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First impressions: Federal Circuit finds applied AI claims ineligible for patenting under 35 USC 101

Answering a much-anticipated question of first impression, the Federal Circuit affirmed an Eastern District of Pennsylvania decision that invalidated machine learning-related patent claims as ineligible subject matter under...more

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Patent Claims Running on AI? Federal Circuit Says Not So Fast on Patent Eligibility

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The question of whether machine learning (ML)-based claims meet the subject matter eligibility requirements under current U.S. patent law remains hotly contested. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit (CAFC)...more

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Federal Circuit Issues First Word on AI Patent Eligibility

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On April 18, 2025, the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit affirmed the dismissal of a patent infringement suit brought by Recentive Analytics, Inc. against Fox Corporation. See Recentive Analytics, Inc. v....more

Lowenstein Sandler LLP

Federal Circuit Tightens Standards for AI-related Patent Eligibility

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Summary: In Recentive Analytics, Inc. v. Fox Corp., No. 2023-2437 (Fed. Cir. Apr. 18, 2025), the Federal Circuit delivered a clear warning: simply applying generic AI-based models to new environments is not enough to secure...more

Holland & Knight LLP

Federal Circuit: Machine Learning Patents Fail Section 101 Patent Eligibility Challenge

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The Federal Circuit's recent decision in Recentive Analytics, Inc. v. Fox Corp. (April 18, 2025) has garnered a lot of attention. This is not surprising: It hits on hot topics such as machine learning, artificial intelligence...more

Arnall Golden Gregory LLP

Federal Circuit Delivers Blow to AI-Based Patents in Precedential Decision

On April 18, 2025, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit issued a precedential opinion in Recentive Analytics, Inc. v. Fox Corp. The Federal Circuit held that the Asserted Patents — which relate to methods of...more

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Recentive: Federal Circuit’s Patent-Eligibility Guideposts for Machine-Learning Inventions

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In one of the first cases from the Federal Circuit addressing patent eligibility for machine-learning (ML) inventions, the court ruled that applying “generic” ML techniques to a new data environment to automate a task...more

Schwabe, Williamson & Wyatt PC

Latest Federal Court Cases: Recentive Analytics, Inc., v. Fox Corp.

Recentive Analytics, Inc., v. Fox Corp., Appeal No. 2023-2437 (Fed. Cir. Apr. 18, 2025) In our Case of the Week, the Federal Circuit addressed a question of first impression concerning whether developments in machine...more

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DC Circuit Court Rules AI Cannot be Author of Copyrighted Work, and NIST Finalizes AI Report — AI: The Washington Report

On March 18, the US Court of Appeals for the DC Circuit ruled that an AI model cannot be the author of copyrighted material under existing copyright law. The court affirmed the US Copyright Office’s long-standing human...more

Fenwick & West LLP

Healthtech Patents: What Alivecor v. Apple Means for AI-Powered Innovation

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A major Federal Circuit ruling just sent a clear message to AI-driven healthtech companies: AI alone won’t get you a patent....more

McNees Wallace & Nurick LLC

D.C. Circuit Affirms Denial of Copyright Protection for AI-Generated Works

On March 18, 2025, the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit (the “D.C. Circuit”) ruled in Thaler v. Perlmutter, affirming that works created solely by artificial intelligence (“AI”) cannot be...more

Perkins Coie

Fair Use Defense Failed in Thomson Reuters v. Ross, Jury Still out for Generative AI

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The first substantive decision on the fair use defense in an artificial intelligence (AI) copyright case came down against the defendant, who used AI to create a competing product. However, as the decision expressly limited...more

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No Copyright Protection for AI-Assisted Creations: Thaler v. Perlmutter

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Dr. Stephen Thaler’s attempts to obtain intellectual property protection for artificial intelligence were once again shot down by the courts, when the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia affirmed that the...more

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Appellate Court Confirms Copyright Statute Limits Authorship to Humans, Foreclosing Copyright Registration for Content Solely...

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AT A GLANCE - On March 18, 2025, the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit affirmed decisions by a lower court and the United States Copyright Office that human authorship is required to...more

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D.C. Circuit Holds that Works Created Solely by AI are Not Copyrightable

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On March 18, 2025, the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals affirmed the D.C. District Court’s and U.S. Copyright Office’s decisions, holding that a copyrighted work cannot be authored exclusively by an AI system. Computer...more

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D.C. Circuit Court Rules That Artificial Intelligence Cannot Solely Author Copyrightable Works

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The U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit recently affirmed that artificial intelligence (AI) cannot be the sole author on a copyright-registered work, but questions still remain as to the future of AI...more

Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP

DC Circuit Affirms Decision That Copyright Statute Requires Some Amount of Human Authorship, Leaves More Difficult Questions for...

Does copyright law require that a human create a work? Yesterday the D.C. Circuit in Thaler v. Perlmutter held that it does and that a machine (such as a computer operating a generative AI program) cannot be designated as the...more

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AI Healthcare Controversy Highlights Critical eDiscovery Challenges

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A landmark healthcare AI controversy has emerged as a watershed moment for eDiscovery professionals, revealing unprecedented challenges in investigating AI-driven decision-making systems within legal proceedings. The case,...more

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U.S. Fifth Circuit Decides Against Its Proposed Rule Amendment on AI Use in Legal Filings

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On November 22, 2023, the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit proposed an amendment to 5th Cir. Rule 32.3 and Form 6, which would have introduced a requirement for attorneys to certify the extent to which...more

Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP

Appellate Judge Proposes Possible Use of GenAI for Contract Interpretation – Recognizes That AI Hallucinates but Flesh-And-Blood...

By now, most lawyers have heard of judges sanctioning lawyers for misuse of generative AI, typically for not fact checking the outputs. Other judges have issued local rules governing use of or prohibiting AI. These actions...more

Proskauer Rose LLP

UK Tax Round Up - December 2023

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Welcome to December’s edition of our UK Tax Round Up. This month has seen two interesting decisions on the connections needed for amounts to be taxed as employment income, the latest instalment in the BlueCrest partner...more

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