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Intellectual property law
fromPatently-O
2 months ago

Large Entities Achieve Double the Patent Allowance Rate of Micro Entities

Large entities secure patents at far higher rates than small and micro entities, with allowance rates of 80%, 61%, and 40% respectively.
Intellectual property law
fromPatently-O
2 weeks ago

The 14-Month Fiction: Only 10% of First Actions Arrive on Time

USPTO frequently fails to meet the 14-month deadline for issuing a First Office Action or Notice of Allowance, impacting patent term adjustments.
#ai-regulation
fromAxios
1 day ago
California

California cements its role as the national testing ground for AI rules

California
fromAxios
1 day ago

California cements its role as the national testing ground for AI rules

California is advancing AI regulations while the Trump administration seeks a national standard to limit state-level laws.
#meta
Law
fromwww.cnbc.com
1 day ago

Meta, Google under attack as court cases bypass 30-year-old legal shield

Meta and Google face legal challenges undermining their protections under Section 230, particularly regarding child safety and content moderation.
Tech industry
fromwww.npr.org
2 days ago

What's next for Meta in the wake of trial losses and layoffs?

Meta faces significant challenges with legal rulings and a shift in focus from the Metaverse to artificial intelligence.
fromTechdirt
2 days ago
Social media marketing

Meta Caves To The MPAA Over Instagram's Use Of 'PG-13,' Ending A Dispute That Was Silly From The Start

Law
fromwww.cnbc.com
1 day ago

Meta, Google under attack as court cases bypass 30-year-old legal shield

Meta and Google face legal challenges undermining their protections under Section 230, particularly regarding child safety and content moderation.
Tech industry
fromwww.npr.org
2 days ago

What's next for Meta in the wake of trial losses and layoffs?

Meta faces significant challenges with legal rulings and a shift in focus from the Metaverse to artificial intelligence.
fromTechdirt
2 days ago
Social media marketing

Meta Caves To The MPAA Over Instagram's Use Of 'PG-13,' Ending A Dispute That Was Silly From The Start

Startup companies
fromEntrepreneur
1 day ago

This Business Model Is the Hidden Goldmine For Boosting Profits

Done-For-You business models are surging as entrepreneurs seek results without managing every task themselves.
Software development
fromArs Technica
2 days ago

Anthropic says its leak-focused DMCA effort unintentionally hit legit GitHub forks

Anthropic's DMCA takedown mistakenly removed legitimate forks of its code, leading to backlash and a request for reinstatement of affected repositories.
#openai
Marketing tech
fromExchangewire
5 days ago

Digest: OpenAI Extends Ad Pilot Beyond April; X Ad Boycott Lawsuit Dismissed by US Judge; Disney+ Seals RTVE Fast-Stream Deal

OpenAI extends its ad pilot internationally, while a lawsuit against X over an ad boycott is dismissed, and Disney+ strikes a streaming deal with RTVE.
Marketing tech
fromExchangewire
5 days ago

Digest: OpenAI Extends Ad Pilot Beyond April; X Ad Boycott Lawsuit Dismissed by US Judge; Disney+ Seals RTVE Fast-Stream Deal

OpenAI extends its ad pilot internationally, while a lawsuit against X over an ad boycott is dismissed, and Disney+ strikes a streaming deal with RTVE.
Marketing tech
fromExchangewire
2 days ago

Agentic AI, Quality, and Courtroom Battles: What's Rewriting the Rules of Ad Tech in 2026? - ExchangeWire.com

AI and privacy regulations are significantly transforming the ad tech industry as it moves towards 2026.
Video games
fromEngadget
3 days ago

MindsEye will litigate its own launch 'sabotage' controversy in DLC form

Build a Rocket Boy plans to reveal evidence of corporate sabotage in a new mission for MindsEye.
#intellectual-property
Gadgets
fromThe Atlantic
4 days ago

You Can't Escape the AI Tax

A significant RAM shortage is driving prices up, affecting consumers and prompting drastic measures at retailers like Costco.
Information security
fromThe Hacker News
4 days ago

The AI Arms Race - Why Unified Exposure Management Is Becoming a Boardroom Priority

The cybersecurity landscape is rapidly evolving, with AI enabling faster and more sophisticated attacks, necessitating advanced defensive strategies.
Apple
fromZDNET
4 days ago

I've tracked Apple for nearly 50 years: How a garage rebel became a multitrillion-dollar empire

Apple's 50th anniversary highlights its legacy but overlooks founders Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak in official communications.
Law
fromwww.npr.org
1 day ago

