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3 New and Interesting Cases Before the Copyright Claims Board

Plagiarism Today

The Copyright Claims Board is about to turn two. As such, we're taking a look at three new and interesting cases being heard by it. The post 3 New and Interesting Cases Before the Copyright Claims Board appeared first on Plagiarism Today.

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Punctuation Trademarks

Erik K Pelton

In this episode, Erik shares insights and examples of how punctuation can be used in a trademark. The post Punctuation Trademarks appeared first on Erik M Pelton & Associates, PLLC. In this episode, Erik shares insights and examples of how punctuation can be used in a trademark.

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It Took Glue on Pizza to Spotlight Google’s AI Problem

Hugh Stephens Blog

Image: Shutterstock (with AI assist) Google, the “indispensable” search engine relied on by millions for accurate and reliable search, has done it again, stepping smack into the pile of steaming excrement waiting for it in the middle of the road.

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Google, Cloudflare & Cisco Will Poison DNS to Stop Piracy Block Circumvention

TorrentFreak

In France, where laws were introduced with site-blocking and similar anti-piracy measures already baked in, entertainment giant Canal+ seems intent on taking full advantage. Like similar broadcasters with lucrative sports rights to exploit, Canal+ has a subset of viewers who prefer to consume from pirate sources which charge much less, or even nothing at all.

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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: Pirate Advertising

Plagiarism Today

Google sued by publishers over pirate ads, a news website sued by a photographer and Content ID handled a billion claims in 6 months. The post 3 Count: Pirate Advertising appeared first on Plagiarism Today.

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Beware of trademark renewal scam from “Trademark Renewal Service” in Philadelphia, PA

Erik K Pelton

A client forwarded me a recent letter about renewing their trademark registration from Trademark Renewal Services with an address at 1229 Chestnut Street, Front 1 #449 Philadelphia, PA 19107 See the image of their mailing below. The document could easily be mistaken as coming from the government – the name, the look and feel of the document, the registration number.

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TorrentGalaxy Goes Offline With Mysterious Message to Users

TorrentFreak

In little over five years, TorrentGalaxy has grown out to become a leading player in the torrent ecosystem. The site originally set out to ‘ bridge the gap ‘ between torrent and streaming sites, but it became much more than that. With a dedicated group of uploaders and an active community, TorrentGalaxy provided a safe haven for many avid torrenters.

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3 Count: Don’t Ride It

Plagiarism Today

OpenAI and Microsoft seek dismissal of AI lawsuit, a lawsuit filed over DJ Regard's Ride It, and YouTube escalates war against ad blockers. The post 3 Count: Don’t Ride It appeared first on Plagiarism Today.

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Why does the USPTO have a new trademark search system

Erik K Pelton

I recently sat down with Alt Legal to make a short video about the history of TESS and the transition to the newer search system from the USPTO: For more, see [link]. The post Why does the USPTO have a new trademark search system appeared first on Erik M Pelton & Associates, PLLC.

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[Video] The Briefing: Scarlett Johansson vs Chat GPT What the Legal Claims Would Look Like

JD Supra Law

Did Scarlett Johansson's voice inspire 'Sky'? Scott Hervey and Jamie Lincenberg of Weintraub Tobin unpack the controversy between Scarlett Johansson and OpenAI's Chat GPT. Explore potential legal claims and the intricacies of voice rights in AI on this episode of The Briefing.

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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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Plex Cracks Down on Media Server ‘Hacks’

TorrentFreak

Plex is a multifunctional media software and service that allows users to easily access all of their entertainment in one place. Whether movies, music, TV shows, or photos, Plex can organize and index, making the content ready to stream on a wide variety of supported devices. Plex can be used for curating home videos or enriching purchased media with metadata, for example, which can be stored on the media server.

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Plagiarism in Pop Culture: Beyond Paradise

Plagiarism Today

Beyond Paradise is a spinoff of the popular UK TV series Death in Paradise. How does this cozy mystery tackle plagiarism? The post Plagiarism in Pop Culture: Beyond Paradise appeared first on Plagiarism Today.

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USPTO Strikes Expanded Paneling Option from New PTAB Operating Procedure

IP Watchdog

The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) today announced that it has updated its Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) Standard Operating Procedure (SOP 1) on “Assignment of Judges to Panels.” The 16th revisions to SOP 1 deletes a section on “expanded panels,” among other changes. According to the USPTO’s announcement, the revision “aligns with recently updated Paneling Guidance, Standard Operating Procedure 4, and Director Review procedures.

