The U.S. District Court for the North District of California dismissed four of six claims in a pair of cases alleging that the use by OpenAI, Inc. of the plaintiffs’ books infringed the copyrights in those books. Tremblay v....more
3/8/2024
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Copyright ,
Copyright Infringement ,
Copyright Litigation ,
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Direct Infringement ,
DMCA ,
Federal Rules of Civil Procedure ,
Motion to Dismiss ,
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The Copyright Act ,
Unfair Competition ,
Unfair or Deceptive Trade Practices ,
Unjust Enrichment ,
Vicarious Infringement
An application to register US SPACE FORCE as a trademark crashed at the Trademark Trial and Appeal Board (TTAB) of the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (PTO) when the TTAB ruled that the mark caused a false suggestion of a...more
The Trademark Trial and Appeal Board (TTAB) of the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (PTO) dismissed the oppositions of ARSA Distributing, Inc. to the applications of Salud Natural Mexicana S.A. de C.V. to register the...more
The United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) has granted the application of the Scotch Whisky Association (SWA or Association) to register SCOTCH WHISKY as a certification mark for “whisky produced in Scotland...more
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit recently ruled against the heirs of songwriter Hugo Peretti in their attempt to terminate a copyright grant for Peretti’s composition “Can’t Help Falling in Love,” a huge hit...more
The three-person Review Board of the U.S. Copyright Office (Board), headed by Register of Copyrights Shira Perlmutter, recently denied an application to register the copyright claimed in a visual work created by artificial...more
6/1/2022
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Copyright ,
Copyright Applications ,
Copyright Office ,
Copyright Registration ,
Innovative Technology ,
Intellectual Property Protection ,
Inventions ,
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Machine Learning ,
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