Thu.Sep 22, 2022

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YouTube Aims to Simplify Music Licensing

Plagiarism Today

Yesterday, at YouTube’s Made on YouTube live event, YouTube announced some major changes, including a push to monetize shorts and a revamping of the Partner Program. . However, perhaps the most significant change is happening on the copyright side of things. Specifically, YouTube is taking steps to make it easier for YouTubers to license popular music for their videos.

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Securing Europe’s competitiveness: Addressing its technology gap

McKinsey Operations

Even amid war in Europe and the energy and cost of living crisis that has resulted, the region needs to pay attention to its slow-motion corporate and technology crisis.

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3 Count: ACTing Fast

Plagiarism Today

Have any suggestions for the 3 Count? Let me know via Twitter @plagiarismtoday. 1: Appeals Court Sides With ACT in Court Battle Over Copyright. First off today, David Saleh Rauf at Edweek Market Brief reports that ACT has emerged victorious in a legal fight against their competior WIN as an appeals court has upheld a legal victory for the prominent testing organization.

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IP Leaders Join Forces to Counter Anti-IP Narratives

IP Watchdog

A new intellectual property (IP) organization launched today will be headed by former vice president of U.S. policy at the U.S. Chamber of Commerce's Global Innovation Policy Center (GIPC), Frank Cullen, and features a Board of Directors comprised of bipartisan frontrunners in the IP realm. The Council for Innovation Promotion (C4IP) will aim to educate on the importance of innovation to the U.S. economy at a high level, and to fill the void its creators say exists with respect to clarifying the

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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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Teen Sued By Bungie Over Cheats & Threats Comes Out Fighting

TorrentFreak

This July at a Washington district court, Destiny 2 developer Bungie filed the latest in a growing list of lawsuits aimed at curtailing cheating in its online games. Bungie’s complaint alleged that the user behind the Twitter handle ‘ @inkcel ‘ regularly live streamed himself using third party copyright-violating cheats in Destiny 2 that give cheaters an unfair advantage over regular players.

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Novartis to Appeal CAFC’s ‘Unprecedented’ U-Turn in Ruling on Multiple Sclerosis Drug Claims to SCOTUS

IP Watchdog

Novartis Pharmaceuticals announced today that it will appeal the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit’s (CAFC’s) June decision invalidating its patent for a dosing regimen for its multiple sclerosis drug Gilenya to the U.S. Supreme Court, after the CAFC denied its request to rehear the case. The CAFC in June vacated a different three-judge panel’s January opinion upholding Novartis’ U.S.

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Weaponizing DMCA’s: How Copyright Systems are Being Abused to Restrict Speech

IPilogue

Andrew Masson is an IPilogue Writer and 2L JD candidate at Osgoode Hall Law School. DMCA ( Digital Millennium Copyright Act ) strikes and disputes are often thought about in the context of music and video, however, it can be for any copyrightable content. In this case , an entire blog website of a crypto critic was consequently removed due to multiple DMCA strikes.

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Green infrastructure: Could public land unlock private investment?

McKinsey Operations

Emerging economies need the private sector to help fund green infrastructure initiatives. Access to public land can be structured to make those investments more attractive.

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Copyright Terminations Turn Over Estate Plans in the Livingston Family

IPilogue

Sally Yoon is an IPilogue Writer, IP Innovation Clinic Fellow, and a 3L JD Candidate at Osgoode Hall Law School. According to Copyright Lately , tensions are rising in the Livingston family as to who earns the royalties from the Academy Award-winning composer, Jay Livingston’s hit songs. These songs include hits such as Que Sera, Sera and theme songs for various television programs.

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Infographic | Is it possible to register trademarks with asian characters in Colombia?

Olartemoure Blog

It is not so common, but… When trying to register trademarks in Colombia, the most common thing people and companies do is use the Latin alphabet , although it is possible to register trademarks that are typed in other writing systems. Has the colombian trademark office (CTO) mentioned something regarding this topic? In the trademark registration examination instructions of the CTO, it is stated that when the trademark consists totally or partially of non-Latin characters or non-Arabic or

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IPO Diversity in Innovation Toolkit

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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How to Write an Invention Disclosure

IP.com

Invention disclosure documents are the important first steps in the IP commercialization process. Not only does it represent the first recording of the invention, establishing the date and scope, but they have been used to defeat challenges to dates of invention, inventorship, invention scope, and prior art. If you improperly write your invention disclosure, it can result in a complete loss of your patent rights down the road.

