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Federal Circuit Finds Gaming Claims Unpatentable

The Federal Circuit has affirmed a decision by the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) that the challenged claims of Bot M8 LLC’s gaming patent, U.S. Patent No. 8,078,540, were unpatentable. Sony Interactive Entertainment LLC petitioned for Inter… Read More
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US Government Agencies Team Up to Fight AI Abuse

The US Department of Justice (DoJ), Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB), Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), and Federal Trade Commission (FTC) have released a joint statement on fighting bias and discrimination created via the us… Read More
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USPTO Vacates Salesforce Reexaminations

The US Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) has vacated Salesforce’s reexaminations against Applications in Internet Time (AIT) because Salesforce was a real-party-in-interest (RPI) in RPX’s previous inter partes review (IPR) against the same pate… Read More
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Adobe Releases “Infringement-Free” AI Image Generator

Adobe recently released an AI image generator that it claims won’t infringe third-party intellectual property (IP) rights. The new generative AI tool is called Abobe Firefly and it’s in beta for enterprise in Adobe Creative Cloud and Adobe Expres… Read More
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USPTO Director Again Reverses Patent Board

Katherine K. Vidal, Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property and Director of the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) has again reversed a decision of the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB). We discussed an earlier decisio… Read More
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Copyright Office Offers New Guidance on AI

In June, the US Copyright Office hosted an online event focusing on the registration of works containing generative artificial intelligence (GAI) content. We previously wrote in this blog about how a comic book creator sought and initially received c… Read More
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Federal Circuit: Digital Image Patent Claims are Abstract

The Federal Circuit has affirmed a federal district court decision that certain claims of digital imaging patents are patent-ineligible. The case involves a dispute between the patent owner, Sanderling Management Ltd., and Snap Inc., which operates t… Read More
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Federal Court Dismisses Time-Tracking Patent Complaint

A federal court in the Southern District of New York has granted a motion to dismiss a complaint for patent infringement because the patent was directed to patent-ineligible subject matter. Realtime Tracker, Inc. v. RELX, Inc. involves a patent for b… Read More
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インターネット・アーカイブに不利な判決、次はAIか?

ニューヨークの連邦地裁判事は、書籍出版社がインターネット・アーカイブ(IA)を相手取り、著作権侵害を主張して提出した略式裁判の申し立てを認める判決を下した。 意見書による… Read More
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Judge Rules against Internet Archive; Will AI Be Next?

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
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