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AI Copyright Bill Thrills Artists. Developers Call It Unworkable

A bill to require generative AI developers to disclose when they train their models on copyrighted works raises major logistical issues to go along with raging legal questions.

US Says China Moves Too Slow on Protecting Intellectual Property

The Biden administration called on China to improve its protections of intellectual property, saying that the pace of Beijing’s reforms remains too slow.

‘Black-ish’ Spinoff Suit Tossed By California Appeals Court

Actor Tracee Ellis Ross and the producers of the “Black-ish” spinoff “Mixed-ish” convinced a California appeals court to toss a suit from comedian Hayley Marie Norman, alleging that “Mixed-ish” took Norman’s idea for a TV show about growing up biracial in the suburbs without compensating her.

Lyft’s $1 Million Legal Fees Bid Sinks in California Patent Suit

Lyft Inc.’s patent-related settlement with Quartz Auto Technologies LLC blocks the rideshare company from receiving over $1 million in attorneys’ fees in its declaratory judgment action, a California federal judge ruled.

TikTok Partly Defeats Trade Secrets, Copyright Lawsuit—For Now

TikTok Inc. won partial dismissal of copyright infringement and trade secret claims brought by a company that alleged an ex-employee took its source code before leaving to work at the short-video social-media company.

AI Trained on Famed Authors’ Copyrighted Work. They Want Revenge – Part 2

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GSK Sues Pfizer, BioNTech for Share of Billions in Vaccine Sales

GlaxoSmithKline filed a federal lawsuit seeking to recoup a share of the tens of billions of dollars in revenue Pfizer and BioNTech have reported from sales of their Covid-19 vaccines, which GSK alleges infringe five patents related to mRNA vaccine technology.

ChatGPT and Generative AI Are Hits! Can Copyright Law Stop Them?

Could America's intellectual property laws spell doom for the burgeoning field of generative AI? This video explores the brewing battle over copyright and artificial intelligence.

AI Trained on Famed Authors’ Copyrighted Work. They Want Revenge – Part 2

AI Trained on Famed Authors’ Copyrighted Work. They Want Revenge – Part 1

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Justices Broach President’s Self-Pardon Power at Trump Argument

The US Supreme Court has never addressed whether a president has the power to pardon themselves and that unanswered question was one that loomed over proceedings in Donald Trump’s appeal for immunity from criminal prosecution over his efforts to overturn the 2020 election.

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Case: Patents/Claim Construction (C.D. Cal.)

The court construed the disputed claim terms “simultaneously hinged” and “no extra height when folding,” in an individual’s action against Vivosun Inc. for infringement of a patent for a trailer with no extra height when folding, as having their plain and ordinary meanings. Zhang v. Vivosun Inc., 2024 BL 140935, C.D. Cal., ED CV22-01947 JAK (RAOx), 4/23/24

Case: Patents/Stay (D. Mass.)

The court granted Toast Inc.'s motion to stay Gratuity Solutions LLC and Gratuity LLC’s patent infringement and breach of contract action, pending the issuance of a final written decision by the PTAB in inter partes review. Gratuity Sols. LLC v. Toast Inc., 2024 BL 140622, D. Mass., 1:22-cv-11539-JEK, 4/24/24

Case: Patents/Attorneys’ Fees (N.D. Cal.)

The court denied Lyft Inc.'s motion for attorneys’ fees in its action against Quartz Auto Technologies LLC, seeking a declaratory judgment of non-infringement of several patents, as its order of partial dismissal bars Lyft from seeking fees. Lyft Inc. v. Quartz Auto Techs. LLC, 2024 BL 138612, N.D. Cal., 21-cv-01871-JST, 4/23/24