TorrentFreak

MARCH 3, 2023

When people use search engines to find pirate sites or pirated content, the results they receive today represent a massively edited subset of what is actually out there. In response to DMCA notices sent by rightsholders, billions of URLs have already been removed from Google’s search results. Every week, millions of new URLs are processed by Google and when individual domains are considered especially infringing, Google takes that as a downranking signal.

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JD Supra Law

MARCH 3, 2023

Last month, the Fourth Circuit issued a landmark intellectual property ruling in The Prudential Insurance Company of America v. Shenzhen Stone Network Information Ltd., No. 21-1823 (4th Cir. Jan. 24, 2023).

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TorrentFreak

MARCH 3, 2023

The Pirate Bay has had its fair share of technical issues over the past years, sometimes resulting in hours or even days of downtime. When the notorious torrent site goes offline, the associated SuprBay forum usually remains online. This is helpful, as the forums have a dedicated page where outsiders can check the status of the main site. More recently, the tables have been turned.

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JD Supra Law

MARCH 3, 2023

Chatbots and other types of “generative AI”—AI that creates consumable content such as computer code, text responses, images, or music—have catapulted to the center of the AI discussion. In this episode, partners Rich Assmus and Marina Aronchik, along with host Julian Dibbell, discuss the key implications of generative AI and the contracting issues that arise for users and data providers.

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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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McKinsey Operations

MARCH 3, 2023

Organizations face a critical shortage of talent and skills. Investing in people can create a virtuous cycle that improves the ability to attract, advance, and retain talent.

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JD Supra Law

MARCH 3, 2023

In the Hatch-Waxman arena of patent litigation, the crisscross of patent laws and FDA regulations is always in play. In the recent Federal Circuit decision in Jazz Pharmaceuticals, Inc. v. Avadel CNS Pharmaceuticals, LLC, 2023 WL 2198640 (Fed. Cir. Feb. 24, 2023), we see another iteration of this with respect to listing a method-of-use patent in the Orange Book.

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JD Supra Law

MARCH 3, 2023

We are all familiar with the rhetorical device of a parade of horribles -- a series of very bad things that could happen if some action is (or isn't) taken. Often, these parades involve a degree of hyperbole. In other cases, they underestimate just how horrible the horribles actually are.

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IPilogue

MARCH 3, 2023

Sally Yoon is an IPilogue Writer, IP Innovation Clinic Fellow, and a 3L JD Candidate at Osgoode Hall Law School. The Australian government recently raised the alarm after noticing an increasing demand for unlicensed publishing materials , particularly driven by traffic to websites offering Japanese manga. The issue of manga piracy most notably made headlines back in 2021 — manga piracy had surged by over 26 times, resulting in a loss of 8.76 billion US dollars in the same year.

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JD Supra Law

MARCH 3, 2023

Getty Images, a global visual content creator and leading source for visual content, has filed a lawsuit against startup technology company Stability AI for allegedly scraping more than 12 million photographs from Getty Images’ portfolio without consent or compensation.

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McKinsey Operations

MARCH 3, 2023

Julia Houston, chief strategy and marketing officer at Equifax Inc., explains how the credit bureau managed one of the biggest data breaches in history, her learnings, and how cybersecurity is rapidly changing.

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Advertiser: IPO

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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JD Supra Law

MARCH 3, 2023

We previously discussed the UKIPO's consultation into artificial intelligence and intellectual property in December 2021 (Artificial Intelligence and Intellectual Property: what next for the UK?) and the outcomes in July 2022 (Proposed changes to copyright law to facilitate data mining). The key outcome of that consultation is now being re-considered by the UKIPO.

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McKinsey Operations

MARCH 3, 2023

New US Department of Defense funding for microelectronics R&D gives semiconductor companies an opportunity—but manufacturers and designers must adapt to meet it.

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IP Law 360

MARCH 3, 2023

The Patent Trial and Appeal Board has thrown out a host of claims in a pair of patents owned by a California-based unit of Xerox Corp., handing a win to Facebook in the tech giant's challenges to the patents.

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Patently-O

MARCH 3, 2023

I’m looking forward to speaking at Columbia Law School on Monday night (March 6, 2023) at the 5th Annual IP Law in the 21st Century Panel. The event is moderated by the really amazing professor Mavis Fowler-Williams. The panel includes a powerhouse set of speakers, including Dawn Davis EIC of Bon Appetit ; Brittany Hazelwood from Cognizant, and Rebecca Michaud from Amazon.

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IP Law 360

MARCH 3, 2023

Warner Music Group has settled a lawsuit filed by The Jesus and Mary Chain in California federal court over ownership rights to the Scottish rock band's music, a lawyer for the musicians said Friday.

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Nelligan Law

MARCH 3, 2023

Reading Time: 3 minutes A shifting world of work The world of work has been undergoing massive changes over the past decade. The COVID-19 pandemic, economic instability, and shifting market demands have all played a role in reshaping the workforce. Unfortunately, these changes have also led to a rise in group or mass terminations, where large numbers of employees are let go from a company all at once.

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IP Law 360

MARCH 3, 2023

A Texas federal judge ruled a Florida guitar maker in civil contempt Friday for continuing to list and sell its Dean V and Dean Z electric guitars for several weeks after it was barred from doing so in a trademark fight with Gibson Brands Inc.

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IAM Magazine

MARCH 3, 2023

The country’s highest court grappled with questions that are fundamental to the future of patent law

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IP Law 360

MARCH 3, 2023

U.S. Patent and Trademark Office Director Kathi Vidal has ordered the Patent Trial and Appeal Board to take another look at a challenge to a gaming patent held by Skillz Platform that was denied under Fintiv, finding the board can't refuse to institute an investigation solely based on a district court judgment of invalidity.

