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Battle Royale: Alpha Modus Sues Walgreens for Patent Infringement

Brett Trout

has filed a lawsuit against Walgreens Co. Investors and speculators doubled the price of Alpha Modus stock last week, likely in anticipation of this lawsuit, before the price dropped back down this week to about a sixty percent overall increase. In its lawsuit, Alpha Modus accuses Walgreens of infringing the following patents: U.S.

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Fast Fashion Creating Even Faster Copies?: Examining Shein’s Intellectual Property and Racketeering Suit

The North Carolina Journey of Law and Technology

The online retailer jumped in sales from $10 billion in 2020 to $100 billion in 2022, surpassing the sales of both Zara and H&M combined. However, independent designers are accusing Shein of something much more sinister: systematic and rampant intellectual property theft amounting to racketeering. What’s Next?

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Lessons Learned from 2024 and the Year Ahead in AI Litigation

Debevoise Data Blog

But this new era of AI has not come without controversy, as authors and rights holders have launched waves of litigation against the companies that trained and released generative AI models, as well as their investors and affiliates, alleging violations of intellectual property rights. In Millette v. OpenAI, Inc.,

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2023 Internet Law Year-in-Review

Eric Goldman

Thousands of SAD Scheme lawsuits have been filed because the TROs take the online merchant off the marketplace entirely and usually extract some cash. 4) Social media “defective design” lawsuits go forward. If so, as I predicted in 2019 , the UK Online Safety Act will accelerate the end of Web 2.0

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A brief look at the copyright issues raised by generative AI

Ikigai Law

This brings up a myriad of intellectual property concerns. 8] Further, in 2020, the Copyright Office had recognized an AI tool, Raghav, as an author of an artwork produced by the AI tool, along with the developer of the AI tool. In fact, we have created the image for this blog post using Bing’s AI based image creator.

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2024 Law Firm Data Security Guide: How to Keep Your Law Firm Secure

Clio

Valuable information—like trade secrets, intellectual property, merger and acquisition details, personally identifiable information (PII), and confidential attorney-client-privileged data —attracts the ill-intentioned to your firm. Data security failures can also have incredibly negative consequences for your clients.

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Ninth Circuit Reaffirms the “Server Test” for Direct Infringement of the Public Display Right — Hunley v. Instagram, LLC (Guest Blog Post)

Eric Goldman

In 2020, BuzzFeed “embedded” one of Hunley’s Instagram posts, featuring one of her photos of a Black Lives Matter protest, in its entirety (again, preserving her username, caption, and hashtags). Second, it fits better with the “opt-out” design of the Internet, so it makes it easier to dispose of “troll-like” cases like the Hunley lawsuit.