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The Briefing: What Is Fair Use and Why Does It Matter? (Featured)
(Podcast) The Briefing: What Is Fair Use and Why Does It Matter? (Featured)
Practical IP Lessons From the Field Part One: Protecting Innovation in Oil & Gas - Energy Law Insights
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Strategies for Mitigating Data Center Development Delays - Data Centers Series
The Briefing: Turkey, Trademarks, and Thanksgiving Branding – IP Protection for Recipes and Holiday Traditions
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The Briefing – Soup for Change: Campbell’s Sues a Congressional Candidate
The Briefing: Reboot or Not? The Battle Between ER’s Creator and Warner Bros Hits the Court of Appeal
From Stairway to Sailing: Can Trade Dress Protect Iconic Guitar Designs? — No Infringement Intended Podcast
Following our LA IP/Entertainment Conference, Stefan Schick, co-chair of the firm’s Live Theater & Live Entertainment practice, continues the conversation, sharing his perspective on the growing momentum behind live immersive...more
Key Takeaways - Easier path to eligibility: The USPTO’s new guidance explains how to use sworn statements (SMEDs) to provide facts showing an invention is eligible for a patent....more
A significant number of inventions made at academic and research institutions, non-profit research organizations and businesses are developed using some amount of federal government funding (e.g., from NIH, NSF, DOD, and...more
A significant number of inventions made at academic and research institutions, non-profit research organizations and businesses are developed with federal government funding. The Bayh-Dole Act of 1980 provided a clear path...more
The UK High Court's ruling in Getty Images v Stability AI [2025] EWHC 2863 (Ch) ("Getty v Stability") is a landmark on copyright and trade marks for Generative Artificial Intelligence ("GenAI"). A summary of this case and its...more
A recent ruling by the Federal Court of Appeal in NCS Multistage Inc. v. Kobold Corporation provides critical clarification on three key aspects of Canadian patent law: claim construction, obviousness-type double patenting,...more
To help you stay on top of the latest news, our AI practice group has compiled a roundup of the developments we are following....more
The District of Delaware recently denied a defendant’s motion to dismiss plaintiff’s demand for enhanced damages based on willful infringement pursuant to 35 U.S.C. § 284, explaining that neither a demand for damages under §...more
Fired University of Michigan football coach Sherrone Moore “barged his way” into the apartment of a woman with whom he had been having an affair and threatened to kill himself after she reported the relationship to the school...more
The cliché of the starving artist is in fact a lived reality for many, but not in a romanticized way. Many Canadian artists have incomes at or below the poverty line. Visual artists (except at the highest levels) are poor...more
On 4 November 2025, the UK High Court handed down its highly anticipated landmark judgment in Getty Images (US) Inc & ors v Stability AI Limited [2025] EWHC 2863 (Ch). This was the first UK judgment addressing copyright...more
Executive Summary - Foreign investors entering the U.S. market face compressed timelines, intense competition, and exacting diligence. Intellectual property — patents, trademarks, trade secrets, and copyrights — is a core...more
In an ongoing saga playing out in Canada and in courts around the world, Stephen Thaler has appealed to the Federal Court of Canada an underlying decision that refused to acknowledge an artificial intelligence (AI) system as...more
In this episode of “Reel Talk: Inside the Business of Entertainment,” Anne Kennedy McGuire, deputy chair of the firm’s Entertainment practice and chair of the Podcast industry group, speaks with Brandon Bauman, chief strategy...more
In re Gesture, Case No. 25-1075 (Fed. Cir. Dec. 1, 2025) - Ex parte reexaminations and inter partes review (“IPR”) are two different procedures available at the United States Patent and Trademark Office (“PTO”) to...more
In our Case of the Week, the Federal Circuit reviewed cross-appeals from an inter partes review of IBM’s U.S. Patent No. 7,631,346, and affirmed on all counts. The ’346 patent is directed to systems and methods for single...more
A recently-filed federal court complaint tests the enforceability of restrictive terms in a data license against the use of licensed data for generative AI purposes. The outcome of this case may turn on interpreting broad...more
The United States Trade Representative (“USTR”) has invited public comment and scheduled a hearing to inform its annual Special 301 review “to identify countries that deny adequate and effective protection of intellectual...more
In this episode of No Infringement Intended, Rusty Close and Austin Padgett blend holiday-episode nostalgia with the evolution of recording technology — from Betamax's fair-use time-shifting to Cablevision's cloud DVR — and...more
In today’s hyper-connected digital marketplace, a brand’s reputation is among its most valuable – and most vulnerable – assets. As commerce increasingly shifts online, counterfeiters and intellectual property infringers have...more
On 11 December 2025, the Council and the European Parliament reached agreement on the EU Pharma Law Package, also known as the General Pharmaceutical Legislation. No text has been published yet. The agreement will need to be...more
Two and a half years after the initial proposal, agreement has been reached by the EU institutions on the so-called EU Pharma Package. The Package represents a comprehensive overhaul of the European Union’s pharmaceutical...more
On 5 November 2025, the Italian Council of Ministers preliminary approved a legislative decree transposing Directive (EU) 2024/825 on empowering consumers for the green transition. The decree aims to strengthen rules on...more
On December 9, 2025, District Judge Eric Komitee (E.D.N.Y.) denied Defendant Bemmo, Inc.’s (Bemmo) motion to dismiss under Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 12(b)(6), finding Plaintiff The Ridge Wallet, LLC (Ridge Wallet) pled...more
On December 2, 2025, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit issued a precedential decision in Seagen Inc. v. Daiichi Sankyo Company Ltd., which further clarifies the amount of disclosure a US patent must contain...more