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McKinsey Operations

MARCH 3, 2023

In an interview at the M30 Mobility Summit, Cepton’s Hull Xu shares his views on the latest developments in mobility.

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IP Law 360

MARCH 3, 2023

A federal judge in Washington state on Friday threw out parts of a trademark dispute involving two competing "Oktoberfest" celebrations in the historic town of Leavenworth, but said the town and a Bavarian cultural organization would have to still fight it out over the ownership of a hashtag.

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IP Watchdog

MARCH 3, 2023

This week in Other Barks & Bites: the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) announced a record year for Patent Cooperation Treaty (PCT) applications; the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) switches over to electronic patent grants; the federal CHIPS Program Office is now accepting applications for around $50 billion in funding for semiconductor manufacturing and research.

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IP Law 360

MARCH 3, 2023

In Law360's latest roundup of new actions at the Trademark Trial and Appeal Board, rock band OK Go is taking aim at cereal maker Post Foods' bid to register the phrase "OK Go!" as a trademark for a new snack product — plus three other cases you need to know.

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IP Watchdog

MARCH 3, 2023

Patent filings continue to be slightly depressed in the district courts and at the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) compared to the highs of last year, with 17 new PTAB cases and 38 new district court filings. New filings consist primarily of a few apparently funded cases—a Fortress entity, for instance, sued Amazon, and a Taiwanese entity with no Internet presence has sued Apple and Samsung on wireless charging patents, with some new Jeff Gross entity filings, a slew of Dynapass filings, an

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IP Law 360

MARCH 3, 2023

Two customer survey experts on Friday told a California federal jury considering claims that TikTok's "Stitch" feature infringes the trademark of London editing house Stitch Editing Ltd. that they found significant confusion among customers about the companies being affiliated.

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JD Supra Law

MARCH 3, 2023

The USPTO will transition from officially issuing patents in paper form to officially issuing patents electronically, starting April 18, 2023. In addition to saving paper, the USPTO predicts the change to electronically issued patents will shorten the time from issue fee payment to grant, reducing application pendency.

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LexBlog IP

MARCH 3, 2023

This week, Genentech filed separate lawsuits against Biogen and Millennium, alleging breach of a license agreement to the Cabilly patents (U.S. Patent No. 6,331,415 and 7,923,221). The patents are generally directed to processes for producing an antibody or an antibody fragment by transforming a host cell with a first and a second DNA sequence encoding variable domains of the immunoglobulin heavy and light chains, respectively, and independently expressing and producing the heavy and light chain

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JD Supra Law

MARCH 3, 2023

AN INTRODUCTION TO THE NEW EUROPEAN UNIFIED PATENT COURT- In spite of years of debate and negotiations (and complicating events like COVID and Brexit), the final stage for a new option for patent enforcement (or attack on patent validity) in Europe has just begun.

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LexBlog IP

MARCH 3, 2023

As reported by HealthCareRadius in India, on February 23, 2023, Enzene Biosciences, a subsidiary of Alkem Laboratories, announced commencement of commercial supplies of its biosimilar adalimumab (ENZ-129) in India to treat ankylosing spondylitis (AS) and rheumatoid arthritis (RA). This is Enzene’s fourth biosimilar launch in the last eighteen months.

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JD Supra Law

MARCH 3, 2023

On February 17, 2023, the US Patent & Trademark Office (PTO) announced the launch of the new Trademark Decisions and Proceedings Search Tool. This tool allows users to filter and search expungement and reexamination proceedings, administrative orders and sanctions, and precedential director decisions.

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Likelihood of Confusion

MARCH 3, 2023

Mr. Boing-Boing himself is rewriting the rules about creativity, copyright and keysh: Remember four weeks ago when I told you that my young adult novel Little Brother made the New. The post Kudos to Doctorow appeared first on LIKELIHOOD OF CONFUSION™.

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JD Supra Law

MARCH 3, 2023

The US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit reversed a district court’s preliminary injunction prohibiting a patent owner from communicating its view that a competitor infringed, finding that the speech restriction was improper because the infringement assertions were not objectively baseless. Lite-Netics, LLC v. Nu Tsai Capital LLC, Case No. 23-1146 (Fed.

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LexBlog IP

MARCH 3, 2023

Safeguard Your Brand: How Choosing the Wrong Trademark Lawyer Can Kill Your Brand @media screen and (max-width: 1023px) {.thegem-vc-text.thegem-custom-6402f22ad89cf2570{display: block!important;}}@media screen and (max-width: 767px) {.thegem-vc-text.thegem-custom-6402f22ad89cf2570{display: block!important;}}@media screen and (max-width: 1023px) {.thegem-vc-text.thegem-custom-6402f22ad89cf2570{position: relative !

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JD Supra Law

MARCH 3, 2023

Although everyone balances their time and work differently, in this episode Sharon Sorkin, Chief Trademark Counsel at Ford Motor Company, discusses with Brooks Kushman CEO Sangeeta Shah how important it is to be both transparent and reliable, and how setting limits and clear expectations and then delivering on those expectations is critical to being successful in any role.

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Olartemoure Blog

MARCH 3, 2023

INVIMA announced that in order to streamline the proceedings at the Virtual Office, as of 1 March of 2023, there will be turns to review and guide each application before admitting them for processing. In the following link were the steps to submit applications will be explained. These include: W Confirm the procedure to be carried out and the official fee.

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