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In one of the most closely-watched copyright cases this year, a Delaware court rejected defendant, ROSS Intelligences (ROSS), fair use and other defenses by vacating its previous stance and granting summary judgement in favor of plaintiff, Thomson Reuters (Reuters). The case stems from allegations that ROSS used copyrighted material from Reuters legal research platform, Westlaw, to train its artificial intelligence (AI)-driven legal research engine.
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On February 11, a judge in the U.S. District Court of Delaware issued an opinion in a long-running AI copyright infringement case, rejecting the defendants fair use defense and finding […] The post First of Its Kind Decision Finds AI Training Is Not Fair Use appeared first on Copyright Alliance.
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This is Part 2 of a summary of Ward and Smith Certified AI Governance Professional and IP attorney Angela Doughty'scomprehensive overview of the potential impacts of the use of Artificial Intelligence (AI) for in-house counsel. By: Ward and Smith, P.A.
by Dennis Crouch The USPTO's new fee structure, which took effect on January 19, 2025, introduces significant changes that will reshape patent prosecution strategy in the coming years. While the update includes generally higher fees across the board, one notable development is a substantial surcharge targeting continuation applications filed long after their earliest benefit date (EBD).
What happens when a party attempts to sidestep the strict guidelines of a court order? A cannabis companys non-compliance with an injunction illuminates the consequences of playing with fire. Wm. Wrigley Jr. Company v. Terphogz, LLC U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois, Case: 1:21-cv-02357.
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What happens when a party attempts to sidestep the strict guidelines of a court order? A cannabis companys non-compliance with an injunction illuminates the consequences of playing with fire. Wm. Wrigley Jr. Company v. Terphogz, LLC U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois, Case: 1:21-cv-02357.
The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office has suspended a program that sped up examination of patent applications for inventions that are intended to mitigate climate change, saying any future petitions to participate in the program will not be granted.
This publication summarizes noteworthy 2024 legal developments in trade secret law in key centers of commerce throughout the world. Understanding these legislative and judicial developments can help trade secret owners maintain trade secret protection, guard against misuse of their trade secrets by others, and assert rights as necessary.
Clinical lab giant Labcorp has failed to land a new trial in front of U.S. District Judge Alan Albright after a $384.4 million patent infringement judgment against it in a case over a method for testing for genetic disorders during pregnancy.
Last week, the United States Copyright Office (USCO) released its long-anticipated report on the copyrightability of works created with the aid of artificial intelligence (AI). The report did not break new ground by recommending updated legislation or providing an objective bright-line test to determine the copyrightability of works created with AI.
Women and diverse employees have the technical skill and knowledge, yet their contributions are not patented at the same rate as those of their male counterparts.This toolkit can help organizations move the needle on achieving gender parity in innovation.
Pharmaceutical company Bausch Health Cos. Inc. and its top brass have beaten, for now, a proposed class action accusing them of misleading shareholders about threats to the company's financial stability, with a New Jersey federal judge finding Wednesday the complaint fails to identify any actionable misstatements or omissions, or plausibly plead scienter.
Palo Alto Networks (PAN) filed a petition for inter partes review of Centripetal Networks patentU.S. Patent No. 10,530,903which is directed to a computing system for correlating packets in communication networks with a network device and multiple hosts.
Alcon Inc. has failed to persuade a Delaware federal court to block the release of a generic glaucoma treatment that would compete with a brand of eye drops the company sells.
The European Commission yesterday announced that it is withdrawing a controversial proposal for regulating standard essential patents (SEPs). The Commission officially announced the proposal in April 2023, although it was leaked well before that. The draft rules were purportedly meant to repair a system that has suffered from a lack of transparency, predictability, and lengthy disputes and litigation.
Hard drive manufacturer Western Digital now has less than seven days to put up over half a billion dollars to satisfy a patent judgment after a California federal judge said he "has concerns about potential corporate restructuring.
By Marie Lussier In January 2025, the Registrar of Trademarks launched a pilot project in which it sends notices to certain registrants asking them to show use of their registered mark, failing which their registration is to be cancelled.
A report released Wednesday by a group of economists convened by the U.S. Copyright Office explores the complicated and sometimes fraught economic considerations at the heart of the debate over copyright policy and artificial intelligence.
Two weeks before an election, Robert Habeck, Germany's Green Party Chancellor candidate, has been accused of plagiarizing his dissertation. The post Germany’s Green Party Chancellor Candidate Accused of Plagiarism appeared first on Plagiarism Today.
A Texas federal judge on Wednesday barred a former Charles Schwab employee from using the brokerage firm's allegedly stolen client information, requiring him to return all records and submit any devices with relevant materials for forensic examination.
