Likelihood of Confusion

DECEMBER 9, 2023

This week, the New York Intellectual Property Law filed this amicus brief in the Booking.com case before the SCOTUS. I helped (a little). These are complicated issues, and I will. The post NYIPLA Amicus Brief – Booking.com appeared first on LIKELIHOOD OF CONFUSION™.

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The Trichordist

DECEMBER 9, 2023

Mechanical royalties for songs in physical and permanent downloads is increasing from 12¢ to 12.40¢ on January 1, 2024.

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Copyright 107

Technology & Marketing Law Blog

DECEMBER 9, 2023

Twitter suspended the plaintiff’s Twitter account @Zay_Cipher. He wanted access to his content, so he requested an account download. However, he says the download links provided by Twitter were “defective,” so he sued Twitter pro se. Conversion. “Plaintiff’s simple act of tweeting does not create any ‘thing’ on which to base his conversion claim.” Good Faith and Fair Dealing.

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SpicyIP

DECEMBER 9, 2023

Image from here * The word “jab” translates to “when” in English. I recently read a beautiful poem called “ The Delicate Balance” authored by Professor Raman Mittal and published at SpicyIP in 2013. It is IP history in a nutshell (and perhaps much more than that), I can say. Of course, I have read and enjoyed Prof. Basheer’s poetic posts earlier (e.g., The Wow of the Now ).

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Intellectual Property IP Government Copyright 69

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

Dear Rich IP Blog

DECEMBER 9, 2023

Dear Rich: I am writing a martial arts mobile phone app. The app includes text describing the martial arts movements and choreography illustrating the moves. The martial arts forms have been relatively unchanged since the 1970’s. From what I can tell, the movements have been treated like they are in the public domain, without copyright or trademark notices.

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