43(B)log

AUGUST 4, 2023

Changes to IP rules on their own in our world may have little effect on whether we go towards the good vision or the bad—cloud computing, network effects that cause convergence on a small number of intermediaries, and important tech that is protected by secrecy/real and personal property law/employment agreements. Individual interest v.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

DECEMBER 7, 2022

the thrust of Prager’s argument is that the government has a constitutional mandate to prevent private entities from discriminating on the basis of any protected classification and the failure to do so—that is, the trial court’s dismissal of a claim for relief from discrimination—is a state action in violation of that mandate.

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IPilogue

AUGUST 11, 2021

The Reasonable Robot proposes that the solution to this problem is for the law not to discriminate between AI and human behavior—a principle of AI legal neutrality. The FDA authorized an autonomous AI system that provides point of care assessment for certain eye diseases. This will ultimately result in more benefits for people.

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LexBlog IP

OCTOBER 30, 2023

The NIST standards will likely build on its prior work as published in its AI Risk Management Framework Biological synthesis screening – to protect against the risks of using AI to engineer dangerous biological materials, strong new standards for biological synthesis screening will be developed by agencies that fund life-science projects as a (..)

Privacy 52

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

MAY 22, 2023

The draft Regulation outlines several core concerns surrounding generative AI, including content control, prevention of discrimination, intellectual property (IP) protection, curbing misinformation and data protection. One possible solution could be collective licensing, as proposed recently proposed by Authors Guild in the U.S.

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LexBlog IP

MAY 2, 2023

Federal Government Initiatives Recently announced federal government initiatives seek to leverage collective authorities to monitor the development and use of AI and automated systems. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) released a joint statement on “Enforcement Efforts Against Discrimination and Bias in Automated Systems.”

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IP and Legal Filings

APRIL 26, 2023

5] This act reinforced the existing stance that the producer is the author, as opposed to the Copyright (Amendment) Bill of 2010 which would have recognized the principal director as a co-author of the composition. [6] The lack of clear reasoning only discrimination against directors more apparent. In the case of Ilayaraja v.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

JANUARY 18, 2024

Facebook , a California appeals court shocked the advertising community by suggesting that using common demographic criteria for ad targeting, such as age or gender, may violate California’s anti-discrimination law. Forum 183 (2023) Zauderer and Compelled Editorial Transparency , 108 Iowa L. IP & Innovation L.

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LexBlog IP

OCTOBER 15, 2021

Advertising should not portray or encourage negative social stereotyping, prejudice, or discrimination.” The revised guidelines make clear that the mere presence of a celebrity, influencer or authority figure can alter a child’s perception of a product.

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LexBlog IP

MAY 12, 2022

targeted advertising); requires controllers to conduct data protection assessments; authorizes the state attorney general to bring an action to enforce the bill’s requirements; and deems violations to be Connecticut Unfair Trade Practices Act violations.

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SpicyIP

JULY 22, 2023

To resolve this, it suggests establishing IP facilitation centres and providing adequate training to various authorities including the judiciary and tribunals. In this regard, the report notes that trade secret and IP further hamper grievance redressal efforts by individuals affected by such discrimination or bias.

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IP and Legal Filings

DECEMBER 21, 2023

The cultural background of harassment and abuse originates from the presence of power imbalances tied to various social and personal factors, leading to discrimination. Abuse of power dynamics – Some coaches, trainers or any other person in authority abuse their powers to coerce sports persons to engage in unwanted sexual activities.

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Trading Secrets

JUNE 29, 2022

introduced legislation to restrict confidentiality provisions from covering claims of discrimination, harassment, and retaliation. 8146 , appears to be a federal effort to expedite the state-level trend to exempt discrimination, harassment, and retaliation information from confidentiality restrictions.

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LexBlog IP

JUNE 29, 2022

introduced legislation to restrict confidentiality provisions from covering claims of discrimination, harassment, and retaliation. 8146 , appears to be a federal effort to expedite the state-level trend to exempt discrimination, harassment, and retaliation information from confidentiality restrictions.

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Trading Secrets

DECEMBER 19, 2023

The panel addressed what the proposed rule would do and what employers need to know to respond. The FTC’s attempted regulation of employment non-competes as part of its rulemaking powers is unprecedented in the 109 years since its creation in 1914. 15 USC § 45(2). Plus, they provided predictions for what to expect in 2023.

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43(B)log

DECEMBER 1, 2022

Telling here, third parties are not using Flora-Bama in their titles to their artistic works—songs, books, or a concert—to indicate their works are created, sung, or authored by the Plaintiffs. This could easily become viewpoint discrimination. It is so satisfying to see a court understand this.

