Mon.Jun 14, 2021

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An Open Letter to Justin Trudeau: Canada’s News Publishers up the Pressure on Facebook and Google

Hugh Stephens Blog

Source: National Post I was at my local newsstand the other day, perusing the morning papers. My usual modus operandi is to scan them quickly, deciding which catchy headline will entice me to swipe my credit card for my daily “news fix” delivered in that most traditional of formats, the daily newspaper.

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Suggestive trademark and brand names are better than the rest. Here’s why:

Erik K Pelton

The following is an edited transcript of my video, Why Suggestive Trademarks and Brand Names Are My Favorite. I get asked all the time about what type of brand names I prefer. The answer for me is easy: for commercial, marketing, and legal purposes, I strongly suggest that clients choose suggestive brand names. What do I mean by suggestive brand names?

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Seyfarth’s Trade Secrets Group Earns Top Tier Ranking from Legal 500 for Sixth Consecutive Year

Trading Secrets

The 2021 edition of The Legal 500 United States recommends Seyfarth Shaw’s Trade Secrets group as one of the best in the country. Nationally, for the sixth consecutive year, our Trade Secrets practice earned Top Tier. Based on feedback from corporate counsel, Seyfarth partners Michael Wexler, Robert Milligan, and Kate Perrelli are ranked in the editorial’s “Leading Lawyers,” Joshua Salinas is ranked in the editorial’s “Rising Starts,” and Erik Weibust and Dawn Mertineit were also recommended in

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Work-Life Balance: Do you have the Legal Right to Disconnect?

Nelligan Law

After over a year of working from home for many Canadians, some experts are calling for the legal right to disconnect. While remote work has allowed many employees to enjoy a more flexible schedule, this shift has proven to be a double-edged sword. Having your workstation at arm’s length makes it difficult to unplug, and. Read more » The post Work-Life Balance: Do you have the Legal Right to Disconnect?

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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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IP.com Announces Contract Renewal with USPTO

IP.com

Rochester, NY – June 14, 2021 – IP.com, a global leader in intellectual property intelligence and innovation solutions, has renewed its multi-year contract to provide InnovationQ Plus®, its IP search. The post IP.com Announces Contract Renewal with USPTO appeared first on IP.com - IP Innovation and Analytics.

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Unicolors v. H&M Raises Some Thorny Issues for Copyright Owners

The Illusion of More

On June 1, the U.S. Supreme Court agreed to hear a case of a highly clerical nature, but one of particular interest to photographers and other visual artists who typically register multiple works in Group registrations with the Copyright Office. To reduce filing fees and provide some organizational structure to certain applications, the Copyright Office […].

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Supreme Court: Bad Intent Not Enough to Violate the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act

McBayer IP Blog

Posted In Intellectual Property , Trade Secrets In an unlikely 6-3 decision where Justices Barrett, Gorsuch, and Kavanaugh joined the three so-called “liberal justices,” the United States Supreme Court held on June 3, 2021, that a police officer did not violate the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act, 18 U.S.C. §1030(a)(2) (“CFAA”), by accessing a law enforcement database to retrieve information to commit a crime.

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Texas Decision Highlights Concerns Regarding Limiting Enforceability of Non-Compete Agreements During COVID-19 Pandemic

Trading Secrets

With unemployment levels reaching a new high during the global pandemic, courts across the country have become increasingly reluctant to enforce non-compete agreements in employment contracts. As an example, a recent district court case, Robert Garcia v. USA Industries, Inc. , demonstrates what may be a shift in Texas’ formerly lenient approach to non-competes.

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Failure to Prove "Standing" and Priority Dooms Section 2(d) Cancellation of CHUBB TRAVEL SMART Registration for Mobile Apps

The TTABlog

Claiming common law rights in the mark TRAVELSMART for mobile apps related to travel, Petitioner AWP sought cancellation of a registration for the mark CHUBB TRAVEL SMART for similar mobile apps. AWP claim didn't travel very far because it failed to prove its entitlement (f/k/a standing) to bring this cancellation petition and it also failed to prove priority.

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SCOTUS H&M ruling could ‘encourage or curtail’ copyright trolls

Managing IP

Depending on how the US Supreme Court rules in Unicolors v H&M, copyright defendants could have a harder time fending off serial filers, say counsel

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IPO Diversity in Innovation Toolkit

Women and diverse employees have the technical skill and knowledge, yet their contributions are not patented at the same rate as those of their male counterparts.This toolkit can help organizations move the needle on achieving gender parity in innovation.

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The Copyright Royalty Board Gets It Right: New Increased Inflation-Adjusted Royalty Rates for Webcasting–MusicTechPolicy

The Trichordist

SoundExchange does a great job on new webcasting rates--indexed to inflation.

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Performance review: UK lawyers evaluate new IP judges

Managing IP

Patent litigators tell Managing IP how they think High Court judges James Mellor and Richard Meade are adapting to life on the bench

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IPR and the World of Fashion

IIPRD

Right from the lanes of Delhi’s Sarojini Nagar, to the high-end fashion brands like Manish Malhotra and Sabyasachi, the people of the country have dynamic tastes and never-ending interests! India, which is considered the hub of fashion, is pegged at around US$ 120 billion, and in order to protect this industry from the problem of “stealing”, the law acts as a shield and safeguards the rights of such individuals by conferring upon them the right to enjoy their creation for a prescribed period of

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Three Cheers for the DSM Directive’s Rules on Author’s Contracts – and a Cautionary Note from the Netherlands

Kluwer Copyright Blog

On June 7 th , two years after its adoption, the deadline for implementing the DSM Directive finally expired. While academics and stakeholders have been critically dissecting its controversial provisions on platform liability, news aggregation and text & data mining, the Directive’s Chapter 3 (‘Fair remuneration in exploitation contracts of authors and performers’) has gone almost unnoticed, save for a positive opinion of the European Copyright Society.