A US District Court judge in New York has issued a ruling granting a motion for summary judgement filed by book publishers against the Internet Archive (IA), alleging copyright infringement. According to the opinion, the four publishers (Hachette Boo… Read More

A Magistrate Judge of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York has recommended that the District Court grant defendant’s Rule 12(b)(6) motion to dismiss patent claims for a method of picking outfits, finding that the c… Read More

Many people who use the phrase on a regular basis may not realize that “Taco Tuesday” is actually protected by a US trademark. As NPR reported, the trademark is owned by Taco John’s, a Wyoming-based fast-food restaurant chain with about 380… Read More

The US Copyright Office has announced the launch of a new Artificial Intelligence (AI) Initiative. As the Office notes, This initiative is in direct response to the recent striking advances in generative AI technologies and their rapidly growing use… Read More

A New York federal jury has found that musician Ed Sheeran and his co-writer Amy Wadge did not copy Marvin Gaye’s hit 1973 song “Let’s Get It On.” The decision came after an eight-year-long legal battle in which it was alleged that Sheeran’… Read More

The US Copyright Office has cancelled an attempt to register images created using an artificial intelligence (AI) tool. In 2022, Kristina Kashtanova sought and received copyright registration for an 18-page comic book titled Zarya of the Dawn. On the… Read More

The US Supreme Court has voted unanimously to affirm a previous Federal Circuit ruling that invalidated Amgen’s two cholesterol drug patents. The patents are for antibodies engineered to help reduce levels of low-density lipoprotein (LDL) cholester… Read More

The Federal Circuit has upheld a finding by the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) that a fender design patent was not obvious. The case is LKQ Corporation v. GM Global Technology Operations. GM owns US patent D797,625, for an “ornamental des… Read More