Intellectual Property

Whether Anthropic's Claude spits out song lyrics verbatim, creates derivative works or generates new songs, Anthropic’s use of those lyrics isn't transformative, lawyers for music publishers argued Wednesday a... (more story)

The Judicial Conference of the United States's civil rules committee has not decided whether to pursue nationwide litigation funding disclosure requirements, as limited research and disagreements over the scop... (more story)

The US Patent and Trademark Office cut down on the patent application backlog and application pendency with targeted reforms to the way examiners spend their time, meeting FY26 goals, office leadership said We... (more story)

Standard implementers that question the quality of comparable licenses and offer binding arbitration could put pressure on patent owners to produce more agreements in support of injunction requests, Munich Jud... (more story)

Swedish drugmaker Novavax has failed to overturn a refusal of four “Matrix” trademark applications after the EU General Court on Wednesday found likely confusion with Brill International’s existing "Matrix ocu... (more story)

Meta has been asked by the UK’s Competition and Markets Authority to explain changes to its commercial terms that publishers fear would authorize the scraping of their websites, as the regulator considers poss... (more story)

China's iconic juice maker Huiyuan is at the center of an escalating trademark dispute, with its original operating group announcing plans to stop using the brand after affiliated companies were ordered to pay... (more story)

Four US Supreme Court justices recused themselves from review of a copyright decision on the global nature of termination notices, leaving the court without a quorum and resulting in the affirmance of the US C... (more story)