 2022
This September, TorrentFreak was provided with information relating to Marvel Streams UK, a pirate IPTV service that suddenly disappeared in March 2022. Like many similar services, Marvel Streams offered subscription packages that included live TV channels and a movie/TV show VOD service, all for a cheap monthly price. The service’s operator, Peter Dilworth of Merseyside, was unaware that the Premier League had discovered Sky and BT Sport streams being made available on his service and tha
IP Law 360
NOVEMBER 3, 2022
Current trademark law isn't sufficient to put a stop to copycat THC edibles that are making thousands of kids in the U.S. sick, many of whom are tricked into consuming them because they are packaged just like name-brand snacks, experts said Thursday.
Fish & Richardson Trademark & Copyright Thoughts
NOVEMBER 3, 2022
Fish & Richardson is pleased to announce that the firm has been named a “Law Firm of the Year” for Litigation – Intellectual Property and Litigation – Patent in U.S. News & World Report – Best Lawyers “Best Law Firms” 2023 edition. In addition, the firm was nationally ranked in seven practice areas, including: . Litigation – Intellectual Property .
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Patently-O
NOVEMBER 3, 2022
Provisur Technologies, Inc. v. Weber, Inc., Docket No. 5:19-cv-06021 (W.D. Mo. Feb 22, 2019). A jury has sided with Provisur and issued a $10 million verdict against its food-processing machinery competitor Weber Maschinenbau. This is about half what Provisur requested. The patents cover various various high-speed slicers, conveyors, and packaging equipment.
IP Law 360
NOVEMBER 3, 2022
California's Department of Cannabis Control has convinced a state trial judge to hit a cannabis company CEO with sanctions after he ignored discovery orders in a case accusing him of drenching the regulated market with $64 million worth of unlicensed gummies.
McKinsey Operations
NOVEMBER 3, 2022
A large and growing slice of the American workforce has no employer-provided health care or 401(k)s to build retirement savings, and they have to pay twice as much into Social Security as their peers. These individuals don’t get paid time off and must cover their own business expenses, and their earnings can be subject to unpredictable swings. But here’s the kicker: It turns out that this group is more optimistic than the rest of the US workforce, writes Kweilin Ellingrud in Forbes.
IP Law 360
NOVEMBER 3, 2022
A Wyoming federal judge has thrown out UFO Magazine's trademark suit against television network Showtime over a four-part docuseries centered on extraterrestrial phenomena, ruling Thursday that the network's use of the title "UFO" is protected artistic expression.
McKinsey Operations
NOVEMBER 3, 2022
In the third episode of our series The Quarterly Interview: Provocations to Ponder, chef and nonprofit founder José Andrés talks about what emergencies can teach us about solving long-term problems and being effective in two different spheres.
IP Law 360
NOVEMBER 3, 2022
Since natural disasters like Hurricane Ian do not relieve lawyers of their ethical obligations to clients, law firms should focus their preparedness efforts on specific areas crucial to continuity of representation and ethics compliance, like business and communications contingency planning, record redundancy and more, says Mark Hinderks at Stinson.
Trading Secrets
NOVEMBER 3, 2022
Seyfarth associate Alex Meier is presenting the “Recent Innovations in Trade Secret Protection Technologies and Forensics” panel for the American Intellectual Property Law Association (AIPLA) 2022 Trade Secret Summit. Seyfarth partner Marcus Mintz is also attending and Seyfarth is sponsoring the Trade Secret Summit, which is taking place December 8-9 in Miami, Florida.
IP Law 360
NOVEMBER 3, 2022
The activities of employees who work from home are likely to come under increased scrutiny in disputes over where patent cases should be heard in light of a recent Federal Circuit decision that cited remote workers in the Western District of Texas as a reason to keep a case there, attorneys say.
McKinsey Operations
NOVEMBER 3, 2022
The size of the global refining industry varies dramatically across different energy transition scenarios by 2040. Assumptions on electric-vehicle penetration, policy commitments, and rationalization behavior are key drivers of the difference in outcomes.
IP Watchdog
NOVEMBER 3, 2022
It was a return to form this week in the district courts, with 115 new patent filings (led by more than 40 new IP Edge complaints) to just 23 new Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) filings—the latter number being bolstered by a number of challenges to patents held by Raymond Anthony Joao subsidiary Beteiro, LLC by a conglomerate of gambling companies, including PointsBet USA, DraftKings, Inc., BetMGM, LLC, Hillside New Jersey LLC, and Entain Corporate Services Ltd.
