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Key Takeaways - Public Domain Day 2026 releases thousands of creative works for free use. As of January 1, literary works from 1930 and sound recordings from 1925 are now available without copyright restrictions....more
With the learnings of this report in mind, five priorities emerge for companies aiming to translate their AI ambitions into concrete, lasting advantage...more
1: AI is integral to business strategy - Three-quarters of life sciences companies say that AI is either crucial or very important to their business strategy. Within that, 68 percent of medical device companies and 56...more
The year 2025 left the media and entertainment industry with a series of significant, unresolved legal questions. As we move into 2026, several high-profile cases are poised to redefine the boundaries of fair use, the...more
While the implementation of AI is growing apace, obstacles to deeper adoption still remain. These pressure points are consistent across subsectors: protecting sensitive data; integrating tools with legacy systems; clarifying...more
The UPC has a Court of First Instance (divided into local, regional and central divisions) and a Court of Appeal (Luxembourg). Cases can commence in any one of these divisions according to the subject matter and the...more
As life sciences companies mature, intellectual property often becomes both their most valuable and most scrutinized asset. Whether you’re entering a collaboration, pursuing a crossover round, or preparing for acquisition,...more
PleasrDAO (“Pleasr”) is a decentralized autonomous organization[i] that acquires culturally significant digital art and artifacts. One such work is Once Upon a Time in Shaolin, a one-of-a-kind musical work by Wu-Tang Clan...more
We previously reported that the China National Intellectual Property Administration (CNIPA) had begun requiring that Applicants submit an inventor ID number for every inventor along with each inventor’s nationality for...more
On January 16, 2026, the Federal Circuit rendered an opinion in Gamevice, Inc. v. Nintendo Co. regarding the dispute surrounding U.S. Patent No. 9,808,713 (the ‘713 patent) and U.S. Patent No. 10,391,393 (the ‘393 patent)...more
The United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) designated four decisions as precedential and nine decisions as informative, all highlighting the factors the USPTO will consider in determining whether to deny a petition...more
Vetter v. Resnik, 2026 WL 82842 (5th Cir. Jan. 12, 2026) - The Fifth Circuit’s January 2026 decision in Vetter v. Resnik squarely addresses a fundamental question in copyright law: does termination recapture only U.S....more
The US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit sustained the Trademark Trial & Appeal Board’s refusal to register trademark applications (over oppositions) for two character marks and a design mark based on the Board’s...more
Generic and branded drug manufacturers may soon have long-awaited answers from the Supreme Court regarding skinny labeling practices. On January 16, the Supreme Court granted a generic company certiorari in Amarin Inc. v....more
“What’s in a name?” That which we call a good, by any other name, would it be as valuable? Conceiving a trademark is much like crafting a poem – it should be original, distinctive, and memorable. Like Shakespeare’s language,...more
On January 9, 2026, USPTO Director John A. Squires designated four recent discretionary-denial rulings as precedential and nine more as informative, formalizing a developing framework for how and when the Office will exercise...more
Our Patent Case Summaries provide a weekly summary of the precedential patent-related opinions issued by the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit and the opinions designated precedential or informative by the Patent Trial...more
It seems like a commonsense principle – under Section 106 of the Copyright Act, copyright owners have the exclusive right to publicly perform their work through digital audio transmissions. Because of this exclusive right,...more
On December 11, 2025, the same day the Trump Administration unveiled its Executive Order aimed at preempting state AI regulations, New York enacted two landmark laws targeting consumer-facing uses of AI. While applauded by...more
Artificial intelligence (AI) is transforming the life sciences industry, with potentially its most significant impact on drug discovery and development including the acceleration of inherently burdensome tasks such as target...more
Key Takeaways: Supreme Court to decide if “generic version” marketing can support induced infringement claims. On Jan. 16, 2026, the Court granted Hikma’s petition for cert. in a closely watched case that could redefine...more
In 2025, Canadian courts addressed a range of issues in intellectual property litigation. Highlights included the imposition of jail time on contumacious copyright pirates, appellate guidance on patent claim construction, and...more
Last week, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit issued a significant decision in Next Payment Solutions, Inc. v. CLEAResult Consulting, Inc., a case that offers important lessons for executives overseeing...more
Trademark lawyers eventually learn a hard truth: brands often do not die; instead, they drift. Sometimes they drift quietly into nostalgia. Sometimes they drift into the hands of the entrepreneurial and well-advised. Other...more
Protecting a company’s confidential information — and ensuring there is the ability to sort through whose confidential information is whose — is of the utmost importance in a joint development agreement (JDA)....more