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Apple Commits To White House Guidelines For Responsible AI
Apple Inc. has signed onto the Biden administration's voluntary guidelines for "responsible" artificial intelligence innovation, joining the likes of Amazon.com Inc., Google LLC, Microsoft Corp. [...]
Off The Bench: NBA Signs Mega Deals, Jerry Jones Settles
In this week's Off The Bench, the NBA signed $77 billion worth of telecast and streaming deals while longtime league broadcaster TNT challenged the decision, [...]
Copyright Cases To Watch In The Second Half Of 2024
The first copyright trial arising from an artificial intelligence platform could provide intellectual property attorneys with insight into dozens of pending suits against AI companies, [...]
NCAA's $2.8B NIL Deal, Revenue-Sharing Plan Sent To Judge
A $2.78 billion deal to settle a massive class action targeting the NCAA's name, image and likeness compensation rules was submitted to a California federal [...]
Fed. Circ. Upholds PTAB Estoppel Rule, But Limits Its Reach
The Federal Circuit on Friday upheld a U.S. Patent and Trademark Office rule that can lead to Patent Trial and Appeal Board decisions rendering patent [...]
Amazon And Google Face New Suits Over Japanese Patents
A litigation outfit trying to cash out on patents issued to Japanese electronics company JVCKenwood has expanded its campaign against Amazon and Google with a [...]
Other Barks & Bites for Friday, July 26: New Group Registration for Frequently Updated News Websites, Trade Secret Claims Against TikTok Survive Dismissal, and USPTO’s Estoppel Provisions in IPR Proceedings Upheld
This week in Other Barks & Bites: the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit affirms the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office’s statutory authority [...]
Del. Court Won't Let Generic Co. Walk Back Invalidity Promise
Generic-drug maker Mankind Pharma is bound to its promise not to challenge the validity of a patent covering Allergan's glaucoma drug Lumigan after a federal [...]
Jam Band Phish Can Seize Bootleg Merch, Judge Says
Jam band Phish has been given the green light by a Boston federal judge to confiscate counterfeit merchandise being sold outside its concerts this summer. [...]
Trending At The PTAB: 1 Year Of Denials Of Institution
An analysis of Patent Trial and Appeal Board denials of institutions between May 2023 and May of this year highlights the board’s common reasons for [...]
New Approaches to Indexing and Standardizing Biological Sequence Data
In a recent publication titled “’Google for DNA’ indexes 10% of world’s known genetic sequences,” the journal, Science, addressed promising results of a new tool [...]
HP Says Dolby, Philips, Mitsubishi Patent Fees A 'Money Grab'
Computer maker HP Inc. has claimed Dolby Laboratories, Mitsubishi and Philips are attempting a "money grab" by attempting to overcharge on licensing fees for ultra-high-definition streaming patents, [...]
Illinois Cases To Watch In 2024: Midyear Report
Illinois attorneys say they are considering the path forward for Springfield corruption prosecutions following a recent U.S. Supreme Court ruling, as well as paying attention [...]
Washington Cases To Watch 2024: A Midyear Report
Two Washington tribes are testing whether they can hold Big Oil companies accountable in state court for climate change-related catastrophes, the attorney general is defending a [...]
UK Litigation Roundup: Here's What You Missed In London
This past week in London has seen U.K. band The 1975 face action by Future Sound Asia after its performance in Malaysia resulted in a [...]
Blue Bottle Won't Be Sanctioned Or Pay Atty Fees In TM Row
Blue Bottle won't be sanctioned nor ordered to pay $1.15 million in fees for losing its trademark suit against a company selling "Blue Brew" brand [...]
Call Off Chicken Little: The Sky is Not Falling for Skinny Labeling After GSK v. Teva
Although Professors Sean Tu and Aaron Kesselheim have advocated for legislation to respond to the Federal Circuit’s 2021 opinion in GSK v. Teva, that case [...]
Pfizer Calls GSK Patents In COVID Vax Case Unenforceable
Pfizer and BioNTech have fired back at GlaxoSmithKline's patent suit against them over the COVID-19 vaccine, saying GSK's patents are unenforceable because the company delayed [...]
Fed. Circ. Backs Penn. Jury Invalidating Sherwin-Williams IP
A Pennsylvania federal judge rightfully invalidated claims of several Sherwin-Williams Co. paint coating patents after a jury trial, and properly barred inconsistent assertions from the [...]
DC Panel Upholds FDA's Win Against Ipsen's Generics Suit
A D.C. panel declined to revive Ipsen's challenge to regulators' refusal to classify its acromegaly drug as a biologic, which would have blocked generic versions [...]
Shkreli Says He Has Right To Use Wu-Tang Clan Album Copies
Martin Shkreli pushed back on a crypto project's bid to force him to hand over copies of the one-of-a-kind Wu-Tang Clan album he once owned, [...]
Copyright Office OKs Group Registration For News Websites
The U.S. Copyright Office has created a new group registration option for news websites that are updated frequently, allowing publications to register a group of [...]
Fed. Circ. Axes 'Trump Too Small' Holding After Justices' Rule
The Federal Circuit on Thursday vacated its 2022 ruling that California attorney Steve Elster should be allowed to register "Trump Too Small" as a trademark [...]
Patent Filings Roundup: New Kaifi Cases Filed; Mixed Results in Meetrix IP IPRs
This week there was a slightly below average 22 new patent filings—all inter partes reviews (IPRs)—at the Patent Trials and Appeal Board (PTAB). Meanwhile, district [...]
