Brett Trout

MARCH 5, 2025

While AI promises efficiency and cost savings, a recent case in the United States District Court for the District of Wyoming serves as a stark reminder of the dangers of including unverified AI-generated content in court filings. The court discovered that eight of those cases did not exist. Walmart Inc. &

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Brett Trout

MARCH 3, 2025

Brett Trout In a significant decision for copyright law and legal technology, Judge Stephanos Bibas granted partial summary judgment in favor of Thomson Reuters, rejecting ROSS Intelligences fair use defense in a closely watched lawsuit over the use of Westlaws legal content. Whats Next?

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Brett Trout

FEBRUARY 11, 2025

Brett Trout Patent litigation is often complex and high-stakes, but the case involvingLeigh Rothschild, Starbucks, and attorney Rachael Lamkinhas taken an unusual turn, morphing from a patent infringement lawsuit into allegations of fraud, and now, a defamation battle?

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Brett Trout

JUNE 18, 2025

If that part ends up on social media or in the middle of a lawsuit, a single photo could trace it back to the exact machine—and possibly the person—who printed it. Can courts order access to your 3D printer data? Could this become part of 3D printing lawsuit investigations? These aren’t hypothetical questions anymore.

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Brett Trout

JANUARY 17, 2025

Brett Trout The Cost of Defending Your Patent As an inventor or patent holder, your intellectual property represents years of hard work, creativity, and financial expenditures. Resources: Patent litigation often involves technical experts, discovery, and court proceedings. Ready to explore your options?

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Brett Trout

APRIL 10, 2025

Why Litigation Experience Matters in a Patent Attorney One of the most overlooked but highly valuable assets in a patent attorney is litigation experience specifically, experience arguing patent cases in federal court. It could be the difference between owning IP that looks good on paper and IP that actually protects your market.

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Debevoise Data Blog

JANUARY 13, 2025

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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Brett Trout

JUNE 12, 2025

What the courts want now is a technological blueprint : a narrative that spells out the detailed how —not just the what —behind your invention. But what did the court see? 0) Taking Advantage of the Anticipated Changes to Intellectual Property Protection and Enforcement (0) The Federal Circuit’s recent Recentive v.

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Brett Trout

JULY 9, 2025

Increase Your Business Valuation Trademarks are intellectual property assets that enhance the value of your business. Having the knowledge of what it takes to win a trademark infringement lawsuit helps inform the best practices on the registration side. This is critical in an online world.

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Eric Goldman

JULY 9, 2025

Determining when a dupe seller crosses the line and a dupe infringes intellectual property rights can be tricky. But the rise in dupes has brought a corresponding rise in dupe lawsuits, or at least lawsuits that offer up defendants’ or consumers’ use of the term “dupe” as evidence of confusing similarity or intent to deceive.

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Brett Trout

JULY 8, 2025

On June 27, 2025, Lululemon filed a federal lawsuit accusing Costco of selling “confusingly similar” knockoffs of its best-selling clothes—including its Scuba hoodies, Define jackets, and ABC pants. But instead of getting public support, Lululemon is facing an uphill battle in the court of public opinion.

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Percipient

JANUARY 20, 2025

For litigation lawyers, it can predict how a case might play out in court, which makes it easier to decide if its worth settling or going all the way. Theyre especially helpful for lawsuits or investigations that involve large amounts of information. What Are The Benefits of Adopting AI-Powered Legal Tech? Not really.

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Eric Goldman

DECEMBER 27, 2024

Bell has filed at least 25 copyright lawsuits. The court opinion includes a screengrab of the tweet (see page 3). This extraordinary assertion, with which Shakespeare, Tolstoy and Faulkner might take issue, [FN] frankly causes this court to wonder whether it is dealing with a litigant whose feet are firmly planted on the ground.

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Debevoise Data Blog

JUNE 26, 2025

Whether copyrighted works can be freely used to train generative artificial intelligence (“AI”) models is at the core of dozens of lawsuits filed since AI burst onto the scene several years ago. In Kadrey v. But the two opinions took somewhat different paths to reach the same conclusion.

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Debevoise Data Blog

JUNE 4, 2025

Now, courts will have the benefit of a “pre-publication” version of the Copyright Office’s long-awaited Report on Generative AI Training (the “May 2025 Report”). Adding to the uncertainty, the day after the pre-publication report was released, the Trump administration dismissed the Register of Copyrights—a move she is challenging in court.

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Eric Goldman

MAY 22, 2025

Online addiction lawsuits are proliferating across the country, a trend that will continue so long as plaintiffs think they can win. What happens at the end of these lawsuits remains to be seen. intellectual property[] and A.I. Character.ai based on the allegations that: the model underlying [Character A.I.]

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Justia Legal Marketing & Technology blog

MAY 4, 2023

Federal statutes do not provide clear answers to these questions, so courts will need to confront them. Already, lawsuits involving AI-generated works have been filed in federal courts from coast to coast. This free database provides public records of lawsuits in federal trial and appellate courts.

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Above the Law - Technology

JUNE 30, 2023

The post Supreme Court Rejects Genius’ Preposterously Stupid Lawsuit Against Google appeared first on Above the Law. Not genius.

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Global LegalTech Hub

JULY 23, 2024

Associate at Alfaro Abogados Intellectual Property has become increasingly relevant in recent years, especially with the rise of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and its capabilities to create various types of works. The case involved the intellectual property rights holder of the cartoon character "Ultraman" and an AI tool.

