Plagiarism Today
JANUARY 28, 2025
The new DeepSeek AI models has taken the tech world by storm. Here's why they matter and how they might change copyright and authorship. The post How DeepSeek May Change AI, Copyright and Plagiarism appeared first on Plagiarism Today.
TorrentFreak
JANUARY 29, 2025
For a long time, pirate site blocking was regarded as a topic most U.S. politicians would rather avoid. This lingering remnant of the SOPA debacle drove copyright holders to focus on the introduction of blocking efforts in other countries instead, mostly successfully. Those challenging times are now more than a decade old and momentum is shifting. Today, Representative Zoe Lofgren (D-CA) introduced the Foreign Anti-Digital Piracy Act (FADPA), which paves the way for blocking injunctions targetin
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Erik K Pelton
JANUARY 28, 2025
The following is an edited transcript of my video What is the Supplemental Register of Trademarks? The main register of trademarks at the USPTO is called the Principal Register. The secondary register is called the Supplemental Register , and it is an important resource or tool in the trademark world where weaker trademark registrations can reside. The secondary register is for some types of marks that are not able to obtain status on the principal register: generally descriptive marks or marks
IP Watchdog
JANUARY 29, 2025
The U.S. Copyright Office has released Part 2 of its multi-part artificial intelligence (AI) report, this one focusing on copyrightability of works made by or using AI. Part 1 of the report was published in July 2024 and addressed digital replicas created by AI. Among the Copyright Offices recommendations was the need for passage of a federal law that would create a new form of property right for a persons digital replica to disincentivize the creation of realistic but false depictions of indivi
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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?
Plagiarism Today
JANUARY 28, 2025
Appeals Court affirms a judgment against the US Navy, more parties join OpenAI battle in India, and Elton John is against the AI proposal. The post 3 Count: Naval Battle appeared first on Plagiarism Today.
TorrentFreak
JANUARY 31, 2025
Earlier this week, various rightsholder groups submitted their recommendations for the 2025 Special 301 Report. This annual overview, compiled by the U.S. Trade Representative, highlights countries that fail to live up to U.S. copyright protection standards. Various groups stressed the importance of copyright protection when it comes to new AI technologies.
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IP Watchdog
JANUARY 26, 2025
The U.S. court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit (CAFC) on Friday, January 24, affirmed the Patent Trial and Appeal Boards (PTABs) decisions for Intel in three inter partes reviews (IPRs), on appeal following previous remands back to the Board in December 2021. In its 2021 decision, the CAFC found in part that Intel satisfied Article III standing requirements for appealing from the PTAB but remanded the case on a number of issues.
Plagiarism Today
JANUARY 27, 2025
A PhD student interviewed a cartel hitman in an interview that was never meant to be released. She filed with the CCB when it was. The post CCB Awards $1,500 for Infringed PhD Thesis Interview appeared first on Plagiarism Today.
TorrentFreak
JANUARY 27, 2025
Shorter theatrical windows and improved access to movies via streaming, aimed to address one of the reasons some people prefer to pirate movies rather than pay. While no silver bullet, making movies available legally is crucial in the fight against piracy. Yet, for many years, avoiding the most obvious response to unauthorized distribution meant that the ‘recently released’ movie market was dominated by not only illicit, but mostly inferior products.
Copyright Lately
JANUARY 26, 2025
After a two-week trial, a California jury found that Apple TV+s Servant didnt infringe the copyright in Francesca Gregorinis The Truth About Emanuel because the defendants lacked sufficient access to her film. Its no I see dead people, but as far as copyright infringement jury trials go, its a pretty good twist ending for M. Night Shyamalan, Apple, and the nine other defendants in Gregorini v.
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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 Watchdog
JANUARY 26, 2025
On January 25, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit (CAFC) issued a precedential decision in Steuben Foods, Inc. v. Shibuya Hoppman Corp., reversing-in-part the District of Delaware's post-trial rulings of judgment as a matter of law (JMOL) of noninfringement in favor of Shibuya. The Federal Circuit reversed noninfringement findings made under the reverse doctrine of equivalents (RDOE), declining to declare the doctrine subsumed by the 1952 Patent Act, but finding that Steuben Foods
Plagiarism Today
JANUARY 30, 2025
USCO says some AI works may be registered, new site blocking legislation proposed in the US and Eminem publisher sues Ford dealer. The post 3 Count: UnafFORDable appeared first on Plagiarism Today.
