Plagiarism Today

MAY 18, 2022

Disclaimer: I am not a lawyer, and nothing in this post is intended to function as legal advice. If you have specific questions to your situation, please consult an attorney. On the internet, there are a variety of free stock photography websites (both royalty free and free of cost). They include Unsplash , Pixabay , Pexels and many, many more. However, for every site that offers free stock photography, there are dozens of articles saying why you shouldn’t use them.

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TorrentFreak

MAY 18, 2022

Most suppliers, sellers and resellers in the pirate IPTV space face an interesting conundrum. On one hand, being unsuccessful dramatically reduces the odds of legal trouble but isn’t conducive to getting rich. On the other, a good product coupled with brand awareness can lead to commercial success, at least until that profile attracts the wrong type of attention.

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Plagiarism Today

MAY 18, 2022

Have any suggestions for the 3 Count? Let me know via Twitter @plagiarismtoday. 1: Watch Tower’s DMCA Warfare Collapses After Big Guns Defend Apostate. First off today, Andy Maxwell at Torrentfreak writes that the case of the Watch Tower Bible and Tract Society versus the pseudonymous critic Kevin McFree has come to an end as Watch Tower has abandoned their efforts to learn his identity.

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The IPKat

MAY 18, 2022

The UK Intellectual Property Office (IPO) has published documents outlining its main activities and targets, setting out how it will deliver on its ‘ambitions’ and ‘corporate priorities’. These documents include a refreshed corporate strategy outlining its ambitions up to 2026, as well as its corporate priorities for t 2022 - 2023, outlining its first steps towards achieving these priorities.

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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?

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TorrentFreak

MAY 18, 2022

Following the example set by United States, the EU started publishing its very own piracy watchlist in 2018. The biannual ‘Counterfeit and Piracy Watch List’ is put together by the European Commission. As in the US, it is based on submissions from copyright holder groups that report on problematic sites and services. Rightsholders are happy to contribute.

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IP Watchdog

MAY 18, 2022

StockX, which describes its e-commerce resale platform as “[t]he current culture marketplace,” is primarily used by consumers to resell and buy sneakers, among other items. In January 2022, StockX announced its plans to launch The Vault, which uses non-fungible tokens (NFTs) to allow buyers to track ownership of physical products resold on its e-market and warrant their authenticity, including Nike shoes.

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IPilogue

MAY 18, 2022

Mariela Gutierrez Olivares is an IP Innovation Clinic Fellow and a 2L JD Candidate at Osgoode Hall Law School. This blog was prepared as a requirement for the Directed Reading: IP Innovation Program course, taught by Prof. Pina D’Agostino. Artificial Intelligence (AI) technologies prevail all around us. Lawmakers are playing catch up by addressing what non-human authorship means for intellectual property as we know it.

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McKinsey Operations

MAY 18, 2022

The World Trade Organization’s first African—and first female—director-general reflects on the impact of the pandemic on trade, the imperative to ensure that vaccines reach Africa and other emerging economies, and how to ensure that trade is more inclusive in the years ahead.

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CopyrightsWorld

MAY 18, 2022

Want to meet one of the pre-eminent social media experts in America? Then don’t miss our conversation with the fabulous Kris Ruby (@krisruby)! Kris is the CEO of Ruby Media Group, a full service Public Relations and Social Media Agency located in Manhattan, which offers public relations services, content marketing, social media and personal branding services.

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McKinsey Operations

MAY 18, 2022

Low unemployment doesn’t seem to dispel the gloom about inflation, the McKinsey American Opportunity Survey shows.

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Advertiser: IPO

Women and diverse employees have the technical skill and knowledge, yet their contributions are not patented at the same rate as those of their male counterparts.This toolkit can help organizations move the needle on achieving gender parity in innovation.

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IP Law 360

MAY 18, 2022

Filings at the Patent Trial and Appeal Board dropped slightly in 2021, while Federal Circuit appeals of board decisions dove by 40%, declines that lawyers attributed to the board's use of discretion to deny patent challenges and the deferential standard of review at the appeals court.

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JD Supra Law

MAY 18, 2022

In the 3D virtual world known as the metaverse, pioneering enterprises are exploring ways to capitalize on this new frontier's growing popularity. As expected, the use of company marks and brands is becoming an issue to watch. Take Nike's recent lawsuit against online resale platform StockX. The suit alleges StockX NFTs that incorporate images of Nike sneakers infringe on Nike's famous trademarks.

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Velocity of Content

MAY 18, 2022

No business, small or large, can survive for long without controlling and monitoring purchases. Business-critical and high-value products and services purchased by an organization are often scrutinized. However, decentralized spending for information resources often goes unnoticed and, in terms of use, employees may not be aware of what they can and can’t do with purchased content.

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JD Supra Law

MAY 18, 2022

In its ongoing efforts to modernize its practices and increase the efficiency of examination, the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) is implementing two changes to issuance of trademark registration certificates and the available period in which to respond to office actions provisionally refusing pending applications.

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The TTABlog

MAY 18, 2022

I ran a Twitter poll for the last several days, asking this question: After attending the INTA Annual Meeting in DC, did you test positive for Covid? The results are set out below. I take no position regarding the statistical significance of these results, but look forward to comments regarding same. If these poll results hold true for the entire 6,800 people in attendance, that would mean more than 1,750 attendees tested positive for Covid.

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The Illusion of More

MAY 18, 2022

In Part I, I wrote that I hope the Court will find that AWF’s central argument fails on the “transformativeness” question presented and that it will reaffirm that this part of the fair use factor one inquiry must find at least some evidence of commentary upon the original work. Warhol’s Prince Series does not comment […]. The post Warhol Foundation v.

