Technology & Marketing Law Blog

APRIL 16, 2022

The Ninth Circuit recently considered when consumers assent to terms through interacting with a website: Berman v. Freedom Financial Network, LLC. The court confirms that to ensure enforceability, consumers should (1) check the box and (2) be advised that checking the box will indicate assent to contract terms. The underlying case is a putative TCPA class action.

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Patently-O

APRIL 16, 2022

by Dennis Crouch. The text of the Patent Act suggests that obviousness is a straightforward inquiry: find how the claimed invention differs from the prior art and ask whether, based upon those differences, an objective artisan would deem the invention obvious. 35 U.S.C. § 103. In reality, the analysis is not easy or straightforward. At the end of the day, tribunals are often left guessing whether the invention went far enough— are the differences from the prior art meaningful in some way or are

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TorrentFreak

APRIL 16, 2022

Last month, Lookmovie and Cuevana3, two of the largest pirate movie and TV streaming sites, had their domains suspended. Both sites utilized.io domains under the control of Donuts, a registry that has an agreement with the MPA to suspend piracy-related domains. Anti-piracy group Alliance for Creativity and Entertainment (ACE), which is staffed in part by MPA anti-piracy investigators, denied it was directly responsible but just three days later, Lookmovie’s Telegram channel was also banned

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IAM Magazine

APRIL 16, 2022

How IP and commercial competition plays out in the critical sector will tell us much about the future of globalised tech supply chains.

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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

The Trichordist

APRIL 16, 2022

By Chris Castle [This post first appeared on MusicTechPolicy] I have it on good authority from someone close to the talks not authorized to speak on the… Read more "Is @UMG coming to the party on unfrozen mechanicals?".

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IAM Magazine

APRIL 16, 2022

How IP and commercial competition plays out in the critical sector will tell us much about the future of globalised tech supply chains.

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Intellectual Property IP Marketing Marketing 52

SpicyIP

APRIL 16, 2022

We’re pleased to bring you a guest post by Lokesh Vyas thinking through the implications of ‘authoritative’ bodies engaging in plagiarism or lifting of content, as he looks at the recent allegations of plagiarism against the University Grants Commission. Lokesh is an LLM Candidate (IP and Technology) at American University Washington College of Law (AUWCL), Arcadia Fellow at PIJIP , and Arodhum Scholar, 2021.

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