#intellectual-property

#intellectual-property

That type of copying is pretty normal, and they teach it in school. It's how you learn (and how you become depressed). But in the age of generative AI, there are many new kinds of copying. For instance, Wired reported last week on a tool offered by Grammarly, which briefly offered users the opportunity to put their writing through something called "Expert Review."

We hear the feedback and recognize we fell short on this. Over the past week, we received valid critical feedback from experts who are concerned that the agent misrepresented their voices. Following an enormous backlash and telling people being impersonated that they should email the company to opt out, Grammarly's parent company, Superhuman, made a sudden reversal.

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The settlement resolves all U.S. and international patent litigation concerning the unauthorized use of Genevant's and Arbutus' lipid nanoparticle (LNP) delivery technology in Moderna's COVID-19 vaccines. The agreement came just days before a highly anticipated jury trial was scheduled to begin in the U.S. District Court for the District of Delaware.

Shelton rejects the romanticized notion of invention as unconstrained creativity. He explains that he is not a fan of "blue sky" brainstorming sessions detached from operational constraints. In his view, unconstrained ideation often produces shallow ideas that collapse under real-world scrutiny. Instead, he deliberately over-constrains the problem. Technical constraints. Regulatory constraints. Cost constraints. Operational bottlenecks. Competitive barriers. Existing prior art. All of it goes into the box.

The U.S. International Trade Commission (ITC)-an agency with the extraordinary power to block imports and, in turn, influence the direction of American technology policy-has drifted out of that balance. To align with the Trump Administration's intellectual property priorities and pro-investment agenda, the ITC is in urgent need of reform.

They were like worker bees, taking this, this and they start putting it into evidence bags. Khan describes the police raid on his home, where officers systematically confiscated items related to the SEGA hardware transaction, treating the discovery as evidence in what appeared to be a coordinated enforcement action.

A California-based tech company is pitching exactly that by building AI avatars of every Major League Baseball star. The AI firm Genies recently signed an intellectual property deal with MLB Players Inc. the business arm of the Major League Baseball Players Association to create a cartoon-like "companion" version of every player on the league's roster. Once the product officially launches, baseball fans will supposedly be able to hold a conversation with the avatars on the Genies website,

Sustained recognition reflects strong local expertise and expanding IP capabilities across the region MAIDENHEAD, England-(BUSINESS WIRE)-RWS (RWS.L), a global AI solutions company, has been named Outstanding IP Service Team in China 2025 at the Enterprise IP Strategy Forum and Annual Conference of In-house IP Managers in Beijing. The recognition marks the fourth consecutive year that RWS's team in China has received the award, following wins in 2022, 2023 and 2024.

Starting this year, organizations based in or controlled by China cannot apply for grants to fund projects involving artificial intelligence, telecommunications such as 5G, health, semiconductors, biotechnology or quantum technologies. China's Seven Sons of National Defence, a group of universities affiliated with the government's ministry of industry and information technology, are also barred from all funding. However, Chinese organizations can still apply for or participate in select research projects related to climate, biodiversity, food and agriculture.

Eastman Kodak Co agreed to sell its digital imaging patents for about $525 million, a key step to bringing the photography pioneer out of bankruptcy in the first half of 2013. The deal for the 1,100 patents allows Kodak to fulfill a condition for securing $830 million in financing. The patent deal was reached with a consortium led by Intellectual Ventures and RPX Corp, and which includes some of the world's biggest technology companies, which will license or acquire the patents.

On Thursday, Google announced that "commercially motivated" actors have attempted to clone knowledge from its Gemini AI chatbot by simply prompting it. One adversarial session reportedly prompted the model more than 100,000 times across various non-English languages, collecting responses ostensibly to train a cheaper copycat. Google published the findings in what amounts to a quarterly self-assessment of threats to its own products that frames the company as the victim and the hero, which is not unusual in these self-authored assessments.

Within months of its launch in November 2022, ChatGPT had started making its mark as a formidable tool for writing and optimizing code. Invariably, some engineers at Samsung thought it was a good idea to use AI to optimize a specific piece of code that they had been struggling with for a while. However, they forgot to note the nature of the beast. AI simply does not forget; it learns from the data it works on, quietly making it a part of its knowledge base.

Albert Cheng, who heads the AI Studios initiative, emphasized that the goal is to support creative teams, not to replace them. The focus is on improving efficiency and reducing costs while ensuring that intellectual property is protected and AI-generated content isn't absorbed into other AI models. One example used is Amazon's "House of David" series, which featured 350 AI-generated shots in season two.

