Sat.Jun 04, 2022

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Dozens of Pirate IPTV & Streaming Sites Face Potential ACE/MPA Disruption

TorrentFreak

When torrent sites, streaming portals and IPTV services suddenly disappear or find themselves fighting a lawsuit, it’s common for users to be taken by surprise. Social media platforms including Twitter, Facebook and Reddit are suddenly alive with questions seeking information on what happened to Site X or IPTV Service Y but, in many cases, potential answers have been available for some time.

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Uber Isn’t Liable for Rapes Committed By Fake Drivers–Doe 1 v. Uber

Technology & Marketing Law Blog

Rapists pretended to be Uber drivers, picked up women under false pretenses, and raped them. As the court summarizes, “Jane Does seek to hold Uber liable for failing to warn them about or implement other measures to protect them against rapists employing the fake Uber scheme in the portions of West Hollywood and Los Angeles where the Uber entities knew rapists had repeatedly implemented the scheme.” The question is whether Uber had a special relationship with the passengers sufficien

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Words and resources are nice, but Kathi Vidal should back more concrete measures on innovator diversity

IAM Magazine

In her early days as USPTO Director, Kathi Vidal’s passion for inclusion can’t be questioned, but her agency’s first priority – a new webpage – isn’t as impactful as we hoped.

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Through WINDOWS®, darkly

Likelihood of Confusion

Mr. Thorne, legal marketing wordsmith extraordinaire, wonders: Why would a court opinion use the magic ® symbol to refer to one registered trademark and not others? And why would an. The post Through WINDOWS®, darkly appeared first on LIKELIHOOD OF CONFUSION™.

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Software Composition Analysis: The New Armor for Your Cybersecurity

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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Words and resources are nice, but Kathi Vidal should back more concrete measures on innovator diversity

IAM Magazine

In her early days as USPTO Director, Kathi Vidal’s passion for inclusion can’t be questioned, but her agency’s first priority – a new webpage – isn’t as impactful as we hoped.

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Getting off to a lightning start in PI proceedings

LexBlog IP

Reading time: 2 minutes. Case No. S2022_002 | Order of 2 June 2022. Patent prosecution takes time. So do infringement proceedings. But can the two overlap when time is of the essence? Clearly, a patent has to be granted at the time when an injunction is issued. But when is the earliest you can initiate infringement proceedings? For main proceedings, various scholars had already held that infringement proceedings can be initiated before grant of the patent; at least when the claims are fixed.

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Reddit Warns U.S. That Upload Filters Threaten Free Expression and Creativity

TorrentFreak

For several years, U.S. lawmakers have considered options to update the DMCA so it can more effectively deal with today’s online copyright issues. Many proposals have come and gone, without resulting in any significant legislative update. That could change in the near future. Following repeated nudges from Senators Thom Tillis and Patrick Leahy, the U.S.

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