TorrentFreak

OCTOBER 25, 2024

With war still raging in Ukraine, writing about the collateral damage to Russia’s cinema industry seems vanishingly unimportant. When Disney, Warner Bros., Sony Pictures, Paramount, and Universal left the Russian market, some celebrated their exit as a positive for local cinema. Opportunities for local filmmakers would appear in greater numbers than ever before, some assured, and the entire ecosystem would only thrive without unwanted Western influence.

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IP Watchdog

OCTOBER 25, 2024

The U.S. Copyright Office today issued its final rule adopting exemptions under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA), which prohibits circumvention of technological protection measures (TPMs) that control access to copyrighted works. The Office engages in such rulemaking every three years. This is the ninth triennial Section 1201 rulemaking since passage of the DMCA in 1998.

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JD Supra Law

OCTOBER 25, 2024

Every month, Erise’s trademark attorneys review the latest developments at the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, in the courts, and across the corporate world to bring you the stories that you should know about: Third Time’s a Charm for OMG Girlz, with $71.5M Verdict - A jury in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of California recently awarded $71.

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IP Watchdog

OCTOBER 25, 2024

This week in Other Barks & Bites: the USPTO is changing its approach to auditing trademark applications; the production company behind Blade Runner 2049 sues Tesla for AI-aided copyright infringement;a former OpenAI staffer publishes an essay accusing his former employer of breaking copyright law; and Microsoft’s CEO asks countries to change their copyright law.

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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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Likelihood of Confusion

OCTOBER 25, 2024

Originally posted 2013-01-08 13:57:37. Republished by Blog Post PromoterPresident Obama is suffering from the right-of-publicity blues again. And now maybe we understand why he wants an intellectual property anti-counterfeiting lawyer on the Supreme Court — this could rise to the level of an international incident already, Jack! A blog called Cloned In China explains it […] The post Don’t bother, they’re here appeared first on LIKELIHOOD OF CONFUSION™.

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IP Law 360

OCTOBER 25, 2024

Healthcare tech company Masimo Corp. beat all but three of 16 Apple Inc. Apple Watch patent claims Friday at the close of a five-day jury trial that put more prestige and bragging rights than cash on the line.

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IP Law 360

OCTOBER 25, 2024

A Texas bankruptcy judge deferred ruling on a motion from the Chapter 7 trustee in the bankruptcy of right-wing media fabulist Alex Jones to conduct sales of certain of the estate's assets, saying he wants to know whether the parties to the case anticipate future litigation on the trustee's ability to sell the assets.

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JD Supra Law

OCTOBER 25, 2024

The rapid advancement of artificial intelligence (AI) technologies is fueling a surge in global patent filings for AI-related innovations, but differences in national patent laws and examination standards for such inventions pose challenges for AI solution developers aiming to protect intellectual property (IP) rights for their inventions across multiple jurisdictions.

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IP Law 360

OCTOBER 25, 2024

McKool Smith patent trial attorney Jennifer Truelove helped Netlist secure $445 million in patent infringement damages awards, and also assisted in getting a $192 million verdict against Samsung for Mojo Mobility and a $142 million award for another company, earning her a spot as one of the 2024 Law360 IP MVPs.

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JD Supra Law

OCTOBER 25, 2024

​​​​​​​On October 14, 2024, Accord BioPharma, Inc. announced that the FDA has approved IMULDOSA (ustekinumab-srlf), a biosimilar to Johnson & Johnson’s STELARA (ustekinumab), indicated for the treatment of chronic inflammatory conditions, including psoriasis, psoriatic arthritis, Crohn’s disease, and ulcerative colitis.

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IP Law 360

OCTOBER 25, 2024

The Ninth Circuit on Friday upheld the seven-year prison sentence imposed on a former University of California, Los Angeles, electrical engineering professor convicted of illegally exporting high-powered semiconductor chips to China, saying the district court did not err in holding that the conduct amounted to an evasion of national security controls.