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Research Results, Replicability, & Retractions

Velocity of Content

As with my earlier post in this series on the overall role of peer review in the scholarly and scientific publishing process, for Peer Review Week 2022 we are reposting our pieces in this series. And little bit of updated information on the topics we covered: * Psychology, in particular, seems to have a replicability problem ; even outside of psych, everyone knows that bad papers are still getting published (and they may even have a discoverability advantage ). * Retraction Watch is still engage

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IP Luminaries Launch Group To Promote, Defend Innovation

IP Law 360

Two former directors of the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office and two former Federal Circuit judges are leading a new group launched Thursday that aims to "change the narrative" around intellectual property, by informing policymakers and the public about how it drives innovation.

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Retooling Intellectual Property Strategies to Weather Bear Markets

JD Supra Law

As economists warn of an imminent economic recession, companies should take the time now to consider their Intellectual Property (IP) strategies and determine how to preserve legal spend while simultaneously adding value to their IP portfolio.

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Discovering the Unknown – How Deep Search Capabilities Advance Science [Q&A with Lauren Tulloch]

Velocity of Content

Overwhelmed with the sheer amount and diversity of data, many organizations struggle to provide employees — from top management to front-line staff — with easy access to the most relevant information and analytic insights. . More and more, the term deep search is being buzzed about in industries that rely on having the most up to date information– areas like life sciences, biotechnology, chemicals, and agriculture. .

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BREAKING: Meta Hit With $175M Patent Verdict In Austin

IP Law 360

A federal jury in Austin on Wednesday said Meta Platforms owed almost $175 million to developers of a "walkie-talkie" smartphone app, finding that both Instagram Live and Facebook Live infringed one or more claims in patents issued to the company's founder, a former U.S. Army communications sergeant.

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Why the Online News Act is a Bad Solution to a Real Problem, Part Three: Unprecedented Government Intervention into a Sector Where Independence is Essential

Michael Geist

The first two posts in the series on why Bill C-18, the Online News Act, is a bad solution in search of a real problem focused on the risk to the free flow of information stemming from mandatory compensation for linking and how the bill encourages clickbait and other low quality news given the absence of standards in the definition of “news content.

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Pop Quiz: How Realistic Is The TM Showdown In 'She-Hulk'?

IP Law 360

The latest episodes of the new Disney+ television series "She-Hulk: Attorney at Law" shine a rare spotlight on trademark infringement, as a superpowered influencer takes the titular Marvel Comics hero to court for using the same name as a "She-Hulk" brand that she claims to own. We asked real-life lawyers to help Law360 analyze how accurately the show portrays trademark law.

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Author Talks: Steve Case identifies the US cities driving new innovation—and it’s not where you think

McKinsey Operations

For the past decade, most venture capital funding in the United States went to three cities, but Steve Case says a convergence of social, technological, and policy factors is rebalancing the scale.

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A 3 Month Check-In on the Copyright Claims Board (CCB)

Technology & Marketing Law Blog

On September 19, I gathered some CCB stats. This was 95 days after launch. 155 claims had been filed as of that date. (Today, the number is 157). That implies an annual run rate of less than 600 claims. Every time I compute the annual run rate, it keeps dropping, suggesting there was a rush of filings at the beginning. Of the 155 cases, 11 had been dismissed already (at least in part).

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Low-carbon fun: Making RV manufacturing greener

McKinsey Operations

Being outside and enjoying nature is a key value proposition of the recreational-vehicle industry. Protecting the environment will soon become more important for the industry’s players.

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The Difficulty with Prior Art Sales

Patently-O

by Dennis Crouch. Today’s decision in Cap Export, LLC v. Zinus, Inc. , 21-2159 ( Fed. Cir. 2022 ) (non-precedential) offers some insight into the difficulty of proving an anticipation case with something other than a prior patent or printed publication. Cap Export particularly focuses on a prior sale. The problem is that the item sold way-back-when typically no longer exists in its original form.

