Sat.Jan 21, 2023

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New USPTO Tool Aims to Help IP Newbies Identify Their Rights

IP Watchdog

At the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office’s (USPTO) Women’s Entrepreneurship (WE) event in Naples, Florida, on Wednesday, January 18, USPTO Director Kathi Vidal announced that the Office has a new tool, called the Intellectual Property (IP) Identifier, intended to assist those “less familiar with IP” in identifying what IP they have and what rights they need to protect it.

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Report Urges Cloudflare to Terminate Accounts of Pirate Sites

TorrentFreak

Popular Internet infrastructure service Cloudflare has come under a lot of pressure from copyright holders in recent years. The company offers its services to millions of sites. This includes multinationals, governments, but also some of the world’s leading pirate sites. These sites have proven to be quite a headache for the San Francisco-based tech company.

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Fourth Circuit’s 230 Meltdown Gives Plaintiffs False Hope–Divino v. Google

Technology & Marketing Law Blog

Last year, in Henderson v. Source for Public Data , the Fourth Circuit issued a MAGAlicious Section 230 opinion that seemingly trashed 25 years of Fourth Circuit precedent. It was immediately obvious that plaintiffs would widely cite the ruling. However, so far there hasn’t been much uptake by other courts. In this case, the plaintiffs allege that YouTube engages in discriminatory content moderation, an argument has gone nowhere in court.

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A view from inside the IP world of Silicon Valley

IAM Magazine

Saturday Opinion: Tech industry layoffs will impact everyone but those in the hub also see room for manoeuvre

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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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Patent Search Techniques And Tools

Intepat

An invention becomes patentable when it is novel, has an inventive step or is non-obvious. In order to determine whether a particular invention satisfies these preconditions set forth under the Patents Act 1970, it is imperative that an applicant carries out a thorough patent search. A patent search conducts a search in a database that has information regarding pre-existing patents, both published as well as granted, that form the prior art at a particular time.

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A view from inside the IP world of Silicon Valley

IAM Magazine

Saturday Opinion: Tech industry layoffs will impact everyone but those in the hub also see room for manoeuvre

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Top 10 Most Popular Torrent Sites of 2023

TorrentFreak

YTS remains at the top of the list in 2023, despite the fact that the site and its users were subjected to various lawsuits in recent years. The main YTS domain name continues to draw millions of visitors per day. That’s quite an achievement when considering that the site only lists movie torrents. The annual list of popular torrent sites features well-known brands, and this year there are some notable additions.

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Request for Comments on USPTO Initiatives to Ensure the Robustness and Reliability of Patent Rights

Patently-O

Feb 1, 2023, is the new deadline for providing comments to the USPTO on this RFC. [link] Topics : The USPTO invites written responses to the following questions and requests. Commenters are welcome to respond to any or all of the questions. 1. Identify any specific sources of prior art not currently available through the Patents End-to-End Search system that you believe examiners should be searching.

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