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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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What is the Trademark Public Advisory Committee (TPAC)?

Erik K Pelton

Many do not realize the importance of the Trademark Public Advisory Committee (TPAC) at the USPTO. This committee has a critical role and lens into the world of trademark. Watch this episode as Erik shares more about the committee and its functions. The post What is the Trademark Public Advisory Committee (TPAC)? appeared first on Erik M Pelton & Associates, PLLC.

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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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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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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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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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3 Count: Disney Defeat

Plagiarism Today

Have any suggestions for the 3 Count? Let me know via Twitter @plagiarismtoday. 1: Disney Loses Bid to Dismiss ‘Muppet Babies’ Reboot Copyright Suit. First off today, Winston Cho at The Hollywood Reporter Esquire reports that Disney has failed to dismiss an ongoing case against it over the 2018 reboot of the Muppet Babies TV show. The lawsuit was filed by Jeffrey Scott, who was a screenwriter of the original 1984 series.

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French Publishers Win Z-Library Piracy Blocking Order

TorrentFreak

After more than 15 years of site-blocking processes in dozens of countries, new instructions to block pirate sites have become part of piracy landscape. But despite a growing casual acceptance, legal action targeting educational resources can still prove controversial. Platforms such as Sci-Hub, Libgen and Z-Library are extremely popular among students, academics and scientists, who tend to view the sharing of knowledge in a different light to the sharing of movies and TV shows.

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To slow down attrition, pay closer attention to what workers really need

McKinsey Operations

The Great Attrition continues, but if companies understand the differences among five common employee personas, they may be able to find and retain talent more effectively.

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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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Red Flag Raised: E-Motosport Patent Ineligible Under Section 101

JD Supra Law

In Integrated Technology Solutions v. iRacing.com Motorsport Simulations, 2022 WL 4356494, (D. Mass. Sept. 20, 2022), plaintiff ITS asserted at least U.S. Patent No. 10,046,231 claim 15 against iRacing. That claim reads.

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3 Count: Banana for Scale

Plagiarism Today

Have any suggestions for the 3 Count? Let me know via Twitter @plagiarismtoday. 1: Comcast, Verizon, AT&T Settle Piracy Suits. First off today, Winston Cho at The Hollywood Reporter Esquire reports that three major ISPs, Comcast, Verizon and AT&T, have settled lawsuits filed by a group of filmmakers that claimed the companies were not doing enough to combat piracy on their networks.

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OM Weekly Digest 09/22/22

Olartemoure Blog

09/22/22 – Innovation. Science, Technology, and Innovation projects in the Bioeconomy sector can now access differentiated lines of credit through BANCOLDEX. The credit line will grant loans of up to USD 450,000 for projects related to the Bioeconomy at an interest rate of 1% for small and medium-sized businesses and 4% for large businesses.

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Software bill of materials: Managing software cybersecurity risks

McKinsey Operations

As software-related vulnerabilities continue to grow, companies must manage their software cyber risks to innovate faster and create safer, more secure digital products.

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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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Move Fast and Make (Break?) Things: IP-Related NFT Litigation Trends

JD Supra Law

Although NFTs (non-fungible tokens) have been around since approximately 2014, they exploded into the mainstream in early 2021, fetching eye-popping prices at auction. After Beeple’s March 2021 sale made headlines, the market remained red hot through the rest of that year. For example, “The Merge”—a series of NFTs created by digital artist Pak—sold for $91.8 million in December 2021.

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Mexican Muralism—The Origins and Revolution of Street Art

Copyright Alliance

Art integrates itself so keenly into our lives and surroundings that it can often go unappreciated or unnoticed. From the playlist at your local coffee shop to the chalk drawings […]. The post Mexican Muralism—The Origins and Revolution of Street Art appeared first on Copyright Alliance.

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Still feeling good: The US wellness market continues to boom

McKinsey Operations

Our research shows continued growth of consumer interest in health and wellness, with persistent gaps in certain areas presenting exciting opportunities for companies to serve unmet consumer needs.

