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Obligations relating to general-purpose artificial intelligence (“GPAI”) models under the EU AI Act enter into force on 2 August 2025. Ahead of this deadline, the European Commission (the “Commission”) has published a suite...more
In this episode of The Upper Brand, Richard Assmus, Kristine Young, and Christa Cole delve into key court cases that have shaped trademark law. They explore the intricacies of functional and generic trademarks, with insights...more
Creators, beware: just because it’s online doesn’t mean it’s fair game. In this episode of The Briefing, Scott Hervey and Richard Buckley break down one of the most misunderstood areas of copyright law—fair use. In this...more
The WSJ reports the Trump administration wants to charge patent holders 1% to 5% of their patent’s value to maintain the patent after grant. If implemented, this would mark a dramatic departure from the traditional flat-fee...more
On July 31, 2025, the acting Director of the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) published a memorandum making a significant change in Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) inter partes review (IPR) practice and...more
Reissue applications represent a very small fraction of the total number of applications filed at the USPTO each year. Indeed, at the midpoint of 2025, over 1.2 million utility applications have been filed, with less than 300...more
On July 24, 2025, the PTO Acting Director Coke Morgan Stewart discretionarily denied Amgen’s IPR2025-00601 and IPR2025-00602 challenging Bristol-Myers Squibb’s (“BMS”) U.S. Patent Nos. 9,856,320 (“the ’320 patent”) and...more
Imagine this. You were just served with a Complaint for patent infringement and learn that, some years ago, your competitor was granted a patent giving them a legal monopoly to exclude others, including you, from making,...more
Guidance for churches, dioceses, synagogues, mosques, and other faith communities to avoid exposure to common legal liabilities. Faith communities face many legal challenges common to for-profit businesses, along with a...more
On July 23, 2025, the White House unveiled its “Winning the Race: America’s AI Action Plan” (the “Plan”), a comprehensive roadmap outlining a series of policy goals and recommended policy actions intended “for near-term...more
Legal decisions, like fine wine, should be balanced. The Federal Circuit recently corked a non-precedential TTAB decision that ECHO D’ANGÉLUS was not confusingly similar to ECHO DE LYNCH BAGES, where both were used for wine,...more
Nature of the Case and Issue(s) Presented: The ’948 patent claims non-sterile drinkable liquid formulations of vancomycin, an antibiotic used to treat Clostridium difficile infection. These formulations are particularly...more
For decades, monolithic system-on-chip (“SoC”) designs defined the semiconductor landscape. Introduced in the 1970s and refined over several generations, SoCs allowed designers to integrate processors, memory controllers,...more
When a key engineer leaves for a competitor, they can take more than just experience, they may walk away with years of intellectual property hidden in code reviews, issue tickets, and chat threads. As ideas now flow across...more
Trademark infringement occurs when someone uses a mark that is confusingly similar to another party’s registered or common law trademark in connection with related goods or services. The key issue is whether consumers are...more
In one of the rare design cases before the CJEU, Advocate General Emiliou recently had the opportunity to clarify some fundamental requirements of protection for EU designs (Case C-323/24, Deity Shoes v Mundorama Confort and...more
In President Donald Trump’s lawsuit against journalist Robert Woodward arising from Woodward’s publication of audio recordings of Woodward’s interviews of Trump in 2019 and 2020, district court dismisses Trump’s second...more
District court denies rapper 50 Cent’s motion to preliminarily enjoin release of horror film Skill House, holding plaintiff failed to show likelihood of success, or even serious questions, on merits of his right of publicity...more
Building on the panel discussion at the 2025 Luxury Law Summit in London, Loeb Luxury Brands Chair Melanie Howard posed some additional questions to Nessa McGill, commercial director at Align Pictures and Loeb partner John...more
On 25 July 2025, K&L Gates secured an important win for its client, Midas Green Technologies, LLC. Acting USPTO Director Coke Morgan Stewart granted Director review and denied institution of an inter partes review (IPR)...more
One of the big differences between how most non-lawyers read a contract, and how most experienced transactional lawyers read a contract, has to do with the definitions....more
Effective 1 September 2025, all hearings before the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) will be conducted in person. Parties involved must attend these hearings physically and in person unless they can demonstrate a valid...more
IGT v. Zynga Inc., No. 2023-2262 (Fed. Cir. (PTAB) July 22, 2025). Opinion by Taranto, joined by Prost and Reyna. IGT owns a patent related to secured virtual networks in gaming environments. After the patent application was...more
The US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit reversed a Trademark Trial & Appeal Board decision, concluding that there was a likelihood of confusion between the marks KIST and SUNKIST when used in connection with soft...more