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Pirated Oscar Screeners Have Become a Rare Breed

TorrentFreak

The Oscars are the most anticipated movie awards show of the year, closely followed by hundreds of millions of movie fans around the world. It’s also a special event for movie pirates. Traditionally, the Oscar winners see a surge in unauthorized downloads. And in anticipation of the big day, pirated copies of award-screeners would often leak early.

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CAFC Affirms District Court Finding that Naloxone Patents are Obvious; Newman Dissents

IP Watchdog

On February 10, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit (CAFC) affirmed a decision by the U.S. District Court for the District of New Jersey, explaining that the district court did not err in finding several Adapt Pharma patents obvious. The asserted claims relate to U.S. Patent Nos. 9,468,747; 9,561,177; 9,629,965; and 9,775,838 (collectively, the “patents-in-suit”).

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Daniel Ek’s Edifice Complex: Millions for tribute, but not one red cent for royalties as Spotify buys naming rights to biggest football stadium in Europe — Artist Rights Watch

The Trichordist

By Chris Castle If screwups were Easter eggs, Daniel Ek would be the Easter bunny. Right in the middle of Spotify’s crashing stock price, billion-dollar stock buy… Read more "Daniel Ek’s Edifice Complex: Millions for tribute, but not one red cent for royalties as Spotify buys naming rights to biggest football stadium in Europe — Artist Rights Watch".

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Exceptional Cases in Patent and Trademark – February 14, 2022

CoCal IP Law Institute

On Monday, February 14, 2022 (Happy Valentine's Day!), SoCal IP Law Group partner Jonathan Pearce will present on several patent and trademark cases involving "exceptional case" determinations. Our firm has handled a few litigation matters involving potential or actual exceptional cases recently. As a result, we have some experience in these determinations and thought them [.].

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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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Against Monopoly

Likelihood of Confusion

I figured — finally! Someone who feels my pain! Those little red green plastic houses that always get lost. The paper money gets all mixed up. And those cheesy Atlantic. The post Against Monopoly appeared first on LIKELIHOOD OF CONFUSION™.

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Mascot Controversy

Intellectual Property Brief

Sports franchises are not known for changing much in the way of names and logos. However, there is a growing movement calling for franchises accused of offensive branding to remedy their past and rebrand. These branding transitions may come with challenges, such as competing with already established teams for trademarks of desired new names.

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Constituents Can Sue Chicago Alderman for Blocking Their Facebook Comments–Czosnyka v. Gardiner

Technology & Marketing Law Blog

James Gardiner is Alderman for Chicago’s 45th district. Six of his constituents allege that they were blocked from engaging with Gardiner’s Facebook page or their comments were hidden/deleted. They sued him for First Amendment violations. Gardiner made the weak argument that his Facebook page can’t be a public forum because it’s hosted on a private network (Facebook).