TorrentFreak

AUGUST 28, 2021

Movie studios are increasingly experimenting with shorter release windows, or even no windows at all. During the COVID pandemic, studios including Disney, NBCUniversal, and Warner Bros have premiered titles on streaming services and at the box office at the same time. This is good news for consumers, who have more choice. However, not everyone is happy.

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IP Watchdog

AUGUST 28, 2021

Last week, Patexia released its second annual ANDA Litigation Intelligence Report in which we covered the rankings, statistics and comprehensive analysis of abbreviated new drug application (ANDA) and Hatch-Waxman stakeholders. We couldn't help but notice the decline in ANDA filing activity that has begun, after reaching its peak in 2018. Year-over-year comparison of the ANDA data, as seen in the following chart, shows the trend in the last four years.

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Likelihood of Confusion

AUGUST 28, 2021

Entrepreneurs have a special contract with society. A fascinating new read by Art Carden entitled Leave Me Alone and I’ll Make You Rich: How the Bourgeois Deal Enriched the World. The post How Society Creates Entrepreneurs appeared first on LIKELIHOOD OF CONFUSION™.

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Delaware Intellectual Property Litigation Blog

AUGUST 28, 2021

By Memorandum Opinion entered by The Honorable Richard G. Andrews in Express Mobile, Inc. v. Squarespace, Inc. , Civil Action No. 20-1163-RGA (D.Del. August 25, 2021), the Court, inter alia , denied Defendant’s motion to dismiss Plaintiff’s claims of direct infringement. By way of background, Plaintiff’s complaint alleges that Defendant infringes U.S.

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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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The IPKat

AUGUST 28, 2021

Patents A South African decision to recognize an artificial Intelligence system (DABUS) as an inventor was one of most discussed IP news items of the last several weeks [see The IPKat’s posts on the DABUS saga in various jurisdictions here , here , and here ]. Our SpecialKat Chijioke Okorie published an instructive post on South Africa’s patent laws and how the absence of a definition for ‘inventor’ enabled South African authorities to register the DABUS patent.

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LexBlog IP

AUGUST 28, 2021

By Memorandum Opinion entered by The Honorable Richard G. Andrews in Express Mobile, Inc. v. Squarespace, Inc. , Civil Action No. 20-1163-RGA (D.Del. August 25, 2021), the Court, inter alia , denied Defendant’s motion to dismiss Plaintiff’s claims of direct infringement. By way of background, Plaintiff’s complaint alleges that Defendant infringes U.S.

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IP and Legal Filings

AUGUST 28, 2021

With UK’s economy considerably increasing and depending on Intellectual Property, the focus of the United Kingdom Intellectual Property Office (UKIPO) has been totally on increasing the IP mandates for the corporate. Multiple changes were made in the law to simplify the process of applying for or getting an IP. The amendment to Patent Law makes a single office serve the whole UK for granting patents.

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