Writer’s Guild Strike Ends with Agreement on AI
November 13th, 2023
The strike by the Writers Guild of America (WGA) that started in May finally ended in late September, after almost 150 days, with a new Minimum Basic Agreement (MBA) with the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers (AMPTP), a trade associ…
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Categories: Technology
Intellectual Property Issues for Venture Capital and Private Equity Firms: A Comprehensive Guide
November 9th, 2023
Everything you need to know about the different IP issues you may come across—and what you can do to prevent them. In the past few decades, both private equity and venture capital firms faced waves of developments and industry-wide evolutions that…
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Categories: Patents
Federal Circuit Rules against Philip Morris on E-Cigarette Patent Challenge
November 6th, 2023
The Federal Circuit has affirmed a ruling by the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB or Board) against tobacco company Philip Morris, which had tried to overturn an R.J. Reynolds e-cigarette patent. The patent generally relates to tobacco smoking dev…
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Categories: Patents
South Korea's Startup Ecosystem Shows Great Promise
October 23rd, 2023
In East Asia, one country has shown promising results, with South Korea seeing exponential growth in its startups. In the last decade alone, funding into the startup industry has been on the rise, culminating in an investment of approximately $6.4 bi…
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Categories: Uncategorized
The Future of 3D Printing Technology
October 19th, 2023
3D printing technology has come a long way since Hideo Kodama first developed it in Japan in the 1980s. Back then, Kodama was figuring out a way to establish a fast prototyping system and created a layer-by-layer approach for manufacturing using a ph…
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Categories: Technology
Duracell Display Sound Can Be Registered as a Trademark
October 16th, 2023
The Trademark Trial and Appeal Board (TTAB) has found that Duracell can register a sensory (sound) mark for “batteries” in International Class 9. As Duracell’s trademark application describes it, The mark is a sound. The mark consists of three…
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Categories: Trademarks
IP in the Fashion Industry
October 12th, 2023
After enduring years of pandemic-related restrictions, lockdowns, layoffs, and uncertainty, nations across the globe are gradually reopening. Employees return to their offices as restrictions ease, and consumers seek new products to embrace a post-pa…
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Categories: Copyright
Court Rules for Meta in News Feed Patent Case
October 10th, 2023
The Federal Circuit has affirmed a Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) ruling that a patent Meta was accused of infringing covered an abstract idea and was thus not eligible for patenting. USC IP Partnership, L.P. owns a patent entitled “System an…
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Categories: Patents
European Union Prepares First AI Law
October 6th, 2023
In April 2021, the European Commission published draft legislation regulating artificial intelligence (AI). According to the European Parliament, As part of its digital strategy, the EU wants to regulate artificial intelligence (AI) to ensure better…
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Categories: Patents
Does using art to train AI violate copyright law?
October 3rd, 2023
We’ve previously discussed the uproar over copyrighted works being used to train artificial intelligence (AI) tools to create “new” works using generative AI software like ChatGPT. Reuters reports that a group of artists sued Stability AI, Midj…
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Categories: Copyright
