Posts Tagged: "IP News"

This week in Other Barks & Bites: three advocacy groups call on President Biden’s administration to use federal law to license the production and cut the price of an expensive cancer drug; an Illinois jury rules that Amazon owes Kove IO $525 million in a patent infringement case; and Representative Adam Schiff (D-CA) introduces legislation to House that would require tech companies to disclose what copyrighted material they use to train their generative AI programs.

This week in Other Barks and Bites: Judge Pauline Newman responds in district court challenge to her suspension; Over 200 musical artists sign letter imploring tech companies to stop using AI to devalue artists’ work; a California district court denies a motion from tech giants, including Google and Apple, that sought to challenge USPTO IPR rule; and George Carlin’s estate successfully settles copyright infringement lawsuit with podcast that impersonated the comedian’s voice using AI.

This week in Other Barks & Bites: a Delaware district court throws out a $500 million patent infringement case against Sony; the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit (CAFC) issues a pair of precedential rulings; and Boeing launches a lawsuit against Virgin Galactic.

This week in Other Barks & Bites: the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) and U.S. Copyright Office (USCO) release a joint study on the IP implications of non-fungible tokens (NFTs); The New York Times Company denies “hacking” ChatGPT; and Caltech and Microsoft settle a wi-fi patent infringement case.

This week in Other Barks & Bites: Intel and Microsoft announce a custom chip deal worth up to $15 billion; the Justice Department announces its first Chief AI Officer; and an appeals court overturns a $1 billion ruling for copyright infringement against Cox Communications.

This week in Other Barks and Bites: The World Trade Organization adopts two reports meant to advance work leading up to the 13th WTO Ministerial Conference (MC13), where the Council will in part decide whether to extend a waiver of IP rights for COVID vaccines to therapeutics and diagnostics; a Valentine’s Day patent poem gets the WTO in hot water with public health advocates; the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit rules that Meta will once again face a search engine patent lawsuit and also rebukes counsel for Comcast in a precedential Order regarding incorporation by reference; and a group of music publishers claim a chatbot was knowingly trained to produce copyright-protected lyrics.

This week in Other Barks and Bites: the CAFC revives a food slicer patent dispute and partially vacates the Patent Trial and Appeal Board on written description in two precedential rulings; DraftKings accuses a former executive of stealing trade secrets and heading to a rival gambling company ahead of the Super Bowl; and a German patent court issues and injunction that could limit some HP and Dell products from being sold in the country.

This week in Other Barks and Bites: the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit (CAFC) says Judge Alan Albright abused his discretion in denying transfer to Honeywell; Judge Pauline Newman argues to keep her district court case against CAFC alive; Google settles a patent lawsuit launched by an AI chip company asking $1.67 billion in damages; the International Trademark Association (INTA) publishes a report highlighting companies’ IP value; and the Pokemon Company releases a statement on potential copyright infringement by a rival game developer.

This week in Other Barks & Bites: OpenAI faces another lawsuit, this time from two journalists alleging copyright infringement; the International Trade Commission (ITC) makes its case before the CAFC to reimpose an import ban on Apple Watches; and OpenAI tells the UK government that it could not make ChatGPT without copyrighted material.

This week in Other Barks & Bites: the House Subcommittee on Cybersecurity, Information Technology, and Government Innovation holds a hearing on President Biden’s AI policy; the White announces a proposed framework to allow government agencies to seize the patents of costly drugs that received government funding; and the social media company X characterizes a trademark infringement case against it as a “shakedown.”

This week in Other Barks and Bites: Senate AI Insight Forum meets to discuss the ramifications of AI technology on intellectual property rights; Chinese President Xi Jinping orders stronger IP protections for foreign companies operating in China; and an EUIPO report finds that EU countries detained 86 million fake items in 2022.

This week in Other Barks & Bites: A federal jury awards $83.4 million in damages to the University of Washington for Guardant Health’s infringement of their duplex sequencing technology; Google files a lawsuit against a group that fraudulently filed DMCA claims against its competitors; the U.S. Supreme Court publishes its first-ever code of conduct after months of public pressure; and the Copyright Office pushes back its deadline for comments on its artificial intelligence (AI) Notice of Inquiry.

This week in Other Barks & Bites: A Delaware jury rules Amazon must pay $46.7 million to a company that accused the tech giant’s Alexa of infringing on several patents; G7 Members publish communique on digital competition; and Diego Maradona’s heirs win a trademark battle against his former lawyer.

This week in Washington IP news, the Senate Subcommittee on Intellectual Property hears from stakeholders on proposed reforms to the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB). Elsewhere, the Center for Strategic & International Studies (CSIS) dives into a new report looking at Taiwanese IP strategies, and the Brookings Institution evaluates recent developments in U.S.-China relations.