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All the News That's Fit to Pinch

Jonathan Moskin & Rachel Pauley

The emerging cases by authors and copyright owners challenging various generative AI programs for using copyrighted materials are certain to create new troubles for the courts being asked to apply the fair use doctrine to this important new technology.

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Recent Patent Trial and Appeal Board Approaches to Patent Claims on Medical Technology Implementing AI Image

Recent Patent Trial and Appeal Board Approaches to Patent Claims on Medical Technology Implementing AI

Jim Soong

Each decision involves reversal of a prior art rejection and contrasts with the other decisions on subject matter eligibility, revealing different PTAB approaches and results that can inform prosecution and appeal strategies.

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Treatment of Antibody Claims In the U.S. After 'Amgen v. Sanofi' Image

Treatment of Antibody Claims In the U.S. After 'Amgen v. Sanofi'

Leanne Rakers & Caley McCarthy

The future of antibody claiming in the United States is uncertain following the U.S. Supreme Court's May 2023 ruling in Amgen Inc. v. Sanofi, a highly anticipated decision concerning enablement and whether the traditional way to claim antibodies — claiming antibodies by their function — will survive as a valid claiming strategy.

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Can Artificial Intelligence Patents Overcome §112 Requirements?, Part 2 Image

Can Artificial Intelligence Patents Overcome §112 Requirements?, Part 2

Mark Liang, Paige Hardy & Grace McFee

Part Two of a Two-Part article While the last decade has seen a dramatic increase in the number of AI patents, such patents face difficulty in overcoming the patent-eligibility challenges under §101 and Alice. Section 101, however, is not the only hurdles AI patents must overcome. Section 112, with its written description, enablement, and definiteness requirements, presents additional obstacles.

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How Patent Owners Can Leverage Climate Change Programs In Their IP Strategies

Gregory D. Len & Rachel Sullivan

The USPTO has created or expanded several programs to promote the development of sustainable energy. For patent owners and inventors in the energy sector, these programs can provide a financial and administrative edge for the development and protection of their intellectual property, as well as play a beneficial role their overall IP strategy.

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Howard Shire & Justin Tilghman

In Patrick v. Poree, the United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit affirmed the denial of default judgment and summary judgment of copyright infringement claims based on a lack of evidence that the plaintiff owned a valid copyright.

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A Scoreboard of Notable Cases In AI and Copyright

Stan Soocher

Artificial intelligence has dominated intellectual property news since the public introduction of OpenAI's ChatGPT, the generative AI chatbot, in November 2022. Now, 2024 starts off with court decisions and procedural rulings having taken shape in 2023 lawsuits that were filed over the collision of creative content with generative AI programs.

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Can Artificial Intelligence Patents Survive Alice?

Mark Liang. Paige Hardy & Grace McFee

Part One of a Two-Part Article Under the current Alice framework, those attempting to patent AI innovations face an uphill battle. But, as the caselaw demonstrates, inventors and patent drafters can take steps to reduce the risk of AI patent claims being invalidated as abstract ideas.

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Creative Expression vs. the Lanham Act: Six Months of Cases After Jack Daniel's Image

Creative Expression vs. the Lanham Act: Six Months of Cases After Jack Daniel's

Conor Tucker

Last Term, the U.S. Supreme Court decided Jack Daniel's v. VIP Products — a case involving interaction between the Lanham Act and the First Amendment. This article traces the lower courts' reactions and applications to that decision.

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IP News

Sarah Brand

Federal Circuit: PTAB Did Not Err In Finding That It Retained Authority to Issue Final Written Decision After Deadline Passed Federal Circuit: District Court Did Not Err In Finding That an Abbreviated New Drug Application Is Limited to the Uses Described Therein

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