One would think an artificial intelligence company would be sensitized to the risk of AI hallucination in legal citations. One would be wrong. In Concord Music Group, Inc. v. Anthropic PBC, Magistrate Judge Susan Van Keulen...more
6/5/2025
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Generative artificial intelligence (genAI) company OpenAI recently published its “approach to patents,” which includes what might appear to be a promise not to assert its own patents against other parties except in...more
Following in the footsteps of the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office and the state bars of California, Florida, New Jersey, New York, and Pennsylvania, the American Bar Association has weighed in on attorneys' ethical use of...more
8/20/2024
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Like OpenAI before it, Microsoft has sought to dismiss portions of the lawsuit the New York Times has brought against it over ChatGPT. While raising some of the same arguments, Microsoft takes a more traditional path with...more
3/8/2024
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In response to the lawsuit the New York Times has filed against it, OpenAI has sought to dismiss portions of the complaint. But instead of filing a traditional motion to dismiss that argues that the allegations of the...more
3/6/2024
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In a 6-3 decision rendered earlier on June 10, 2019, the Supreme Court decided that federal agencies are not “persons” who can petition for post-issuance review of patents under the America Invents Act (AIA). Thus, the...more
Two cases this year have demonstrated that, although trade secret protections have become better aligned with protecting high tech trade secrets, there is still a long way to go. First, in Waymo v. Uber, the hard-fought...more
Supplemental Examination: Potential Benefits vs. Guaranteed Risks -
The America Invents Act of 2011 introduced supplemental examination of patents as a post-grant process intended to limit expensive and unpredictable...more
9/16/2016
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In 2009, Sergey Aleynikov was a computer programmer employed by Goldman Sachs to write high-frequency trading code. He accepted an offer to join a new Chicago-based company, Teza Technologies. Before he left Goldman Sachs,...more
9/15/2015
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