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The Intellectual Property Strategist Is Going Digital Only. Here's What You Need to Know. Image

The Intellectual Property Strategist Is Going Digital Only. Here's What You Need to Know.

Steve Salkin

The final print edition of The Intellectual Property Strategist will be our January issue.

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Keeping Track of Developments in Cases That Pit Creative Content Against AI Programs

Stan Soocher

2024 starts off with court decisions and procedural rulings that took shape in 2023 in lawsuits that were filed over the collision of creative content with generative AI programs. Most of the complaints allege copyright infringement and related claims prompted by the unlicensed copyright works that AI companies input into their AI programs.

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Director Vidal's Impact On the PTAB: Big Changes and More On the Way Image

Director Vidal's Impact On the PTAB: Big Changes and More On the Way

Jennifer Bush

Perhaps the largest impact that Director Vidal has had upon the PTAB is has been via Director Reviews. The U.S. Supreme Court mandated Director Reviews to correct procedural defects in the way that administrative patent judges are appointed to the PTAB.

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Like Mushrooms After A Rainstorm: Trade Secret Cases, and Lawyers, Are Growing Exponentially Image

Like Mushrooms After A Rainstorm: Trade Secret Cases, and Lawyers, Are Growing Exponentially

Nicole D. Galli

In modern times, trade secrets have long been considered mainly the province of employment lawyers dealing with more mundane issues such as customer relationships. Today, it seems trade secrets lawyers are multiplying like mushrooms after a rainstorm — coming not only from the employment bar, but also from IP, particularly the patent bar.

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Designing the Future: Protecting AR/VR Innovations With Design Patents Image

Designing the Future: Protecting AR/VR Innovations With Design Patents

By Zachary D. Cleary, Jose J. Jimenez & Taryn A. Elliott

The future is only redesigned every so often, so it is worth asking, what will this new technology look like, and how can pioneers protect their user-facing innovations that will define this emerging space? Design patents are the answer.

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IP News

Howard Shire & Justin Tilghman

Ninth Circuit Upholds Copyright Infringement Dismissal In 'Jangle Vision Twins' Case

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Federal Circuit Imperils Term-Adjusted Patents

Sandip H. Patel

The Federal Circuit recently upheld the Patent Office's decision to reject claims in four separate reexamination cases due to obviousness-type double patenting (ODP).

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How Energy Drink's "Purple Rain" Trademark Application Was Rejected

Bridget H. Labutta

Despite the fact that the trademark manual of examining procedure (TMEP) are readily available and searchable online, there are still a large number of applications that trademark examiners and judges must reject because the application does not conform to one or more conditions set forth in the Lanham Act or TMEP.

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Medical Technology: Recent Decisions At the Federal Circuit and the Patent Trial and Appeal Board Image

Medical Technology: Recent Decisions At the Federal Circuit and the Patent Trial and Appeal Board

James W. Soong

Recent developments at the Federal Circuit and the USPTO may inform evolving patent strategy on medical technology.

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WEBINAR: AI & Intellectual Property

The Intellectual Property Staff

Owners of intellectual property should be aware of how their works are used by generative AI models and the users of these tools, and timely action should be taken to defend intellectual property against infringement. Join LJN for a free webinar on Nov. 9.

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