Brett Trout

JANUARY 17, 2025

Implications for the Intellectual Property and Legal Community The FTCs lawsuit against Deere raises important questions about how intellectual property rights intersect with antitrust law and consumer protection. Efficiency: Immediate access to repair tools means faster fixes and less downtime.

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Eric Goldman

MAY 27, 2025

Riehl asked ChatGPT to summarize a lawsuit involving the foundation. Riehl knew that ChatGPT’s claim was fishy and that the ChatGPT version he was using had an index cutoff date before the lawsuit filing. Implications Wow, this lawsuit was terrible. ” Life is too short to file lawsuits like this.

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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.

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Berkley Technology Law Journal

JUNE 23, 2025

Generative AI’s (“genAI”) ability to “deepfake” audiovisual evidence presents dual concerns: (1) parties could present deepfaked evidence as real, or (2) parties could challenge real evidence as deepfaked, requiring resources for evidence validation on top of the already lengthy and expensive litigation process.

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Brett Trout

FEBRUARY 4, 2025

Brett Trout In a high-stakes patent litigation case, Alpha Modus Corp. 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 the U.S.

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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? from defendants through AT.

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Brett Trout

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

Recently, the companys aggressive enforcement of its intellectual property (IP) has taken center stage, with high-profile lawsuits targeting game modders, emulator developers, and companies like Pocketpair, the creators of Palworld. The lawsuit seeks damages and an injunction against the games continued distribution?

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Brett Trout

JUNE 12, 2025

” If your patent answers that question clearly, you’re on the right track.

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Brett Trout

FEBRUARY 5, 2025

Legally, non-patent lawyers lack the skill required to draft patents and are therefore prohibited from drafting patents on behalf of clients.

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Brett Trout

MARCH 5, 2025

As the subject matter experts, lawyers are the last line of defense, ensuring that all court filings under their names are based on real, verifiable sources. 32:1:1 Comment [8] Despite this mandate, many attorneys are understandably wary of incorporating advanced technology, especially artificial intelligence (AI) into their legal practice.

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Justia Legal Marketing & Technology blog

FEBRUARY 12, 2025

Corporations are legally independent entities, so a creditor or a person filing a lawsuit against a corporation usually cant reach your personal assets, although there are some exceptions. Arbitration is more formal than mediation but less cumbersome than litigation. What Are the Pros and Cons of Starting a Corporation?

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Brett Trout

APRIL 21, 2025

Drafting an AI patent that passes Patent Office muster and is defensible in court takes not only planning, skill, and expertise in the field of AI-patentability, but also a solid understanding of the constantly-changing AI-patentability legal landscape.

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Brett Trout

APRIL 1, 2025

They used litigation or licensing strategically asserting their rights early, often, and aggressively. Takeaway: Early enforcement with top-tier litigators, paired with clearly drafted patent claims, can cement your dominance in a fast-moving field. Are you prepared to litigate (or threaten to)? The result?

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Clio

APRIL 17, 2025

Predictive analytics can also guide whether to settle or proceed to court on a file based on analysis of past settlements, litigation costs, and opposing counsels behavior. The old adage, a good lawyer knows the law; a great lawyer knows the judge. How does predictive analytics work in litigation? The result?

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Colin S. Levy

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

Firms that adapt by preparing junior lawyers for higher-value work will not only improve client outcomes but also accelerate their associates’ career development. As AI adoption grows, departments may need to hire non-lawyer specialists to lead technology initiatives. However, Rule 5.4

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Brett Trout

JUNE 24, 2025

The ruling could also have an immediate impact on other large AI players like OpenAI and Meta, who are facing similar lawsuits. They will need to license books or get them through other legal sources. This case sets the tone and framework for how courts might treat these AI training cases moving forward.

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Brett Trout

JULY 9, 2025

Customs enforcement, or litigation if needed. Picking the Best Trademark Lawyer? Having the knowledge of what it takes to win a trademark infringement lawsuit helps inform the best practices on the registration side. Open Doors to Global Expansion Planning to grow internationally? You may need a U.S.

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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. Could this become part of 3D printing lawsuit investigations? What This Means for Everyone Else But there’s another side to this tech: surveillance.

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Martindale-Avvo

JUNE 18, 2025

The landscape of mass torts in 2025 builds on the active litigation from the past few years. Litigation over PFAS in various arenas could continue as these chemicals are in products as diverse as packaging and carpets. Despite the settling of about two-thirds of lawsuits , there are more than 54,000 cases still pending.

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Percipient

JANUARY 20, 2025

As AI keeps evolving, its clear that lawyers and firms who embrace these tools now will have a big advantage in the future. Whether its tools built just for lawyers or general AI that can make things easier, there are a bunch of ways AI is helping out. This shift isnt just a trend; its becoming the new normal.

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Eric Goldman

FEBRUARY 16, 2025

A reminder: this lawsuit is a battle royale. Each side has phalanxes of lawyers, and no point is too picayune to spar over. Social Media Adolescent Addiction/Personal Injury Products Liability Litigation , 2024 WL 4532937 (N.D. Social Media Adolescent Addiction/Personal Injury Products Liability Litigation, 2024 WL 4719068 (N.D.

