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3 Count: FIFTY FIFTY Pause

Plagiarism Today

Internet Archive filed DMCA notice with GitHub, the AP reaches deal with OpenAI and FIFTY FIFTY royalties for Cupid on hold pending dispute. The post 3 Count: FIFTY FIFTY Pause appeared first on Plagiarism Today.

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Bill C-18 (The Online News Act): Does Flexibility and Dialogue Represent “Compromising” or “Caving”?

Hugh Stephens Blog

When does “compromising” to find a solution that works for both parties become synonymous with “caving” (in)? Only when you take a perverse delight (one might even call it schadenfreude) in gloating, “I told you so”, when the Canadian government’s policy initiative (C-18, the Online News Act) runs into opposition from the giant internet platforms … Continue reading "Bill C-18 (The Online News Act): Does Flexibility and Dialogue Represent “Compromising” or “Caving”?

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Salazar v. AT&T Mobility LLC No. 21-2320 (Fed. Cir. Apr. 5, 2023)

Intellectual Property Law Blog

This case addresses the construction of the articles “a” and “said” in relation to subsequently recited functions and whether “a” can be restricted to be singular in its meaning. Background Mr. Salazar appealed from the district court’s claim construction and subsequent finding of non-infringement. AT&T cross-appealed on the issue of validity. The claim construction dispute centered around the terms “a microprocessor” and “said microprocessor” capable of “creating,” “retrieving” and “generat

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Update on the USPTO Trademark Delays

Erik K Pelton

Erik is back with an update on the USPTO log jam, how it affects every step of the application process – but there seems to be a light at the end of the tunnel, as explained in this podcast. The post Update on the USPTO Trademark Delays appeared first on Erik M Pelton & Associates, PLLC. Erik is back with an update on the USPTO log jam, how it affects every step of the application process – but there seems to be a light at the end of the tunnel, as explained in this podcast.

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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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Racketeering and Copyright: Understanding the Shein Lawsuit

Plagiarism Today

Last week, the fashion bran Shein was hit with a copyright and trademark lawsuit. However, the case also alleges racketeering. Why? The post Racketeering and Copyright: Understanding the Shein Lawsuit appeared first on Plagiarism Today.

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Infographic | Unlocking the Brain’s Potential

Olartemoure Blog

1. MULTI-CHANNEL BRAIN OR CORTICAL ACTIVITY MONITORING AND METHOD US 11,553,869 B1 Inventors: Stéphane Bibian, Tatjana Zikov Assignee: NeuroWave Systems Inc. Date of Patent: Jan. 17, 2023 This patent describes a system and method for monitoring and displaying the neuropathological characteristics and activity of both sides of a subject’s brain simultaneously.

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BREAKING: Google Told To Pay $339M In WDTX Chromecast Patent Trial

IP Law 360

A Western District of Texas jury said Friday that Google must pay $338.7 million in damages after finding that its Chromecast digital media players infringed three patents owned by Touchstream Technologies Inc., which said it met with Google about its technology before Chromecast launched.

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Instagram and the Server Test Win 9th Circuit Challenge

Plagiarism Today

A new ruling in the 9th Circuit was a major win for both Instagram and the server test. Here's what it means for both moving forward. The post Instagram and the Server Test Win 9th Circuit Challenge appeared first on Plagiarism Today.

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Other Barks & Bites for Friday, July 21: Second Circuit Says Derivative Works Can Cover Unregistered Material, Surrey Hotel Trademark Not Conveyed by Sale, and 9,000+ Authors Ask for Generative AI Compensation

IP Watchdog

This week in Other Barks & Bites: government officials from the European Union and United States celebrate a milestone for the EU-U.S. Data Privacy Framework; the Second Circuit rules that copyright registrations containing a derivative work can serve as a basis for infringement claims involving elements of previously unregistered material incorporated into the later registration; Judge Orrick indicates that he may dismiss a lawsuit brought by artists against generative AI companies while m

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What Barbenheimer Can Teach Us About Intellectual Property

JD Supra Law

Barbenheimer is a new term for consecutively watching the movies “Barbie” and “Oppenheimer.” In honor thereof, we present the Barbenheimer Legal Alert. Did you know Mattel sued, and lost, to stop the “Barbie Girl” song?

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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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Layoffs, Closures Hit Big 5

Velocity of Content

A July 18 letter from Penguin Random House CEO Nihar Malaviya confirmed that long-rumored layoffs have become a reality at the nation’s biggest publishing house. According to Publishers Weekly , PRH CEO Nihar Malaviya said that any growth the industry has seen recently has been offset by increased costs across the board, and that publishing leaders expect these increases, including inflation, to continue.

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3 Count: Czech Liability

Plagiarism Today

Instagram wins in the 9th Circuit, Prague court orders file host to pay for piracy and House IP Subcommittee talks right to repair. The post 3 Count: Czech Liability appeared first on Plagiarism Today.

