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$30 Million Message: Jury Awards Substantial Punitive Damages for Trade Secret Theft

A nearly decade-long legal battle in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois recently concluded with a significant jury verdict, underscoring the potentially severe consequences of trade secret theft...more

Wolf, Greenfield & Sacks, P.C.

Don’t Let Your IP Walk Out the Door

Your employees can be your company’s most valuable asset — but they also represent your greatest vulnerability when it comes to protecting confidential information and intellectual property (IP). To protect confidential...more

Seyfarth Shaw LLP

Papa’s Got a Brand New Bag, and it Might be Infringing – Cannabis Companies Clash Over Trademarks for Storage Bags

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IP cases in the cannabis industry are lighting up court dockets more and more. In a new case with potential for serious baggage, Kinzie Advanced Polymers, LLC (“Kinzie”) filed a federal lawsuit against a group of...more

Ballard Spahr LLP

Government Signals Potential Shift Toward Preliminary Injunctions in Patent Infringement Cases

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In a recent patent case, the U.S. government urged a Texas federal court to give greater weight to the difficulty of calculating damages as a basis for finding irreparable harm. If embraced by courts, the move could give...more

Knobbe Martens

Fair Use and the Future of Generative AI: Lessons from the Meta and Anthropic Copyright Cases

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With the release of ChatGPT in late 2022, generative AI entered the cultural zeitgeist. Not surprisingly, within a few months, the first generative AI lawsuits were filed in the U.S. (e.g., Andersen v. Stability AI, Getty v....more

Frost Brown Todd

Midjourney Faces Disney Lawsuit Just as Court Backs Fair Use in AI Training

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On June 11, 2025, Disney and several affiliated production companies filed a federal lawsuit against Midjourney, Inc., a leading artificial intelligence (AI) image-generation platform. The suit alleges “calculated and...more

Sterne, Kessler, Goldstein & Fox P.L.L.C.

Keeping Up With the Trademarks: The Role of Brands in Reality TV

“I love reality TV!” Cue the eyerolls. For many, admitting to watching reality TV is often done begrudgingly or dismissed as a “guilty pleasure.” But why the stigma? Reality television has it all: drama, competition, social...more

Volpe Koenig

Intellectual Property in Popular Culture: When IP Goes “Pop”

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Like other areas of law, intellectual property (IP) is often depicted as part of a plot point in popular culture, such as movies and television. In addition, lP is often mentioned in the mass media, particularly when any...more

J.S. Held

Trade Secret Protection in the Age of Large Language Models: Risks, Reasonable Measures, and Legal Remedies

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Large Language Models (LLMs) are a type of Artificial Intelligence (AI) system that can process and generate human-like text based on the patterns and relationships learned from vast amounts of text data. LLMs use a machine...more

Holland & Knight LLP

Toss it in the Trash, Part 2: Recognizing and Combating Trademark Scams

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Holland & Knight's Intellectual Property Group has previously reported about scams being emailed to clients claiming that if the client does not immediately act, someone else may take control of their trademark. This is one...more

Husch Blackwell LLP

Oklahoma Legislature Creates Two New Specialty Courts

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Oklahoma has now joined many other states creating specialty business courts to handle complex business litigation. Senate Bill 632 creates two new specialized business courts, which will be located in Oklahoma County and...more

Ervin Cohen & Jessup LLP

Timbaland & Suno Highlight The Legal Risks of AI Music Tools

Suno is a leading AI-powered music generation platform which transforms simple text prompts, images, videos, or audio clips into fully produced songs complete with vocals and instrumentation. Last week, renowned music...more

Fish & Richardson

Lack of Bona Fide Intent to Use Sends Alcohol Trademark Application Down the Drain

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In a recent precedential decision, the U.S. Trademark Trial and Appeal Board (TTAB) upheld an opposition by Tequila Cuadra S. de RL de CV (“Tequila Cuadra”) and denied an application filed by Manufacturera de Botas Cuadra,...more

Potomac Law Group, PLLC

NDAs with Extras: What You Didn’t Sign Up For

Anyone who has had even passing exposure to technology companies has dealt with Non-Disclosure Agreements (commonly referred to as "NDAs" in high-tech companies but "CDAs" in pharma/biotech to distinguish them from the other...more

Sterne, Kessler, Goldstein & Fox P.L.L.C.

Patent Licensing & Standing: A.L.M. Holding Co. v. Zydex Indus. Private Ltd. (D. Del. Nov. 25, 2024)

In the United States, a plaintiff must have standing to bring suit in U.S. courts. For patent cases, this means that for a plaintiff to have constitutional standing, the plaintiff must show that it has “an exclusionary right...more

Arnall Golden Gregory LLP

If You Want It, Here It Is, Come and Get It: Preparing Your Music Catalog to Attract the Right Buyers

Mo Money, Mo Problems? In March 2025, music publishing giant Primary Wave acquired a substantial stake in the Notorious B.I.G. music catalog with an estimated value of $200 million....more

Jones Day

USPTO Acting Director Denies IPR Institution Based on "Settled Expectations"

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Under a new U.S. Patent and Trademark Office ("USPTO") policy issued in March 2025, pre-institution inter partes review ("IPR") proceedings are now bifurcated, consisting of a first phase in which the director considers...more

Vorys, Sater, Seymour and Pease LLP

New Settled Expectations Policy at the PTAB Augurs Major Practice Changes

In a startling development, Acting Director of the USPTO Coke Morgan Stewart has denied institution of an inter partes review (IPR) on the basis of “settled expectations,” on the sole ground that the subject patent had been...more

ArentFox Schiff

Disney and Universal Sue Midjourney: Navigating AI Copyright Challenges and Fair Use Implications

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The Walt Disney Company and Universal City Studios Productions are among the latest plaintiffs to bring a lawsuit against an artificial intelligence (AI) developer....more

Weintraub Tobin

(Podcast) The Briefing: The Ninth Circuit Puts the Brakes on Eleanor’s Copyright Claim

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Can a car be a copyrightable character? In Carroll Shelby Licensing v. Halicki, the Ninth Circuit said no — ruling that “Eleanor,” the iconic Mustang from ‘Gone in 60 Seconds,’ lacks the distinctiveness and consistency...more

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The Briefing: The Ninth Circuit Puts the Brakes on Eleanor’s Copyright Claim

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Can a car be a copyrightable character? In Carroll Shelby Licensing v. Halicki, the Ninth Circuit said no — ruling that “Eleanor,” the iconic Mustang from ‘Gone in 60 Seconds,’ lacks the distinctiveness and consistency...more

Venable LLP

Intellectual Property Due Diligence "Red Flags"

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Want to learn more about drafting, negotiating, and understanding intellectual property and technology contracts and have 10 minutes to spare? Grab your morning coffee or afternoon tea and dig into our Tech Contract Quick...more

Alston & Bird

Intellectual Property Litigation Newsletter | June 2025

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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 that unilateral assertion is not industry standard, the IPR...more

Wolf, Greenfield & Sacks, P.C.

Unexpected Paths to IP Law with Dan Young and Colin White

For many, the journey to IP law is circuitous. And that’s undoubtedly true for Wolf Greenfield Shareholder Dan Young and Technology Specialist Colin White. Both had interesting careers outside of the legal industry before...more

Fenwick & West LLP

What We’re Watching Ahead of BIO 2025: Trends Shaping the Future of Biotech

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As we head into BIO 2025 in Boston, our teams are closely watching trends in biotech and how those affect financings, business development, IP protection, risk, and litigation strategy. Here are eight key trends we’re...more

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