Hugh Stephens Blog
MARCH 10, 2024
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Plagiarism Today
MARCH 11, 2024
Oscar-winning film The Holdovers is facing plagiarism allegations from another screenwriters. Here's why they don't hold up. The post Why The Holdovers is Not a Plagiarism appeared first on Plagiarism Today.
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Intellectual Property Law Blog
MARCH 13, 2024
The United States Patent and Trademark Office (“USPTO”) and the United States Copyright Office (“USCO”) delivered a report to Congress entitled Non-Fungible Tokens and Intellectual Property on March 12, 2024 (“Report”). While the Report is comprehensive, it does not recommend any new action to address IP issues with NFTs. The Report looked at: i) current and future applications of non-fungible tokens (“NFTs”); ii) how intellectual property laws apply to NFTs and assets associated with NFTs; ii
Erik K Pelton
MARCH 13, 2024
Celebrating our 25th year with the 25 series. Erik discusses the power of slogans and reviews 25 iconic examples in this podcast. The post 25 Great Slogans appeared first on Erik M Pelton & Associates, PLLC. Celebrating our 25th year with the 25 series. Erik discusses the power of slogans and reviews 25 iconic examples in this podcast.
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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?
Michael Geist
MARCH 13, 2024
The Online Harms Act was only introduced two weeks ago, but it already appears the government is ready to run back the same playbook of gaslighting and denials that plagued Bills C-11 and C-18. Those bills, which addressed Internet streaming and news, faced widespread criticism over potential regulation of user content and the prospect of blocked news links on major Internet platforms.
Plagiarism Today
MARCH 12, 2024
In a case involving clips from an Andrew Dice Clay comedy special, the Copyright Claims Board has found a documentary was a fair use. The post Copyright Claims Board Finds Documentary was Fair Use appeared first on Plagiarism Today.
Intellectual Property Pulse brings together the best content for IP professionals from the widest variety of industry thought leaders.
JD Supra Law
MARCH 13, 2024
The United States Patent and Trademark Office (“USPTO”) and the United States Copyright Office (“USCO”) delivered a report to Congress entitled Non-Fungible Tokens and Intellectual Property on March 12, 2024 (“Report”). While the Report is comprehensive, it does not recommend any new action to address IP issues with NFTs.
Kluwer Copyright Blog
MARCH 13, 2024
The purpose of copyright, at its very basic level, finds its normative implementation in the interplay between access to protected works and the protection of the moral and material interest of creators (see Geiger, 2017 ). The social contract of copyright, which main purpose is to realize a broader collective concern, the access of citizens to science and culture ( Geiger, 2013 ), lies in the approximation of the interests of rightholders and users.
Plagiarism Today
MARCH 14, 2024
For nearly a decade, Craigh Wright has claimed to be Bitcoin creator Satoshi Nakamoto. However, those claims just took a major blow. The post Judge Rules Craig Wright is Not Bitcoin Inventor Satoshi Nakamoto appeared first on Plagiarism Today.
TorrentFreak
MARCH 14, 2024
Internet provider Cox Communications has been on the sharp end of several piracy lawsuits in recent years. The biggest hit came four years ago when the Internet provider lost its legal battle against a group of major record labels, including Sony and Universal. A Virginia jury held Cox liable for pirating subscribers because it failed to terminate accounts after repeated accusations, and ordered the company to pay $1 billion in damages to the labels.
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JD Supra Law
MARCH 13, 2024
Trader Joe’s is a hugely popular grocery chain that has expanded from its Southern California origins to operate close to 600 stores across the United States. Although Trader Joe’s has traditionally had a reputation as an ethical company, accusations of union-busting have tarnished the grocer’s image as a good employer.
The IP Law Blog
MARCH 14, 2024
OpenAI, Inc. develops artificial intelligence software involving large language models (“LLM”) known as ChatGPT. In 2023, several authors, including the comedian Sarah Silverman, filed putative class action lawsuits alleging various copyright infringement claims. On February 12, 2024, a District Court in the Northern District of California issued its Order and ruled on the OpenAI defendants’ motions to dismiss various claims in the two pending putative class action lawsuits.
