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USPTO Announces New Assignment Search Portal

On August 27, 2025, the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office quietly announced that it would be deprecating its current Patent Assignment Search and Assignments on the Web assignment search portals and replacing them with a new...more

Death and Taxes Should not be Certainties for the Patent System

The Department of Commerce has floated a proposal to tax U.S. patent holdings as a means of reducing the national debt, as outlined in a recent Wall Street Journal article. It is a bad idea that reflects a troubling...more

Trump Administration Releases AI Action Plan

On July 23, 2025, the White House released Winning the AI Race: America’s AI Action Plan pursuant to Executive Order 14179 (January 23, 2025, “Removing Barriers to American Leadership in Artificial Intelligence”).  The Plan...more

Copywrong: Authors Miss the Mark(et Harm) when Arguing Meta Didn’t Engage in Fair Use

Weighing in just two days after Judge Alsup of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California issued his fair use summary judgment opinion in Bartz v. Anthropic, Judge Chhabria (also of the Northern District...more

Pirates of the Claudeibbean: Judge Alsup Splits the Baby on AI Fair Use

In one of the most consequential decisions to date involving generative artificial intelligence (genAI) and copyright law, Judge William Alsup of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California ruled that some...more

AI Roundup – California releases long-awaited AI report, U.N. survey finds AI is trusted most in low-income countries, Amazon CEO...

To help you stay on top of the latest news, our AI practice group has compiled a roundup of the developments we are following....more

AI News Roundup – Disney and Universal sue Midjourney for copyright infringement, EU considers pause on AI Act regulations, Google...

To help you stay on top of the latest news, our AI practice group has compiled a roundup of the developments we are following....more

Dancing with Abstract Ideas: Patent Eligibility in 2025

In June 2014, the U.S. Supreme Court handed down Alice Corp. v. CLS Bank Int'l, establishing a now-infamous two-step, judicially-imposed test for patent subject-matter eligibility that narrowed the broad statutory eligibility...more

AI News Roundup – UK government’s AI copyright plan suffers setback, Reddit sues Anthropic over unauthorized data use for AI...

To help you stay on top of the latest news, our AI practice group has compiled a roundup of the developments we are following....more

AI Hallucination in Legal Cases Remain a Problem

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

Microprocessor v. Abacus: The Fictional Patent-Eligibility Debate between a Patent Attorney and a Retired Supreme Court Justice

JUSTICE HÄAGEN-DAZS:  Imagine King Tut lounging outside his pyramid, surrounded by gold and bad financial instincts. He's handing out chits left and right, "Good for one unit of gold, redeemable later." He's got an abacus guy...more

The Weird Philosophies Adjacent to the AI Movement

Love it or hate it, artificial intelligence (AI) has ushered the world to an inflection point. The power of large language models (LLMs) is changing the structure of labor markets, education, informational gatekeeping, and...more

AI News Roundup – Anthropic releases Claude 4 models, Google announces new Gemini updates at I/O conference, OpenAI partners with...

To help you stay on top of the latest news, our AI practice group has compiled a roundup of the developments we are following....more

AI News Roundup – U.S. Congress mulls moratorium on state-level AI regulations, U.S. Copyright Office releases report on copyright...

To help you stay on top of the latest news, our AI practice group has compiled a roundup of the developments we are following....more

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