The 5 Most Influential Patent Law Cases of 2024
January 01, 2025
We’re counting down to the new year with a recap of the five most influential patent decisions from 2024. Spanning damages, design patents, infringement loopholes, issue preclusion, and prior art disqualification, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit had an active year issuing cases with a direct impact on innovation. With several of these decisions currently on appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court, 2025 is shaping up to bring even more change.
Potential Antitrust Risks When Using AI-Driven Pricing Tools
January 01, 2025
Companies need to seriously consider the potential antitrust risks when using AI-driven or algorithmic software-based third-party services for things such as pricing or inventory management. These tools can increase efficiency, but, depending on specifics, can also lead to serious antitrust risks.
What You Need to Know About PA’s Act 52
January 01, 2025
The Wholesale Real Estate Transaction Transparency and Protection Act, which requires real estate wholesalers to obtain licensing and grants additional protections to property owners in wholesale transactions, will take effect on Jan. 4, 2025.
Exploring Gen AI’s Impact on Intellectual Property
January 01, 2025
For some, GenAI is the latest and greatest innovation, while for others, it is an existential threat. In this emerging technological landscape, there are many implications and unanswered questions regarding the protection of intellectual property rights. This article highlights some of the challenges GenAI presents, and recent developments in copyright law and trademark law in this quickly evolving space.
Construing Separate Contractual Instruments As One
January 01, 2025
At times, disputes arise among parties in commercial transactions as to whether multiple contracts involving a common matter should be read as a single, integrated contract, or as separate and distinct agreements. This issue often surfaces where one or more such agreements contain arbitration clauses, but other related contracts do not.
Fresh Filings
January 01, 2025
Notable recent court filings in entertainment law.