IP Law 360

JANUARY 24, 2024

billion patent infringement case claiming the search giant stole its technology to boost its artificial intelligence products. Just before closing arguments in a Boston trial, Google said it had settled Massachusetts startup Singular Computing's $1.6

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TorrentFreak

JUNE 18, 2023

Netflix and Amazon Target Reelgood Anti-piracy company Marketly, which handles DMCA takedown requests for many reputable rightsholders, repeatedly targeted URLs from the streaming search engine Reelgood. As a result, several Reelgood pages have been removed from Google’s search results.

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Erik K Pelton

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

The Supreme Court heard a trademark case involving a trademark application for the phrase “Trump too small”, that it has not yet ruled on. The case relates to First Amendment issues and whether the bar on trademark registration that features the name of an individual is valid.

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Erik K Pelton

MARCH 14, 2022

The second tool is TESS , Trademark Electronic Search System (T-E-S-S acronym). TESS is a wealth of information, a gold mine, but it’s very challenging to search. Or you can search for competitor trademarks and see what they own, or see how they describe their goods and services, which can be useful in crafting a new application.

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TorrentFreak

AUGUST 30, 2023

With just a few keystrokes, the search engine can find virtually anything. This week, we stumbled upon information suggesting that DMCA notices, received for the search engine, directly impact people’s privately saved links. As reported earlier this month, Google’s search index is a prime target for copyright holders.

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Velocity of Content

MARCH 5, 2024

As touched on in the last post in this series, utilizing deep search can help an organization reduce the manual effort needed to secure crucial data found in gaps, such as across multiple unconnected data sources. In the context of this deep search project, documents in the initial dataset were labeled as “important” and “not important.”

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Plagiarism Today

DECEMBER 13, 2022

1: Supreme Court Asks for Biden Administration’s Views in Google Copyright Case. First off today, Blake Brittain at Reuters reports that the Supreme Court is seeking guidance from the solicitor general on how it should rule on a case that pits the lyrics site Genius against the search giant Google. 1 Hit “Rockstar”.

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43(B)log

JANUARY 18, 2024

Abstract: According to the sole normative foundation for trademark protection—“search costs” theory—trademarks transmit useful information to consumers, enabling an efficient marketplace. Search costs theory no longer accurately describes the function of trademarks in this marketplace.

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TorrentFreak

JANUARY 18, 2024

This first happened in November 2022, shortly before the criminal case was made public. Popular search engines help too, as these typically return the site’s active domain in search results. This suggests that the publishers are trying to make sure that the shadow library is hard to find through the search engine.

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Velocity of Content

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

In the first post in this series , we identified the value that data “in the gaps” can bring to an organization and how taking a deep search approach can help an organization overcome the challenges associated with finding and utilizing this data.

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Plagiarism Today

DECEMBER 1, 2022

In a recent Google SEO Office Hours video, Dan Nguyen, from Google’s search quality team, answered a pair of questions that directly addressed content that scraped and/or spun from other material. This is especially true in cases where, for one reason or another, Google doesn’t trust the original website. Bottom Line.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

JANUARY 8, 2024

This is a case involving a trademark owner and a competitive keyword advertiser. The trademark owner is hopping mad about the rival website’s internal search function, where customers can search for the trademark owner’s trademarks and get search results displaying the rival’s offerings.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

DECEMBER 10, 2022

I previously summarized this case: Dreamstime sells stock photos. The case survived two motions to dismiss ( 1 , 2 ), only to fall apart completely on summary judgment. These allegations fall short of alleging anticompetitive conduct in the online search advertising market. Dreamstime appealed its Sherman Act Sec.

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Erik K Pelton

MARCH 4, 2024

At the end of 2023, the new USPTO search system rolled out. Finally, Monster Energy, which lost several trademark cases last year and has long been accused of being overly aggressive or perhaps even bullying in their trademark litigation enforcement tactics. Another big story is USPTO Trademark Technologies and Systems.

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Plagiarism Today

JUNE 28, 2022

The judge in the case has dismissed the other allegations, but said there is not enough evidence at this time to make a determination about copyright infringement. As such, that portion of the case moves forward. 2: Supreme Court: File-Sharing Platform Must Block Search Terms to Stop Piracy.

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IP Watchdog

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit rules that Meta will once again face a search engine patent lawsuit and also rebukes counsel for Comcast in a precedential Order regarding incorporation by reference; and a group of music publishers claim a chatbot was knowingly trained to produce copyright-protected lyrics.

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SpicyIP

MAY 30, 2023

Similarly though, the Trademarks Rules, under Rule 33 , states that Registrar may cause examination of the subject mark with the earlier trademarks registered or applied, is not clear on the type of searches that has to be undertaken by the Registry. Her area of interest lies in Constitutional law and IP laws. ]

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TorrentFreak

APRIL 15, 2022

Launched in 2008, search engine DuckDuckGo is a go-to service for Internet users who value their privacy. At one point, Google even pointed users to DuckDuckGo when they searched for Pirate Bay proxies. The privacy-focused search engine is not immune to potential copyright issues, however. In this case, there are none.