Penalties stack up as AI spreads through the legal system

Lawyers face increasing sanctions for using AI-generated errors in legal briefs, with over 1,200 cases reported, including significant fines for fictitious citations.
Media industry
fromTheWrap
3 days ago

Creatorverse: Meta and Google's Child Safety Cases Will Impact Creators

Meta and Google face significant legal rulings regarding child safety on social media, prompting potential design changes and impacting the creator economy.
European startups
fromresund Startups
4 days ago

AI startup automating product compliance joins Y Combinator as regulation hits European retailers

European retailers face regulatory challenges; Complir's AI platform automates compliance processes, enhancing efficiency and growth.
#ai
fromFuturism
1 day ago
Intellectual property law

Anthropic Suddenly Cares Intensely About Intellectual Property After Realizing With Horror That It Accidentally Leaked Claude's Source Code

Law
fromAdExchanger
4 days ago

AI Is Moving Fast. The Law, Not So Much | AdExchanger

AI technology is advancing rapidly, outpacing legal frameworks and creating challenges in regulation and data management.
fromwww.businessinsider.com
3 days ago
Intellectual property law

Anthropic gets a taste of its own medicine

Anthropic issued a copyright takedown for leaked Claude Code, highlighting the irony of using stolen information while facing lawsuits for similar practices.
Intellectual property law
fromFuturism
1 day ago

Anthropic Suddenly Cares Intensely About Intellectual Property After Realizing With Horror That It Accidentally Leaked Claude's Source Code

Anthropic's copyright takedown request for its AI model's source code highlights hypocrisy in its stance on copyright laws.
Law
fromAdExchanger
4 days ago

AI Is Moving Fast. The Law, Not So Much | AdExchanger

AI technology is advancing rapidly, outpacing legal frameworks and creating challenges in regulation and data management.
#patent-law
fromPatently-O
2 days ago
Intellectual property law

Words That Stick: Prosecution Disclaimer Survives the Examiner's Rejection

fromPatently-O
1 week ago
Intellectual property law

Prototype Enough: Even More Expansion to the ITC Domestic Industry Framework

Intellectual property law
fromPatently-O
4 days ago

The Nexus Trap: Why Component Patents Struggle with Objective Indicia

Objective indicia of nonobviousness are increasingly limited by strict Federal Circuit requirements, impacting patent owners' defenses against obviousness claims.
Intellectual property law
fromPatently-O
1 week ago

Prototype Enough: Even More Expansion to the ITC Domestic Industry Framework

The Federal Circuit upheld the ITC's exclusion order against certain Apple Watch models in a patent dispute with Masimo over blood oxygen technology.
Books
fromwww.theguardian.com
3 weeks ago

The Guardian view on changes to copyright laws: authors should be protected over big tech | Editorial

Writers are protesting unauthorized AI training on their work through labeling schemes and blank books, demanding government protection against copyright relaxation that would allow AI companies to use their content without consent or payment.
#copyright
Software development
fromTheregister
4 weeks ago

Chardlet dispute shows how AI will kill software licensing

A Python library maintainer relicensed chardet from LGPL to MIT using AI-generated code, sparking debate over whether clean room implementations bypass copyleft license requirements.
fromIPWatchdog.com | Patents & Intellectual Property Law
4 days ago

WIPO in Focus: Beyond Treaties, Toward a Market-Driven IP System | IPWatchdog Unleashed

WIPO is not merely a distant UN bureaucracy; it is a dynamic, fee-driven organization that has been undergoing significant operational and cultural transformation in recent years.
Intellectual property law
Intellectual property law
fromKotaku
3 days ago

Nintendo Loses Yet Another Battle In Its Pokemon Patent Trolling

Nintendo's patent on character summoning has been rejected by a U.S. patent examiner, marking a significant setback for the company.
fromComputerworld
2 days ago

OnlyOffice accuses Euro-Office of licensing violations, suspends Nextcloud partnership

OnlyOffice stated that those accessing its code under the GNU Affero General Public License v3 are required to retain its branding and provide proper attribution to the original technology. Euro-Office's failure to meet these conditions constitutes an infringement of the copyright holder's exclusive rights.
Intellectual property law
Intellectual property law
fromReadWrite
2 days ago

FanDuel and DraftKings face Interactive Games patent lawsuit

Interactive Games LLC has filed lawsuits against FanDuel and DraftKings for patent infringement related to mobile wagering technology.
fromPatently-O
5 days ago

Disclosed but Still Secret? The Federal Circuit Weighs Patent Publications Against Trade Secret Claims

The technology at issue is a subcutaneous cosmetic penile implant, a silicone sleeve placed between the skin and 'Buck's fascia' to enhance girth and length.
Intellectual property law
#patent-licensing
Intellectual property law
fromAbove the Law
1 week ago