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How the Gulf of Mexico can further the energy transition

McKinsey Operations

Long recognized as a pillar of US energy production, deepwater Gulf of Mexico could help provide the resources the world needs during the energy transition.

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Patents Issued Per Year

Patently-O

The USPTO’s fiscal year ends at the end of September, so this chart is slightly preemptive. But, it shows that patent grants have fallen again this year by about 5.5% from 2021 and 11% below the all-time high in FY2020. The drop shown here is likely reflective of the pull-back experienced in the first year of COVID. I have not yet done a breakdown of the relative numbers on original filings vs continuations and US vs foreign. – Crouch.

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As ISVs disrupt payments, can merchant acquirers stay relevant?

McKinsey Operations

Merchant acquirers must act quickly to retain share as small businesses shift to integrated software vendors (ISVs), adopt value-added services, and address customers’ preference for omnichannel commerce.

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CHIPS for America Webinar Series

U.S. Department of Commerce

CHIPS for America Webinar Series. September 21, 2022. ASowah@doc.gov. Wed, 09/21/2022 - 13:38. ICT Supply Chain. The CHIPS Program Office is excited to announce the first scheduled offerings of the CHIPS for America Webinar Series. The topic for the first set of webinars is to review the recently released CHIPS for America Strategy Paper. . We also encourage you to submit questions in advance of the briefings via Slido to ensure that we maximize the Q&A portion of the briefings.

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Using advanced analytics to improve performance in customs agencies

McKinsey Operations

Machine learning and other analytics tools can improve fraud detection and strategic workforce planning, among other potential benefits.

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PTAB Grills Intel, VLSI In Fight Over IP Tied To $2.18B Verdict

IP Law 360

A Patent Trial and Appeal Board panel on Thursday called into question VLSI Technology LLC's $2.18 billion jury win against Intel as it grilled attorneys for both companies over the tech giant's challenge to one of two microchip patents involved in the enormous verdict.

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The Truth About Trade Secrets; Ep 1 of Season 2 of ‘Understanding IP Matters’ Drops Today

IP Close Up

“Governments can control property like patents,” says a former worldwide IP executive. “They don’t as easily control trade secrets.” These are the words of trade Continue reading.

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Alsup Rips Meta, Software Co. For 11th-Hour Discovery Fight

IP Law 360

U.S. District Judge William Alsup ordered Meta Platforms and software patent licensing company MasterObjects on Wednesday to produce depositions and interrogatories so he can decide their pretrial fight over expert reports and a sanctions bid, asking "Why are you putting me in this ridiculous position on the eve of trial?

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Cybersecurity is a requisite for unleashing 5G’s potential in healthcare

McKinsey Operations

New technologies in the healthcare area can lead to major quality-of-life improvements, but require massive investments in data security.

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Sixth Circuit Rules District Court Didn’t Provide Sufficient Justification in Failing to Apply Safe-Distance Rule in Jeep Trade Dress Case

IP Watchdog

On September 19, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit issued a decision in Mahindra & Mahindra Ltd. v. FCA US, LLC vacating the Eastern District of Michigan’s denial of permanent injunction against a redesigned version of an off-road vehicle manufactured by Mahindra. The Sixth Circuit, in an opinion authored by Senior Circuit Judge Helene E.

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The gathering storm: The affordability challenge of endemic COVID-19

McKinsey Operations

Even as the acute threat to lives from the COVID-19 pandemic recedes, the ongoing challenges for the healthcare industry will persist.

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Novartis: Inherency in Written Description

Patently-O

by Dennis Crouch. Novartis Pharms Corp. v. Accord Healthcare, Inc. (Fed. Cir. 2022). Without any fanfare or dissent, the Federal Circuit has denied the Novartis en banc petition. The court used a questionable procedure flip its own prior decision by replacing Judge O’Malley with a more defendant-friendly Judge Hughes for the rehearing. The merits decision appears to further tighten-up on the written description requirement — especially with regard to ‘negative’ claim lim

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A new dawn for industrial channels: Meeting customers where they want

McKinsey Operations

The time is ripe for industrial OEMs to rethink their long-held distribution model and rebalance their channel mix.