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The Federal Circuit has affirmed decisions by the Patent and Trademark Appeal Board (PTAB or Board) that upheld the validity of a communications networking patent. The court agreed with the Board that the opposing party’s expert’s testimony that… Read More

Illinois recently enacted a law making changes to the state’s Right of Publicity Act to create a private right of action to sue those creating or distributing unauthorized copies of a person’s identity using artificial intelligence (AI). Under th… Read More

The Federal Circuit has affirmed a lower court’s contempt orders against the sole officer of a patent-owning plaintiff entity who failed to appear at multiple court-ordered evidentiary hearings. The case is Backertop Licensing LLC v. Canary Connect… Read More

The Federal Circuit has affirmed a California district court ruling that a patent for e-signature technology was invalid under Section 101. The case is eSignature Software, LLC v. Adobe Inc. According to Deloitte, In 2020, estimates of the size of th… Read More

There are reportedly around 67,200 artificial intelligence (AI) companies in the world, and about 25% of them are based in the United States. Also, According to PwC’s Global Artificial Intelligence Study, the global AI market is expected to reach $… Read More

MIT Technology Review has reported that the team that earned the Nobel Prize in chemistry for developing CRISPR is asking to cancel two of their own European patents. The patents being voluntarily disavowed are EP2800811, granted in 2017, and EP34014… Read More

In a 277-page opinion, a federal court judge ruled that Google is a monopolist and that the company has violated Section 2 of the Sherman Antitrust Act. The New York Times reported that this “was the first antitrust decision of the modern internet… Read More

Recently, a short video clip of Vice President (and Democratic presidential nominee) Kamala Harris began circulating and (as of this writing) has reached 2.8 million views on X (formerly known as Twitter). In the 19-second clip from 2019, she says â€â€¦ Read More