Michael Geist

MAY 20, 2022

The review of the Online Streaming Act (Bill C-11) heads to committee next week as the Standing Committee on Canadian Heritage plans to devote roughly 20 hours to hearing over the next two weeks. I have received an invitation and may appear as soon as next week. While the House of Commons committee study is just getting underway, the Senate has been debating the possibility of conducting a “pre-study” of the bill at its own committee.

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McKinsey Operations

MAY 20, 2022

Organizations face an urgent need to overhaul their tech architecture and operating model to keep pace with the changing landscape. Five concrete actions can accelerate the transformation journey.

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IPilogue

MAY 20, 2022

Sally Yoon is an IPilogue Writer and a 2L JD Candidate at Osgoode Hall Law School. Russian theatres are turning to pirated films to stay alive during these trying times – and it may not be working. According to the New York Times , some theatres in Russia have resorted to screening pirated movies to offset the Hollywood sanctions while others are practicing more caution by renting out spaces to show the films to certain individuals, with or without a fee.

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TorrentFreak

MAY 20, 2022

As part of its endless quest to disrupt the unauthorized distribution of copyrighted content, in March 2021 Dutch anti-piracy group BREIN said it had successfully targeted yet another pirate IPTV seller. The subscriptions sold by the man provided access to more than 6,000 TV channels and in excess of 10,000 movies and TV shows via a VOD service. These packages typically cost just a fraction of the price associated with similar legal services while offering considerably more choice.

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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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IP Watchdog

MAY 20, 2022

This week in Other Barks & Bites: the European Commission sent notice to several EU member states directing them to codify recent rule changes to EU copyright law; a WIPO report shows that China has a significant lead in global patent application filings for hydrogen fuel cell vehicle technologies; Judge O’Grady is removed from the criminal copyright case against Kim Dotcom over reported ties to Disney; the Federal Circuit remands a dismissal of a suit seeking declaratory judgment of noninf

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McKinsey Operations

MAY 20, 2022

The Bipartisan Infrastructure Law introduces a new level of funding considerations for state and local governments. States with high ambitions are already in the thick of it—what now?

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LexBlog IP

MAY 20, 2022

PatentNext Summary: Artificial Intelligence (AI) Patent Application filings continue their explosive growth trend at the U.S. Patent Office (USPTO). At the end of 2020, the USPTO published a report finding an exponential increase in the number of patent application filings from 2002 to 2018. This trend has continued. In addition, current data shows that AI-related application filings pertaining to graphics and imaging are taking the lead over AI modeling and simulation applications. *.

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JD Supra Law

MAY 20, 2022

Cell and gene therapy transactions have increased dramatically over the last few years, in both number and complexity, and have given rise to a number of issues that merit further attention. In the article below, we outline a few of the chief concerns for parties to a cell or gene therapy transaction. This article is the second in our 2022 series, “Trends in Cell, Tissue, and Gene Therapies,” which aims to help you stay informed about the broad array of legal and regulatory issues affecting.

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McKinsey Operations

MAY 20, 2022

Geopolitical strife and digital assets are among the new risks compliance organizations must fight. Emerging technologies can help.

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JD Supra Law

MAY 20, 2022

On December 3rd, Senior Party Sigma-Aldrich filed its Preliminary Motion No. 1 that asked the Board to deny the Broad Institute, Harvard University, and MIT (collectively, Broad) benefit of its U.S. Provisional Application No. 61/736,527, filed December 12, 2012 (termed "P1"), pursuant to 37 C.F.R. § 41.121(a)(1) and S.O. ¶¶ 121 and 208.4.2. On March 16th, Broad filed its Opposition, and on April 26th, Sigma-Aldrich filed its Reply.

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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 20, 2022

DLA Piper has added the co-leader of Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP's trademark and copyright litigation practice to its own trademark copyright and media group.

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McKinsey Operations

MAY 20, 2022

How can we reclaim our relationship with anxiety, so it works for, and not against, us?

