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From DeepSeek to Distillation: Protecting IP In the AI World Image

From DeepSeek to Distillation: Protecting IP In the AI World

Robert Hulse & Stuart Meyer & Tyler Newby & Fredrick Tsang

Protection against unauthorized model distillation is an emerging issue within the longstanding theme of safeguarding IP. Existing countermeasures have primarily focused on technical solutions. This article will examine the legal protections available under the current legal framework and explore why patents may serve as a crucial safeguard against unauthorized distillation.

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Eliminating Judicial Exceptions: The Promise of the Patent Eligibility Restoration Act Image

Eliminating Judicial Exceptions: The Promise of the Patent Eligibility Restoration Act

Elisabeth Tidwell

The Patent Eligibility Restoration Act (PERA) proposes a solution to a complex debate: What can be patented, and when do nature and thoughts become property? This article provides an overview of the PERA bill, examines the current issues with Section 101 of the Patent Act, the specific proposals of PERA, and the existing pros and cons of the bill.

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Exploring Generative AI’s Impact on Intellectual Property Image

Exploring Generative AI’s Impact on Intellectual Property

Jazmyn Ferguson & Matt Minder

This article highlights some of the challenges GenAI presents, and recent developments in copyright law and trademark law in this quickly evolving space.

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Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Customers: Developments on ‘Conquesting’ from the Ninth Circuit Image

Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Customers: Developments on ‘Conquesting’ from the Ninth Circuit

Howard Shire & Di’Vennci K. Lucas

In a recent decision, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit addressed the issue of whether purchasing market competitors’ search engine keyword terms, known as “conquesting,” constitutes trademark infringement.

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Pleading Importation: ITC Decisions Highlight Need for Adequate Evidentiary Support Image

Pleading Importation: ITC Decisions Highlight Need for Adequate Evidentiary Support

Daniel Muino & Charles Provine

The International Trade Commission is empowered to block the importation into the United States of products that infringe U.S. intellectual property rights, In the past, the ITC generally instituted investigations without questioning the importation allegations in the complaint, however in several recent cases, the ITC declined to institute an investigation as to certain proposed respondents due to inadequate pleading of importation.

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Ex Parte Trademark Appeals to District Court — Lessons Learned from the Front Lines Image

Ex Parte Trademark Appeals to District Court — Lessons Learned from the Front Lines

Christopher P. Bussert & Jonathan E. Moskin

Although pursuit of an appeal to the Federal Circuit may under some circumstances prove to be quicker and less expensive, appeals to district courts are becoming increasingly attractive given recent changes in the law and USPTO practice in defending these actions.

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Federal Circuit Decision Clarifies Obviousness-Type Double Patenting and Patent Term Adjustments In Allergan v. MSN Laboratories Image

Federal Circuit Decision Clarifies Obviousness-Type Double Patenting and Patent Term Adjustments In Allergan v. MSN Laboratories

Maia H. Harris & Emma C. Mann

On August 13, the Federal Circuit issued a precedential ruling that reversed the District of Delaware's application of the Federal Circuit precedent in In re: Cellect to invalidate a claim in an earlier-filed parent application over admittedly patentably indistinct claims in later-filed (and earlier-expired) child patents. This decision has resolved some substantial questions about the application of obviousness-type double patenting that had been raised by last year's In re Cellect decision.

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Proactive Brand Defense: Why Warren Buffett's Advice Matters More Than Ever Image

Proactive Brand Defense: Why Warren Buffett's Advice Matters More Than Ever

Allen Adamson

Warren Buffett's wisdom rings true: "It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minutes to ruin it. If you think about that, you'll do things differently." In our current landscape of social media and viral content, a brand's reputation — its most valuable asset — can be severely damaged in mere seconds.

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Blockchain Domains: New Developments for Brand Owners

John McElwaine

Blockchain domain names offer decentralized alternatives to traditional DNS-based domain names, promising enhanced security, privacy and censorship resistance. However, these benefits come with significant challenges, particularly for brand owners seeking to protect their trademarks in these new digital spaces.

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Trade Secret Protection Plans Provide Certainty to Employers

Hannah Elizabeth Jarrells & Edward D. Lanquist

The protection of trade secrets has long been understood to be a legitimate business interest, and, traditionally, companies have used non-competition clauses to protect their trade secrets. Now, with non-competition agreements in doubt and facing greater scrutiny, companies will need to rely on other protection mechanisms.

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