Erik K Pelton
MAY 13, 2025
The following is an edited transcript of my video 25 Tips When Brainstorming a New Name. Here are twenty five things to keep in mind when working to create new brand name – whether launching a new business, new product, or new service, or renaming one: Begin with suffixes and prefixesnot full wordsand think about the message you want to convey to consumers.
Plagiarism Today
MAY 22, 2025
On May 18th, the Chicago Sun-Times published a book list generated by AI and containing 10 fake books. Here's how it happened. The post How a Fake AI-Generated Book List Made it Into Major Papers appeared first on Plagiarism Today.
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TorrentFreak
MAY 14, 2025
On February 11, 2025, a coalition of forty media outlets took legal action in France hoping to slam the brakes on mass piracy of thousands of articles published each day. Under the umbrella groups La Dpche du Midi, La Montagne, Sud Ouest, Le Tlgramme, Publihebdos, and La Nouvelle Rpublique du Centre, and together the “Alliance”, the publishers hoped to derail “parasitic” news platform, news.dayfr.com.
Hugh Stephens Blog
MAY 17, 2025
Image credit: Reuters As Canadas cultural community assesses the make-up of Prime Minister Mark Carneys new Cabinet, two common phrases come to mind, Hope Springs Eternel and Grasping at Straws. The cultural and copyright industries have a number of legitimate concerns, which were well articulated in a pre-election brief published by the Coalition for the … Continue reading "How will Mark Carney’s Cabinet Appointments Impact Canada’s Cultural and Copyright Industries?
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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?
IP and Legal Filings
MAY 24, 2025
The high velocity of technological developments in Information and Communication Technology and Computer Science has brought tremendous changes in the evaluation and patenting of inventions in the tech industry. With innovations in Artificial Intelligence, blockchain technology, quantum computing, cloud computing, the Internet of Things, and cyber security, the legal environment of Computer-Related Inventions (CRIs) has become more complicated.
Technology & Marketing Law Blog
MAY 20, 2025
The court summarizes the case: Rodney Woodland, a freelance artist and model, posts semi-naked photographs of himself in different poses on Instagram. Montero Lamar Hill, better known as the recording artist Lil Nas X , also has an Instagram accountand he, too, shares semi-naked photos of himself in varying poses (as one apparently does on Instagram these days).
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Plagiarism Today
MAY 20, 2025
Louisiana's Secretary of State is facing controversy after an Ohio artist claims the state ripped off his design for a voting sticker. The post Did Louisiana Plagiarize its Voting Sticker? appeared first on Plagiarism Today.
TorrentFreak
MAY 28, 2025
In 2019, Internet provider Cox Communications lost its legal battle against a group of dozens of record labels, including Sony and Universal. Following a two-week trial, a Virginia jury held Cox liable for its pirating subscribers. The ISP failed to disconnect repeat infringers and was ordered to pay $1 billion in damages. This case is one of many. Other ISPs have been accused of being similarly lax in their stance against alleged piracy.
JD Supra Law
MAY 13, 2025
In this episode, Austin Padgett and Rusty Close discuss the legal implications of Mike Tyson's face tattoo in the context of intellectual property law. They explore the copyright infringement lawsuit filed by tattoo artist S. Victor Whitmill in relation to the use of Tyson's tattoo design in the poster for The Hangover Part II. The conversation covers the originality and fixation requirements for copyright, the impact of preliminary injunctions, and the broader implications of copyright law.
Velocity of Content
MAY 14, 2025
The U.S. Copyright Office (USCO) recently released its highly anticipated Report on Generative AI (the third and final part in the USCOs AI and copyright series) in a pre-publication format. At a time when headlines dominate, and despite the leadership changes underway at theUSCO, the report represents a substantial body of work and analysis that explores how copyright law applies to the training of generative AI systems with a level of nuance that reflects the expertise of its drafters and a cl
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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.