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U.S. Department of Commerce

MAY 20, 2022

Asian American and Native Hawaiian/Pacific Islander (AANHPI) Heritage Month: Honoring a Leader in Data Collection. May 20, 2022. KCPullen@doc.gov. Fri, 05/20/2022 - 10:32. David “Daddy” Kaonohiokala Bray: Giving a Hawaiian Voice to the Census. By Christopher Martin and Jasmine Pridgen, U.S. Census Bureau. Asian American and Native Hawaiian/Pacific Islanders have long contributed to the U.S.

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McKinsey Operations

MAY 20, 2022

Tried-and-true transformation methodologies are being increasingly applied to new topics outside of traditional performance improvement efforts. McKinsey senior partner Seth Goldstrom talks about the influence of transformation approaches in two areas: business building and reaching sustainability goals.

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The IPKat

MAY 20, 2022

Cats are well acquainted with the art of trolling already… Did you know that there is now an emoji for all of your IP needs? A troll! This is thanks to Kat friend Frederick Mostert. Mostert co-submitted an application for a troll emoji ( ) to the Unicode Consortium in early 2020. For interested Kats, the Unicode Emoji Subcommittee’s guidelines for submission can be found here.

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Patently-O

MAY 20, 2022

by Dennis Crouch. Michael Kaufman v. Microsoft Corp. (Fed. Cir. 2022). Kaufman’s US7885981 has a 2000 priority date and claims a method of automatically creating a database front-end for user access. Kaufman sued Microsoft–asserting that its Dynamic Data product infringed the claims. A jury agreed, finding the patent claims valid and infringed and awarded $7 million in damages.

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IPilogue

MAY 20, 2022

The deadline to apply for an IPJ Student Editor position has been extended to May 31, 2022 at 4 PM. Please read the information below for more details and email your application to iposgoode@osgoode.yorku.ca. Founded in 1984, the Intellectual Property Journal (IPJ) covers matters relating to all aspects of Intellectual Property such as patents, trademarks, copyright, designs, trade secrets, and related areas such as privacy.

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IP and Legal Filings

MAY 20, 2022

A trademark works as an instrument to claim any sort of mark as your own. There are several kinds of trademarks in India that are eligible for registration the Trademarks Act 1999. These include wordmarks, service marks, certification marks, and many more. Certainly, you become the possessor of a lot of perks both legal and social that come along with getting your trademark registered.

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Fish & Richardson Trademark & Copyright Thoughts

MAY 20, 2022

Principal Megan Chacon has been named to San Diego Metro Magazine’s 2022 Top Attorney List. According to San Diego Metro , the list honors “some of the best and brightest legal minds in the region.”. Megan is an experienced patent litigator who has served as a key principal in a number of high-stakes pharmaceutical and biotechnology cases. In particular, San Diego Metro recognized her for her role in Sumitomo Dainippon Pharma Co.

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IP Law 360

MAY 20, 2022

Gilead lost its bid to shield its Lexiscan brand of cardiac stress agent from generic competition from Pfizer when the top federal judge in Delaware ruled the new drug wouldn't actually infringe any of Gilead's patents.

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JD Supra Law

MAY 20, 2022

In this episode of The Briefing by the IP Law Blog, Scott Hervey and Josh Escovedo discuss idea theft claims in California and whether the issue of novelty can be an element of the case.

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IP Law 360

MAY 20, 2022

Federal Trade Commission Chair Lina Khan has told the U.S. International Trade Commission that she's "increasingly concerned" that holders of standard-essential patents are sometimes using the ITC to gain licensing leverage.

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Managing IP

MAY 20, 2022

Pharma counsel can look at suspicious packaging, online sellers and other signs to learn whether products are fake, say sources at Merck, Gilead and Organon

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IP Law 360

MAY 20, 2022

A Texas federal judge refused to toss American Airlines' trademark infringement suit accusing The Points Guy of tricking the airline's loyalty members into sharing login information for its reward tracking app, ruling on Friday that he has personal jurisdiction over the app based on its conduct and contacts in the state.