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TIL: “Texas Tamale” Is an Enforceable Trademark–Texas Tamale v. CPUSA2

Technology & Marketing Law Blog

This case hit my alerts because of its discussion about keyword advertising, but first, I have to digest how the court got there. Tamales, but not Texas Tamales [Reminder: per Wikipedia , a tamale “is a traditional Mesoamerican dish made of masa, a dough made from nixtamalized corn, which is steamed in a corn husk or banana leaves” and then stuffed with a wide range of fillings.

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Piracy Shield 2: Just When IPTV Pirates Thought it Was Safe

TorrentFreak

New law passed in Italy last year gave powerful football rightsholders and broadcasters a blank slate to implement a blocking system seen nowhere else in Europe. No laborious court processes, no judicial oversight, and unlike the ISPs compelled by law to implement their blocking instructions, no financial penalties for getting things wrong either. Whether these freedoms contributed towards the laundry list of errors, PR blunders, source code leaks, and resentment among some ISPs, is hard to quan

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3 Count: Sunday Ticket

Plagiarism Today

Appeals court upholds decision about meme infringement, Indonesia targets Telegram piracy and NFL facing trial over Sunday Ticket costs. The post 3 Count: Sunday Ticket appeared first on Plagiarism Today.

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Transparency in Copyright and Artificial Intelligence

Copyright Alliance

Transparency is an essential element of an AI ecosystem that is developed and used in a responsible, respectful, and ethical manner. Generative Artificial Intelligence (AI) has raised so many issues […] The post Transparency in Copyright and Artificial Intelligence appeared first on Copyright Alliance.

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Women’s Representation in the Legal Industry

JD Supra Law

In honor of retired Justice Sandra Day O'Connor, the first woman to serve on the U.S. Supreme Court, who died in December 2023, this article examines women's representation in the legal industry and in patent law. While an increasing number of women earn law degrees, women continue to be underrepresented as practicing attorneys and in leadership positions.

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Cheaper Prices Reduce Indirect Visits to Pirate Sites, Research Finds

TorrentFreak

Most people know all too well that downloading and sharing pirated content is against the law. Nonetheless, millions do so daily. There’s no denying that piracy affects legal sales to some degree. That said, piracy is a complicated phenomenon and the reported effects are not always straightforward. Instead of trying to quantify the prospected losses in yet another study, researchers from Georgia Tech, Chapman University, and Carnegie Mellon University, posed a different question.

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Success Kid: Copyright, Fair Use and Memes

Plagiarism Today

The Eighth Circuit has upheld a jury verdict finding that the commercial use of a meme was not fair use. However, it's not a complete win. The post Success Kid: Copyright, Fair Use and Memes appeared first on Plagiarism Today.

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Infographic | What we have learned from playing softball

Olartemoure Blog

For our firm, softball is not just a sport. It is part of a yearly ritual in which the whole firm comes together. We compete in a softball match that, throughout the years, has taught us valuable lessons we see reflected in our daily lives at the office. HERE WE WOULD LIKE TO SHARE SOME OF THESE: team spirit Softball has taught us that success is built as a team.

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Federal Circuit Issues Mixed Ruling on Trade Secret Misappropriation of Blood Analyzer

IP Watchdog

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit (CAFC), on June 11, 2024, affirmed-in-part and reversed-in-part a U.S. district court ruling surrounding an alleged trade secret misappropriation. In 2014, Alifax, a company that specialized in producing clinical instruments, filed a lawsuit against Alcor Scientific (“Alcor”), which operated in the same general area of clinical development, alleging trade secret misappropriation under the Rhode Island Uniform Trade Secrets Act (RIUTSA).

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Redfox Disappearance Puts a Spotlight on Defiant StreamFab

TorrentFreak

More than a decade ago, decryption licensing outfit AACS began to crack down on DVD and Blu-Ray ripping software. Founded by Disney, Warner Bros, Intel, and Microsoft, among others , the licensing outfit put legal pressure on the makers of AnyDVD and DVDFab, which were the key players at the time. AACS eventually booked a legal victory against DVDFab in a US court, but that did little to stop the operation.

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3 Count: VFX Settlement

Plagiarism Today

VFX company settles with Paramount, Japanese mayoral candidate accused of infringing copyright and Strike 3 has filed 132 cases in Hawaii. The post 3 Count: VFX Settlement appeared first on Plagiarism Today.