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Newman on Bloomberg Podcast: I Was Told ‘Go Quietly or We’ll Make Your Life Miserable’

IP Watchdog

As we await a transcript of the July 13 hearing that took place in the Special Committee of the Judicial Council of the Federal Circuit’s investigation into Judge Pauline Newman’s alleged unfitness to remain on the court, Newman spoke with Bloomberg this week as a guest on its “On the Merits” podcast. She recounted for host David Schultz that she was told when confronted with the allegations, “Just go quietly or we’ll make your life miserable’; that was exactly the way it was presented to me.

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A National Right of Publicity: the Federal Anti-Impersonation Right (FAIR)

Patently-O

by Dennis Crouch Intellectual property rights in the U.S. have long been a mix of state common law rights and federal statutory rights. Patents and copyrights were established in the Constitution and enacted by the First Congress in 1790. Those rights were fairly quickly established as exclusively federal, meaning that there is effectively no patents or copyrights offered by individual states.

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The Powerful Potential of Improving User Experience in Open Scholarly Publishing

Velocity of Content

At the recent SSP Annual Meeting in Portland, Oregon, a cross-functional panel considered the challenge of “Solving for OA/UX: The Powerful Potential in Improving User Experience (UX).” Drawing on her work as a scholarly author and as Research Impact and Open Scholarship Librarian, Indiana University Bloomington , Willa Tavernier moderated an interactive session with three panelists.

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Is Brave Selling Your Site’s Content to Train AIs?

Plagiarism Today

Brave recently introduced a new API for its search engine product. However, some of the data being sold is raising difficult questions. The post Is Brave Selling Your Site’s Content to Train AIs? appeared first on Plagiarism Today.

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Amicus Brief in Killian SCOTUS Case Urges Textualist Interpretation of Section 101

IP Watchdog

On July 17, inventor advocacy organization US Inventor and conservative interest group Eagle Forum Education and Legal Defense Fund filed a joint amicus brief at the U.S. Supreme Court urging the nation’s highest court to grant the petition for writ of certiorari filed in Killian v. Vidal. US Inventor and Eagle Forum ELDF’s brief is the latest call upon SCOTUS to address the “dire consequences” flowing from the dramatic expansion to judicial exceptions to patent eligibility under 35 U.S.C. § 101

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Court Orders Monetary Sanctions after Plaintiff Fails to Provide any Response to Allegedly Overbroad Discovery Requests

The IP Law Blog

In Buergofol GmbH v. Omega Liner Company, Inc. , 4-22-cv-04112 (DSD Jul. 13, 2023) (Karen E. Schreier), the court granted the defendant’s motion to compel and awarded monetary sanctions after the plaintiff failed to respond at all to discovery requests that the plaintiff had objected to as overbroad because the court ruled the plaintiff “still had an obligation to respond to the extent it did not object.

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3 Ways to Become an Information Tour Guide for Data Scientists?

Velocity of Content

“Data scientists love good, structured data. Information people know where to get that data.” That’s how an information professional at a large pharmaceutical company described what drives the collaboration between info pros and data scientists at his organization. As he noted, “the one thing our researchers and data scientists don’t have is time, and having information specialists who understand the data sources is one thing they need.

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3 Count: Z-Library Ex-tradition

Plagiarism Today

Alleged Z-Library operators fight extradition, Daily Mail prepares for AI lawsuit and Access Copyright to severely downscale operations. The post 3 Count: Z-Library Ex-tradition appeared first on Plagiarism Today.

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House IP Subcommittee Mulls Copyright and Design Patent Revisions Amid Right-to-Repair Debate

IP Watchdog

The House of Representatives’ Subcommittee on Courts, Intellectual Property and the Internet met today to hear from a number of witnesses about the intersection of intellectual property rights and consumers’ right to repair products they own. The concerns voiced by witnesses and congress members today centered around harm and cost to consumers as a result of technological protection measures (TPMs) and increased use of IP tools such as design patents to thwart competition for after-market parts.

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FTC Launches Anticipated Investigation of OpenAI Inc.

IP Intelligence

It was only a matter of time before the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) initiated a law enforcement investigation focusing on artificial intelligence (AI). It is not an exaggeration to say that the FTC has been hinting at, and sometimes outright foreshadowing, such actions for years. The frequency of these communications has only increased over the past few months as generative AI technology dominated headlines.

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“Thinking Out Loud” About Ed Sheeran’s Use of The Nuclear Verdict Defense Methods

JD Supra Law

Ed Sheeran is one of the most popular musicians of all time: 23 of his songs have gone multiplatinum, he is a four-time Grammy award winner, he reportedly holds the title for the highest-grossing tour of all time (though he may soon lose that title thanks to his friend, Taylor Swift, one of our personal favorites), and he has lent his songwriting prowess to fellow superstars Swift, The Weeknd, Eminem, BTS, and Justin Bieber, among others.

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SpicyIP Weekly Review (July 10 – July 16)

SpicyIP

[ This weekly review is co-authored with SpicyIP Intern Yashna Walia. Yashna is a fifth-year law student at UILS, Panjab University, Chandigarh. Her area of interest lies in IP and corporate law. ] Last week saw blogposts on the history of the Berne Convention, data questioning whether patent filing and grant numbers tell the full story, and criticism of the EPOs patent grants.

