Mon.May 03, 2021

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The Real George Costanza and the Right to Privacy

JIPEL Copyright Blog

This past fall, I started watching one of the most successful TV shows ever made : not Game of Thrones , not Breaking Bad , but Seinfeld. The show follows comedian Jerry Seinfeld and his three friends: Cosmo Kramer, Elaine Benes, and George Costanza. George was instantly my favorite. He’s short, stocky, bald, dramatic, and incredibly unlucky with women and work.

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Supreme Court to Decide Fate of Assignor Estoppel

IP Intelligence

In Hologic, Inc. v. Minerva Surgical, Inc. (Fed. Cir. April 22, 2020), the Federal Circuit declined the “invitation to ‘abandon the doctrine’ of assignor estoppel” and, after concluding that the district court did not abuse its discretion in applying the doctrine, affirmed the district court’s grant of summary judgment of no invalidity. Opinion at 16, 18.

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Does Gordon v. Drape really mean what it says about explicit misleadingness?

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Testing Gordon v. Drape with the paintings of Tom Sachs, some of which reproduce famous product labels in their entirety (or nearly so). The introduction to the coffee table book I just bought says, From Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups and Snickers bars to images of American flags and Air Force One, Sachs takes familiar brands, symbols, and commodities as his subjects.

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Fish & Richardson Principal Jay Kugler DeYoung Authors Intellectual Property Magazine Article, “Letting Go of Stereotypes”

Fish & Richardson Trademark & Copyright Thoughts

Fish Principal and chair of Fish’s EMPOWER Women’s Initiative, Jay Kugler DeYoung , authored the article “Letting Go of Stereotypes” for Intellectual Property Magazine. In the article, Jay explores the challenges facing women in STEM and IP and offers her advice to younger female IP attorneys, as well as strategies to increase female representation in the field.

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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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Tootsie Pups

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Acquired from a seller before the inevitable shutoff. The rare occasion where I see the harm story, since Tootsie Pops theoretically contain chocolate, which one would not want to give a dog. [link].

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Reading list: race and GIs

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Reading list: Mathilde Cohen, The Whiteness of French Food : Law, Race, and Eating Culture in France (forthcoming in French Politics, Culture, and Society, 2021) English Abstract: Food is fundamental to French identity. So too is the denial of structural racism and racial identity. Both tenets are central to the nation’s self-definition, making them difficult, yet all the more important to think about together.

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