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LexBlog IP

MAY 20, 2022

In Mitek Systems, Inc., v. United States Automobile Association, [2021-1989] (May 20, 2022), the Federal Circuit affirmed a California district court decision transferring Mitek’s DJ action to Texas, and vacated the Texas District Court’s dismissal of the DJ action, and remanded. USAA owns U.S. Patent Nos. 8,699,779, 9,336,517, 8,977,571, and 9,818,090, all of which address the use of a mobile device to capture an image of a bank check and to transmit it for deposit.

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IP Law 360

MAY 20, 2022

Two judges sitting on a Ninth Circuit panel appeared skeptical Friday of Pandora's argument that it is shielded under California's anti-SLAPP statute from copyright claims by the rock band the Turtles, with one saying that accepting Pandora's argument could create a "wide swath" of protected conduct under the statute.

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LexBlog IP

MAY 20, 2022

In this episode of The Briefing by the IP Law Blog , Scott Hervey and Josh Escovedo discuss idea theft claims in California and whether the issue of novelty can be an element of the case. Watch this episode on the Weintraub YouTube channel, here. Listen to the podcast version of this episode on your favorite platform or online, here. Read more about this case on the IP Law Blog, here.

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IP Law 360

MAY 20, 2022

A former Analog Devices Inc. engineer on trial for trade secrets theft says the semiconductor company engaged in the same alleged misconduct and then lied about it through its Quinn Emmanuel lawyer who was formerly acting U.S. attorney in Boston, an accusation the lawyer rejected Friday as "complete nonsense.

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LexBlog IP

MAY 20, 2022

As we reported yesterday , the FTC has issued its proposal for an update to the Testimonial & Endorsement Guides. These are not THE LAW, because (1) guides are not law and (2) even if we treat them as such, this is a proposal. That said, the changes are an important indication of what the agency is currently thinking, and it is certainly possible for the agency to take an aggressive enforcement posture and indicate that the draft changes put industry on notice.

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IP Law 360

MAY 20, 2022

The Ninth Circuit has held that the 2018 federal Farm Bill that legalized hemp nationwide also legalized some products containing Delta-8 THC, a psychoactive chemical compound derived from hemp.

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Velocity of Content

MAY 20, 2022

After a successful launch last year, the online-only U.S. Book Show returns May 24-26. Publishers Weekly developed the virtual trade book show after BookExpo closed in December 2020. In a two-part program within the program on the show’s first day, Libraries Are Essential will “look at the state of libraries as vital institutions in our communities, in our democracy, and of course in the reading enterprise,” says Andrew Albanese , PW senior writer and show co-host.

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IP Law 360

MAY 20, 2022

In Law360's latest roundup of new actions at the Trademark Trial and Appeal Board, Starbucks is trying to block a trademark application for "Starbarks," its latest effort to curb pet-related brands from using its name — and four other cases you need to know about.

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The IP Law Blog

MAY 20, 2022

In this episode of The Briefing by the IP Law Blog , Scott Hervey and Josh Escovedo discuss idea theft claims in California and whether the issue of novelty can be an element of the case. Watch this episode on the Weintraub YouTube channel, here. Listen to the podcast version of this episode on your favorite platform or online, here. Read more about this case on the IP Law Blog, here.

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JD Supra Law

MAY 20, 2022

Join Troutman Pepper White Collar and Litigation Partner Cal Stein for a special podcast series, discussing the legal landscape surrounding the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act (RICO). In this fourth installment, Cal welcomes Troutman Pepper Partner William Taylor and Associate Jaclyn Essinger to discuss the intersection between trade secrets law and RICO, with a particular focus on the Defend Trade Secrets Act (DTSA), including: - Overview of DTSA (3:58); - Ingredients of a.

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Chicago IP

MAY 20, 2022

On Tuesday, June 7, 2022 from 1:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m. CT, the P. Michael Mahoney Chapter of the Federal Bar Association and the United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois will present People Who Care After 20 Years: Looking Back at the Landmark Rockford School Desegregation Case. The program promises a lively panel discussion of this important school desegregation case.

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