Tue.May 11, 2021

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Waiver Of Intellectual Property Protections For COVID-19 Vaccine Unlikely To Have Meaningful Impact In Short Term

Intellectual Property Law Blog

On Wednesday, May 7, 2021, the United States officially endorsed waiving intellectual property protections for COVID-19 vaccines. While the United States has taken the opposite position in recent months, the administration asserts that its departure is guided, at least in part, by the goal “to get as many safe and effective vaccines to as many people as fast as possible.” [1] That goal, however, is unlikely to be affected by such a waiver in the short term due to uncertainty in World Trade Organ

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Understanding your Market As An Illustrator

Art Law Journal

The first step in identifying where your work belongs to ask yourself is: What kind of work do I love? Who is my audience? The post Understanding your Market As An Illustrator appeared first on Art Business Journal.

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Good Faith De Minimis Use of a Mark May Defeat a Claim of Trademark Abandonment in the Fifth Circuit

IP Intelligence

In Perry v. H.J. Heinz Company, et al. (No. 20-30418 5th Cir. April 12, 2021), the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit dealt with the issue of whether de minimis use can defeat a claim of trademark abandonment. It can, provided that such use is not made in good faith and not simply to maintain a trademark. In Perry , the plaintiff produced 60 bottles of his mayonnaise/ketchup and mustard/ketchup concoctions branded METCHUP.

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Colombian Emergency Use Authorization for Vaccines and Medicines for COVID-19, ¿How does it work?

Olartemoure Blog

Decree 1787 of 2020 from MoH contains the guidelines to assess chemical and biological synthesis drugs which due to its potential use in the treatment of COVID, can obtain an Emergency Use Health Authorization ( ASUE in Spanish ) and can be employed on a conditional and temporary basis (1 year) with the possibility of a one time renewal. The drug candidate must undergo a Phase III clinical trial (in Colombia or another country) and provide additional support of the safety and efficacy of the dru

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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?

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Can I register my architectural work? A glance through copyright in Peru

Garrigues Blog

Architects and engineers take note! Architectural works are protected by copyright. The possibility of registering and granting additional protection to architectural works at Indecopi is not a new right or exclusive to Peruvian law. However, it is a little known right in the industry and it is advisable to make use of it because it offers authors several advantages.

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Misinformation, Disinformation, and Media Literacy in a Less-Centralized Social Media Universe

43(B)log

Knight First Amendment Institute, Reimagine the Internet Great panel today; more to come the rest of the week and they will shortly post the video. Francesca Tripodi (UNC) shared her amazing research about how conservatives use textual interpretation techniques to interpret information and reject journalistic interventions. Conservatives then use and trust Google’s top results, believing that Google top results reflect reality, which seems a bit contradictory to me.