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fromwww.theguardian.com
3 hours ago

Musk and the US government fought an AI anti-discrimination law. The arguments don't hold up | Genevieve Smith

Federal action targets Colorado’s AI anti-discrimination law, reframing bias protections as ideological overreach while raising concerns about discrimination in high-risk AI decisions.
Intellectual property law
fromPatently-O
1 hour ago

Categorical Rules Cut Both Ways: Originalist Equity, NPE Status, and the Symmetry of eBay's Four-Factor Test

Non-practicing entities may establish irreparable harm for injunctive relief, but injunctions can still be denied when balance of hardships and public interest do not support them.
Intellectual property law
fromReadWrite
3 hours ago

DraftKings denies NCAA tournament trademark infringement claims

DraftKings denies NCAA trademark infringement, says its March Madness-related phrases were legally used, and argues no customer confusion or damages are warranted.
#openai
Intellectual property law
fromFast Company
19 hours ago

What will the court of public opinion think about Musk's loss against OpenAI?

A jury rejected Musk’s claims seeking major remedies, but the resolution hinged on a narrow legal issue rather than OpenAI’s deeper corporate and safety concerns.
Intellectual property law
fromnews.bitcoin.com
1 day ago

Elon Musk Loses OpenAI Trial, Vows Appeal After Jury Dismisses Claims Over Statute of Limitations

Musk’s lawsuit against OpenAI was dismissed for filing too late under a three-year statute of limitations, and Musk plans to appeal to the Ninth Circuit.
Intellectual property law
fromwww.cbc.ca
1 day ago

OpenAI found not liable in Elon Musk lawsuit ruling by California jury | CBC News

A unanimous jury found OpenAI not liable to Elon Musk because his lawsuit was filed too late under the statute of limitations.
Intellectual property law
fromWIRED
1 day ago

Elon Musk Loses Landmark Lawsuit Against OpenAI

A federal jury and judge ruled Musk filed his OpenAI claims too late, making the verdict final without addressing the merits of his allegations.
Intellectual property law
fromFast Company
19 hours ago

What will the court of public opinion think about Musk's loss against OpenAI?

A jury rejected Musk’s claims seeking major remedies, but the resolution hinged on a narrow legal issue rather than OpenAI’s deeper corporate and safety concerns.
Intellectual property law
fromnews.bitcoin.com
1 day ago

Elon Musk Loses OpenAI Trial, Vows Appeal After Jury Dismisses Claims Over Statute of Limitations

Musk’s lawsuit against OpenAI was dismissed for filing too late under a three-year statute of limitations, and Musk plans to appeal to the Ninth Circuit.
Intellectual property law
fromwww.cbc.ca
1 day ago

OpenAI found not liable in Elon Musk lawsuit ruling by California jury | CBC News

A unanimous jury found OpenAI not liable to Elon Musk because his lawsuit was filed too late under the statute of limitations.
Intellectual property law
fromWIRED
1 day ago

Elon Musk Loses Landmark Lawsuit Against OpenAI

A federal jury and judge ruled Musk filed his OpenAI claims too late, making the verdict final without addressing the merits of his allegations.
#ai-litigation
Intellectual property law
fromExchangewire
5 hours ago

Digest: Musk Loses OpenAI Case; Google and Blackstone Launch AI Cloud Venture

A California court dismissed Musk’s OpenAI lawsuit as time-barred, and Google and Blackstone launched an AI cloud venture while HBO Max expanded podcasts in Europe.
Intellectual property law
fromNature
1 week ago

Elsevier vs. Meta: first science publisher sues over scraped research papers

Major publishers sued Meta over alleged unauthorized copying of copyrighted works used to train the Llama large language model.
Intellectual property law
fromExchangewire
5 hours ago

Digest: Musk Loses OpenAI Case; Google and Blackstone Launch AI Cloud Venture

A California court dismissed Musk’s OpenAI lawsuit as time-barred, and Google and Blackstone launched an AI cloud venture while HBO Max expanded podcasts in Europe.
Intellectual property law
fromNature
1 week ago

Elsevier vs. Meta: first science publisher sues over scraped research papers

Major publishers sued Meta over alleged unauthorized copying of copyrighted works used to train the Llama large language model.
Intellectual property law
fromLawSites
1 week ago

Each Side Claims the Same Recent Ruling Supports Its Position in Thomson Reuters v. ROSS Appeal

UpCodes is argued to require reversal of ROSS’s fair-use outcome, while Thomson Reuters argues UpCodes is distinguishable and does not change the appeal’s core issues.
#patent-infringement
fromIPWatchdog.com | Patents & Intellectual Property Law
1 week ago
Intellectual property law