Plagiarism Today
MARCH 14, 2024
Architecture firm sues over hospital design, US government says no new rules for NFTs and Oppenheimer piracy boosted by Oscar win. The post 3 Count: Hospital Infringement appeared first on Plagiarism Today.
TorrentFreak
MARCH 10, 2024
When pirated copies of “Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas” came out nearly two decades ago, The Pirate Bay changed its front page logo. The Pirate Bay became the “Grand Theft Bay,” illustrating the deviant stance upon which the site built its reputation since the year of its launch. The GTA-inspired logo was the first of many ‘doodles’ that separated the ‘most resilient torrent site’ from its competition.
JD Supra Law
MARCH 13, 2024
On February 23, 2024, the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Tennessee issued a preliminary injunction in State of Tennessee and Commonwealth of Virginia v. National Collegiate Athletic Association, enjoining enforcement of the National Collegiate Athletic Association’s (NCAA) Name, Image, and Likeness (NIL) recruiting ban with respect to student-athletes.
The IPKat
MARCH 11, 2024
The Court of Justice of the European Union (‘CJEU’) held – in its recent judgment The KaiKai Company Jaeger Wichmann GbR (case C-382/21 P) – that the Paris Convention does not allow cross-IP priority claims in general, thus disagreeing with the Advocate General’s earlier Opinion (The IPKat here ). As a reminder, Art. 4(1) Paris Convention provides: Any person who has duly filed an application for a patent, or for the registration of a utility model, or of an industrial design, or of a trademark,
Plagiarism Today
MARCH 13, 2024
Malignant filmmaker settles dispute with screenwriter, New York Times hits back at OpenAI and pirate site Vumoo goes offline. The post 3 Count: Malignant Settlement appeared first on Plagiarism Today.
IP Law 360
MARCH 11, 2024
A coalition of tech companies, retailers and tech activist groups lined up on Monday in opposition to the latest legislative effort to limit patent invalidation in the courts, warning that unseating legal precedents over eligibility would lead to a coming "wave of crippling litigation.
TorrentFreak
MARCH 14, 2024
It took less than a week for Nintendo’s lawsuit against the company behind the Yuzu Switch emulator to have the desired effect. After agreeing to hand over $2.4m to Nintendo while complying with the terms of a broad injunction, Tropic Haze LLC evaporated in all but name and its developers drifted away into the night, apologetic and presumably penniless.
The IPKat
MARCH 15, 2024
In G 1/22 (and G 2/22), the Enlarged Board of Appeal (EBA) found that there is a strong rebuttable presumption that an applicant of a European patent application is entitled to claim priority. An interesting question following G 1/22 was the potential impact (if any) on the high-profile CRISPR dispute. The Broad Institute famously lost a highly commercially valuable CRISPR patent for invalid priority ( T 844/18 , IPKat ).
Plagiarism Today
MARCH 11, 2024
Nvidia faces lawsuit over AI training, artists angry at new Midjourney feature and New York Times targets Wordle clones. The post 3 Count: Wordle Battle appeared first on Plagiarism Today.
Barry Sookman
MARCH 10, 2024
There is a lot being written about artificial intelligence (AI). There are also many different ways of defining the term AI including for legal purposes. This post will examine some of the leading legally defined uses of the terms AI and generative artificial intelligence. Legal definitions of Artificial Intelligence The leading definition of artificial intelligence is the recent updated definition of artificial intelligence from the OECD : An AI system is a machine-based system that, for expli
IP Law 360
MARCH 15, 2024
The Federal Circuit backed the Patent Trial and Appeal Board's decision that SharkNinja had not proven the invalidity of several claims of Roomba maker iRobot's patent on robot vacuum technology.
Olartemoure Blog
MARCH 13, 2024
SAFE stands for Simple Agreement for Future Equity. It is a legal financing instrument designed to expand capital raising alternatives for early-stage startups. how does it work? SAFE allows an investor to invest a certain amount of money in exchange for the option to acquire future shares that may eventually arise from a future formal capitalization, as stipulated in the contract.