IP Law 360
MAY 8, 2025
Former Federal Circuit Judge Kathleen O'Malley has left Sullivan & Cromwell LLP and started her own consulting firm, she announced Thursday.
Erik K Pelton
MAY 7, 2025
The following is an edited transcript of my video 3 Reasons for a Trademark Watch Service. Using a trademark watch serviceanother way of saying monitoring your brandfor ongoing infringements or potential infringements can be very useful and valuable for your brand. You want to be able to act quickly. If there is an infringement, acting quickly generally leads to a easier, cheaper, better, and quicker resolution.
Plagiarism Today
MAY 15, 2025
In March 2024, the Baystate Health Board of Trustees announced that Peter Banko would become CEO of Baystate in June. The biggest health care system in Western Massachusetts, Baystate, is a non-profit encompassing four hospitals and 13,000 employees. However, in recent months, the organization has faced financial difficulties, including multiple rounds of layoffs.
TorrentFreak
MAY 13, 2025
Late 2022, several of the worlds largest music companies including Warner Bros. and Sony Music prevailed in their lawsuit against Internet provider Grande Communications. The record labels accused the Astound-owned ISP of not doing enough to stop pirating subscribers. Specifically, they alleged that the company failed to terminate repeat infringers.
Garrigues Blog
MAY 13, 2025
Reputable trademarks enjoy enhanced protection to prevent third parties from taking undue advantage of that reputation even if the services or products are not similar. The reason: to protect the investment made by trademark owners. But how far should this protection go? We analyze the case of Game of Thrones vs Game of Dner. We could start this post by talking about what Game of Thrones is, but, as the opposition division of the European Intellectual Property Office (EUIPO) concludes , we are d
IAM Magazine
MAY 28, 2025
The Zhangjiagang Court has dismissed a copyright infringement and unfair competition suit, ruling that ideas are not eligible for copyright protection. Creators using AI tools should ensure that their creative process is properly documented and could be reproduced.
IP Law 360
MAY 13, 2025
A Pennsylvania federal judge on Tuesday denied Walmart Inc. and Farberware Licensing Co.'s bid to prevail in a suit alleging they sold a defective pressure cooker that erupted and burned a woman using it to make steak.
Erik K Pelton
MAY 14, 2025
Later this week, thousands of trademark professionals from around the world will descend upon San Diego for the annual meeting of the International Trademark Association (INTA). We offer this guide (prepared for the last time INTA was in San Diego) to many of the major sites and activities around San Diego, through our trademark perspective. Because this guide is for use with the INTA (Registration No. 1914028) conference, we have, of course, included information regarding interesting trademark
Plagiarism Today
MAY 28, 2025
The 9th Circuit has ruled that Eleanor, the Mustang from the "Gone in 60 Seconds" films, is not a copyright-protected character. Here's why. The post Mustangs, Batmobiles, and Copyright-Protected C(h)aracters appeared first on Plagiarism Today.
TorrentFreak
MAY 20, 2025
Torrent site uploaders come in various shapes and sizes. Only a few become so popular that their ‘brand’ is widely recognized by online pirates. COLLECTiVE falls into the latter category. The uploader operating under this tag, Will1869, shared many high-profile titles, mostly films. He purportedly operated as a one-man team. These releases appeared on major torrent sites including 1337x and the recently defunct TorrentGalaxy.
SpicyIP
MAY 12, 2025
Image from here ANI v. OpenAI is Indias first copyright challenge against generative AI. Filed in 2024, it has since drawn in other industry groups, reflecting its wide impact. As on date, the Amici Curiae , plaintiff and defendant have nearly completed their submissions (presumably on the interim application). Unfortunately, these submissions are not available to the public.
The IPKat
MAY 11, 2025
At the beginning of 2024, the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) issued its much-anticipated judgment in Audi (Case C-334/22), which addressed the delicate issue of trade mark use on spare car parts produced by independent third parties.
