IP News
January 01, 2026
Federal Circuit: “Complete Identity of Inventive Entity” Required to Remove Prior Art as Not By “Another” Under Pre-AIA LawFederal Circuit: No Trade Secret Misappropriation By Goodyear nor Correction of Inventorship Warranted Because of Coda’s Failure to Show Specificity, Secrecy, or Evidence of Use
The Lawyers’ Guide to Writing Articles for Google’s AI Overview
January 01, 2026
Google’s AI Overview creates a strategic opportunity for attorneys who can leverage their knowledge and experience into a decent article. This opportunity to attract more visibility, link a law firm’s blog, and drive readers to a firm’s website in Google AI Overview is our focus in this article.
Federal Circuit Reasserts Limits On USPTO Authority In 'KAHWA' Ruling
January 01, 2026
The decision reasserts important limits on the USPTO’s authority, particularly its reliance on unverified foreign-language translations, hypothetical assumptions about what businesses “might” offer in the future, and tenuous connections between a word and a service category.
IP News
December 02, 2025
Coloring In the Lines of the TTAB: Medisafe’s Dark Green Gamble
The Complexities of the TAKE IT DOWN Act
December 01, 2025
The TAKE IT DOWN Act is the first federal legislation to address both unadulterated non-consensual intimate imagery and digital forgeries, marking a significant milestone in U.S. content regulation.
Holes in U.S. Copyright Office’s Guidance for AI-Assisted Works
December 01, 2025
When can an artist using AI tools copyright their work? Earlier this year, the Copyright Office addressed the issue and rejected the proposition that only prompting an AI model can create a copyrightable work. But Copyright Office’s analysis missed that “randomness” for a computer means something entirely different than we generally think, ultimately underselling the amount of control someone can have over a model’s output.