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Several recent developments have occurred in intellectual property law disputes over the use of generative artificial intelligence (GAI or GenAI). In April, eight major US newspapers filed suit in federal court in the Southern District of New York, a… Read More

The Federal Circuit has ruled on a district court finding that a plaintiff in a patent infringement case was barred from seeking relief due to unclean hands. The appeal arose from a lawsuit between two rival manufacturers of dining mats for toddlers:… Read More

A Delaware federal district court has ruled that Sony didn’t infringe a patent held by Genuine Enabling Technology. Genuine Enabling asserted that video game hardware sold by Sony infringed U.S. Patent No. 6,219,730, entitled “Method and Apparatu… Read More

The Federal Circuit has affirmed a Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) finding that patent claims for a type of prosthetic valve support were unpatentable as obvious. Cardiovalve Ltd. owns US Patent No. 10,226,341, titled “Implant for Heart Valve.… Read More

The Federal Circuit has vacated an indefiniteness determination by a district court, distinguishing an indefinite patent claim with contradictory claim limitations from a patent claim having a second limitation that narrows the first limitation. The… Read More

A California federal court has ruled that a Silicon Valley entrepreneur may not use the trademark “OpenAI” because of a likelihood of confusion with Microsoft’s OpenAI. OpenAI, the founder of the generative artificial intelligence (AI) tool Cha… Read More

A California Federal Court has ruled in favor of a motion to dismiss a case brought by computer programmers who alleged that their work had been used to train artificial intelligence (AI) models to generate code. The case is J. Doe 1 v. GitHub, Inc.… Read More

The Federal Circuit affirmed a lower court ruling invalidating several claims in a computing patent that Eolas sought to assert against Amazon, Google, and Walmart. The ’507 patent at issue claims priority from a patent filed in 1994. As Ars Techni… Read More