29 Jul, 2024 AI Implemented Invention for Making Music Recommenations Not Patentable By David Knight On July 19, 2024, the U.K. Court of Appeal rejected a patent application by Emotional Perception AI Limited (EPL), essentially because...
19 Jun, 2024 Alaska Airlines Must Pay to Use Virgin Brand Even Though It Is Not Using the Brand By David Knight A recent judgment of the English Court of Appeal demonstrates the importance of examining licence agreements in corporate transactions....
14 Jun, 2024 Supreme Court: Ban on Registering Someone Else’s Name as a Trademark Withstands the First Amendment By Michael R. Graif Vincent Badolato Katherine Dearing In Vidal v. Elster, Case No. 22-704 (slip op.) (June 13, 2024), the U.S. Supreme Court issued its third decision in the last seven years...
22 May, 2024 English High Court Ruling: Wright Lied About Being Inventor of Bitcoin By David Knight In a post dated 26 March 2024 we reported on the English High Court case concerning the identity of the inventor of Bitcoin who goes by...
10 May, 2024 Supreme Court 6-3 Decision: Timely Copyright Claims Not Subject to 3-Year Damages Limitation By Michael R. Graif Jason Sobel In Warner Chappell Music, Inc. et al. v. Nealy et al. (2024), the U.S. Supreme Court held that music producer Sherman Nealy is not barred...
26 Mar, 2024 Who Is the Inventor of Bitcoin? We Do Not Know, We Do Now Know Who It Is Not. By David Knight The English High Court's intellectual property judgments are internationally well-regarded for their thoroughness and easy digestibility....
07 Mar, 2024 UK Supreme Court Rules Against Amazon By David Knight Yesterday, Wednesday 6 March, the U.K. Supreme Court released its judgment in the case Lifestyle Equities v Amazon. The case concerns...
20 Dec, 2023 UK Supreme Court: AI Cannot Be an Inventor By David Knight Although not entirely unexpected, the Dec. 20 decision by the United Kingdom Supreme Court on the so-called Device for the Autonomous...
04 Dec, 2023 English High Court Decision: AI Inventions are Patentable By David Knight The High Court of Justice in London recently issued a judgment on the question of whether or not an artificial intelligence invention...
29 Nov, 2023 IP Risks, Benefits and Ideal Use-Cases for AI: Best Practices When Drafting Generative AI Usage Policies By Harold Laidlaw As generative AI tools such as OpenAI’s ChatGPT and Dall-E, Meta’s Llama, and Anthropic’s Claude become ever more capable and more...
26 Jul, 2023 Do British Universities Treat Students Unfairly Over IP? By David Knight In a lengthy 174 page judgment issued two days before Christmas 2022, the High Court of Justice in London ruled on a dispute between...
27 Feb, 2023 Copyright Office Rules That AI-Generated Work Is Ineligible for Copyright: Lack of Predictable Output to Prompts Precludes Authorship By Harold Laidlaw The U.S. Copyright Office recently issued a decision, in a letter to counsel for artist Kristina Kashtanova, that the AI-generated images...
13 Feb, 2023 Jury Returns Verdict in MetaBirkin Case, Finding Infringement By Daniel Healy After roughly three days of deliberations, the jury in the Hermes International et al v. Rothschild found that the defendant had...
07 Feb, 2023 NFTs for the Sake of Art or Profit: What Will Matter for Trademark Infringement By Daniel Healy A current case thrusting NFTs (non-fungible tokens) into the forefront of trademark law involves a defendant arguing that his right to...
11 Jan, 2023 A Few Common Pitfalls for Startups to Avoid By Jared Sorin As attorneys for early stage and emerging growth companies, we often hear from entrepreneurs after they’ve realized that a mistake has...
20 Dec, 2022 An Arrow Through Declaratory Relief? By David Knight What can a business do if it wants to launch a product on the market but a competitor with patent application rights keeps evergreening...