AI Vendor Contracts: The Terms And Conditions Trap - Above the Law

In-house lawyers must carefully review AI tool contracts to avoid significant data control issues despite attractive pitches of efficiency and cost savings.
Intellectual property law
fromwww.bbc.com
2 weeks ago

Government backtracks on AI and copyright after outcry from major artists

The UK government reversed its AI copyright policy allowing opt-out training of copyrighted works after creative industry backlash, now seeking a balanced approach without a preferred solution.
fromDigiday
1 month ago

In Graphic Detail: AI licensing deals, protection measures aren't slowing web scraping

New data is reinforcing a structural shift in how AI systems access publisher content: AI models are increasingly scraping publisher content, regardless of bot-blocking measures or content licensing deals meant to control usage, improve attribution or drive referral traffic. New research from analytics firms and bot-tracking companies shows AI tools are increasingly crawling publisher sites as inputs for AI-generated summaries and training, while sending back only limited referral traffic.
Artificial intelligence
fromPatently-O
2 weeks ago

The Patent Term Distribution, and What it Reveals

Congress set the patent term at twenty years from the earliest effective filing date. 35 U.S.C. § 154(a)(2) (not counting provisional or foreign national filing). But that statutory baseline is just the starting point. But, the actual term is shaped by a series of prosecution decisions, USPTO delays, terminal disclaimers, and patent family structure.
Intellectual property law
Intellectual property law
fromPatently-O
2 weeks ago

Are Rising Maintenance Fees Shortening the Effective Patent Term?

Approximately 60% of U.S. patentees abandon their patents before expiration by not paying maintenance fees, with full-term maintenance rates declining to roughly 40%.
Intellectual property law
frompatentlyo.com
3 weeks ago

Untethered: USPTO Loosens the Article of Manufacture Requirement for Digital Designs

The USPTO relaxed design patent rules for computer-generated interfaces and icons, removing display panel requirements, allowing 'for' prepositions in claims, and extending eligibility to projected, holographic, virtual, and augmented reality designs.
Intellectual property law
fromPatently-O
4 weeks ago

Twenty and Done: The Fee-Driven Collapse of Claim Count Diversity

Patent fee structures have created a hard threshold at 20 claims, causing 28% of 2025 utility patents to issue with exactly 20 claims compared to 6% in 2005.
#patent-strategy
Intellectual property law
fromPatently-O
1 month ago

The Third Way: Examiner Action Dates and the Allowance Rate Curve

Examining USPTO allowance rates by anchoring outcomes to examiner mail dates provides the most direct measure of examination policy by capturing the moment examiners make final decisions.
Intellectual property law
fromPatently-O
1 month ago

Extolling the Virtues: 'Space-Efficient' Preamble Fails to Limit

The Federal Circuit reversed an indefiniteness ruling while affirming dismissal of breach-of-contract claims in NimbeLink Corp. v. Digi International Inc., with the patent issue centering on whether claim preambles impose substantive limitations.
fromAbove the Law
2 months ago

From Cost Center To Value Engine: Patent Management In The AI Era - Above the Law

In a recent Tradespace and Above the Law survey, two-thirds of companies that draft patents in-house described IP as a value driver, while 71 percent of companies that outsource drafting viewed IP as a cost. When drafting and prosecution move inside, IP teams work closer to engineers and product leaders. This proximity improves invention quality, strengthens claim strategy, and aligns patent decisions with product direction, market timing, and business priorities.
Intellectual property law
fromIPWatchdog.com | Patents & Intellectual Property Law
1 month ago

AI and Copyright: How Lessons from Litigation Can Pave the Way to Licensing

As the AI revolution accelerates and continues to reshape traditional business models, it has triggered a cascade of new legal, regulatory and policy challenges. At the forefront of these emerging issues are a growing number of high-stakes legal battles between content creators and major Generative AI (GenAI) companies behind large language models (LLMs). This article examines key legal themes and critical questions arising from recent developments at the intersection of AI and Copyright law.
Intellectual property law
Intellectual property law
fromThe IP Law Blog
2 months ago

The Briefing: 2025 IP Resolutions Start With a Review of IP Assets (Featured)

Regular IP audits and proactive tracking of trademarks, copyrights, and patents protect and strengthen a company's valuable intellectual property assets.
Intellectual property law
fromFuturism
2 months ago

Researchers Just Found Something That Could Shake the AI Industry to Its Core

A Stanford–Yale study finds major LLMs reproduce copyrighted works verbatim, contradicting claims that models merely learn rather than copy training data.
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