Federal Circuit Affirms ITC Finding That Redesigned Vacuum Products Do Not Infringe Bissell Patents

The Federal Circuit affirmed the ITC’s no-violation finding for redesigned vacuum products and upheld the technical domestic industry determination.
Intellectual property law
fromAxios
21 hours ago

Trump administration doubles down on Anthropic blacklisting in court arguments

Anthropic refuses Pentagon deployment terms due to inability to control models in classified settings and red lines on surveillance and autonomous weapons.
Intellectual property law
fromFortune
1 day ago

Parag Agrawal's Parallel wants to pay publishers when AI agents use their work | Fortune

Index estimates how much each content source contributes to AI agents’ completed tasks and compensates publishers based on that contribution.
Intellectual property law
fromFortune
16 hours ago

Pizza Hut franchisee claims $100 million losses from 'cascading operational breakdowns' in AI adoption gone wrong | Fortune

A Pizza Hut franchisee alleges gig delivery workers used Pizza Hut’s AI system to prioritize orders, causing delivery delays and sales losses across 110+ locations.
Intellectual property law
fromPatently-O
14 hours ago

Williamson Found Its Mark: New Data on Functional Claim Language, 1976-2026

Functional claim language shifted from means-plus-function toward configured-to/for and nonce-based 112(f) constructions, with nonce usage peaking around 2010-2014 and declining afterward.
Intellectual property law
fromwww.theguardian.com
18 hours ago

Obvious markers of AI': doubts raised over winner of short story prize

AI-detection claims and stylistic markers have raised allegations that an award-winning Caribbean short story may be AI-written, but no definitive conclusion has been reached.
#patent-litigation
fromPatently-O
19 hours ago
Intellectual property law

The Survivors: Post-IPR Claims, the Presumption of Validity, and the Limits of 285

Intellectual property law
fromPatently-O
19 hours ago

The Survivors: Post-IPR Claims, the Presumption of Validity, and the Limits of 285

Rule 12(b)(6) dismissal with prejudice was affirmed, while attorney fees under 35 U.S.C. § 285 and sanctions under 28 U.S.C. § 1927 were reversed without remand.
Intellectual property law
fromTechCrunch
1 day ago

Stilta raises $10.5M from a16z and YC to help companies rediscover the patents they forgot they had | TechCrunch

Stilta uses AI agents to automate patent research and analysis, speeding and reducing the cost of intellectual property case work while keeping users in control.
#arxiv
Intellectual property law
fromNature
1 day ago

Researchers who use hallucinated references to face arXiv ban

arXiv bans one year of posting for manuscripts with AI-hallucinated references or other clear generative-AI misuse, and later requires prior peer-reviewed acceptance.
Intellectual property law
fromTechCrunch
3 days ago

Research repository ArXiv will ban authors for a year if they let AI do all the work | TechCrunch

ArXiv will ban authors for one year if submissions show incontrovertible evidence they did not verify LLM-generated results.
Intellectual property law
fromNature
1 day ago

Researchers who use hallucinated references to face arXiv ban

arXiv bans one year of posting for manuscripts with AI-hallucinated references or other clear generative-AI misuse, and later requires prior peer-reviewed acceptance.
Intellectual property law
fromTechCrunch
3 days ago

Research repository ArXiv will ban authors for a year if they let AI do all the work | TechCrunch

ArXiv will ban authors for one year if submissions show incontrovertible evidence they did not verify LLM-generated results.
fromKotaku
18 hours ago

Kickstarter Reverts NSFW Rules But Stripe 'Can Still Suspend' Campaigns

Kickstarter has reverted the restrictive NSFW rules it had previously put in place, and, in a titled "An Apology: Rethinking Our Mature Content Guidelines," has outright confirmed that the "botched" guidelines were "primarily driven by requirements from [Kickstarter's] payments processor, Stripe."
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fromBusiness Matters
1 day ago

How a 50-person start-up beat TikTok at the IPO - with Lord Sugar in its corner

TickTickTrader won a UKIPO trademark dispute against TikTok UK, with the decision finding only medium similarity and no conceptual confusion.
#class-action-lawsuit
Intellectual property law
fromEngadget
1 day ago

Sony hit with a class action lawsuit for allegedly profiting from tariff-related price hikes - Engadget

Gamers filed a class action against Sony seeking refunds for PS5 price hikes tied to Trump-era tariffs, alleging a double recovery windfall.
Intellectual property law
fromEngadget
1 day ago