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LexBlog IP

DECEMBER 19, 2023

The panel addressed what the proposed rule would do and what employers need to know to respond. The FTC’s attempted regulation of employment non-competes as part of its rulemaking powers is unprecedented in the 109 years since its creation in 1914. ” 15 USC § 45(2).

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

DECEMBER 2, 2021

” In addition to the law’s viewpoint discrimination, the court says it engages in speaker- and content-based discrimination. The evidence thus suggests that the State discriminated between social media platforms (or speakers) for reasons that do not stand up to scrutiny.” ” [cite to Hurley].

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IP and Legal Filings

APRIL 4, 2023

Articles 14 and 15 protect the rights of women by ensuring equality and non-discrimination against Indians, among others, on the basis of gender. Article 16 guarantees equal opportunity in public employment regardless of gender. The Constitution is the Supreme Law of the country.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

OCTOBER 19, 2022

It discusses the concept of overriding mandatory provisions and its potential application to relevant rules of (copyright) contract law, as well as t he specific private international law regimes foreseen by the Rome I Regulation for employment and consumer contracts. Otherwise, a risk of discrimination may arise.

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Fish & Richardson Trademark & Copyright Thoughts

JUNE 11, 2021

In celebration of Pride Month 2021, Fish litigation associate and LGBTQ+ Affinity Group chair, Jeremy Saks, authored the article “ How Legal Profession Can Help LGBTQ Patent Attys Thrive ” for Law360. Conway was fired by her employer after announcing her intention to undertake a gender transition in 1968.[1].

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SpicyIP

JANUARY 2, 2024

In this post, the authors highlight the historical justification behind the drafting of the provision prohibiting the registration of scandalous and obscene marks and undertake a purposive sampling of the actions taken by the Trademarks Registry against applications for such marks. M P Ram Mohan and Aditya Gupta.

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TorrentFreak

JULY 23, 2023

Legally our company is bound to respect subpoenas and court orders when they originate from the British Virgin Islands government or in conjunction with BVI authorities via a mutual legal assistance treaty. BitTorrent and file-sharing traffic are not discriminated against or throttled. We do not censor our traffic, period.

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LexBlog IP

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

In particular, the Order calls on the Federal Trade Commission (“FTC”) to consider whether to exercise its existing authority, including under the FTC Act, “to ensure fair competition in the AI marketplace and to ensure that consumers and workers are protected from harms that may be enabled by the use of AI.”

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IP and Legal Filings

FEBRUARY 19, 2023

Recommendations of the Panel-: Sex workers should not be discriminated against by the police whenever they file a complaint about sexual or any other offense, they must be treated equally with the provision of law entitled to any other person. This doesn’t make them invisible in society and invisible in front of the law.

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LexBlog IP

JULY 17, 2023

Diversity, non-discrimination and fairness – AI systems shall be developed and used in a way that includes diverse actors and promotes equal access, gender equality and cultural diversity, while avoiding discriminatory impacts and unfair biases that are prohibited by EU or national law. scoring of exams).

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IP Tech Blog

JULY 17, 2023

Diversity, non-discrimination and fairness – AI systems shall be developed and used in a way that includes diverse actors and promotes equal access, gender equality and cultural diversity, while avoiding discriminatory impacts and unfair biases that are prohibited by EU or national law. scoring of exams). Safety components of products (e.g.

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The IPKat

MAY 25, 2022

Can and should those beliefs be protected under the Equality Act 2010, protecting copyright believers against discrimination in employment law and in the exercise by public authorities in their functions? Given the dispute’s employment law context, it received limited attention from IP academics ( with some exception ).

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LexBlog IP

OCTOBER 31, 2022

.” However, with the increased use of AI systems comes the increased risk of possible bias and discrimination. The AI Bill of Rights promotes the following policies to overcome algorithm discrimination and other automated system biases. These include certain proposed “rights” of U.S.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

DECEMBER 1, 2022

The only question here is whether federal courts are authorized to legally forbid one from doing so in these circumstances…I conclude they are not… Plaintiff’s claims are barred by sovereign immunity and for lack of a judicially cognizable cause of action.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

JUNE 20, 2022

removed a protest-voting app from their Russian stores during parliamentary elections after the authorities threatened to imprison their local staff. The law restricts non-disclosure obligations in settlement agreements that would prevent the disclosure of workplace harassment/discrimination. This year, Google and Apple Inc.

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