IP Watchdog

MAY 15, 2022

On April 28, Google published a blog by their general counsel, Halimah DeLaine Prado, about the crisis condition of the U.S. patent system. Prado portrays Google as a strong supporter of the patent system, citing their history in initiatives to spur new inventions and technologies. For example, Google was a key player in 2013 in starting the Open Patent Non-Assertion Pledge (to not sue on open-source software).

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Likelihood of Confusion

MAY 15, 2022

Pittsburgh Trademark Lawyer Daniel Corbett brings us an NBA star’s attempt at a four-point shot: Post-relationship drama takes many forms, but federal court litigation under the Lanham Act isn’t typically one. The post “Life rights”? (Making things with life?) appeared first on LIKELIHOOD OF CONFUSION™.

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TorrentFreak

MAY 15, 2022

The cryptocurrency landscape has been hit hard this week. Bitcoin is down more than 50% from its high a few months earlier and even some ‘stablecoins’ have started to disintegrate. This type of volatility is not unexpected and the early adopters have already lived through a few of these crashes. This includes The Pirate Bay. The notorious torrent site is somewhat of a crypto pioneer.

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McKinsey Operations

MAY 15, 2022

Major General Andrew Hocking talks about the importance of trust in building resilience, why a focus on communities is important, and lessons learned from dealing with both the bushfires and the COVID-19 pandemic.

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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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IAM Magazine

MAY 15, 2022

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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Barry Sookman

MAY 15, 2022

Computer and Internet Weekly Updates for 2022-05-07 [link] 2022-05-08. Record labels and publishers ink major settlement, moving from 9.1 cents to 12 cents per track for US mechanical ro… [link] 2022-05-08. The “Declaration for the Future of the Internet”: What Does it Mean for Copyright Industries? [link] 2022-05-09. An AI a Day Keeps the Doctor Away?

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