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Eric Goldman

MARCH 9, 2023

I’m pleased to share a draft of a new paper, “ A SAD New Category of Abusive Intellectual Property Litigation.” This paper explains the scheme, how it bypasses standard legal safeguards, how it’s affected hundreds of thousands of defendants, and how it may have cost the federal courts a quarter-billion dollars.

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The North Carolina Journey of Law and Technology

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

However, independent designers are accusing Shein of something much more sinister: systematic and rampant intellectual property theft amounting to racketeering. We will vigorously defend ourselves against this lawsuit and any claims that are without merit.” Shein is no stranger to lawsuits. What’s Next?

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Kevin O'Keefe

JANUARY 25, 2023

Updates on recent legal developments and court cases impacting the Iowa agricultural industry, such as lawsuits over environmental issues or disputes between farmers and agribusinesses. Legal aspects of precision agriculture and how farmers can protect their intellectual property rights in the digital age.

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Eric Goldman

AUGUST 24, 2023

Some forms of data are protected by copyright, trademark, or another cognizable forms of intellectual property. But most of the data on the Internet isn’t easily protectible as intellectual property by those who might have an incentive to protect it. LinkedIn Corp. In the end, it was a pyrrhic victory.

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The North Carolina Journey of Law and Technology

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

Earlier this month, three artists initiated a lawsuit against Stability AI, DevianArt, and Midjourney, which are some of the leading A.I. The lawsuit alleges copyright infringement because these companies have been using images of the artists’ work to train their programs to produce similar work without their consent.

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Eric Goldman

JULY 23, 2024

Some hot areas include courts’ treatment of reasonable consumers, online discrimination in ad targeting , and Section 230’s application to scammy online ads. Chapter 3: False Advertising Overview Chapter 4: Deception Chapter 5: Which Facts Matter? We didn’t make many major changes in this edition.

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Eric Goldman

MARCH 5, 2024

This post covers an opinion where the court assumes such vertical integration based on the pleadings (it remains to be seen if that’s actually the case). The court says that Pixels could be “counterfeiting” the Canvasfish online store (?) .” That story is still being written. Trademark Infringement.

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Eric Goldman

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

I’m pleased to share the final published version of my article, “ A SAD Scheme of Abusive Intellectual Property Litigation.” Prior Blog Posts on the SAD Scheme In a SAD Scheme Case, Court Rejects Injunction Over “Emoji” Trademark Schedule A (SAD Scheme) Plaintiff Sanctioned for “Fraud on the Court”–Xped v.

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The North Carolina Journey of Law and Technology

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

The Intellectual Property Clause grants Congress the power “to promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts, by securing for limited Times to Authors and Inventors the exclusive Right to their respective Writings and Discoveries.” It remains unclear whether this is a timely response to the lawsuit.

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Eric Goldman

JANUARY 18, 2024

My roundup of the top Internet Law developments of 2023: 10) California court bans targeted advertising (?). Facebook , a California appeals court shocked the advertising community by suggesting that using common demographic criteria for ad targeting, such as age or gender, may violate California’s anti-discrimination law.

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Clio

JUNE 13, 2024

A court case might involve reviewing a client’s social media account, emails, and digital documents to determine the merits of an intellectual property lawsuit. Data security: Proper processes maintain the integrity of electronic evidence, ensuring it’s admissible in court.

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Brett Trout

JUNE 6, 2024

Trademarks are a type of “intellectual property,” but are very different from other types of intellectual property like patents and copyrights. Trout What is a trademark? A trademark is something used by consumers to identify the supplier of a particular product or service.

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Brett Trout

MARCH 15, 2024

Trout Kickstarter recently suspended a campaign for a board game showcasing a well-known intellectual property. The public suspension notice stated the campaign was the “subject of an intellectual property dispute and is currently unavailable.” No tags for this post. Related posts No related posts.

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CaseFox

JUNE 29, 2023

They shield you against lawsuits, creditors, and other potential hazards. You protect your assets from creditors and lawsuits by creating this protective layer. Copyrights safeguard your intellectual property , such as books, music, or artwork, from unauthorized use. 8 Ways to Protect Assets 1.

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Legal Expert Connections

FEBRUARY 25, 2024

As court dockets continue to expand, the ad boom reflects both the growth in mass tort litigation and investor interest. For instance, during the height of lawsuits targeting Monsanto’s Roundup weedkiller in 2019, the industry spent nearly $300 million on television spots. a national law firm marketing agency.

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LawSites

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

A 25-person legal technology company in California is fighting back against one of the world’s largest law firms in a lawsuit over ownership rights to legislation-drafting software that each side says was its idea. Attorneys at Akin Gump declined to discuss the lawsuit. Series of Meetings. ” The case is No.

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Richmond Journal of Law and Technology

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

16] Companies accomplish this by first suing generic-manufacturing companies for patent infringement, and then settling the lawsuit by paying them to stay out of the market in what is known as a reverse-payment settlement. [17] 19] The lawsuit ended in a settlement with Gilead agreeing to pay Teva, the supposed infringer, $1.5

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Eric Goldman

DECEMBER 13, 2023

But that undersells the level of inconsistency in courts’ interpretations of the law of copyright preemption. At the circuit court level, the law of copyright preemption of contracts is a circuit split-plus, with at least two and as many as four differentiating positions on what might constitute preemption. 2d 426, 433 (8th Cir.1993)

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