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Welcome to the Intellectual Property Litigation Newsletter, our review of decisions and trends in the intellectual property arena. In this edition, we learn avoiding prior art “by another” may be difficult, secret sales...more
Summary of Proposed Rule Changes - On October 16, 2025, the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) issued a proposed rulemaking notice regarding significant changes to the procedures for instituting inter partes...more
The Federal Circuit recently vacated a summary judgment ruling of invalidity, holding that the district court erred in applying preclusive effect to the Patent Trial and Appeal Board’s unpatentability findings regarding other...more
The UPC Court of Appeal (CA) has clarified the framework for penalty payments in enforcement proceedings. Penalty payments in the UPC must be based on a prior penalty order from the court, specifically reinforced with the...more
On October 1, 2025, USPTO Director John Squires issued his first Director Review decision, terminating in whole IPR2024-00465 (“IPR465”) based on unreliable and inconsistent expert testimony. In IPR465, Interactive...more
Getty’s remaining UK copyright claim against Stability AI has been dismissed by the High Court. The AI model and its weights were held not to be “infringing copies” imported into the UK on the basis that they never copied or...more
In a decision potentially implicating a number of universities and creative employees, a federal court in Vermont recently held that the University of Vermont (UVM) owned the copyright to a new athletic logo created by a...more
The power driving AI comes not only from algorithms, but from the electricity that fuels them. In this episode of the Renewable Energy SmartPod, V&E partner Jeffrey Jakubiak discusses how rapid data center growth is...more
On November 5, 2025, the USPTO hosted an informative “USPTO Hour” in which panelists discussed updates to Subject Matter Eligibility under 35 U.S.C. § 101 (“Section 101”). Speakers, including Charles Kim (Deputy Commissioner...more
Every business has something that gives it a competitive edge—a process, client list, formula, or strategy that sets it apart. Protecting that information is not only essential to maintaining an advantage in the market but is...more
Software ist längst nicht mehr nur ein Baustein moderner Geschäftsmodelle, sondern oft ihr Taktgeber: als Kernprodukt, als Grundlage digitaler Prozesse oder zur Steuerung von Maschinen und Geräten. Wertschöpfung ist dort...more
Beginning in 2026, trademark owners in the United Kingdom and European Union will need to rely on use of their trademark registrations within the relevant jurisdiction in order to meet the use requirements put forth by the...more
In today’s social media landscape, “dupe culture” is booming. Influencers and retailers frequently promote affordable alternatives to premium brands, using hashtags like #[company]dupe to attract attention. While this trend...more
Kilpatrick’s advertising law team attended the “2025 ANA Masters of Advertising Law Conference” in Chicago from November 3-5. Kilpatrick lawyers Barry Benjamin and Bryan Wolin were honored to present on the topic of social...more
The European Union Intellectual Property Office (EUIPO) Opposition Division recently upheld an opposition against the registration of “CNTRBND” as an EU trade mark, finding that there exists a likelihood of confusion with an...more
The decision concerns eight patents owned by Stellar, LLC that were the subject of Motorola Solutions, Inc.’s inter partes review (IPR) petitions....more
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