McKinsey Operations
NOVEMBER 3, 2022
Years of remarkable progress in health, wealth, education, and the deepening of global interconnections have made people much better off overall. But the world has entered a new period of turbulence, and it remains to be seen what new rules and institutions will emerge from it, writes Chris Bradley in Project Syndicate.
LexBlog IP
NOVEMBER 3, 2022
The enablement requirement is a bedrock principle of the U.S. patent system. In exchange for a 20-year monopoly on a claimed invention, the public gets a description of the invention. Specifically, the enablement requirement codified in 35 U.S.C. § 112, ¶ 1 requires that a disclosure enable a person of ordinary skill in the art (“POSA”) to make and use the claimed invention.
IP Law 360
NOVEMBER 3, 2022
Microsoft is using publicly available code created by thousands of programmers, without adhering to their open-source licenses, to train one of its artificial intelligence tools, according to a putative class action filed in California federal court Thursday.
LexBlog IP
NOVEMBER 3, 2022
Last week, AbbVie held its third quarter 2022 earnings conference call , which included considerable discussion of forthcoming competition with biosimilars to HUMIRA (adalimumab) in 2023. Some highlights below: According to Rick Gonzalez, AbbVie Chairman and CEO, “[t]he current market dynamics do not change our long-term guidance for aesthetics and we remain confident in our ability to achieve total sales of more than $9 billion in 2029.
IP Law 360
NOVEMBER 3, 2022
A fourth trial kicks off in Austin next week in a multibillion-dollar legal war between VLSI Technology and Intel over the licensing company's microchip technology patents. Here's a look at that case — plus all the other major intellectual property matters on deck in the coming week.
The IP Law Blog
NOVEMBER 3, 2022
One of the most amazing accomplishments in the field of biotechnology has been the development and distribution of a vaccine against SARS-CoV-2 (COVID 19). The numbers tell the story. The time from when the coronavirus’ RNA sequence, identified by China, was published on January 11, 2020 to the date that clinical trials in the U.S. began in March 2020 was 66 days.
LexBlog IP
NOVEMBER 3, 2022
One of the most amazing accomplishments in the field of biotechnology has been the development and distribution of a vaccine against SARS-CoV-2 (COVID 19). The numbers tell the story. The time from when the coronavirus’ RNA sequence, identified by China, was published on January 11, 2020 to the date that clinical trials in the U.S. began in March 2020 was 66 days.
JD Supra Law
NOVEMBER 3, 2022
Precedential Federal Circuit Opinions - NATURE SIMULATION SYSTEMS INC. v. AUTODESK, INC. [OPINION] (2020-2257, 10/17/2022) (Newman, Lourie, and Dyk) - Newman, J. The Court reversed a district court judgment that the asserted patent claims were invalid as indefinite.
IP Law 360
NOVEMBER 3, 2022
Citizens Financial Group and Goldman Sachs Bank were each hit with lawsuits by nonpracticing entity mCom IP LLC accusing them of infringing its patent for an electronic banking system.
JD Supra Law
NOVEMBER 3, 2022
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.
IP Law 360
NOVEMBER 3, 2022
Intellectual property boutique Fabricant LLP has enlisted from Nixon Peabody a partner who once worked as a patent examiner and has years of experience handling IP litigation to lead its U.S. International Trade Commission practice.
JD Supra Law
NOVEMBER 3, 2022
In one of two concurrent opinions concerning the same design patent case, the US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit vacated a district court’s entry of a preliminary injunction after concluding that the court had failed to properly consider the accused products separately and in view of the prior art when determining the plaintiffs’ likelihood of success.
LexBlog IP
NOVEMBER 3, 2022
The Cybersecurity & Infrastructure Security Agency, the FBI and the U.S. Department of Health & Human Services released a Joint Advisory last week warning organizations, particularly those in the health care and public health (HPH) sectors, of the ransomware and data extortion operations by the Daixin Team. The Advisory is designed to provide information to organizations to help prevent ransomware attacks.
JD Supra Law
NOVEMBER 3, 2022
In one of two concurrent opinions concerning the same design patent case, the US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit vacated a district court’s grant of a preliminary injunction and an order extending the preliminary injunction to new defendants for lack of notice under Rule 65(a). ABC Corp. I v. P’ship & Unincorporated Ass’ns Identified on Schedule “A”, Case No. 21-2150 (Fed.
Stock Legal Blog
NOVEMBER 3, 2022
This is an invitation to all of the Sellers out there, selling a business for the first time, all Buyers out there, growing by acquisition, and those non-lawyers that advise them throughout that journey. An invitation to what? M&A is often seen as a mystery of process, where lawyers have all the answers and clients are blindly led down a path with a blank check of legal fees until suddenly.
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