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US Harrity Analytics, announces list of ‘2023 TOP 300 Patent
Owners’
On January 7, 2023, Harrity Analytics, a patent analysis company, announced the list of ‘2023 Top 300 Patent Owners’ based on the number of patent registrations in 2022.
The biggest change in the ranking this time is that Samsung Electronics, which was in second place before, took first place (8,513 cases), and IBM, which had maintained the first place for decades, showed the largest decrease and recorded second place (4,743 cases), LG (4,580 cases) in 3rd, Toyota (3,056 cases) in 4th and Canon (3,046 cases) in 5th.
TheTSMC, Qualcomm, and BOE rose year-on-year, while those of Huawei and Canon declined.Rocky Berndsen, Head of Harrity Analytics, predicted that Chinese patent applications have been explosively increasing for several years and will continue to grow in the future.
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UK Intellectual Property Office announces New Guidance for Password Sharing for Online Streaming Services Including Netflix
On December 19, 2022, the UK Intellectual Property Office (UKIPO) announced a new guidance stating that sharing passwords of accounts for online streaming services such as Netflix constitutes piracy.
General copyright infringement refers to the illegal use of IP TV known as streaming boxes. Meanwhile, sharing passwords with users who do not live together after subscribing to use an online streaming service such as Netflix became a common practice, not illegal.
The main contents of the guidance is as follows.
According to the latest UKIPO guidance, the act of sharing online
streaming service passwords without paying a subscription fee is considered
copyright infringement.
In the UK Civil and Criminal Code, there are provisions that apply to
users who use copyrighted content without paying, and it is quite foreseeable
that such provisions apply to online streaming services, so the users who use online
streaming services with the shared password sharing may be prosecuted
Currently it doesn’t seem like that the UK government will take legal action against users who share passwords, but it’s significant that the new guidance reveal that this practice is likely to be banned.
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