Mon.Apr 12, 2021

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Great Trademarks Are Everywhere, Even in the Trash

Erik K Pelton

The following is an edited transcript of my video, Great Trademarks Are Everywhere, Even in the Trash. Over the years, I’ve found many interesting trademarks everywhere I go. I think my senses are particularly heightened when I’m traveling and outside of my normal routine around town, work and home. I was recently in New Orleans and I came across one of the best slogans I’ve ever seen.

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Google v. Oracle Comes to a Close

BYU Copyright Blog

The long-running litigation between Google LLC ("Google") and Oracle America, Inc. ("Oracle") came to an end on Monday, April 5, 2021, when the Supreme Court issued its opinion on the case. The majority held in favor of Google's fair use defense to copyright infringement while Justice Thomas filed a dissenting opinion, joined by Justice Alito. We have previously reported on the extensive procedural history of the case as well as the oral arguments that were given before the Court late last year.

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Fish & Richardson Named 2021 IP Boutique Firm of the Year and ITC Firm of the Year by Managing Intellectual Property

Fish & Richardson Trademark & Copyright Thoughts

Fish & Richardson was named the 2021 IP Boutique Firm of the Year and International Trade Commission (“ITC”) Firm of the Year by Managing Intellectual Property magazine, as well as the regional Patent Contentious (West) Firm of the Year. Managing IP also named principals Betsy Flanagan and Frank Scherkenbach Litigation Practitioners of the Year for Minnesota and Massachusetts, respectively.

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Recent reading: on brands and sumptuary codes

43(B)log

Inspired by Kali Murray’s great comments at this past week’s Race and IP conference, some notes from recent reading: Virginia DeJohn Anderson, Creatures of Empire: How Domestic Animals Transformed Early America Relevant to TM and sumptuary laws (addressed in Barton Beebe's excellent work ), Anderson recounts how in some places Native people were barred from marking their own livestock, but punished if they killed a marked animal.

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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?