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The Global Blockchain Messaging Apps Market size is expected to reach $215.7 million by 2028, rising at a market growth of 42.8% CAGR during the forecast period


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A messaging system that leverages blockchain technology to send and send messages is known as a blockchain-based messaging system. Blockchain is a distributed database that enables transactions that are safe, open, and unchangeable.

New York, Jan. 26, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Reportlinker.com announces the release of the report “Global Blockchain Messaging Apps Market Size, Share & Industry Trends Analysis Report By End-user, By Application, By Operating System, By Regional Outlook and Forecast, 2022 – 2028” – https://www.reportlinker.com/p06412015/?utm_source=GNW
As a result, it provides the perfect messaging system platform since it can offer a great degree of confidentiality and anonymity.

One of the most often used methods for regular contact is messaging applications. There are several blockchain messaging applications available that include Web3 features. Blockchain messaging applications’ primary objective is to provide consumers with a dependable, decentralized substitute for popular messengers. Blockchains process data via decentralized networks of nodes. Blockchain-based messenger applications provide consumers with very private and secure communication options. Users that seek privacy and security while sending communications are increasingly using these features.

In terms of network topology, blockchain messaging applications are the direct opposite of centralized messengers. To enhance user communication via blockchain transactions, these applications make use of blockchain technology. Distributed ledger technologies, or blockchains, are fundamentally decentralized network architectures. Blockchain messaging applications employ several independent network nodes rather than a single centralized system to handle the traffic.

Data security is one of the key advantages of adopting a blockchain-based messaging system. Messages are far less prone to breaches and hackers when they are kept on a decentralized network. It is considerably more difficult for unauthorized persons to view the messages since each one is encrypted and accessible only with the right key.

COVID-19 Impact Analysis

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Scripps Health, Avalon Healthcare reach settlements after data breaches


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Two recent healthcare data breach settlements spotlight the impact beaches have on the sector. (“Cash Money (part two)” by jtyerse is licensed under CC BY-NC-ND 2.0.)

States have ramped up enforcement efforts against entities affected by ransomware and other data privacy breaches, particularly those in healthcare, over the last year. At an even greater pace, there’s been a relentless uptick in the number of breach lawsuits filed against providers.

Two recent healthcare data breach settlements spotlight the growing dichotomy and impact on the healthcare sector. 

Oregon and Utah recently handed down a $200,000 fine to Avalon Healthcare Management to resolve compliance issues found in the wake of its 2019 email-related data breach, while Scripps Health reached a $3.5 million settlement with patients affected by its 2021 incident.

Avalon Health pays states $200K, with new security requirements

The attorneys general of Utah and Oregon reached a $200,000 settlement with Avalon Health, which also requires the provider to develop and implement practices that aim to bolster its information security for both patient and employee data.

In April 2020, the skilled nursing, therapy, senior living, and assisted living provider reported an email-related incident affecting 14,500 Avalon employees and patients. A threat actor gained access to an email account 10 months earlier in July 2020, after an employee fell victim to a phishing attack.

The account contained employee and patient names, addresses, Social Security numbers, dates of birth, driver’s license numbers, medical treatment information, including diagnosis, health conditions, and/or medications, and limited financial information.

The delayed notification prompted the states’ joint investigation, with a particular focus on Avalon’s email security practices and compliance with state breach notification laws and the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act. Under HIPAA, notices are required without undue delay and within 60 days of discovery. Under Oregon law, the timeline is just 45 days.

The delay, highly common with email-related breaches in healthcare, prompted the fine, as well as the sensitivity of the data it held,…

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Amid tight security, internet shutdown, lakhs reach exam centres in West Bengal to appear for TET after 5 years


Amid tight security, around 7 lakh aspirants are rushing to examination centres in West Bengal to appear for the Teacher Eligibility Test (TET) on Sunday after a gap of five years.

Internet will be shut down in six districts before the examination starts at 12 noon. “In the districts of Uttar Dinajpur, Malda, Murshidabad, Purba Medinipur, Paschim Medinipur and Dakshin Dinajpur, any data-related message shall not be transmitted in the larger public interest. This order shall come into force with effect from 11.30 am on December 11 to 2.30 pm,” read an order issued by the state government.

The TET examination is conducted for the recruitment of assistant teachers in government-aided/ government-sponsored/junior basic primary schools for classes 1 to 5. A total of 6,90,931 candidates will appear for the TET examination which will be held at 1,453 centres this year from 12 pm to 2.30 pm. The West Bengal Board of Primary Education (WBBPE) has made biometric testing of TET candidates mandatory, besides installing CCTV cameras at all examination centres. Metal detectors have also been provided for frisking candidates. The board has also sent guidelines to all district magistrates and the Kolkata police commissioner.

The metro rail and state transport department has announced additional services so that candidates face no issues in reaching their examination centres. The Metro has been crowded since morning unlike usual Sundays. The metro rail is running 138 trains (69 UP and 69 DN) — additional eight (4 UP and 4 DN) train services — for TET candidates on the North-South Corridor (Blue Line). Metro services are available at an interval of seven minutes before the start of the examination, instead of the normal 15-minute interval on Sundays, while in the afternoon, trains will run at 10-minute intervals.

Many candidates reached their examination centre much before the stipulated time. The gates were opened at 9.30 am. “I have been preparing for it for a long time, so I’m not nervous. However, I prefer not to be late so I reached here at around 9 am,” said Prapti Sen, a candidate waiting outside City College.

According to the instructions issued by the board, no candidate…

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Narrowing the Disclaimer Doctrine: Federal Circuit Cabins the Reach of Disclaimers in the IPR Context | Haug Partners LLP


OVERVIEW

The United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit recently affirmed three Inter Partes Review (IPR) final written decisions of the U.S. Patent Trial and Appeal Board (“the Board”) where the Board concluded that petitioner, Trend Micro. Inc. (“Trend”), had shown the challenged patent claims in patentee, Cupp Computing AS’s (“Cupp”), U.S. Patents Nos. 8,631,488 (“’488 patent”), 9,106,683 (“’683 patent”), and 9,843,595 (“’595 patent”), unpatentable as obvious over two prior art references.1 Setting a new precedent with respect to claim construction, the Federal Circuit held that although a patentee’s clear and unmistakable disavowals of claim scope during an IPR proceeding can narrow the scope of the claims, such a statement serves to narrow the claims only in subsequent proceedings—not in the IPR proceeding during which the statement is made.2

Cupp contended that the PTAB erred when it rejected Cupp’s disclaimers in the IPR.3 The Board did not find this argument persuasive and concluded that it could ignore the patentee’s disavowal in construing the claims.4 The Federal Circuit agreed with the Board.5

I. Introduction

Each of the three patents at issue share a common name and priority date and address the problem of malicious attacks aimed at mobile devices.6 The patents concern methods for waking a mobile device from a power-saving mode and then performing security operations on the device, “such as scanning a storage medium for malware, or updating security applications.”7

The issue on appeal to the Board’s determination related to the precedential decision is one of claim construction.8 Specifically, each independent claim in the three patents includes the limitation “the mobile device having a mobile device processor different than the mobile security system processor.”9

II. Background

In March 2019 Trend petitioned the Board for an IPR of several claims in each of the ’488, ’683, and ’595 patents arguing that the claims were unpatentable as obvious.10 Trend presented two pieces of prior art contending that either could be individually relied upon to show the challenged claims would have been…

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