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MatterSuite

NOVEMBER 24, 2024

Legal assistants, also called litigation assistants, mainly perform ancillary work and work at the strategic and administrative levels to support the legal profession. A legal assistant is a person who implements clerical and administrative services for lawyers and other legal personnel. What does a legal assistant do?

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Martindale-Avvo

MARCH 7, 2025

Far too many people worry about appearing uneducated or unsophisticated and will hesitate from asking questions of their Personal Injury (PI) lawyer. A client that understands the legal claims will have a better appreciation of the risks of litigation. What’s the Damage?

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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. What is the Lawsuit About? The Rise of the “Dupe” Culture This lawsuit is part of a bigger trend: “dupe” shopping.

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Brett Trout

JUNE 25, 2025

Startup IYO, spun out of Google’s moonshot X lab, just won a major victory in its lawsuit against OpenAI, Sam Altman, and Ive’s design studio LoveFrom. The lawsuit alleges this wasn’t just a coincidence. A federal judge stepping in to put the brakes on OpenAI and its new venture with famed Apple designer Jony Ive. On Friday, U.S.

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Eric Goldman

NOVEMBER 25, 2024

This creates friction within the case that complicates the “managing and structuring civil litigation for fair and efficient resolution of complex disputes.” That’s progress, but will Toyota and the lawyers advising them be chastened enough to stop overreaching joinder claims in SAD Scheme cases? Emoji GmbH v.

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Eric Goldman

OCTOBER 23, 2024

The court is telling trademark owners, as plain as it can, to stop bringing competitive keyword advertising lawsuits. I hope lower courts will aggressively gatekeep trademark owner lawsuits over competitive keyword advertising to reduce this lawfare risk. Google was a major player in this lawsuit by proxy.

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lennyesq

JUNE 9, 2025

IN EARLY APRIL of this year, after more than a decade of litigation and a $90-million settlement, Mark Zuckerberg sent me forty bucks on Venmo. was my cut of the payout from a class action lawsuit: the “Facebook Internet Tracking Litigation” case (not to be confused with the “Facebook, Inc. That $40.67 Read more…

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Eric Goldman

DECEMBER 27, 2024

Bell has filed at least 25 copyright lawsuits. Two prior blog posts on Bell’s litigation efforts: Fair Use Protects High Schools Use of Inspirational MemeBell v. It contained a passage that has become a meme in the sports community. Bell has separately registered a copyright in the passage.

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lennyesq

MAY 17, 2025

Were living in a world where allusions to Shakespeares famous first thing we do, lets kill all the lawyers line have become commonplace. They come in the context of the Trump administrations many attacks against lawyers, courts, andperhaps most unexpectedlysome prominent law firms.

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Martindale-Avvo

MAY 13, 2025

Role of climate and environmental law attorneys Environmental lawyers provide a range of legal services , working for governments, citizen groups, non-profit organizations, and individuals. The legal landscape for environmental lawyers in 2025 Environmental law is a growing and fast-moving area in 2025.

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Eric Goldman

JANUARY 9, 2025

9) Supreme Court Tamps Down on Jawboning and Government Social Media Lawsuits. If any of those lawsuits succeed, they pose a potential existential threat to the entire industry. If you haven’t been watching the litigation tsunami over Meta Pixels, it’s been a sight to behold. FOLLOW ME THERE! Pixel Cases. in press).

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Clio

APRIL 2, 2025

How many personal injury lawyers are in the US? million lawyers in the United States, over 135,000 are personal injury lawyersroughly 10% of all practicing attorneys. About 95% of personal injury lawsuits end in a pre-trial settlement ( The Law Dictionary ). Of the over 1.3 billion in 2024 ( IBIS World ).

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Eric Goldman

NOVEMBER 27, 2024

is a good law, but a group of plaintiff lawyers are weaponizing it through overly tendentious readings of the law and various TOSes. (A That’s a litigation strategy, I guess. Amazon’s TOS would have benefited from a critical reread to think of how plaintiffs’ lawyers could minsterpret the contract to claim 1670.8

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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. This decision largely rejects the defendants’ motion to dismiss, which will induce more plaintiff lawyers to bring more cases. What happens at the end of these lawsuits remains to be seen.

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Martindale-Avvo

JANUARY 21, 2025

Caution with politics Prior to the last Trump administration, lawyers were split as to how they approached politics. The traditional role of the lawyer is to advocate for clients within the scope of the law. Some commentators posit this will lead to greater energy profits , with a domino effect for lawyers. manufacturing.

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Martindale-Avvo

MAY 6, 2025

The role of antitrust attorneys The role of lawyers in antitrust tends to fall either in antitrust litigation or in advisory and drafting services during mergers and acquisitions. Antitrust lawyers can also bring antitrust lawsuits on behalf of individuals, against companies and other bodies.

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