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Content-Licensing Payment Dispute Involves Whether Fiduciary Relationship Was Created
A recent New York federal court decision in a dispute between a broker that sublicenses program content and a broadcaster that sublicensed content from the broker considered the interaction of contract language and extra-contractual elements of the parties' relationship to determine whether a fiduciary relationship existed.
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All the News That's Fit to Pinch
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
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'
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
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
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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Real Property Law
Developer Has Obligation to Protect Neighboring Structures Even If They Do Not Abut Developer's Parcel Attorney's Fees May Be Available to Neighbor Who Negotiates License for the Purpose of New Construction Abuse of Power of Attorney Renders Deeds Invalid
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How AI Has Affected PR
When we consider how the use of AI affects legal PR and communications, we have to look at it as an industrywide global phenomenon. A recent online conference provided an overview of the latest AI trends in public relations, and specifically, the impact of AI on communications. Here are some of the key points and takeaways from several of the speakers, who provided current best practices, tips, concerns and case studies.
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IP News
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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Landlord & Tenant Law
No Wrongful Eviction Even Though Judgment of Eviction Was Reversed on Appeal No Vested Right In MCI Increases Executive Order 202.8 Does Not Apply to Tenant Who Voluntarily Vacated
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