DeviantArt is expanding its tool for detecting ripped-off crypto art, offering it to artists outside the platform.[link]

The Intellectual Property Office of Singapore (IPOS) has refreshed its SG IP FAST Programme and Enhanced Mediation Promotion Scheme (EMPS) to help more businesses accelerate their ideas to market and resolve their IP disputes,[link]

President Biden took an important step toward safeguarding the U.S. economy with last year’s Executive Order No. 14,036, “Promoting Competition in the American Economy,” aimed at promoting competition at home in the face of unfair competitive pressure from state-owned or sponsored firms overseas, particularly in China.[link]

StockX, which describes its e-commerce resale platform as “[t]he current culture marketplace,” is primarily used by consumers to resell and buy sneakers, among other items.[link]

At the end of January, BlackBerry announced it had completed the sale of the majority of its patents to Catapult IP Innovations, a special purpose vehicle specifically formed for the acquisition.[link]

On April 21, 2022, the SPC released the top 10 IP cases and 50 typical IP cases in Chinese courts in 2021.[link]

New technologies mean new challenges. And the legal and regulatory systems can't always keep up.[link]

Disney and Pixar are being accused of plagiarising the character designs for their upcoming movie, Elemental.[link]

What can be more exhilarating to a patent owner than securing a patent damage verdict in the billions-yes, with a "B"-after staving off PTAB attacks of its patents by an accused infringer?[link]

The corporate tax take is poised to grow even larger as foreign multinationals keep transferring patents and software licences to Ireland.[link]

Right from the word go, a major issue with VR headsets has been the difficulty of fitting the devices over prescription glasses so that people with vision problems could have a comfortable and crystal-clear immersive experience.[link]

On April 21, 2022, LG Electronics Inc. filed suit against Chinese television manufacturer, TCL, through several of its affiliates and related entities, in the Eastern District of Texas for patent infringement. [link]

The International Trademark Association (INTA) will convene its Annual Meeting Live+ from April 30 through May 4 virtually and in person in Washington, D.C., USA, after two years without a fully in-person gathering of the event.[link]

On April 28, Google published a blog by their general counsel, Halimah DeLaine Prado, about the crisis condition of the U.S. patent system.[link]

Generally, artificial intelligence (AI) is an automation of a thing that a human being can do, or the simulation of intelligent human behavior by a machine.[link]

On May 11, the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit (CAFC) affirmed the claim construction and decision of the United States District Court for the Central District of California to exclude evidence relating to damages but vacated its infringement determination and remanded a case alleging that Hulu, Inc. infringed Sound View Innovations,[link]

Patent rights are guaranteed to the inventions that satisfy three essential criteria: Novelty, Inventive step and Industrial applicability.[link]

While some companies have not yet jumped on the cryptocurrency bandwagon, others are rolling out processes to accept payment for goods via cryptocurrency.[link]

Today, EU Member States, with the support of the European Commission and ENISA, the EU Agency for Cybersecurity, published a report on the cybersecurity of Open RAN.[link]

The U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH) signed a deal today with the World Health Organization’s COVID-19 Technology Access Pool (C-TAP) and the Medicines Patent Pool (MPP) that allows manufacturers greater access to key COVID-19 technologies owned by NIH.[link]