#trademark infringement

#trademark infringement

Lighthouse is a phishing software service described in the lawsuit [PDF] as a "phishing for dummies" kit. Criminals pay a monthly subscription fee for access to hundreds of templates for fake websites, domain set-up tools for those phony sites, and other features designed to dupe victims into believing they are visiting a legitimate website. The crims use these sites to trick victims into entering their financial info and other sensitive details, which the crooks then steal.

"Getty Images sued Stability AI in the UK back in January 2023, alleging a host of legal violations including primary and secondary infringement under UK copyright law, database right infringement, trademark infringement and passing off. Getty's claims focused on the Stable Diffusion deep learning AI model, which is trained by repeated exposure to massive data stores to transform written user prompts into synthesized images."

Nintendo later filed a complaint against the accessory maker in May over alleged "trademark infringement, unfair competition, and false advertising." Nintendo said it didn't provide Genki with technical Switch 2 specifications, and alleged that Genki either "unlawfully or illicitly obtained an authentic Nintendo Switch 2" prior to the console's public release, or "cannot claim compatibility with enough certainty to make its advertising claims in good faith."

"We see no reason to distinguish between disclaimer by amendment and disclaimer by argument and conclude that a patentee may surrender claim scope of a design patent by its representations to the Patent Office during prosecution."

At the heart of this bitter legal wrangling is a big idea: we shouldn't need to stare at computer or phone screens or talk to a box like Amazon's Alexa to interact with our future AI assistants in a natural way.