Sony hit with a class action lawsuit for allegedly profiting from tariff-related price hikes - Engadget

Gamers filed a class action against Sony seeking refunds for PS5 price hikes tied to Trump-era tariffs, alleging a double recovery windfall.
Intellectual property law
fromAbove the Law
1 day ago

Federal Circuit Releases Its Own Theme Song Managing To Be Both Embarrassing And Damning - Above the Law

The Federal Circuit’s music video centers civic education on judicial selection and independence while raising serious concerns about Judge Pauline Newman’s prolonged suspension.
Intellectual property law
fromTechRepublic
1 day ago

Banned Nvidia AI Chips Keep Reaching China Despite US Crackdown

Restricted Nvidia chips allegedly bypass US export controls via shell firms, encrypted messaging, and third-country intermediaries to reach China and Russia.
#elon-musk
Intellectual property law
fromFortune
1 day ago

Jury rules against Elon Musk in suit against OpenAI | Fortune

A jury found OpenAI and Sam Altman not liable, dismissing breach of charitable trust and unjust enrichment claims as untimely.
Intellectual property law
fromFortune
1 day ago

Jury rules against Elon Musk in suit against OpenAI | Fortune

A jury found OpenAI and Sam Altman not liable, dismissing breach of charitable trust and unjust enrichment claims as untimely.
Intellectual property law
fromKotaku
1 day ago

Nintendo's Ongoing Pokemon Patent Lawsuit Takes Another Hit

Nintendo and The Pokémon Company were denied a patent covering Poké Ball-style capture-and-release mechanics on touchscreen devices due to lack of an inventive step.
#design-patents
Intellectual property law
fromPatently-O
5 days ago

After LKQ: The Boilerplate Changed; The Rejection Rate Did Not

Design patent §103 obviousness rejection rates remain about 1% after LKQ, with examiners shifting wording and prior-art usage rather than increasing rejection frequency.
Intellectual property law
fromPatently-O
1 week ago

Prior Art Rejection Rates in Design Patent Prosecution

A flexible obviousness test for U.S. design patents began after LKQ v. GM, but obviousness rejections remain rare at about 1% of applications.
Intellectual property law
fromPatently-O
5 days ago

After LKQ: The Boilerplate Changed; The Rejection Rate Did Not

Design patent §103 obviousness rejection rates remain about 1% after LKQ, with examiners shifting wording and prior-art usage rather than increasing rejection frequency.
Intellectual property law
fromPatently-O
1 week ago

Prior Art Rejection Rates in Design Patent Prosecution

A flexible obviousness test for U.S. design patents began after LKQ v. GM, but obviousness rejections remain rare at about 1% of applications.
#patent-law
fromPatently-O
1 week ago
Intellectual property law

Remains Disabled: How a Firmware Rewrite Defeated Bissell's ITC Exclusion Order

Limited exclusion orders bar only specific infringing products, prompting redesigns that can avoid literal infringement via firmware timing changes.
fromPatently-O
1 week ago
Intellectual property law

Micro-Entity Traps for Inventors Who Also Own Their Employer

Micro-entity fee discounts under 35 U.S.C. § 123 require strict eligibility, and incorrect certifications can lead to payment deficiencies and loss of standing to sue.
Intellectual property law
fromPatently-O
1 week ago

Remains Disabled: How a Firmware Rewrite Defeated Bissell's ITC Exclusion Order

Limited exclusion orders bar only specific infringing products, prompting redesigns that can avoid literal infringement via firmware timing changes.
Intellectual property law
fromPatently-O
1 week ago

Micro-Entity Traps for Inventors Who Also Own Their Employer

Micro-entity fee discounts under 35 U.S.C. § 123 require strict eligibility, and incorrect certifications can lead to payment deficiencies and loss of standing to sue.
Intellectual property law
fromTNW | Anthropic
5 days ago

Federal judge holds back on Anthropic's $1.5bn author settlement

A federal judge in San Francisco withheld final approval of a $1.5 billion Anthropic copyright settlement, seeking more detail on fees and lead-plaintiff payments.
fromForbes
4 days ago

The Creator Economy's Next War Is Over AI Ownership

"Now, these clauses are increasingly scrutinized as new AI tools for creators rapidly develop," he said. "Typically, we'd obtain full rights to the content produced; however, this"
Intellectual property law
fromPatently-O
4 days ago

