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Pirate Site Blocking Demands Intensify as U.S. Lawmakers Get Fmovies Walkthrough

TorrentFreak

For a long time, pirate site blocking was considered a topic most U.S. lawmakers may be more receptive to revisiting this topic. lawmakers may be more receptive to revisiting this topic. From the start, it was clear that lawmakers see piracy as a serious problem that requires solutions. politicians would rather avoid.

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Cloudflare Defeats “Repeat Infringer” Copyright Lawsuit in US Court

TorrentFreak

This week, United States District Judge Vince Chhabria ruled on the motions, resulting in a clear win for Cloudflare. “For example, the plaintiffs have not offered any evidence that faster load times (assuming they were faster) would be likely to lead to significantly more infringement than would occur without Cloudflare.

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TTAB Affirms Genericness Refusal of "LETTERS & NUMBERS" for. Guess What?

The TTABlog

The Board affirmed a refusal to register the proposed mark LETTERS & NUMBERS (in standard character form) on the Supplemental Register, finding it to be generic for printed and electronic publications "in the field of educational and entertainment materials targeted to children on the topic of alphanumeric characters and symbols."

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[Guest post] Retromark Volume XIII: the last six months in trade marks

The IPKat

Acquiescence is a topic of interest following the CJEU in Heitec (see Volume 9 ) and the UK Court of Appeal in Combe (see Volume 12 ). The claimant had goodwill dating back to 1992 and registrations from October 2015. The defendant had been using since 2013 with registrations from June 2015.

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Enlarged Board of Appeal to tackle the "Humpty Dumpty-ish" plausibility question (G2/21)

The IPKat

As expected, the Board of Appeal in T 116/18 has now referred to the Enlarged Board of Appeal (EBA) questions on the use of post-filed evidence to establish plausibility for an invention. G2/21 will be closely watched by many, given the potential ramifications of the EBA's answer on the required evidence threshold for patent validity.

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Robojournalism – A Copyright Study on the Use of Artificial Intelligence in the European News Industry

Kluwer Copyright Blog

The analysis in the paper combines three perspectives – a law and technology analysis, empirical evidence deriving from the business reality, as well as insights from media and communications studies. One of the central issues in this respect is the copyright protectability of journalistic outputs generated by or with the help of AI.

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Amendment of German patent law: small step or giant leap for proportionality?

The IPKat

Ten years ago, a proportionality test was a radical idea embraced only by a handful of academics [see here for one of the earliest EU-focused publications on the topic]. When this Kat started his tenure as a GuestKat two years ago, his first post was on the first anti-anti-suit injunction issued in Europe, by the Munich Regional Court.