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German photographer loses appeal; court rules Laion’s scraping met copyright rules December 10, 2025 | Charlotte Westphal and Inbar Preiss

Robert Kneschke, a German photographer, has seen the rejection of his bid to overturn a Hamburg court’s ruling that AI provider Laion could rely on copyright exceptions for text and data mining when downloadin... (more story)

OpenAI challenges AI copyright ruling in Germany that backed rightsholders December 10, 2025 | Frank Hersey and Charlotte Westphal

OpenAI is appealing a Munich court ruling last month that came down in favor of German music rights body GEMA. The court found that the AI developer infringed copyright in the training and operation of ChatGPT... (more story)

India proposes 'Pay-to-Train' AI copyright law, granting access for royalties December 10, 2025 | Freny Patel

India has proposed a far-reaching hybrid model to govern the use of copyrighted material in training generative artificial intelligence systems. The two-pronged approach proposes granting AI developers the rig... (more story)

USPTO eyes expansion of IP attachés network, discusses global developments December 09, 2025 | Nick Robertson

The US Patent and Trademark Office’s international IP attachés took stock of their respective regions at the US Chamber of Commerce’s 19th annual roundtable Tuesday, noting US concerns with legislative proposa... (more story)

‘Settled expectations’ not mandamus-worthy, panel rules in win for USPTO December 09, 2025 | Melissa Ritti

Three more bids for relief from adverse decisions by the US Patent and Trademark Office fell Tuesday, with the denial of mandamus petitions by Cambridge Industries, HighLevel and Sandisk Technologies. The orde... (more story)

Motorola argues US damages award against Hytera should be enforceable in UK December 09, 2025 | Douglas Clarke-Williams

Motorola argued on Tuesday that a UK law intended to counter American assertions of extraterritorial jurisdiction does not prevent it from seeking to enforce a US compensatory damages award for trade secrets i... (more story)

Hendrix bandmates’ estates fight for streaming royalties in UK court December 09, 2025 | Douglas Clarke-Williams

Lawyers for the estates of Noel Redding and Mitch Mitchell — the former members of the Jimi Hendrix Experience — argued on Tuesday that Sony Music is wrong to withhold royalties under contracts signed decades ... (more story)

US Supreme Court won’t review Recentive, as USPTO formalizes Desjardins December 08, 2025 | Melissa Ritti

In their Monday orders list, the US Supreme Court refused to disturb leading appellate precedent on the inventiveness of machine learning-related patents. Their denial of Recentive Analytics’ petition for a w... (more story)

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Reddit, aiming to be internet's 'most human' place, battles, benefits from AI December 09, 2025 | Mike Swift

Reddit has a complicated relationship with AI. While the 20-year-old social platform recently sued Anthropic and Perplexity alleging the AI companies illegally scraped its content to train their large language... (more story)

Bayer ruling shows how Japan's patent linkage protects innovator communications December 09, 2025 | Toko Sekiguchi

Japan’s patent-linkage system came into sharp relief after a Tokyo court ruled for Bayer, clarifying how patent warnings and regulatory submissions stay shielded from unfair-competition attacks.

Preemption cloud looms large over California copyright, AI disclosure bill December 08, 2025 | Melissa Ritti

As home to the entertainment industry, California has a vested interest in how copyright protections factor into generative artificial intelligence training. Efforts by the state to put a thumb on the scale fo... (more story)

ClaimsHero says it solves class-action woes; US judge fears 'extortion' December 04, 2025 | Mike Swift

Is ClaimsHero the next generation of law firm, a tech law disruptor built on social media technology that will serve consumers better than existing class-action Big Tech settlements that typically provide cons... (more story)

US Supreme Court seeks middle ground of arguments in Cox copyright case December 02, 2025 | Nick Robertson

The US Supreme Court was critical Monday of arguments advanced by Cox Communications and Sony Entertainment on the extent of secondary liability for online copyright infringement. Most of the justices appeared... (more story)

Motorola settlement fails to silence antitrust concerns as Brazil deepens 5G patent scrutiny December 02, 2025 | Maria Júlia Baumert

Brazil’s competition authority is moving forward with an investigation into Ericsson’s 5G patent licensing practices after receiving an unexpectedly high volume of market feedback, suggesting the sector may be... (more story)

Litigation funders set to dodge EU-wide regulatory action — for now December 02, 2025 | Jean Comte

Investment funds engaging in for-profit support of court cases aren't likely to see any EU-wide regulatory action in the short term. The European Commission appears to see no reason to intervene, and for now i... (more story)

USPTO's stance on AI inventorship clears up lingering confusion, uncertainty December 01, 2025 | Melissa Ritti

Deeming artificial intelligence akin to “laboratory equipment, computer software, research databases” and the like, new guidance by the US Patent and Trademark Office should provide innovators with a measure o... (more story)