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.