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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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In re Smith (Fed. Cir. 2022)

JD Supra Law

In a ruling that should surprise absolutely nobody, the Federal Circuit rapidly scrapped an appeal of a PTAB decision that affirmed a 35 U.S.C. § 101 rejection of a business method claim. This is the latest in a series of cases going back years in which the Court tends to find inventions that improve business processes ineligible for patenting patenting, even if computer implementation is required.

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Paramount is Ready to Dogfight in Top Gun Maverick Copyright Lawsuit

The IP Law Blog

In this episode of The Briefing by the IP Law Blog , Scott Hervey and Josh Escovedo discuss Paramount’s motion to dismiss a copyright infringement lawsuit relating to ‘Top Gun: Maverick.’. Listen to this podcast episode here.

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Resetting the e-commerce model to achieve profitable growth in Europe

McKinsey Operations

Winning EU consumer goods players are reprioritizing channels and markets to drive online sales, shifting to an online-first playbook, and investing in tech and specialist talent.

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Green Advances in a Grey Industry

IPilogue

Anita Gogia is an IPilogue Writer and a 2L JD Candidate at Osgoode Hall Law School. Concrete jungles around the world illustrate the man-made burden on the planet. Concrete is a carbon-intensive ingredient in construction and makes up at least 8% of man-made CO? emissions. When it comes to industrial processes, cement manufacturing produces the highest amount of CO?

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IPBM: The Unifying Framework Behind IP Management

JD Supra Law

The first two installments in this series explained the evolution of the Intellectual Property Business Management (IPBM) model, noting that it is not a platform or “collaboration portal,” but rather a paradigm designed from the ground up to engage stakeholders when they are needed in the IP management process. IPBM is driven by the technologies….

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BREAKING: Jury Says LabCorp Owes $272M For Infringing Prenatal Test IP

IP Law 360

A federal jury in Waco, Texas, found on Friday afternoon that LabCorp, one of the largest chains of clinical lab providers in the world, owes more than $272 million to a small Maryland biotech business for willfully infringing a patent covering a method of testing for genetic disorders during pregnancy.

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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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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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Using the Uniform Domain-name Dispute Resolution Policy to Stop or Prevent Fraud

JD Supra Law

You receive a package of iPhones and they appear to have been ordered by an employee in the purchasing department (let’s call her Jane Doe), however, you weren’t expecting any iPhones.

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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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Author Talks: Africa is not a country

McKinsey Operations

News, entertainment, and even charity campaigns tend to promote a stereotypical image of Africa that ignores its nuance and history. Dipo Faloyin is correcting this narrative.

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Musk's Dim View Of Patents Ignores Reality For Most Cos.

IP Law 360

Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk recently declared that "patents are for the weak," and while that mindset might make some sense for the billionaire entrepreneur given the industries he works in, shunning patents is a risky strategy for most other companies, experts say.

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President Biden's Biotechnology and Biomanufacturing Executive Order: Funding

JD Supra Law

President Biden announced his signing of an Executive Order launching a major effort to enhance U.S. capabilities in biotechnology and biomanufacturing last week (see "President Biden Signs Executive Order on Biotechnology and Biomanufacturing Innovation"). The White House also held a Summit on Biotechnology and Biomanufacturing last week to discuss how these efforts will be funded (accompanied by a Fact Sheet).

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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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How Public Institutions Enable Private Sector Progress

IP.com

Among the constellation of entities that form the nation’s innovation infrastructure are organizations that conduct the research essential to technological progress. The applied research conducted by private entities and universities. The post How Public Institutions Enable Private Sector Progress appeared first on IP.com - IP Innovation and Analytics.

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$2B Appian Trade Secrets Verdict OK'd With $23M Fees Added

IP Law 360

A Virginia judge entered final judgment of a jury's verdict that awarded tech company Appian Corp. more than $2 billion in damages upon finding that Cambridge, Massachusetts-based software company Pegasystems willfully misappropriated Appian's trade secrets.

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