TorrentFreak
JANUARY 26, 2025
Nearly a decade ago, the US Navy was sued for mass copyright infringement and accused of causing hundreds of millions of dollars in damages. The lawsuit was filed by the German company Bitmanagement. It’s not a typical piracy case in the sense that software was downloaded from shady sources. Instead, it deals with unauthorized installations. It all started in 2008 when the US Navy began testing Bitmanagement’s 3D virtual reality application ‘BS Contact Geo’ After some tes
The IPKat
JANUARY 28, 2025
In Plant-e v Bioo the UPC provided its first decision addressing the doctrine of equivalents in patent infringement proceedings ( UPC_CFI_239/2023 ). The Local Division of the Hague set out a novel four-part test for assessing equivalence drawn from various national jurisdictions. The test appears relatively patentee-friendly, with the Local Division finding infringement of the claims despite the alleged infringement lacking explicit features of the invention as defined by the claims.
IP Watchdog
JANUARY 29, 2025
Yesterday, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit issued a per curiam ruling in Huang v. Amazon.com, Inc. affirming the Northern District of Californias dismissal of patent infringement claims broadly seeking damages for the smartphone industrys use of semiconductor technologies. The Federal Circuit agreed that pro se appellant Xiaohua Huang did not provide fair notice to Amazon and other defendants by properly specifying which accused products infringed the asserted claims, and that
Plagiarism Today
JANUARY 29, 2025
House of Lords deals a blow to AI reform, LLM removed after a copyright claim and a Brazilian soccer streamer moves to YouTube. The post 3 Count: House of Lords appeared first on Plagiarism Today.
TorrentFreak
JANUARY 28, 2025
Lawsuits filed to address infringement can also play a key role as part of a wider deterrent messaging campaign. In the online arena inhabited by millions of pirates, dual-purpose lawsuits are especially common. Even for Nintendo, suing every infringer isn’t just impractical. Negative exposure in the media has direct implications for image and branding.
Patently-O
JANUARY 28, 2025
by Dennis Crouch Last week, I wrote about the twin challenges facing the USPTO: a return-to-office mandate and a hiring freeze that could significantly impact patent operations. Today's joint memorandum from OMB and OPM provides a rapid timeline for implementing these changes, with agencies required to submit detailed implementation plans by February 7th, 2025.
IP Watchdog
JANUARY 27, 2025
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit (CAFC) handed Apple a win when it confirmed today in a precedential opinion that the U.S. Patent and Trademark Offices (USPTOs) Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) has jurisdiction over expired patents brought before it in inter partes review (IPR) proceedings. While the CAFC has previously ruled in appeals from the PTAB involving expired patents, it has not squarely addressed the subject until now.
Plagiarism Today
JANUARY 29, 2025
OpenAI is accusing DeepSeek of misusing their AI models to train their own. The response has been a combination of skepticism and mockery. The post The Schadenfreude of OpenAI Attacking DeepSeek appeared first on Plagiarism Today.
TorrentFreak
JANUARY 28, 2025
Development of AI continues to progress at a rapid pace. This includes work on large language models (LLMs), which are typically trained on broad datasets of texts. These technologies promise unparalleled progress which could benefit society as a whole. Yet despite widely recognized potential, areas of significant concern remain. That many LLMs were trained on datasets containing copyrighted content is now widely known.
JD Supra Law
JANUARY 30, 2025
Business owners should be aware of a new email scam circulating impersonating an intellectual property (IP) representative, containing false information, and offering trademark assistance. This nefarious email scam is sent by an operator impersonating a known Australia registered patent and/or trade mark attorney to garner legitimacy. IP Australia has provided an example of the scam and both IP Australia and the Institute of Patent and Trade Mark Attorneys (IPTA) continue to publish alerts.
SpicyIP
JANUARY 28, 2025
Justice Prabha Sridevan (Photograph: Personal on request) Recently, I had the privilege of interviewing Justice Sridevan as part of my doctoral research and I found it to be exceptionally insightful. She shared several pertinent points on issues concerning expert evidence in IP litigations and what she thinks is the best way forward for the Indian Courts vis a vis engaging experts in IP matters.
Plagiarism Today
JANUARY 30, 2025
A proposed bill aims to bring site blocking to the United States. But, 13 years after SOPA/PIPA, how is this bill different? The post Site Blocking Returns: Is it the New SOPA/PIPA? appeared first on Plagiarism Today.