Polar Electro's New 101 Cert Petition: When Courts Do the Challenger's Job

Two Finnish sports-tech companies have been litigating U.S. Patent No. 6,537,227 in a Utah federal court since 2017. Polar Electro Oy - the heart rate monitor maker - owns the patent, which claims a process for estimating energy expenditure during exercise by combining a measured heart rate with a personalized physiological reference value tied to VO2max. Firstbeat Technologies Oy, a physiological analytics company acquired by Garmin in 2020, moved for summary judgment of patent ineligibility under 35 U.S.C. § 101 but, according to the record, supplied no prior art, no expert testimony, and no developed conventionality theory.
Intellectual property law
fromThe Verge
4 days ago

ArXiv will ban researchers who upload papers full of AI slop

Our Code of Conduct states that by signing your name as an author of a paper, each author takes full responsibility for all its contents, irrespective of how the contents were generated. If generative AI tools generate inappropriate language, plagiarized content, biased content, errors, mistakes, incorrect references, or misleading content, and that output is included in scientific works, it is the responsibility of the author(s).
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Intellectual property law
fromThe Nation
4 days ago

What the Dissents in the Mifepristone Case Tell Us About What's to Come

Supreme Court permanently stayed a Fifth Circuit order blocking mail distribution of mifepristone, allowing continued mailing nationwide while appeal disposition remains pending.
Intellectual property law
fromFast Company
6 days ago

Corporate insurers are starting to back away from AI risk

Generative AI lawsuits surged while major insurers added AI exclusion clauses, reducing liability coverage and increasing corporate exposure and rollout caution.
Intellectual property law
fromTNW | Finance
5 days ago

Figma Q1 revenue grows 46% as AI credit monetization shows early traction

Figma’s Q1 growth beat expectations, and AI credit limits retained most higher-tier users while boosting net dollar retention and paid customer growth.
Intellectual property law
fromFast Company
5 days ago

He says Kim Kardashian ruined his life with one Instagram post. Now he owes her six figures

A mistaken identity post linked the wrong Ivan Cantu to a Texas death row case, leading to a lawsuit and a legal-fee ruling.
#artificial-intelligence
Intellectual property law
fromNextgov.com
6 days ago

Five steps to make commercial-first government work

Federal technology acquisition shifts to a commercial-first mandate requiring measurable changes in evaluation, procurement, deployment, and security baselines.
fromEngadget
1 week ago

Family sues OpenAI, alleging ChatGPT advice led to accidental overdose - Engadget

Leila Turner-Scott and Angus Scott filed a lawsuit against the company, alleging that it designed and distributed a "defective product" that led to the death of their son Sam Nelson from an accidental overdose. Specifically, they're alleging that Sam died following the "exact medical advice GPT-4o had provided and approved."
Intellectual property law
fromPatently-O
6 days ago

Twice Ambiguous: Actelion v. Mylan and the Contextual Reading of pH 13

Ask a lay person what pH 13 means and you will get a straightforward answer: very basic, near the top of the 14-point scale. Ask a PhD patent attorney in a Hatch-Waxman dispute the same question and the answer becomes: it depends.
Intellectual property law
Intellectual property law
fromArs Technica
6 days ago

FCC angers small carriers by helping AT&T and Starlink buy EchoStar spectrum

FCC approvals for EchoStar licenses to AT&T drew criticism for alleged spectrum aggregation harms to rural wireless providers and competition.
fromTechCrunch
6 days ago

Who trusts Sam Altman? | TechCrunch

“You didn't disclose to the United States Senate that you had an interest in OpenAI through a share in a Y Combinator fund, did you?” barked Steve Molo, the combative attorney leading Elon Musk's effort to shut down OpenAI's for-profit business. Altman had admitted that he did have economic exposure to OpenAI through his LP position in the Y Combinator fund. “I didn't mention it in that testimony, but, again, I think it is well understood of what it means to be a passive owner of many venture funds,” Almtan said.
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fromWIRED
6 days ago

OpenAI Brings Its Ass to Court

A court considered whether a donkey-butt trophy should be admitted as evidence tied to alleged safety-related remarks between Musk and an OpenAI executive.
Intellectual property law
fromReadWrite
1 week ago

New Mexico tribes sue Kalshi over sports betting contracts

Four New Mexico tribes sue Kalshi to block sports event contracts, alleging illegal online sports betting on tribal lands without required tribal authorization.
Intellectual property law
fromTelecompetitor
1 week ago

NTIA tells BEAD subgrantees to flag states that alter required contract language

States must include required BEAD subgrant contract language verbatim, or risk noncompliance and loss of funding, including protections on rate regulation and permitting timelines.
#ai-licensing
fromtheregister
1 week ago
Intellectual property law