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Effect of Non-Registration of a Partnership Firm

IP and Legal Filings

INTRODUCTION According to the Partnership Act of 1932, a partnership is a connection involving two or more people who decide to split the earnings made from operating a business. These people are known as partners and are called as a “firm” when they are all called as such. Although the Companies Act of 2013 requires registering, the Partnership Act has no such need for partnerships companies.

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The Campaign to Defend Generative AI

The Illusion of More

I have not written steadily about AI and copyright because, frankly, it’s exhausting. Not quite as exhausting as watching the state of the Republic overall, but almost as relentlessly incoherent and repetitive. For instance, Winston Cho for the Hollywood Reporter describes a PR and lobbying campaign by the tech coalition Chamber of Progress to defend […] The post The Campaign to Defend Generative AI appeared first on The Illusion of More.

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German ISPs Block Romslab Due to Widespread Game Piracy

TorrentFreak

Three years ago, German Internet providers agreed to voluntarily block the most egregious pirate sites. The ISPs teamed up with copyright holders and launched the “Clearing Body for Copyright on the Internet” ( CUII ), which is now responsible for handing down blocking ‘orders’. While CUII doesn’t rely on court judgments, there is some form of oversight.

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Why We Should Add Credit Pages to Books

Plagiarism Today

Maris Kreizman at Literary Hub has a simple idea: Add credit pages to books. Here's why it's an idea whose time has come. The post Why We Should Add Credit Pages to Books appeared first on Plagiarism Today.

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Disruption and Resilience: Understanding the Societal Impact of COVID-19 in India

IP and Legal Filings

Introduction – Theoretical Framework The sociological theories that must be applied while analysing these topics can be: Social Disorganization Theory: According to this hypothesis, the intimacy that exists in traditional tiny towns will be lost as a result of modernization and urbanisation of society, or the advent of any substantial changes in society.

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Government Court Filing on Bill C-11: “The Act Does Allow For the Regulation of User-Uploaded Programs on Social Media Services”

Michael Geist

The public outcry over the Online Streaming Act is largely in the rear view mirror as the law is now at the CRTC facing years of regulatory and court battles. Last week, the Commission issued its first major ruling on mandated payments by Internet streaming services, a decision that, as I’ve written and discussed , is likely to increase consumer costs with limited benefit to the film and television sector.

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Court Bans DoodStream’s Owners & Associates From Running The Site

TorrentFreak

In March 2024, the major Hollywood studios, Netflix, Amazon, and Apple, teamed up in a lawsuit against popular cyberlocker platform DoodStream, previously labeled the leading global piracy threat. The U.S. entertainment companies had been filing takedown notices to prevent their copyright works being illegally shared among DoodStream’s tens of millions of users, and beyond that, many millions more.

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Amazon Owes $122M For Infringing Ad Patents, Jury Says

IP Law 360

A federal jury in Waco, Texas, said Friday that Amazon should pay a small advertising software outfit almost $122 million, which was on the lower end of a request that stretched upward to $348 million.

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The shopping dead (Best of 2016)

Likelihood of Confusion

Originally posted 2016-12-20 14:56:14. Republished by Blog Post Promoter Originally posted March 21, 2016. Says Pamela Chestek, of the Property, intangible® blog: I haven’t written about “zombie” or “heritage” marks in a long time. So when she does, we don’t want to miss it! Here’s the story. As usual, I copy copiously from Pamela, who doesn’t […] The post The shopping dead (Best of 2016) appeared first on LIKELIHOOD OF CONFUSION™.

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Be Bold but Never Break the Trademark Mold:Implications of Delhi HC’s Decision in PepsiCo v. Parle Agro

IP and Legal Filings

Introduction When Parle Agro (an offshoot of Parle Products, an Indian multinational food and beverage processing industry, headquartered in Mumbai) launched its product “B-Fizz” on 15 th October 2020 [1] , little did it know that is going to disrupt the world of Intellectual Property instead of the beverage industry in India.

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Google “Profits From Pirated Textbooks” Publishers’ Lawsuit Claims

TorrentFreak

After years of criticism from rightsholders, punctuated by incremental but significant adjustments to limit the appearance of pirated content in search results, Google is no longer continuously painted as siding with the enemy. Of course, Google has always argued it never did. The company’s search engine acts as an indexer of content, content placed on the internet by others, Google reminded frustrated rightsholders.