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Patent Office Broadens Eligibility for AI Inventions
May 5th, 2026
Recent actions by the US Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) and remarks by USPTO Director John Squires suggest that the USPTO will be welcoming toward inventions involving artificial intelligence (AI). The USPTO Appeals Review Panel (ARP) decision i…
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Patent Office Restores Real Party Identification Requirement
May 4th, 2026
John Squires, the director of the US Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO), has sent a memo to all administrative patent judges (APJs) at the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB or Board) informing them that the USPTO was restoring the practice of requ…
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Categories: Patents
Circuit Court Vacates $1.5 Million Award in Fake Law Firm Trademark Case
April 29th, 2026
The Fifth Circuit has vacated a $1.5 million damages award in a case involving a fake law firm trademark. The case is Lewis Brisbois Bisgaard & Smith LLP v. Bitgood. Lewis Brisbois Bisgaard & Smith, LLP (LBBS) is a Texas law firm. LBBS sued M…
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Categories: Trademarks
Patent Law Developments: The Big Shifts You Need to Know
April 27th, 2026
Here’s a summary of some of the top patent law developments in the last year. Artificial Intelligence and Patents In November, as Reuters reported, the US Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) issued new guidelines on when inventions created with the…
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Categories: Patents
Unified Patent Court Issues Injunction; Directors Not Liable for Infringement
January 26th, 2026
Europe’s Unified Patent Court (UPC) has issued its first injunction in a case involving Standards Essential Patents (SEPs). The case is Philips v. Belkin (German original). (An English machine translation of the decision can be read here.) The UPC…
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Categories: Patents
Ninth Circuit Rules in Trader Joe’s Trademark Dispute with Union
January 21st, 2026
The Ninth Circuit has reserved the Central District of California’s dismissal of trademark infringement claims brought by grocery store chain Trader Joe’s against a labor union representing some of its employees. The case is in Trader Joe’s Co.…
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Categories: Trademarks
$166 Million Verdict Vacated: The Perils of Confused Expert Testimony
January 20th, 2026
The Federal Circuit has issued a decision reversing a district court’s denial of judgment as a matter of law regarding noninfringement of a radio-related patent. The court also vacated a significant damage award in favor of Finesse Wireless LLC. As…
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Categories: Patents
Federal Circuit Upholds $3.5 Million Jury Award in Wallet Ninja Patent Lawsuit
January 16th, 2026
The Federal Circuit has affirmed a $3.5 million district court jury award in favor of Dynamite Marketing, Inc. for infringement of its US Patent No. D751,877. As the court explained, In early 2013, Alexander Shlaferman (“Shlaferman”), the princip…
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Categories: Patents
Reviewing the Top AI Training Cases from 2025
January 15th, 2026
As we start a new year, which is sure to be full of new developments in both artificial intelligence (AI) law and technology, this seems like a good time to review some major decisions from the year just past. As background, generative artificial int…
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Categories: Technology
Anthropic Fails to Get Lyrics Copyright Infringement Case Dismissed
December 19th, 2025
In a case involving alleged copyright infringement by the Claude generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) tool, a US district court has denied Anthropic’s motion to dismiss. As Music Business Worldwide reports, the decision “keeps alive key…
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