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Erik K Pelton

JUNE 27, 2023

Others are searching that database for potential conflicts when they are coming up with names, when they’re filing applications, and examiners are searching it when they’re reviewing other people’s applications. The registration is bolstering your case in the event of such a dispute.

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JD Supra Law

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

The Federal Circuit has affirmed a lower court decision that patent claims for methods and systems for improving how search results are displayed to users are patent-ineligible. The case is IBM Corp. Zillow Group, Inc. By: AEON Law

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Patently-O

MARCH 11, 2024

. § 101 as directed to the abstract idea of “identifying advertisements based on search results.” Claims 15-17 of the ‘443 patent recite a method for providing advertisements related to search result items. search queries and search result selections) during that search session.

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Michael Geist

OCTOBER 23, 2023

Second, the CAB wants to massively increase the platform revenues that are calculated as part of the minimum of 4% of search or social media revenues. In the case of Google, that would presumably expand beyond search revenues to also include Youtube, cloud computing, and other services that have nothing to do with news.

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Erik K Pelton

JUNE 20, 2023

Because the trademark process takes so long, it’s important and valuable to begin the steps in rebranding early, and the critical first steps are to search the new name or the preferred new name before doing anything else. The post Rebranding? Do these three things appeared first on Erik M Pelton & Associates, PLLC.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

NOVEMBER 20, 2022

Defendant argues that Plaintiff’s name or likeness appearing in a string of search results on the same page as a paywall option does not create an unlawful advertisement. The website allows users to search for names in the database, but then seeks to charge once a user has exhausted their free credits. Case citation : Spindler v.

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Erik K Pelton

APRIL 26, 2021

Do a preliminary search of major search engines and USPTO TESS database. Order a comprehensive search on the top name choice(s). Assess the search results (with lawyer). Case Study: Tricks of the Trademark(mark) – podcast episode. Check for domain name availability if that is important for your business.

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JD Supra Law

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

Addressing a state law-based challenge to the way search results are displayed on copies of websites, the US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit held that copyright preemption precluded a website owner from invoking state law to control how the websites are displayed. Google LLC, Case No. Best Carpet Values, Inc. 22-15899 (9th Cir.

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Velocity of Content

MARCH 26, 2024

AI-augmented natural language processing (NLP) is revolutionizing how we search and interact with our data. However, context, sentiment and nuances of scientific literature still presents challenges for deploying AI-augmented NLP for accurate search and querying of life-science data.

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TorrentFreak

MAY 11, 2023

However, when the United States launched a criminal case against two alleged operators, everything changed. Despite these enforcement actions and the pending criminal case , the remaining Z-Library team has no plans to hide in the shadows. They sent Google a DMCA notice asking to remove it from search results, but that effort failed.

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TorrentFreak

MARCH 3, 2023

When people use search engines to find pirate sites or pirated content, the results they receive today represent a massively edited subset of what is actually out there. In response to DMCA notices sent by rightsholders, billions of URLs have already been removed from Google’s search results.

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JD Supra Law

NOVEMBER 22, 2023

Film lawyer Gordon Firemark and music lawyer Tamera Bennett take a deep dive into artificial intelligence "AI" cases and proposed lawmaking. And there's more: an update on the Actor's Strike coming to.

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The IPKat

APRIL 18, 2023

Algorithms may, however, be too dynamic and cause legal problems, as the case discussed below shows. Google offers an advertising service called Dynamic Search Ads. As in the case of ‘traditional’ Google Ads, the ad appears above or on the right-hand side of the search results. It used Google’s Dynamic Search Ads.

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SpicyIP

AUGUST 20, 2023

Image from here Going Back to First Principles – A Nuanced Understanding of Infringement in Google v DRS Aditya Gupta Let’s say you’re using a search engine to look for luxury cars. You type in “Audi” in your search engine to start off your search for your dream car. DRS Logistics.

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TorrentFreak

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

While search engines are extremely helpful for the average Internet user, copyright holders also see a massive downside. The fact that infringing sites show up in search results has become a source of frustration and Google has been asked to “do more” on several occasions. Google Removes Pirate Bay Domain.

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TorrentFreak

APRIL 25, 2023

However, that has started to become a problem as well recently, as 1337x’s search function is not functioning as it should. No Torrents After April 10 While they do exist, finding these recent torrents using direct searches seems to be a problem. While that may be the case, none of these sites are official.

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The IPKat

NOVEMBER 26, 2022

What can be the territorial scope of an injunction requiring a search engine to delist certain search results? What to make of all this CJEU case law then? Unforgettable Kat. This is a fundamental question when it comes to ensuring the effective protection of rights, including but not limited to IP rights, on the internet.

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TorrentFreak

MARCH 26, 2024

While the latter is not unimportant information, only the former can shine light on cases where IP addresses are blocked in error. After calls for transparency appeared to fall on deaf ears, transparency has been imposed on the Piracy Shield system thanks to a new, unofficial third-party system: Piracy Shield Search.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

JUNE 4, 2023

. “Information about the arrest was published on the Montgomery County Crimewatch website, and it was ‘picked up by GOOGLE’s search engine.'” Metroka sued Google pro se for the search results. The plaintiff alleged that Google published the search results. This court repeatedly cites the Kabbaj case.

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