TorrentFreak
JANUARY 31, 2025
Last September, Apple removed popular music streaming app Musi from its App Store, affecting millions of users. Apple’s action didn’t come as a complete surprise. Music industry groups had been trying to take Musi down for months, branding it a ‘parasitic’ app that skirts the rules. IFPI took the lead, calling on other music industry players and YouTube to complain to Apple as well.
JD Supra Law
JANUARY 29, 2025
What happens when the clock runs out on critical evidence in a high-stakes patent infringement case? Join me, Kelly Twigger, as we unravel the intricate layers of electronic discovery through the compelling Beacon Navigation v. BMW case. Discover how Beacon's late acquisition of essential source code from BMW's third-party supplier, Harman, put their litigation strategy on thin ice.
SpicyIP
JANUARY 27, 2025
Image by macrovector. See here. [ This post has been authored by SpicyIP intern Aditi Agrawal. Aditi is a final-year B.A., LL.B (IPR Hons.) student at The ICFAI University, Dehradun. Her previous posts can be accessed here. ] On 26th December 2024, the Delhi Government issued a gazette notification ( F. No. 11/24/2024/HP-II/4236-4244 ), designating Delhi Police as the nodal agency for regulating digital content hosted or published on intermediary platforms in the National Capital Territory of De
Plagiarism Today
JANUARY 27, 2025
M. Night Shyamalan and Apple win Servant lawsuit, Paul McCartney hits back at AI policy and two men arrested over fake anime images. The post 3 Count: What a Twist appeared first on Plagiarism Today.
TorrentFreak
JANUARY 29, 2025
Founded in 2018, TorrentGalaxy has grown to become a leading player in the torrent ecosystem. The site was launched by former members of ExtraTorrent, a popular torrent site that had just shut down. The founders of TorrentGalaxy aimed to provide a home for ExtraTorrent ‘refugees’ but, over time, it evolved into one of the leading torrent sites.
JD Supra Law
JANUARY 29, 2025
Clinical trial agreements (CTAs) form the foundation of any clinical research initiative, establishing the legal and operational framework essential for a study's success. Crafting, reviewing, and negotiating CTAs require meticulous attention to detail and strategic foresight. A well-drafted CTA, along with related study agreements, can significantly impact critical aspects of a trial, including study enrollment, data integrity, and protocol adherence, ultimately shaping the trial's overall.
SpicyIP
JANUARY 26, 2025
(This post has been co-authored with SpicyIP Intern Aditi Agrawal) Here is our recap of last weeks top IP developments including summary of the post on the analysis of Delhi HCs judgment in Master Arnesh Shaw, a letter by MP Haris Beeran to the Government urging to invoke Section 100, Patents Act for rare disease medicine, and the statutory duty under Section 151 of Patents Act.
Corsearch
JANUARY 31, 2025
For many brands, the holiday season brings a surge of infringements on across marketplaces and social media. To keep up with this increased seasonal activity, its critical that brand protection strategies are both flexible and targeted to priority platforms. The holiday period is the most important quarter of the year for many brands, with consumers splurging on products ranging from fashion and luxury goods to electronics, toys, and homeware.
Biswajit Sarkar Copyright Blog
JANUARY 29, 2025
London, UK A fizzing legal battle is brewing in the Intellectual Property world as Thatcher Cider, a renowned British cider brand, locks horns with supermarket giant Aldi over an alleged Trade Mark infringement. The dispute centres around Aldi latest cider offering, which Thatchers claims closely resembles its own well-established brand, leading to consumer confusion.
JD Supra Law
JANUARY 31, 2025
On January 14, 2025, the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit issued a precedential decision in Lynk Labs, Inc. v. Samsung Electronics Co., No. 23-2346 (Fed. Cir. Jan. 14, 2025), addressing whether a published patent application can serve as prior art in inter partes review (IPR) proceedings as of its filing date. The case arose from an IPR initiated by Samsung Electronics challenging claims of Lynk Labs U.S.
SpicyIP
JANUARY 29, 2025
Image from here [ This post is authored by Bharathwaj Ramakrishnan. Bharathwaj is a 3rd year LLB Student at RGSOIPL, IIT Kharagpur, and loves books and IP. His previous posts can be accessed here. ] As perhaps all readers are aware by now, the GenAI Copyright litigations have made their presence known in India. As discussed earlier , ANI had filed a copyright lawsuit against Open AI in the Delhi High Court.
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