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JD Supra Law

OCTOBER 25, 2024

In 2023, visual artists Sarah Andersen, Kelly McKernan, and Karla Ortiz filed a class action lawsuit against several Artificial Intelligence (AI) companies, alleging that the companies’ various AI models violated copyright law by using the artists’ work in their training data sets.

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IP Law 360

OCTOBER 25, 2024

Two new petitions in front of the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office director say the patent administrative board created "a heightened new standard" in one instance and a trade secrets "loophole" in another in order to protect patents covering purportedly novel corn seeds developed by a unit of DowDuPont spin-off Corteva.

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JD Supra Law

OCTOBER 25, 2024

For more than half a century, Marvel Comics and DC Comics have jointly owned the trademark ‘Superhero.’ However, the Trademark Trial and Appeal Board recently granted a petition to cancel that mark because it became generic. Scott Hervey and James Kachmar discuss this case and how marks become generic on this episode of The Briefing.

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IP Law 360

OCTOBER 25, 2024

A Massachusetts-based plant breeding startup was able to show that a patent owned by a unit of a DowDuPont spin-off covering a plant gene resistant to weed killers wasn't patentable, the Patent Trial and Appeal Board has found.

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JD Supra Law

OCTOBER 25, 2024

For more than half a century, Marvel Comics and DC Comics have jointly owned the trademark ‘Superhero.’ However, the Trademark Trial and Appeal Board recently granted a petition to cancel that mark because it became generic. Scott Hervey and James Kachmar discuss this case and how marks become generic on this episode of The Briefing.

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IP Law 360

OCTOBER 25, 2024

California labor law doesn't shield OpenAI from producing CEO Sam Altman's and President Greg Brockman's texts and social media messages relevant to a copyright infringement lawsuit, authors alleging OpenAI and Microsoft illegally used their copyrighted works to train artificial intelligence program ChatGPT has told a New York federal judge.

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Olartemoure Blog

OCTOBER 25, 2024

On October 10th 2024, the Council of the European Union adopted the Cyber Resilience Act , establishing new cybersecurity requirements for digital products such as cameras, televisions, and connected toys. This law aims to ensure the safety of these products before they are marketed, covering their entire lifecycle and supply chain, and requiring the CE marking that certifies compliance with high safety standards.

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IP Law 360

OCTOBER 25, 2024

As Shira Perlmutter completes four years as the register of copyrights and director of the U.S. Copyright Office, she told attorneys Friday the agency dealt "with just a dizzying array of issues" — with artificial intelligence technology being ever present — but the Copyright Claims Board was one of her top accomplishments.

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Olartemoure Blog

OCTOBER 25, 2024

As from January 1st, 2025, the 20th edition of the twelfth edition of the Nice Classification, which is available on the website of the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO), will enter into force. This update will apply to international applications received by the origin Office on or after January 1st, 2025, and to international applications received by the International Office of WIPO on or after January 01, 2025, when such applications have been received after the two-month period

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IP Law 360

OCTOBER 25, 2024

Trina Solar Co. Ltd. has advanced its campaign to ban competitors' solar products from the U.S., calling on the U.S. International Trade Commission to prohibit the import of Canadian Solar Inc. products that purportedly infringe its intellectual property.

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The Trichordist

OCTOBER 25, 2024

Damian Collins shows us how Google continues its AI shenanigans in the UK–but may be coming soon to America.

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IP Law 360

OCTOBER 25, 2024

U.S. Patent Trademark Office Director Kathi Vidal vowed to sanction OpenSky Industries "to the fullest extent of [her] power" for filing a bad faith patent challenge, but then imposed sanctions that, if anything, rewarded the misconduct, VLSI Technology has told the Federal Circuit.

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Trading Secrets

OCTOBER 25, 2024

In 2016, the Defend Trade Secret Act, 18 U.S.C. 1836 (the DTSA), passed Congress and went into effect. At its heart, it effectively codified the Uniform Trade Secrets Act at the federal level, creating a federal cause of action. Prior to the enactment of the DTSA, a large body of federal common law had developed around the remedies available to a plaintiff after a defendant allegedly misappropriated a trade secret, including the inevitable disclosure doctrine.