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Managing IP

MAY 18, 2022

The new USPTO director has made expanding pro bono a priority – counsel say she could focus on outreach, resource and post-patent support

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Michael Geist

MAY 18, 2022

The Online Streaming Act (Bill C-11) has now passed second reading in the House of Commons and will be the subject of hearings at the Standing Committee on Canadian Heritage in the coming weeks. With the prospect of user generated content regulation still a serious concern, outgoing CRTC Chair Ian Scott tried to provide assurances earlier this week that the Commission has no interest in exercising regulatory powers over user generated content.

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Nelligan Law

MAY 18, 2022

Reading Time: < 1 minute. Hamish Mills-McEwan joins CTV’s Ask the Expert to discuss safety on the water as cottage season kicks off. Part 1: Part 2: Part 3: The post Hamish Mills-McEwan on CTV’s Ask the Expert appeared first on Nelligan Law.

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IAM Magazine

MAY 18, 2022

Taiwan’s Fair Trade Commission has published a draft white paper focusing on competition enforcement within the digital economy that will be finalised after feedback from the public.

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McKinsey Operations

MAY 18, 2022

Now is the time for grocers to develop strategic sustainability transition plans focused on value creation and think more broadly about the role they can play in encouraging change across the full value chain.

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IP Law 360

MAY 18, 2022

A Nevada federal court's recent decision in Ceja v. The Vons Companies illustrates the pitfalls of misinterpreting a court order requiring a representative with full settlement authority to be present at negotiations, and is a reminder to consider that courts differ as to what full settlement authority means in practice, says Richard Mason at MasonADR.

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Patently-O

MAY 18, 2022

by Dennis Crouch. Back in March 2022, I wrote an essay on the spectrum of structural and functional claiming, particularly commenting on the Federal Circuit’s decisions in Dyfan, LLC v. Target Corp. , 28 F.4th 1360 (Fed. Cir. 2022) and VDPP LLC v. Vizio, Inc. , 2021-2040, 2022 WL 885771 (Fed. Cir. Mar. 25, 2022). See, Dennis Crouch, Discerning the Purpose and Means of Williamson v.

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IAM Magazine

MAY 18, 2022

A fresh ordinance extends INPI’s 2019 plan to reduce the backlog of pending applications by recognising search or examination results where these are available from foreign patent offices for corresponding applications in the same family.

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IP Law 360

MAY 18, 2022

The Western District of Texas maintained its stronghold on patent litigation last year, and attorneys were given a deeper look at how cases play out in the hotspot after the Waco division's sought-after sole judge presided over a series of jury trials that led to a verdict.

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IAM Magazine

MAY 18, 2022

In a ruling that is good news for rights holders, a court has ordered punitive damages against a repeat counterfeiter, finding that the fact that he was found guilty in criminal proceedings was no bar to a subsequent civil case.

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Patent Trademark Blog

MAY 18, 2022

Can you file a late foreign patent application based on Paris Convention? We’ve talked about filing late PCT and national stage applications. But, what if you are thinking about filing a direct foreign patent application claiming priority to a US priority application? What are your late foreign patent filing options under the Paris Convention?

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IAM Magazine

MAY 18, 2022

Legal ambiguities over ownership and protection are holding back a cutting-edge technology that could have immense value. Faiz Rahman and Kamalkumar Rathinasamy of Infosys argue that policy makers must focus on creating an IP framework that serves businesses, the economy and the public good.

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LexBlog IP

MAY 18, 2022

The recently published Eleventh Edition of the Intellectual Property Review (the Review ) includes a Canadian chapter. Readers are invited to learn more on the various forms of IP protection available in Canada, and highlights of important changes in Canadian IP law over the past year. The chapter was authored by members of the Brand Protection Blog team.

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JD Supra Law

MAY 18, 2022

A couple of weeks ago, we wrote an article concerning Nike's lawsuit against StockX. The original complaint primarily concerned StockX's nascent NFT program and Vault NFT offerings, alleging that the StockX NFTs featuring Nike's brands constituted trademark infringement and dilution.

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IP Law 360

MAY 18, 2022

A trio of former Thomas Horstemeyer LLP partners announced Tuesday that they've left the firm to co-found their own intellectual property boutique called Perilla Knox & Hildebrandt LLP in the Atlanta area.

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LexBlog IP

MAY 18, 2022

The AIPLA 2022 Spring Conference is off to a great start in New Orleans. The event takes place from May 17-19, 2022. Further details regarding the AIPLA may be found here. Founded in 1897, AIPLA in a national bar association dedicated to issues of intellectual property. This includes the protection and enforcement of patents, copyrights, trademarks, trade dress, trade secrets, privacy, and related subject matter.

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IP Law 360

MAY 18, 2022

U.S. District Judge Rodney Gilstrap has permanently dismissed Bright Data Ltd.'s infringement suit against NetNut Ltd. over the Israeli company's proxy server patents after the parties said they reached a settlement agreement earlier this week.

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LexBlog IP

MAY 18, 2022

The Colorado Senate recently passed House Bill 22-1317 which, if enacted into law, would significantly limit the enforceability of any non-compete agreements executed after the law’s effective date for employers with employees working or living in Colorado. If Governor Polis signs the proposed legislation, it could go into effect as early as August 10, 2022.

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Likelihood of Confusion

MAY 18, 2022

When copying 20,000,000 books without permission is not copyright infringement Jim Bouton’s last pitch to Google wasn’t Ball Four, at least according to the umps of the Second Circuit. The post Guest Post: Fair Use or Foul Ball? appeared first on LIKELIHOOD OF CONFUSION™.

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