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

FEBRUARY 4, 2025

has filed a lawsuit against Walgreens Co. District Court for the Eastern District of Texas, alleging infringement of three patents related to real-time retail technology. This case underscores the importance of protecting intellectual property and of conducting intellectual property due diligence before launching new technology.

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Justia Legal Marketing & Technology blog

MARCH 4, 2025

Entrepreneurs seeking intellectual property guidance? Using these AI-powered tools, you discover that “wrongful termination lawsuits” and “remote work legal rights” are highly searched topics. Are they business owners looking for contract advice? Individuals facing family law issues?

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Brett Trout

JANUARY 29, 2025

Brett Trout When it comes to intellectual property disputes, the stakes are high. Huangs case was dismissed because the lawsuit he filed lacked the required specificity, failed to identify particular infringing products, and contained vague, conclusory allegations. Simply put, not every litigator is cut out for patent battles.

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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

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

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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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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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

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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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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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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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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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 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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Eric Goldman

DECEMBER 13, 2024

Roberts Its become known as the sad beige lawsuit or the case that asks the question can you ever really own an aesthetic ? Intellectual property law has not traditionally protected the way someone styles their hair, makes up their face, or decorates their home, whether or not those choices are photographed and shared.

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Ikigai Law

JUNE 30, 2023

This brings up a myriad of intellectual property concerns. The term “person” has also been interpreted conservatively by the Courts in respect of copyright law. In 2019, the Delhi High Court rejected a copyright claim over a list compiled by a computer, on the grounds of, inter alia, lack of human intervention. [8]

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Eric Goldman

AUGUST 1, 2023

Instead, Hunley and Brauer filed a class-action lawsuit against Instagram, alleging that Instagram was vicariously liable for, or was liable for encouraging or contributing to, the alleged direct infringement by others, by providing an “embedding” tool that easily could be used to facilitate public display of their photos. Supreme Court.

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Berkley Technology Law Journal

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

It even wrote me a funny Limerick about the Supreme Court: “ There once were nine judges supreme whose robes were a legal dream. We’ll explore the potential impacts of ChatGPT not only on everyday life, but also on the legal industry, education, intellectual property law, geopolitics, and more. Eric] 02:34 Welcome, Chris.

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3 Geeks and a Law Blog

AUGUST 22, 2023

And that’s one thing, providing it a change control clause, which is proprietary, valuable intellectual property for that organization. But when you’ve got a decentralized process, like common law, where you’ve got a circuit court in the foothills of Wisconsin with one judge and one local solicitor.

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Legal Tech Monitor

AUGUST 22, 2023

And that’s one thing, providing it a change control clause, which is proprietary, valuable intellectual property for that organization. But when you’ve got a decentralized process, like common law, where you’ve got a circuit court in the foothills of Wisconsin with one judge and one local solicitor.

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