IP Watchdog

MARCH 5, 2023

The Copyright Claims Board (CCB) has issued its first final decision since it was established by law in December 2020, finding in favor of a photographer who claimed a lawyer infringed his copyright by displaying one of his photographs on his law firm website. David Oppenheimer’s case against Douglas Prutton was referred to the CCB by the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California in April 2022, two months before the Board opened to receive claims.

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Likelihood of Confusion

MARCH 5, 2023

A very popular post around here, based on server logs and SEO power, is this one: Trademark do it yourself? In that post I dissect an article by a bright, The post Amateur trademark filings, gauzy brand aids appeared first on LIKELIHOOD OF CONFUSION™.

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Patently-O

MARCH 5, 2023

by Dennis Crouch I’ve become somewhat callous toward patent eligibility jurisprudence and so was surprised when I read the Federal Circuit’s decision in ADASA Inc. v. Avery Dennison Corp. , 55 F.4th 900 (Fed. Cir. Dec 16, 2022). The case concluded that constructively dividing a fixed-length binary number into different sub-portions was not an abstract idea.

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LexBlog IP

MARCH 5, 2023

In Lite-Netics, LLC v. Nu Tsai Capital, LLC, [2023-1146] (February 17, 2023), the Federal Circuit vacated a preliminary injunction against Lite-Netics patent-related speech, holding that the district court abused its discretion. Lite-Netics brought a patent infringement action against HBL, and sent two notices, one before filing suit and one after, to its customers (some of which were also HBL customers), informing them of allegedly infringing competitors in the market and stating Lite-Netics

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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

IP and Legal Filings

MARCH 5, 2023

Introduction The complainant used the “RPG” word mark since 1979 and was an Indian industrial conglomerate with over twenty enterprises involved in infrastructure, tyres, technology, and specialty. According to the Trade Marks Act of 1999 , the plaintiff was the owner of the registered trade mark “RPG” in Classes 5, 9, 12, 16, and 30.

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IAM Magazine

MARCH 5, 2023

Get ready for the new working week with a summary of all the stories posted on the IAM platform over the past seven days

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IAM Magazine

MARCH 5, 2023

Get ready for the new working week with a summary of all the stories posted on the IAM platform over the past seven days

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TorrentFreak

MARCH 5, 2023

When an opponent fails to defend themselves in an ordinary fight, things tend to be over pretty quickly. The same isn’t true for copyright lawsuits. In early October 2021, MG Premium – a subsidiary of adult entertainment giant MindGeek – filed a copyright complaint at a district court in Washington. It targeted Daftsex.com, an adult ‘tube’ site offering MG-owned videos from the Brazzers and Digital Playground series, among others, to dozens of millions of users ever

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

MARCH 5, 2023

“The issue is, what is milk?” The FDA uses the term “milk” to describe cowmilk [FN], but that isn’t a single commercial product from a nutritional standpoint–there are various versions of “milk” with different fat percentages, with lactose removed, and other modifications. (To make things even more complicated, the FDA now says some fortified soy-based “beverages” are nutritionally equivalent to cowmilk and thus covered by the FDA’

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