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IP Law 360

OCTOBER 25, 2024

A man accused by OpenAI of preventing the ChatGPT-maker from registering its name as a trademark urged the Ninth Circuit on Friday to vacate an injunction blocking him from using the "Open AI" mark while his case is pending, arguing he's the mark's senior holder and calling the injunction "extraordinary and unprecedented.

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Michael Geist

OCTOBER 25, 2024

Last week, Green College, an interdisciplinary graduate college on the campus of the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, hosted a medieval workshop titled The Writing of Ancient Christianity in Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages. As the title would suggest, the workshop was highly specialized and of limited interest to anyone outside of the scholarly field.

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IP Law 360

OCTOBER 25, 2024

A Wisconsin federal jury has largely found in favor of gardening toolmaker Woodland Tools on allegations that competitor Fiskars Brands made false claims about the design origin and cutting power of Fiskars products including pruners and shears.

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JD Supra Law

OCTOBER 25, 2024

On October 10, 2024, the USPTO issued a final rule allowing parties to proceed without backup counsel in AIA proceedings and implementing an automatic admission process for pro hac vice attorneys. Full text of the final rule can be found here. The new regulations are intended to improve access to the PTAB and streamline existing processes. Expanding Opportunities to Appear Before the Patent Trial and Appeal Board, 89 Fed.

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IP Law 360

OCTOBER 25, 2024

Researchers who want to look into whether generative artificial intelligence was producing content that was discriminatory or explicit won't be exempt from a provision of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act that bars circumventing digital locks on copyrighted material, according to a new rule.

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Patently-O

OCTOBER 25, 2024

by Dennis Crouch Throughout its 40-year history, the Federal Circuit has been largely negative toward the doctrine of equivalents (and exceedingly negative toward the reverse DOE). This negativity includes repeatedly taking decisions out of the jury’s hands based upon insufficient evidence of equivalency. In a new decision, a 2-1 majority continues this trend, holding that conclusory expert testimony is insufficient even for relatively simple technologies.

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IP Law 360

OCTOBER 25, 2024

Drywall manufacturer National Gypsum has convinced a Chicago federal judge that new shades of pink used by a company that makes shower wall niches broke the terms of an injunction that was issued after a jury sided with National Gypsum in a legal dispute over the use of the color purple in construction materials.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

OCTOBER 25, 2024

Image from pixabay The German Regional Court (Landgericht) of Hamburg handed down its judgment in the LAION case on 27 September 2024 (file no. 310 O 227/23, published in German here ). The key points of the decision are as follows: The reproduction of works for the purpose of creating URL lists that can be used for artificial intelligence training does not fall under the temporary reproduction exception under Section 44a German Copyright Act (Art. 5(1) EU InfoSoc Directive 2001/29 [InfoSoc Dire

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IP Law 360

OCTOBER 25, 2024

In this week's Off The Bench, the three claimants to a historic baseball now know how much is at stake for the winner, a long fight against wage suppression for mixed martial arts fighters is a step closer to ending, and WNBA players want a bigger piece of a growing revenue pie.

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CoCal IP Law Institute

OCTOBER 25, 2024

MGA v. T.I. Decision There were big headlines last week when MGA Entertainment Inc. lost in a jury verdict to Grand Hustle LLC (and others) in a trade dress and/or name, image, and likeness rights of the OMG Girlz. But, no articles seem to really discuss the substance of the case in any degree. It [.

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IP Law 360

OCTOBER 25, 2024

The impact on law firms of the recent CrowdStrike outage underscores that the business of law is no longer merely about providing supplemental support for legal practice — and helps explain why some law firms are appointing dedicated, full-time CEOs to navigate the challenges of the modern legal landscape, says Jennifer Johnson at Calibrate Strategies.

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