Preserving Business Data When Employees Leave: A Mobile Device Offboarding Checklist
August 31, 2025
When employees leave, they don’t just walk out the door with their personal belongings, they often take with them valuable institutional knowledge, IP, and other business-critical data. Without proper data retention policies for departing employees, organizations risk losing essential information, exposing themselves to security threats, and facing costly legal consequences.
Recent Decisions from CA and NY On AI Training and Copyright
August 01, 2025
In late July, two important decisions came down from courts in the Northern District of California regarding the unauthorized use of copyrighted material for the training of large language models. No real consensus has emerged as to the effect they will have on the broader AI litigation landscape.
Insights from Acting Director Stewart’s Decisions on Discretionary Denial under the New Interim Processes for PTAB Workload Management
July 31, 2025
Just three months ago, Acting Director of the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) Coke Morgan Stewart rescinded existing guidelines governing the Patent Trial and Appeal Board’s (PTAB) discretion to deny petitions for inter partes review (IPR) and post-grant review (PGR) when parallel litigation is already pending in federal district court or the U.S. International Trade Commission (ITC). Acting Director Stewart replaced those guidelines with new interim processes that rely on the Director to issue decisions on patent owners’ requests for discretionary denials.
IP News
July 31, 2025
“Not Merely Monkey Business”: The Bored Ape Case and NFT Branding in the Ninth Circuit
Relocating Easements By Servient Owner
July 31, 2025
Under what circumstances can a servient owner relocate an easement? New York's Second Department recently faced that question and reaffirmed the rule that a servient owner cannot unilaterally relocate an easement when the easement agreement depicts the precise location of the easement.
