JONES DAY TALKS®: Protecting the Crown Jewels: IP Due Diligence in Venture Capital Financings
When Consent Isn’t Enough – The TTAB’s Decision in In re Ye Mystic Krewe of Gasparilla
NFTs on Trial: The Yuga Labs Verdict and What It Means for the Digital Frontier — The Crypto Exchange Podcast
(Podcast) The Briefing: When Consent Isn’t Enough – The TTAB’s Decision in In re Ye Mystic Krewe of Gasparilla
The Briefing: Protecting Fictional Characters – Copyright and Trademark Strategies
Top Employment Insights: 44th Annual Workforce Management Briefing - #WorkforceWednesday® - Employment Law This Week®
(Podcast) The Briefing: Protecting Fictional Characters – Copyright and Trademark Strategies
The Briefing: The Nirvana Baby Lawsuit – A Win for Nirvana
The IP Future: Intellectual Property Challenges in AI Health Care Contracts – The Good Bot: Artificial Intelligence, Health Care, and the Law
BYTES: Multimodal Versus Unimodal AI
BYTES: Open Source Software
SkadBytes Podcast | The EU Data Act: How New Rules Could Reshape Access, Control and Competition in the Data Economy
Unexpected Paths to IP Law with Jerry Hrycyszyn and Suresh Rav
(Podcast) The Briefing: The Nirvana Baby Lawsuit – A Win for Nirvana
Can a Coach's Playbook Be Copyrighted? — No Infringement Intended Podcast
Partner Craig Seebald Explains Day 1 of a Criminal Antitrust Investigation
Partner Nicole Castle Explains Vinson & Elkins' Antitrust Cartel Primer
Partner Jason Powers Explains Vinson & Elkins' Antitrust Cartel Primer
It Only Took 13 Years: The Federal Circuit's First Derivation Proceeding Decision — Patents: Post-Grant Podcast
The Briefing: Studios Beware – The Danger of the Beauty and the Beast Copyright Decision
In a landmark decision issued this week, the High Court of England and Wales offered the first significant judicial look at how UK copyright and trademark law apply to AI image generators. In Getty Images v. Stability AI, the...more
For applicants with a patent application having, or amended to have, a streamlined claim set—one independent claim and a maximum of nine singly dependent claims—the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) recently...more
The Albanese Government has rejected a proposal to amend Australia’s copyright laws to allow artificial intelligence (AI) systems to freely train on copyright works, according to an official statement released in October....more
What do the works of John Grisham, Jodi Picoult, and George R.R. Martin have in common? In addition to being bestsellers, they are at the heart of a consolidated class action asserting OpenAI's use of those authors' work as...more
Suppose you have filed a trademark application to register a trademark that identifies a source of goods/services for your business. During examination of the trademark application, the United States Patent and Trademark...more
The judicial and regulatory scrutiny of Apple’s iOS and App Store ecosystem continues, with a judgment from the Competition Appeal Tribunal (CAT) in the United Kingdom, as well as decisions from authorities in the European...more
The UK High Court has issued a decision in Getty Images (US) Inc. and others v Stability Al Ltd, the UK’s first and so far most important case addressing the emerging IP issues posed by generative AI. ...more
The NCAA on Friday declared six former Division I men’s basketball players permanently ineligible after investigations found they tried to fix games and provided information to gamblers about how they would manipulate...more
On November 6, 2025, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit (Judges Dyk, Linn, Cunningham, and/or Stoll) issued orders denying three petitions for mandamus (out of seven currently pending) challenging then-Acting...more
In the United States, medical device regulation and intellectual property (IP) protection are governed by complex statutory and regulatory frameworks that are distinct from—but closely related to, and in some cases...more
Does your company need to install AI functionality into its systems? Are you receiving AI models from vendors without knowing about it?...more
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit recently ruled that violations of employers’ computer access policies do not constitute violations of the federal Computer Fraud and Abuse Act (CFAA) and that account passwords...more
Our case of the week is one of a series of cases challenging newly-enacted procedures by the Trump Administration that are having a significant effect on the inter partes review regime set up by the America Invents Act. In a...more
Athletes, entertainers, musicians and other individuals at the vanguard of their fields (whether it be the next Super Bowl MVP quarterback, Grammy-winning artist, or Oscar-winning director), often surround themselves with a...more
The new Director of the Patent and Trademark Office, Undersecretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property John A. Squires has spent the last few weeks making serious policy changes in the Office (see “New Director Overturns...more
Petitioners challenging patents in IPR procedures may use various strategies to improve the likelihood of avoiding discretionary denial. One such strategy is to identify a material error. In this alert, we explore several...more
An employer’s passwords may protect valuable information, but the passwords themselves lack independent economic value and thus fail to qualify as “trade secrets” under the Defend Trade Secrets Act. Understanding trade...more
The Federal Circuit’s latest ruling in In re Motorola Solutions, Inc. solidifies the discretionary authority of the USPTO director over inter partes review institution decisions, underscores the limited scope of judicial...more
With all the talk about tariffs, and the recent Oral Hearing at the Supreme Court, I started wondering as to how this impacts intellectual property (IP). Tariffs are defined as taxes levied against imported goods, calculated...more
IP protection can seem costly and feel out of reach for many Canadian startups. Rest assured, government funding and grants may be available to fund your IP. These grants can range from $18,000 to upwards of $100,000. A...more
Sometimes overlooked or minimized, intellectual property matters should be carefully considered in the assessment of venture capital and early-stage deals. Artificial intelligence-related issues, geopolitical concerns,...more
The USPTO’s new Artificial Intelligence Search Automated Pilot Program (ASAP!) is transforming the patent examination process by leveraging AI to conduct pre-examination prior art searches for utility applications. Under this...more
Lewis Brisbois v. Bitgood et al., No. 24-20458 (5th Cir. 2025) - In an unpublished per curiam opinion, the Fifth Circuit affirmed a permanent injunction against a trio of defendants, rejected an attorney immunity defense,...more
When Dr. Stephen Thaler asked the U.S. Supreme Court to reconsider the human authorship requirement for copyright protection last month, many observers dismissed the effort. Thaler’s claim—that his generative AI system should...more
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