This week in Other Barks & Bites: the Federal Circuit denies yet another mandamus petition seeking relief from the settled expectations doctrine for discretionary IPR denials at the PTAB; Europe's top IP agencies release a joint report showing that IP-driven industries contribute half of Europe's GDP and account for one out of three jobs in the EU; a report by a coalition of creators organizations warns that generative AI threatens one out of every three jobs in the creative industries; Senator Maria Cantwell urges the Trump Administration to restore federal funding levels for the nation's top science and research agencies; Apple announces record-breaking quarterly revenues on iPhone sales; Kalyan Deshpande moves from his interim role at the PTAB to a permanent Chief Judge position; and the Supreme Court grants a petition for cert asking about the scope of consumer data privacy protections under U.S. law preventing companies offering subscriptions to online content from sharing data on content accessed with third parties.

Group finance officer Andrew Moody and general counsel David Brookes claim that they were dismissed in retaliation for blowing the whistle on an alleged attempt by an investor to acquire the company's intellectual property without the knowledge of nChain's directors. The firm, together with three company officials, dispute the claims, which were made yesterday at a London employment tribunal. They argue that the directors had not made protected disclosures and were properly dismissed for gross misconduct.

Are OpenAI's recent moves a bold leap forward or a risky gamble that could cost them their dominance in the AI race? Below, Matt Wolfe takes you through how the company's latest decisions, like introducing ads in free tiers, launching budget subscriptions, and claiming intellectual property rights on AI-assisted discoveries, are sparking heated debates across the tech world. While these strategies aim to expand OpenAI's reach and diversify its revenue streams, they've also raised concerns about user trust, data privacy, and the company's long-term vision.

The IRA requires drugmakers to sell selected patented drugs to the government for its Medicare Parts B & D programs at a stipulated "maximum fair price". If they don't agree to these prices, then they face tax penalties on sales of the drug exceeding their profits from it, or the exclusion of all their drugs from Medicare and Medicaid purchases. This would foreclose access to up to 160 million patients, accounting for around 40% of US prescription drug spending or 20% of global prescription drug spending.

The Eleven Album aims to showcase "how artists can use AI to expand their creative range while maintaining full authorship and commercial rights," according to ElevenLabs. ElevenLabs is using the album to market its Eleven Music generator and Iconic Voices Marketplace platforms it launched last year, both of which are cleared for commercial use. ElevenLabs says that every artist on the project "produced a fully original track that blends their signature sound with the capabilities of Eleven Music,"

OpenAI and training data company Handshake AI are asking third-party contractors to upload real work that they did in past and current jobs, according to a report in Wired. This appears to be part of a larger strategy across AI companies that are hiring contractors to generate high-quality training data in the hopes that this will eventually allow their models to automate more white-collar work.

Researchers have developed a tool that they say can make stolen high-value proprietary data used in AI systems useless, a solution that CSOs may have to adopt to protect their sophisticated large language models (LLMs). The technique, created by researchers from universities in China and Singapore, is to inject plausible but false data into what's known as a knowledge graph (KG) created by an AI operator. A knowledge graph holds the proprietary data used by the LLM.

I feel I'm finally getting established enough that we can make a Mistborn game happen. ... This is at Step One only, but it's an encouraging One.

In addition to telling Renee's story about how she found her way into the intellectual property world, and through our sometimes-comical banter, we together explore what it really takes to build, sustain, and continuously reinvent an entrepreneurial company like IPWatchdog. What emerged was a practical roadmap for entrepreneurship, invention, navigating platform risk, one focused on the necessity of constantly being ready to pivot as old business models start to show signs of age and ultimately falter.

Just before Christmas, TikTok expanded launched an Intellectual Property Removal Request report, which provides an overview of its cumulative actions to protect intellectual property rights across the app. Between January and June 2025, TikTok removed 30x more products and content through proactive measures (before the product or content appeared on the platform) than was removed after being reported by others or detected after posting.

On a Hard Forkin' Christmas, my true love gave to me 12 A.I. bubbles, 11 chimpanzinis, 10 Signal war chats, nine Meta reorgs, eight MechaHitlers, seven White House memecoins, six Roblox scandals, five Bum Bum creams, Bum, bum bum four Humane pins, three code reds, two robot pants, and a bot trained on all our I.P. That's intellectual property. Can Ezra Klein do that? I don't think so.

Andrea Zevallos declared 2016 her "year of dating." She was twenty-seven, working at Universal Studios Hollywood, the theme park, and determined to find love. She calculated it would take three dates a week. By December, she was losing hope. "It was exhausting," she said. Then, while scrolling OkCupid, she noticed a "cute guy" with a "Hamilton" reference in his handle. His name was Alex Switzky, and like her he was a musical-theatre enthusiast and aspiring screenwriter.

Sony is paying approximately $460 milliion to purchase Peanuts [PDF] and its characters, including Snoopy and Charlie Brown, created by Charles M. Schulz. That's a 41 percent stake Sony is buying from Canadian firm WildBrain. Since Sony bought 39 percent of the franchise back in 2018, this will give the company an 80 percent stake. The deal is still subject to regulatory approvals, but Peanuts will become Sony's consolidated subsidiary once it's closed. Schulz's family still owns the remaining 20 percent stake in the franchise.