Actors' new spec aims to defeat attack of the AI clones

RSL Media adds machine-readable consent rules for AI use of creative works and identity attributes, enabling verification and permission enforcement via a public registry.
fromThe Verge
1 week ago
Intellectual property law

George Clooney, Tom Hanks, and Meryl Streep back new 'Human Consent Standard' for AI licensing

A Human Consent Standard lets creators set licensing terms for AI use of likenesses, creative works, characters, and designs, including full permission, conditional access, or total restriction.
Intellectual property law
fromtheregister
1 week ago

Actors' new spec aims to defeat attack of the AI clones

RSL Media adds machine-readable consent rules for AI use of creative works and identity attributes, enabling verification and permission enforcement via a public registry.
Intellectual property law
fromThe Verge
1 week ago

George Clooney, Tom Hanks, and Meryl Streep back new 'Human Consent Standard' for AI licensing

A Human Consent Standard lets creators set licensing terms for AI use of likenesses, creative works, characters, and designs, including full permission, conditional access, or total restriction.
Intellectual property law
fromComputerWeekly.com
1 week ago

What an LA County Court case means for the future of social media | Computer Weekly

Social media companies were found negligent for app design that encouraged compulsive engagement, leading to $3m damages and $3m punitive damages.
Intellectual property law
fromThehustle
1 week ago

What happens when a small business gets duped?

Inexpensive knockoffs are widespread and increasingly target small businesses, using scraped content, AI, SEO, and review attacks while legal enforcement remains difficult.
Intellectual property law
fromLos Angeles Times
1 week ago

California consumers accuse popular Italian food brand of tomato fraud

Cento Fine Foods is accused of falsely labeling products as containing certified San Marzano tomatoes, seeking class-action damages exceeding $25 million.
Intellectual property law
fromReadWrite
1 week ago

Maine Wabanaki tribes defend gambling rights in Oxford lawsuit

Maine’s Wabanaki Nations seek dismissal of Oxford Casino’s challenge to Maine’s internet gaming law, citing tribal sovereignty and prior legal agreements.
Intellectual property law
fromwww.amny.com
1 week ago

Appeals court approves class action lawsuit against PC Richard over claims its technicians illegally installed gas appliances | amNewYork

A class action against PC Richard was allowed to proceed over alleged illegal gas appliance installations by improperly certified technicians.
Intellectual property law
fromBusiness Matters
1 week ago

Ashley's Frasers group dodges hefty damages bill in trademark appeal victory

Court of Appeal overturned a large trademark damages award, ruling retrospective UK licence registration was too late and would create an unprincipled windfall.
Intellectual property law
fromArs Technica
1 week ago

Sony's failed war against Internet piracy may doom other copyright lawsuits

Supreme Court ruled Cox not liable under DMCA for customer copyright infringement without inducement or tailored service for infringement.
#copyright-infringement
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fromConsequence
1 week ago

Dua Lipa Sues Samsung for $15 Million

Samsung is accused of using Dua Lipa’s copyrighted image and brand identity on TV packaging without permission, seeking $15 million for infringement and lost control.
Intellectual property law
fromConsequence
1 week ago

Dua Lipa Sues Samsung for $15 Million

Samsung is accused of using Dua Lipa’s copyrighted image and brand identity on TV packaging without permission, seeking $15 million for infringement and lost control.
fromArs Technica
1 week ago

FCC slightly relaxes foreign router ban, allows software updates until 2029

Extending the waiver to 2029 will "give the Commission an opportunity to consider a rulemaking on this subject," and reduce "potential harm to the public interest," the FCC engineering office said. The office said it will recommend making the waiver permanent for existing equipment on the Covered List and "any future covered equipment with similar characteristics."
Intellectual property law
Intellectual property law
fromFortune
1 week ago

America's true innovation advantage: we don't just invent technologies - we reinvent how innovation works | Fortune

The U.S. wins by building institutions that commercialize technology, and it must preserve and extend that institutional advantage for AI startups.
Intellectual property law
fromwww.mediaite.com
1 week ago

Court Grants Fox News Additional Discovery in Smartmatic Case But Allows Case to Move Forward

An appeals court granted Fox limited additional discovery rights in Smartmatic’s defamation case while allowing the case to proceed toward trial.
fromBusiness Matters
1 week ago

The Government Proved It Was a Scheme. Barry Honig Was a Victim

A 'short-and-distort' is the opposite. Short sellers bet that a stock will fall, then deliberately spread false negative information to make that happen. It's illegal. And it's exactly what the SEC and DOJ found was happening.
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