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D.C. Circuit Court Rules That Artificial Intelligence Cannot Solely Author Copyrightable Works Image

D.C. Circuit Court Rules That Artificial Intelligence Cannot Solely Author Copyrightable Works

Paulluvi Henley

The D.C. Circuit affirmed that AI cannot be the sole author on a copyright-registered work, but left questions about the future of AI authorship in copyright for Congress to resolve.

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Writing Strong Antibody Claims: Avoiding or Addressing USPTO Rejections for Written Description and Enablement Image

Writing Strong Antibody Claims: Avoiding or Addressing USPTO Rejections for Written Description and Enablement

Ryan P. Hiler & Jessamine Pilcher

Many patent applicants currently face difficulty in obtaining antibody claims because of written description and enablement rejections under 35 U.S.C. §112(a). The USPTO routinely rejects claims as too broad, arguing that such claims cover more antibodies than the specification discloses, or that undue experimentation would be needed to determine whether an antibody reads on the claims. These heightened disclosure requirements increase laboratory costs to generate sufficient data for a §112(a)-proof specification.

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Reframing the AI Debate Will Improve How We Practice Law Image

Reframing the AI Debate Will Improve How We Practice Law

Michael M. Rosen

For the last several years, I’ve become obsessed with a particular legal, technological, and philosophical question: Can a robot invent on its own?

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New Bifurcated PTAB Pretrial Procedure: Procedural Deep Dive and Possible Implications Image

New Bifurcated PTAB Pretrial Procedure: Procedural Deep Dive and Possible Implications

Scott Cummings

In the latest action part of a recent whirlwind of PTAB policy and procedural change around the use of so-called “discretionary denial” to refuse to a challenge to the validity of a granted patent, the Acting Director of the USPTO has issued a memorandum creating a new “bifurcated” pretrial procedure to be used for deciding whether or not to proceed with a trial in response to a petition for inter partes review or post grant review of a granted patent.

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The AI Litigation Battleground: Existing IP Legal Frameworks Create Uncertain Environment Image

The AI Litigation Battleground: Existing IP Legal Frameworks Create Uncertain Environment

James A. Wolff 

As artificial intelligence continues to drive innovation at an unprecedented pace, it has also become a battleground for litigation, particularly concerning intellectual property misappropriation, data scraping and model transparency.

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Bonus Content: How Emerging Technologies Are Impacting IP: A Chat With Legalweek Speaker Ryan Phelan

Benjamin Joyner

A Q&A with conference speaker Ryan Phelan, a partner at Marshall, Gerstein & Borun and founder and moderator of legal blog PatentNext, to discuss how courts and jurisdictions are handling novel technologies, the copyrightability of AI-assisted art, and more.

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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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How Courts In the U.S. and the UK Are Addressing Key GenAI Copyright Infringement Issues Image

How Courts In the U.S. and the UK Are Addressing Key GenAI Copyright Infringement Issues

John “Jack” Griem & Robert Lands

How the courts in the U.S. and the UK are addressing the key copyright infringement issues as they relate to generative AI models and output, and highlights the differences, particularly in the area of “fair use”/”fair dealing” and statutory provisions unique to each country.

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TTAB Allows for Non-User to Oppose Trademark for Reputational Injury Image

TTAB Allows for Non-User to Oppose Trademark for Reputational Injury

Nicole D. Galli & Laura Talley Geyer

In a recent case, although finding no standing in the case in front of it, a federal court noted that it was, however, possible that a nonuser could demonstrate entitlement to cancel or oppose by establishing either lost sales in the United States or reputational injury in the United States under the Lanham Act.

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Internet Archive’s Decision Not to Appeal Second Circuit’s Fair Use Ruling Could Lead to More Litigation As Issue Remains Unsettled Image

Internet Archive’s Decision Not to Appeal Second Circuit’s Fair Use Ruling Could Lead to More Litigation As Issue Remains Unsettled

Catherine Nyarady & Crystal Parker

The Second Circuit’s decision may have significant downstream implications for other digital lending services, making it more difficult to operate absent licensing agreements with copyright holders of the various works they seek to distribute. With Internet Archive deciding against petitioning the Supreme Court, we may well see similar litigation pop up in other jurisdictions outside the Second Circuit until the issue is more widely settled.

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