IAM Magazine
MAY 20, 2025
New litigation by Hamilcar Barca IP highlights a broader pattern of litigation by Longhorn IP-affiliated NPEs targeting major tech firms with semiconductor and mobile patents
IP and Legal Filings
MAY 12, 2025
On a significant ruling, the Delhi High Court has conferred trademark ability for the name and photograph of Ratan Tata. This ruling stresses the intensifying importance given to intellectual property rights in the same context in public figures whose names, appearances, and images are valued so much that their reputation may justify their use. It was a fight for Ratan Tata involving the brand Tata, which also became a precedent for individuals regarding how personal branding and legacy misuse c
Plagiarism Today
MAY 5, 2025
When considering AI usage in the classroom, many compare generative AIs to calculators. However, that is both wrong and dangerous. The post Why AI is Not Like a Calculator appeared first on Plagiarism Today.
TorrentFreak
MAY 26, 2025
Portugal now has a decade of experience with pirate site blocking measures, which were made possible through a voluntary agreement In 2015, the country’s blocking scheme was formalized through a deal between several parties, including the Government, rightsholders, and Internet providers. Under the blocking regime, many thousands of domain names have been blocked over the years.
The Illusion of More
MAY 7, 2025
Two headlines in the first week of this month said a lot about the United States as an innovative nation right now. One story announced that the first driverless semi-trucks are on the highway covering normal long-haul routes, and the second reported that the final shipments of pre-tariff goods from China were arriving at U.S. […] The post Innovation Doesnt Mean Anything appeared first on The Illusion of More.
JD Supra Law
MAY 14, 2025
On May 1, 2025, a federal courtroom in San Francisco became ground zero for one of the most consequential copyright hearings in recent memory. The three hour hearing in Kadrey v. Meta Platforms marked the first major judicial test of whether using copyrighted works to train generative AI systemslike Metas LLaMA modelsqualifies as fair use under U.S. copyright law.
The Trichordist
MAY 28, 2025
Does the AFM/SAG-AFTRA fund have royalties they are holding for you?
IP Law 360
MAY 23, 2025
When patent partner Terry Rea set out to retire, the onetime acting director of the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office had her eyes on the independence that retirement promises flexible hours, fewer deadlines and less stress over having lots of people counting on you.
Plagiarism Today
MAY 14, 2025
United States Secretary of Defense, Pete Hegseth, is facing allegations of plagiarism in his 2003 thesis. How serious are the allegations? The post The Pete Hegseth Plagiarism Controversy appeared first on Plagiarism Today.
TorrentFreak
MAY 30, 2025
Over the past few years, stream-ripping service Yout.com has fought legal battles on several continents. The most prominent lawsuit was filed by the site’s operator, American developer Johnathan Nader, who took the RIAA to court in an attempt to have the site declared legal. Criminal Prosecution The RIAA case is still under appeal and Yout.com remains available in most countries.
Copyright Alliance
MAY 20, 2025
We’re thrilled to introduce fashion designer, illustrator, teacher, author, and YouTuber,Zoe Hong. She has been able to build a YouTube channel with over 634k subscribers. Throughout her success, she has […] The post Creator Spotlight with YouTuber and Fashion Designer Zoe Hong appeared first on Copyright Alliance.
JD Supra Law
MAY 6, 2025
Partner Dan Shores will present a webinar titled "mRNA Patent Wars Update: Litigations Expand and Key Rulings Expected in 2025" for Medmarc, the leading expert in the products liability risks facing medical technology and life sciences companies. The webinar will take place on May 14, 2025, at 2 pm ET. The event is free of charge and open to the public.
The IPKat
MAY 21, 2025
The IPKat has received and is pleased to host the following guest contribution by Katfriend Salvatore Marcenaro (Wolf Mndez Abogados Asociados) concerning a recent third-party attempt to register the well-known Colombian FRISBY trade mark in the EU.
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