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USPTO Revises Guidance on AI-Assisted Inventorship

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New guidance rescinds Biden-era guidance from February 2024 and signals a pro-patent, pro-AI landscape. On November 28, 2025, the United States Patent and Trademark Office ("USPTO") published revised guidance on...more

A&O Shearman

UPC: CE Marking For A Medical Device As A Trigger For “Imminent Infringement”, Refining The Standard On Imminence, Urgency, And...

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The UPC has granted a preliminary injunction effective for Germany, France, Italy, the Netherlands and Ireland against a Chinese medical device manufacturer and its Dutch subsidiary over the infringement of a patent for...more

ArentFox Schiff

Plant-Based, High Stakes: Beyond Meat’s $39 Million Slogan Setback

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A federal jury in Massachusetts ordered Beyond Meat, Inc. to pay $38.9 million to Sonate Corp. d/b/a Vegadelphia Foods for willful trademark infringement tied to slogans used in national advertising for meat-free products....more

Herbert Smith Freehills Kramer

What Does Transparency For AI Generated Content Look Like in Practice - an Australian take

Picture this: your next amazing blog post is locked and ready for publication – and you’re ahead of schedule thanks to time saved through use of AI. You know you should be ‘transparent’ about that use, but how do you actually...more

Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati

FDA Issues Updated Guidance on Expanded Access to Investigational Drugs

In October 2025, the FDA released a revised guidance titled, “Expanded Access to Investigational Drugs for Treatment Use—Questions and Answers.” The document updates prior interpretations of 21 C.F.R. Part 312, Subpart I,...more

Morgan Lewis - Tech & Sourcing

Headwinds in AI Negotiations: Customer and Vendor Perspectives

As the use of generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) proliferates, customers and vendors face unique challenges in contract negotiations. This post discusses these challenges, offering viewpoints from both perspectives....more

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USPTO Issues Superseding Guidance on Inventorship for AI-Assisted Inventions

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Key Takeaways: Practical impact. Lower, more flexible threshold likely makes it easier to establish human inventorship on AI-assisted applications....more

Morgan Lewis - As Prescribed

Impacts of FDAs Slimming of Biosimilar Requirements

FDA recently issued a new draft guidance titled Scientific Considerations in Demonstrating Biosimilarity to a Reference Product: Updated Recommendations for Assessing the Need for Comparative Efficacy Studies, which proposes...more

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(Podcast) The Briefing: What Is Fair Use and Why Does It Matter? (Featured)

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Creators, beware: just because it’s online doesn’t mean it’s fair game. In this episode of The Briefing, Scott Hervey and Richard Buckley break down one of the most misunderstood areas of copyright law—fair use. In this...more

Smart & Biggar

Strategic considerations: Canadian post-grant patent administrative procedures

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The Canadian patent system provides multiple post-grant administrative procedures that allow patentees and third parties to challenge or amend Canadian patents without requiring legal proceedings before the courts. While...more

Carlton Fields

USPTO’s AI Inventorship Guidance Charts New Path Forward for AI-Assisted Inventions

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Shortly before President Trump issued Executive Order 14363, titled “Launching the Genesis Mission,” a “national effort to unleash a new age of AI‑accelerated innovation and discovery,” the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office...more

Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP

Delaware District Court Judge Maintains View That the Operative Complaint Cannot Provide Requisite Knowledge for Post-Suit...

District courts are split on whether a complaint can provide the required knowledge for post-suit indirect and willful infringement in that same lawsuit. Chief Judge Connolly in the District of Delaware recently confirmed...more

Carlton Fields

“Launching the Genesis Mission”: An Ambitious Agenda for AI-Driven Technological Dominance

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President Trump’s Executive Order 14363, titled “Launching the Genesis Mission," outlines a potentially transformative national effort to turbocharge artificial intelligence growth to win the technological “cold war” over AI...more

Kilpatrick

5 Key Takeaways | Ethical Considerations in IP Investigations: Balancing Effectiveness and Integrity

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Kilpatrick’s Chris Bussert recently joined a panel discussing “Ethical Considerations in IP Investigations: Balancing Effectiveness and Integrity” at the 2025 INTA Leadership Meeting. The panel examined ethical challenges...more

Goodwin

Amgen, Hikma, and Gedeon Settle Denosumab BPCIA Case

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On November 24, 2025, the U.S. District Court for the District of New Jersey entered a Consent Judgment and Injunction resolving the denosumab BPCIA litigation between Amgen, Inc. and Amgen Manufacturing Limited (“Amgen”),...more

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Federal Circuit Patent Watch: No § 315(e)(1) Estoppel for Ongoing Ex Parte Reexaminations

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DUKE UNIVERSITY, ALLERGAN SALES, LLC v. SANDOZ INC. [OPINION] (2024-2078, 11/18/2025) (Dyk, Stoll, Stark) - Stark, J. The Federal Circuit found a patent claim invalid because the patent lacked written description support...more

Hinckley Allen

Real Estate Ownership and Digital Media Rights in the Age of Extended Reality Technology

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Extended reality is a broad term used to describe immersive technologies, which are software and applications that create immersive environments that merge computer-generated, digital content with the actual contours of our...more

Epstein Becker & Green

Brand Licensing in Health Care: An Overview for Hospitals

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Imagine this scenario: a longtime patient at an ENT practice decides to leave the traffic and sprawl of a major metropolitan area for a more idyllic, rural existence elsewhere in the state....more

McDermott Will & Schulte

No escape from fees and sanctions for reckless litigation conduct

The US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit affirmed attorneys’ fees awards against EscapeX IP, LLC, finding the case “exceptional” under 35 U.S.C. § 285, and upheld sanctions under 28 U.S.C. § 1927 based on counsel’s...more

McDermott Will & Schulte

From ‘best’ to bust: Multiple methods to determine “optimal/best” render claims indefinite

The US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit affirmed a district court’s judgment of invalidity and grant of summary judgment of noninfringement, concluding that even if excluded portions of expert testimony were...more

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AI Legal Watch: November 2025

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On November 19, 2025, the European Commission published a package of legislative proposals known as the "Digital Omnibus." Designed to introduce flexibility into the EU's digital regulatory framework, the proposal aims to...more

Smart & Biggar

A decision to watch: Groupe Swatch v Office québécois de la langue française

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On October 27, 2025, the Tribunal administratif du Québec (TAQ) rendered a decision1 setting aside an order of the Office québécois de la langue française (OQLF) ordering Groupe Swatch (Canada) Ltée (Groupe Swatch) to add a...more

BCLP

AI in Sports Sponsorship and Fan Engagement: Opportunities and Challenges

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This article explores how AI is allowing rights holders and sponsors to deploy innovative solutions to engage with their audiences, and how innovation in this space also raises new commercial and legal questions around data...more

McDonnell Boehnen Hulbert & Berghoff LLP

USPTO Revokes Guidance on AI-Assisted Inventorship, But Rules Remain Basically the Same

On February 13, 2024, then-USPTO Director Vidal issued inventorship guidance for AI-assisted inventions; on November 28, 2025, new USPTO Director Squires revoked and replaced it. But both the earlier guidance and current...more

Knobbe Martens

USPTO’s Automated Search Pilot: Through a Biotech Lens

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In October 2025, the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) launched the “Artificial Intelligence Search Automated Pilot Program,” or ASAP!, an initiative to identify potential prior art using artificial intelligence (AI)...more

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