Trademark and Copyright Law Blog

MAY 8, 2020

On April 27, the Supreme Court took us on a stroll down memory lane in its decision in Georgia v. Public.Resource.Org, Inc., referring us back to its very first copyright case and revisiting the government edicts doctrine for the first time in more than a century. The Court, applying logic from Wheaton v. Peters , along with Banks v. Manchester , and Callaghan v.

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LoTempio Law Blog

MAY 6, 2020

It goes without saying that we live in an unprecedented time. With a majority of offices, stores, and schools across the country shuttered for months, the COVID-19 pandemic has brought normal life to a near standstill. Nevertheless, ingenuity never sleeps and the USPTO has rolled out plenty of emergency measures and rule changes to ensure […].

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Barry Sookman

MAY 3, 2020

Computer and Internet Weekly Updates for 2020-04-25 [link] 2020-04-26 Australia’s coronavirus tracing app launches amid lingering privacy concerns – The Guardian [link] 2020-04-26 THE COVIDSAFE APPLICATION, Privacy Impact Assessment [link] 2020-04-26 Electronic Documents and the Enforceability of Electronic Signatures [link] 2020-04-26 Lime’s User Agreement Sends Another Case to Arbitration-Babcock v.

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DuetsBlog

MAY 4, 2020

Almost forty years ago, that question prompted me to rethink my engineering path after three semesters, knowing an electronic circuits lab awaited my fourth. Over winter break, thumbing through the University of Iowa catalog in my dad’s office, looking for an alternative, I happily discovered the pharmacy curriculum. Had I known that law school would follow pharmacy school , perhaps a few years could have been saved in the serial approach to my 80s educational decade.

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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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Barry Sookman

MAY 4, 2020

Is an invention autonomously generated by artificial intelligence patentable? This is a question that is being studied including by the United States Patent and Trade Mark Office (USPTO) which launched an investigation into issues associated with patenting artificial intelligence inventions. In the meantime, the USPTO just released a decision denying the application for a such a patent holding that under the U.S. patent law, 35 USC §§ 1 et seq. an inventor must be a natural person.

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