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Federal Circuit Says User-Matching Patent Claims are Abstract in Precedential Eligibility Decision

IP Watchdog

In a precedential decision authored by Judge Tiffany Cunningham on Friday, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit (CAFC) ruled that two patents for methods of connecting users based on their answers to polling questions were directed to patent ineligible subject matter under 35 U.S.C. § 101. U.S. Patent Nos. 9,087,321 and 10,936,685 are owned by Trinity Info Media, LLC and are titled “Poll-Based Networking System.

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Document review

Likelihood of Confusion

Where to start, where to start… At the beginning, I guess. Though not in chronological order. LIKELY2CONFUSE00001: I wrote a post on the subject of the genericization of the term. The post Document review appeared first on LIKELIHOOD OF CONFUSION™.

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ChatGPT: Is Theft a Bug or a Feature?

JD Supra Law

ChatGPT has been making headlines lately. The lawyer who obtained fake judicial holdings from ChatGTP and then cited them in his brief to the court is the most recent example.

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The Law Bytes Podcast, Episode 174: Chris Waddell on the Missing Context for Bill C-18 and the Challenges Faced by Canadian Media

Michael Geist

The Online News Act has continued to create a political firestorm this summer with a legislative battle that leaves the future of some Canadian news organizations stuck in the middle between sabre rattling from the government and Internet platforms. Chris Waddell is a professor at and former director of the School of Journalism and Communication at Carleton University in Ottawa and also holds the university’s Carty Chair in Business and Financial Journalism.

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TACO TUESDAY Trademark Battle Settled with PR Stunt

IP Watchdog

The Taco John’s restaurant chain announced Tuesday that it will share its Taco Tuesday trademark, but also posed a challenge to Taco Bell and LeBron James “to Support Workers, Not Lawyers.” Taco Bell filed a Petition for Cancellation of the trademark for TACO TUESDAY on May 16, 2023. The mark was registered by Spicy Seasonings, LLC, which operates the Taco John’s restaurant franchise, in 1989 for “restaurant services.

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Contractual Control over Information Goods after ML Genius v. Google (Guest Blog Post)

Technology & Marketing Law Blog

by guest blogger Prof. Guy Rub , The Ohio State University Michael E. Moritz College of Law The copyright – contract tension Stewart Brand famously said that information wants to be free. We know, however, that many laws limit free access and use of information goods, most prominently copyright law (and IP law generally). But copyright law isn’t limitless; it leaves many intangible goods, especially factual data, unprotected, and it allows many uses of protected works.

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ACE Kills CableKill, Anime Kaizoku Quits, Other Pirate Sites Disappear

TorrentFreak

Based on readily available information and data provided by the entertainment industries through various studies, online piracy is rampant and in some areas, more prolific than at any point in history. On a day-to-day basis, based on news of pirate site closures, arrests, lawsuits, and various investigations, it could also be argued that the tide is turning and has been for some time.

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What If It Isn’t a Bluff?!: The Consequences of the Government’s Epic Bill C-18 Miscalculation Begin to Set In

Michael Geist

As Bill C-18 made its way through the legislative process, the government and the media lobby groups supporting the bill insisted that Google and Meta were bluffing when they warned that legislation premised on mandated payments for links could lead the companies to stop Canadian news linking or sharing on their platforms. Proponents would point to the Australian experience or claim that links to Canadian news were simply too valuable for the platforms to walk away.

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Fishermen Ask SCOTUS to Scrap Chevron

IP Watchdog

A group of herring fishermen have filed their opening brief with the U.S. Supreme Court in a case that asks the Court to overturn its “Chevron doctrine,” which says courts should defer to administrative agencies’ interpretation of the statutes delegated to them. In the 1984 ruling in Chevron, U.S.A., Inc. v. Natural Resources Defense Council, Inc., the Supreme Court held that a court "may not substitute its own construction of a statutory provision for a reasonable interpretation made by [the ag

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An E-Commerce Site Tried to Form Its TOS Three Different Ways. None of Them Worked–Chabolla v. ClassPass

Technology & Marketing Law Blog

The plaintiffs claim they signed up for a ClassPass membership but got unexpectedly auto-renewed. (ClassPass appears to be an aggregator of third-party fitness classes). ClassPass sought to send the case to arbitration based on its TOS, which it attempted to form in each of the following three screenshots: Screenshot #1 Screenshot #2 Screenshot #3 With three different attempts, surely one of them worked, right?

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Over 50% of Young Danes Have Streamed or Downloaded Content Illegally

TorrentFreak

Three years ago, Danish law enforcement carried out a series of raids and arrests , effectively dismantling several popular torrent trackers. These actions were supported by the local anti-piracy group Rights Alliance , which eventually declared victory , noting that all notable pirate sites with Danish roots had reportedly shut down. Such statements can be dangerous since pirates can be quite resilient, but there is no doubt that the law enforcement actions and subsequence convictions left a ma