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

Intellectual property (IP) is just what the name says – property. Like other forms of property, it can be passed to the owner’s heirs as part of an estate. Here are some things to keep in mind when making an estate plan that includes IP. Copyrigh… Read More

A federal district court in Massachusetts has doubled the royalty payments that General Electric must pay to Siemens Gamesa for patent infringement related to wind turbines in a New Jersey project. GE must now pay $60,000 for every megawatt of electr… Read More