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Criminal Considerations In Trade Secrets Disputes

Jeffrey A. Pade & Anand B. Patel

Part One of a Three-Part Series When the international theft of U.S. trade secrets escalated and became a higher priority for domestic entities, trade secrets owners faced difficult challenges in collecting evidence, pursuing civil actions against overseas actors, and successfully obtaining worthwhile and meaningful relief from civil actions alone. These challenges ultimately resulted in increased referrals, investigations, and prosecutions of trade secrets theft under the EEA by federal authorities.

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Pondering AI Machine Learning and Copyright Fair Use

Cassandre Coyer

By feeding machine-learning models hundreds of copyrighted pictures to train them to identify and "read" certain concepts, companies could face violating copyright laws.

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Duty of Candor and Good Faith With the USPTO Covers Non-Inventors and Non-Practitioners

George Chen, Cory Smith and Ryan Fitzpatrick

Practitioners and non-practitioners that are associated with the examination of patents and patent applications should be vigilant about information that may be material to patentability to avoid having an issued patent be deemed unenforceable.

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Supreme Court Set to Hear Transformativeness Fair Use 'Warhol' Case

Eric Alan Stone & Catherine Nyarady

In the October 2022 Term, the Supreme Court is set to decide whether courts assessing transformativeness under the first fair-use factor of the Copyright Act may consider "the meaning of the accused work where it 'recognizably deriv[es] from' its source material." The case may profoundly affect the fair use analysis, and in turn, the scope of copyright protection for many works.

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IP News

Howard Shire & Stephanie Remy

Federal Circuit: Trade Dress Imitation In the Ninth Circuit

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Protecting a Trademark Licensor's Rights In Its Licensee's Bankruptcy Case

Alfred S. Lurey

A recent bankruptcy case from the District of Delaware underscores the need for a trademark licensor to be alert to filings made in its licensee's bankruptcy case that may require prompt action by the licensor to protect its valuable rights under a license agreement.

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IP Rights In the Metaverse

Dyan Finguerra-DuCharme & Abla Belhachmi

The metaverse, an immersive virtual experience building on the Internet and the physical world, has become a prominent force in branding and marketing for companies struggling to keep up in an ever so globalized economy. Parallel to this digital expansion has been a surge of intellectual property issues.

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Filing a Reissue Can Correct Serious Patent Errors

Jeffrey W. Gluck

Reissue applications may be quite useful. They may be useful in correcting some type of errors that one would normally think of as "errors" in the strict sense of the word. But they may also be used to correct "errors" in scope of patent protection and may thus be used to increase patent value and should thus be considered as a strategic tool in a patent holder's toolbox.

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IP News

Jeffrey S. Ginsberg & Abhishek Bapna

Federal Circuit Affirms District Court's Decision That an Artificial Intelligence Software System Cannot Be Listed as an Inventor on a Patent Application Federal Circuit Affirms District Court's Partial Award of Attorney's Fees

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Protecting a Trademark Licensor's Rights In a Bankruptcy Case

Alfred S. Lurey

A recent bankruptcy case from the District of Delaware underscores the need for a trademark licensor to be alert to filings made in its licensee's bankruptcy case that may require prompt action by the licensor to protect its valuable rights under a license agreement.

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