TorrentFreak

AUGUST 22, 2021

At TorrentFreak, we have written hundreds of articles about dubious takedown notices. Today, we find ourselves at the center of another one. Earlier this week the ‘American Society of Composers’ sent a series of “DRM Circumvention” complaints to Google, acting on behalf of the Video Industry Association of America. These notices are similar to standard DMCA takedown requests but focus on content that violates the DMCA’s anti-circumvention provision.

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SpicyIP

AUGUST 22, 2021

An image of a packet containing Cipla’s Duolin Repsule (Image from here ). We are pleased to bring you a guest post by Kedar Ganesh Dhargalkar. Kedar is a fourth year BLS LLB student at the Adv. Balasaheb Apte College of Law in Mumbai. Sun Pharma v. Cipla: Madras HC Rejects COVID as an Excuse for Passing Off. Kedar Ganesh Dhargalkar. In the recent case of Sun Pharmaceuticals Industries Ltd. v.

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IP Watchdog

AUGUST 22, 2021

SAS Institute is a software company in North Carolina. Founded in 1976, it employs thousands of people in the United States and thousands more around the world. World Programming, Ltd. (WPL) is a British company that decided to build a clone of SAS’s popular analytics software and, as several courts have found, broke the law to do it. After a decade of litigation across two continents and an unpaid multi-million-dollar judgment, the parties are once again in court.

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SpicyIP

AUGUST 22, 2021

PV Sindhu’s Olympics Victory: How Non-Sponsors Skirt the Law by ‘Congratulating’ Athletes. In a guest post , Satchit Bhogle covered the issue of infringement of personality rights. Writing this post in the context of PV Sindhu’s success at the Tokyo Olympics and how that has spurred companies who do not sponsor her to put up congratulatory messages on social media with their brand logos and while using her images, Satchit analyses the discourse on the right to publicity surrounding the issue.

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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?

Technology

Patently-O

AUGUST 22, 2021

Recent Headlines in the IP World: David Waldman and Natalya Rudma: Adial Pharmaceuticals Awarded U.S. and International Patents for the Treatment Of Alcohol and Opioid Use Disorders Using AD04 (Source: Yahoo Finance). Colton Wiens: Conservatives Promise to Cut Income Tax for New Technology Staying in Canada (Source: CTV). Daisuke Wakabayashi: Google Infringed on Patents Owned by Sonos, a Trade Judge Says (Source: The New York Times).

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Copyright Lately

AUGUST 22, 2021

Recent decisions suggest courts are losing patience with those who bring dubious copyright infringement claims as part of their business models. Back in May, I wrote about an overzealous copyright infringement lawsuit filed by Rachel Dolezal , the woman best known for mispresenting her racial background. The complaint raised concerns that Dolezal was using copyright law to purge the historical record of her controversial past, while seeking substantial monetary damages in the process.

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Likelihood of Confusion

AUGUST 22, 2021

Ethics in the Media: Fake News, Free Speech, Censorship, Libel & Slander - American Law & Talmudic Ethics. The post Ethics in the Media – IJE Seminar appeared first on LIKELIHOOD OF CONFUSION™.

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Selvam & Selvam Blog

AUGUST 22, 2021

Infringement & Passing Off. The rights and remedies available under the Trade Marks Act, 1999 are not only limited to registered marks but also extend to unregistered marks. On one hand, an action for infringement provided for under Section 29 of the Act involves establishing issues such as likelihood of confusion, deceptive marks, identical marks and dilution of marks.

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IAM Magazine

AUGUST 22, 2021

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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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

AUGUST 22, 2021

Plaintiff Frank Orders “posted a picture of Hunter Biden with two prostitutes on his Facebook page. The black-and-white picture attached to the Complaint shows a male lying naked on a bed with two naked females sitting on top of the male.” Facebook suspended his account for 24 hours. It appears Facebook suspended Orders a second time for a possibly racist post about Georgia’s voter ID law.

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Patent

IAM Magazine

AUGUST 22, 2021

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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