TorrentFreak

DECEMBER 26, 2021

In a summer 2020 lawsuit , Amazon Content Services, publisher Penguin Random House and several authors including John Grisham and Lee Child, accused several pirate eBook sites of infringing their copyrights. The sites, which operated under the ‘Kiss Library’ brand, were available from domains including Kissly.net, Wtffastspring.bid, Libly.net, and Cheap-Library.com.

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SpicyIP

DECEMBER 26, 2021

We’re pleased to bring to you a guest post by Arun Mohan on the recent order by the PPV & FR Authority dated 03.12.2021 in the “revocation application relating to FL 2027- Kavita Kuruganti” Arun has been a regular guest blogger for SpicyIP and you can find his bio and posts here and here. Looking at PPVFR Authority’s cancellation of Pepsico India’s Extant Potato Variety Protection.

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The IPKat

DECEMBER 26, 2021

A quirk of European patent prosecution is the requirement for the description to be amended in line with allowed claims. This requirement is provided for by the EPO Guidelines for Examination ( F-IV-4.4 ). Despite having unclear legal basis, the description amendment requirement was controversially made even more stringent in the 2021 Guidelines ( IPKat ).

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IP Watchdog

DECEMBER 26, 2021

This is Part II of a two-part article discussing FRAND (fair, reasonable, and non-discriminatory) licensing developments taking place in the United States in 2021. Read Part I here. After a slow summer on the FRAND licensing front, the Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit’s ruling in the matter of HTC v. Ericsson came in the dog days of August. As we wrote about here, the August 31 ruling dealt with, amongst other things, an appeal challenging the district court’s instructions to the jury rega

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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

Likelihood of Confusion

DECEMBER 26, 2021

The Cincinnati Enquirer reports this chilling story: A local attorney and instructor in legal studies at the University of Cincinnati’s Clermont College has been hit with a $1.3 million malpractice. The post Search or destroy appeared first on LIKELIHOOD OF CONFUSION™.

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Barry Sookman

DECEMBER 26, 2021

Computer and Internet Weekly Updates for 2021-12-18 [link] 2021-12-19. Brand Protection KPIs: How to Focus on Outcomes, Not Takedowns – INCOPRO [link] 2021-12-20. Can an Idea, Style or Method Be Protected Under the Copyright Act? [link] 2021-12-20. No copyright in a style [link] 2021-12-20. Johannsongs-Publishing, Ltd. v. Lovland | Loeb & Loeb LLP [link] 2021-12-22.

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Likelihood of Confusion

DECEMBER 26, 2021

Can alternative data repair the way that millions of Americans can finally get the credit they deserve? For over 92 million Americans, either because they have thin credit or are. The post Alternative Data: A Fair Credit System For All? appeared first on LIKELIHOOD OF CONFUSION™.

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