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Chinese court rejects copyright claims over AI prompts in landmark case
A Shanghai court has issued the city's first ruling on copyright claims tied to artificial intelligence prompt words, finding that the plaintiff’s prompts on Midjou... (more story)
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Key question on employee inventor compensation to be decided by UK court
The question of whether employees who invent patented products should have the significance of their inventions considered in the aggregate when seeking compensatio... (more story)
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Law firm likely tricking authors into exiting Anthropic's $1.5bn deal, US judge says
An Arizona-based law firm is likely trying to trick authors into opting out of Anthropic’s $1.5 billion class-action settlement when it doesn’t have the experience ... (more story)
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The House Judiciary Committee Tuesday passed a bill which would mandate that plaintiffs disclose their relationships with foreign third-party litigation funders and ban foreign state-backed funders. The change... (more story)
Ziff Davis, the online publisher of websites such as Mashable and LifeHacker, is seeking to amend its copyright lawsuit against OpenAI for the second time, saying new evidence — including redacted internal Ope... (more story)
The head of Allica Bank cast doubt on the prospects of IP-backed lending as a solution to the UK’s SME and start-up funding issues on Tuesday, pointing instead to the Growth Guarantee Scheme as a better area o... (more story)
A high-stakes patent dispute between China’s Shanghai Huayi Group and French specialty chemicals producer Arkema has intensified, with Arkema refining its infringement claims while keeping its hefty 430-millio... (more story)
The US Supreme Court on Monday left in place a broad interpretation of safe harbor under Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act for e-commerce sites. Planet Green Cartridges had petitioned the court to ... (more story)
Two petitions for writ of certiorari by Gesture Technology Partners were denied Monday at the US Supreme Court in a blow to patentees hoping to extract damages for past infringement. The nonpracticing entity ... (more story)
China’s top intellectual property authority has introduced sweeping revisions to its patent-examination guidelines, putting artificial intelligence and digital bitstream-related inventions under closer scrutiny.
Japan’s largest actors and voice-artists union has teamed up with trading house Itochu and its systems arm to launch what it called the country’s first official voice database, designed to protect performers f... (more story)
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A recent ruling in a case by Getty Images against Stability AI has provided some clarification on how the UK copyright regime handles AI training, the models and their output. But it also highlighted problems ... (more story)
Recent changes aimed at shortening the time it takes to receive a first office action from the US Patent and Trademark Office could be especially beneficial for solo inventors and other small and medium-sized ... (more story)
An order to show cause this week by US Patent and Trademark Office Director John Squires has rankled some in the intellectual property space, domestically and abroad.
Japan’s courts have drawn a clearer line between use rights and ownership in the long-running dispute between US skateboarder Mark Gonzales and Tokyo-based Sakura International, curbing a former licensee’s abi... (more story)
Tahir Amin, CEO of the IP advocacy group Initiative for Medicines, Access, and Knowledge, is urging lawmakers to examine how patent practices such as evergreening and thickets drive up drug costs. While critic... (more story)
A new report by the World Intellectual Property Organization shows global patent prosecution continuing to bounce back from the Covid-19 pandemic. The gains are largely attributable to intellectual property o... (more story)
Anthropic’s record-breaking $1.5 billion deal resolving copyright claims related to the use of "shadow libraries" has opened the door to a wave of lawsuits against US tech companies, and US authors are walking... (more story)
California’s Proposition 50 redistricting could unseat two of the few US House members who are consistently active in intellectual property policy — Republican Representatives Darrell Issa and Kevin Kiley — po... (more story)