The Enlarged Board of Appeal (EBA) has issued its preliminary opinion in the closely watched referral G1/24 relating to the role of the description in claim interpretation. The preliminary opinion provides the EBA's initial view on the three referred questions ahead of oral proceedings scheduled for 28 March 2025. The EBA's thoughts on the three questions are very brief, and only Questions 1 and 2 are considered admissible.
About a month after Shoals Technologies Group filed a patent infringement complaint against North Carolina solar provider Voltage LLC and a Chinese manufacturing company, the U.S. International Trade Commission voted Tuesday to investigate the entities' importation and sale of accused photovoltaic trunk bus cable assemblies and their components.
It has already caught the attention of most copyright watchers that Judge Bibas of the District Court for the District of Delaware (3rd Circuit) reversed his own 2023 summary judgment ruling in the copyright AI case Thomson Reuters v. Ross Intelligence. Thompson, which owns the legal research database Westlaw, sued Ross for copyright infringement after […] The post Reversal in Thomson Reuters Case May Bode Well Copyright Owners Against AI appeared first on The Illusion of More.
In major litigation involving complex technology, attorneys should employ certain strategies to collaborate with companies' technical personnel more effectively to enhance both the attorney's understanding of the subject matter and the expert's ability to provide effective testimony in court, say attorneys at Buchalter.
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A Washington federal judge has cleared software company Replenium Inc. to pursue trade secret and promissory estoppel claims against Albertsons, finding it plausibly alleged the grocer misused confidential information from their software partnership to build a competing auto-replenishment platform.
Yesterday, in the first U.S. ruling on the closely scrutinized question of fair use in the AI-related copyright litigation context, U.S. Circuit Judge Stephanos Bilbas, sitting in the U.S. District Court for the District of Delaware by designation from the Third Circuit, held that U.S. copyright law did not permit Thomson Reuterss now-defunct former competitor, Ross Intelligence, to copy Thomson Reuterss content to build a competing artificial intelligence-based platform.
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On January 29, 2025, the United States Copyright Office (USCO) released Copyright and Artificial Intelligence Part 2: Copyrightability, its second report on artificial intelligence (AI) and copyright regarding copyrightability of AI-generated content (the Report). The Report states that determining copyrightability for a work created using AI [requires] fact-specific consideration of the work and the circumstances of its creation since various forms and combinations of human contributions.
My collection of rare books includes several written or owned by prominent lawyers from early U.S. history, and immersing myself in their stories helps me feel a deeper connection to my legal practice and its purpose, says Douglas Brown at Manatt Health.
Yesterday, Circuit Judge Stephanos Bibas, sitting by designation in the District of Delaware, issued a ruling updating a previous summary judgment decision dismissing copyright infringement allegations made by Westlaw legal research service provider Thomson Reuters against a competing artificial intelligence (AI) search tool developed by Ross Intelligence.
Fried Frank Harris Shriver & Jacobson LLP and its client, Tristar Products Inc., are facing a sanctions bid for bringing a RICO lawsuit against Telebrands Corp., with the defendant saying the complaint makes the company and its attorney seem like "alleged criminal masterminds.
Takeaways - - Requestor submissions in reexamination proceedings are exempt from triggering IDS size fees. - Correcting filing benefit claims in reissue triggers the new continuing application fee. As we noted in our November article, the USPTOs newly implemented (January 20, 2025) information disclosure statement fee applies to both reissue applications and reexamination proceedings.
The Federal Circuit's recent decision in Trudell Med. Int'l Inc. v. D R Burton Healthcare, LLC , 23-1777 (Fed. Cir. Feb. 7, 2025), follows a framework for excluding expert testimony that either (1) violates discovery obligations or (2) contradicts claim construction. The appellate court rejected a jury verdict of non-infringement after finding the district court abused its discretion by admitting expert testimony that both failed to comply with Fed.
On Friday, Feb. 7, 2025, the Federal Circuit issued a precedential opinion in Wuhan Healthgen Biotech. Corp. v. U.S. Intl Trade Commn, No. 23-1389, 2025 WL 420819 (Fed. Cir. 2025). The three-judge panel, consisting of Chief Judge Moore, Judge Chen, and District Judge John F. Murphy of the Eastern District of Pennsylvania sitting by designation, affirmed the Commissions opinion as to infringement and whether domestic industry had been satisfied.
As you know, DMCA takedown notices and 512(f) can be, and regularly are, used as anti-competition tools. This time, the pugilists are fast-fashion marketplaces Shein and Temu. I imagine some of you want both of them to lose. Given that they are litigating 512(f), your wish was partially granted. Temu entered the US market in September 2022. It says it quickly attracted 170 DMCA notices a day, 63% from Shein–a total of 33k notices by the end of 2023.
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