Plagiarism Today
MARCH 12, 2024
Bad Bunny sues fan over concert video, Brazil under scrutiny by USTR and New Zealand Appeals Court finds copyright relationship property. The post 3 Count: Hopping Mad appeared first on Plagiarism Today.
IP Watchdog
MARCH 14, 2024
The United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) recently released new guidance to patent examiners on making obviousness rejections. The guidance focuses on post-KSR precedential jurisprudence from the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit. Some of the guidance is fairly mundane, some of it is not. The purpose of this article is to propose a few responses one might use to counter rejections that apply certain problematic aspects of the new guidance.
IP Law 360
MARCH 14, 2024
The Los Angeles-based designer behind the "MetaBirkins" non-fungible token is barred from displaying his artwork at a Swedish museum after a federal judge ruled there is a high probability he will use the platform to promote products that a jury previously said infringed trademarks held by luxury French fashion house Hermès International.
TorrentFreak
MARCH 9, 2024
ALPA, the Association Against Audiovisual Piracy ( Association de Lutte contre la Piraterie Audiovisuelle ) has been active in France since the mid-eighties. With heavyweight backing from the Hollywood studios of the MPA, and the music industry through a number of large groups and organizations, wherever there’s a piracy fight in France, ALPA is unlikely to be too far away.
Likelihood of Confusion
MARCH 15, 2024
Reprinting my annual Passover post. The first seder is tonight, Friday, March 1st. I’ll be offline and unaccountable for comment moderation, glitch control or anything else until the night of the 3rd (Sunday), New York time: Here’s a nice thought on the topic, apropos for our 24/6 social media lifestyle: The 21st century is certainly a marvelous […] The post Likelihood of extrusion appeared first on LIKELIHOOD OF CONFUSION™.
IP Watchdog
MARCH 14, 2024
The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) today issued a Request for Comments (RFC) that will be published in the Federal Register tomorrow seeking input from the public on how to better incentivize commercialization of innovation, particularly in green and critical or emerging technologies. According to the RFC, the comments received “will be used to evaluate possibilities for amplifying the impact of our current work, and to explore new ways to support the transfer of innovation to the mark
IP Law 360
MARCH 15, 2024
An Israeli web data scraper has convinced judges on an administrative patent board to let it switch up language in a patent that's being challenged, shortly after the U.S.
TorrentFreak
MARCH 11, 2024
Starting last year, various rightsholders have filed lawsuits against companies that develop AI models. The list of complainants includes record labels, book authors, visual artists, even the New York Times. These rightsholders all object to the presumed use of their work without proper compensation. “Books3” Many of the lawsuits filed by book authors come with a clear piracy angle.
Copyright Lately
MARCH 13, 2024
Using the DMCA to target hundreds of Wordle-likes, the publication claims exclusive rights in the game’s grid dimensions and color scheme. Fresh on the heels of filing an infringement lawsuit against OpenAI , The New York Times Co. is flexing its copyright muscles once again, this time targeting the developers of hundreds of games inspired by Wordle, the popular word game the Times purchased in 2022.
IP Watchdog
MARCH 12, 2024
In an opposition brief filed Monday, The New York Times Company (The Times) told a New York district court that OpenAI’s late February claim that The Times “paid someone to hack OpenAI’s products” in order to prove OpenAI infringed its copyrights amounts to little more than “grandstanding.” In late December 2023, the Times became the latest of many complainants to accuse OpenAI’s Large Language Model, ChatGPT, as well as Microsoft’s GPT-4-powered Bing Chat, of widespread copyright infringement.
IP Law 360
MARCH 12, 2024
A new federal bill, the BIRDIE Act, introduced in February would extend intellectual property protections to golf course designers but could undercut existing IP case law and raise broader questions about the scope of copyright protection for works that involve living elements or nonhuman authorship, say attorneys at Bradley Arant.
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