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Structuring Patent Licensing Agreements
June 01, 2024
Licensing inventions vis-a-vis the licensing of patents is not a new practice by any means. However, the explosion of innovation in industries such as technology and pharmaceuticals has placed patent licensing at the forefront of economic advancement.
Protection for Confidential Business Information In a Changing Non-Compete Landscape
June 01, 2024
While reasonable post-employment restrictions remain enforceable (at least in the context of confidential information), the increased hostility to them has revived interest in the use of other legal protections for proprietary business materials.
IP News
June 01, 2024
Under the discovery rule, a party who files a timely claim for copyright infringement can recover monetary damages, even for copyright claims that date back more than three years from when the lawsuit was filed.
Early Impact of the CHIPS Act
May 01, 2024
This article describes certain key developments in the period from passage of the CHIPS Act through the present day, and provides a brief survey of key grantmaking and investment activity by U.S. government agencies since passage of the Act.
Emerging Legal Terrain: IP Risks from AI's Role In Drug Discovery
May 01, 2024
This article explores the benefits and risks of AI-driven drug discovery from the legal perspective. Since the law governing IP rights in AI-driven drug discovery is still in its infant state, any future legal development is likely to have significant implications in many areas.
LLM Customization With A Path to Human Inventorship and Patent Rights
May 01, 2024
A statutory predicate to the contractual outcome regarding ownership of patent rights is the requirement of a sufficient contribution by a natural person in the effort that yielded the output. The issues implicated by this requirement are one development among more to come as patent law and policy try to catch up to proliferating AI technology.
Delaware Bankruptcy Court Rejects Equity Holder's Challenge to Revoke Confirmation Order
May 01, 2024
The equity owner asserted that the confirmation order previously entered by the court should be revoked based on the equity owner's claim that value was lost due to improper sale and marketing efforts by the debtors and its professionals both pre- and post-bankruptcy and, as such, they should have been "in the money" and entitled to a distribution under the confirmed plan.
Adidas Stripe Design Battle Reveals Intricacies of Trademarks In the Fashion World
May 01, 2024
Although the bitter legal battle between Adidas and Thom Browne is far from over on either side of the pond, the case illustrates the challenges of ensuring trademark protection for simple and widely employed design elements.
Is It Possible to Reconcile the Two Sides In the AI Copyright Debate?
May 01, 2024
The points and counterpoints brought up by experts at a Stanford Law conference provide insight on the future relationship between AI and copyright creators.
IP News
May 01, 2024
Federal Circuit Weighs On the Patentability of Claims to Targeted Advertising Federal Circuit Clarifies the Result-Effective Variable Doctrine

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