Intellectual property law

Intellectual property law

The owner of music used in Peanuts animated specials, including the memorable holiday classic O Tannenbaum and the unmistakable Linus and Lucy tunes, sued three companies and the U.S. Department of the Interior on Wednesday. It accused them of using its captivating bops in social media posts and a video game without permission. Lee Mendelson Film Productions filed the copyright infringement suits in federal courts in New York and Washington, D.C.

The American Dollar has brought suit against AI music platform Suno, alleging that the AI company used their songs as training material for Suno's AI music-creation models. The music group is represented by Poseidon Wave Media, a music rights management company.

Bitgo is seeking at least the $100 million reverse breakup fee written into the merger agreement, and argues actual damages may exceed that figure. This was incredibly damaging, Belshe is cited as saying in court, according to Bloomberg's Sabrina Willmer. Bitgo disputed that position. According to Bloomberg, CEO Mike Belshe testified that Bitgo provided the required documentation and that Galaxy's termination claims caused direct harm to the company.

Wingtech Technology has sued its subsidiary Nexperia in a Chinese court, seeking at least 8 billion yuan ($1.1 billion) in damages over the Dutch government's seizure of the chipmaker. The lawsuit invokes China's Anti-Foreign Sanctions Law, making it a test case for how Chinese companies can push back against Western semiconductor restrictions.

Microsoft has now agreed to pay $250 million, more than the entire development budget of 2020's The Last of Us Part 2, in order to settle the case, Reuters reports.

California requires AT&T to spend $1 billion each year to maintain a century-old telephone network that almost no one uses. The copper wires that once served every home now serve just three percent of households in AT&T's California territory, with consumers fleeing every day to modern broadband services that are more affordable, reliable, and energy-efficient.

For years, owners of Vizio smart TVs have had little control over the software running on their sets-software that can track viewing habits, push ads, and generally shape the experience of using the device.

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."

"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"

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.

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."

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.