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…
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/ Constitutional Law, Intellectual Property, Taxation
Inexorable, inevitable, and regrettable are three words that come to mind with publication from the Report from Special Committee of the Federal Circuit (composed of Chief Judge Moore and Judges Prost and Taranto)…
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/ Administrative Law, Constitutional Law
While the precedent set by Recentive Analytics, Inc. v. Fox Corp.[1] presents a formidable challenge, it does not represent a complete foreclosure of patent protection for machine learning inventions. The court’s opinion, though…
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/ Intellectual Property, Science, Computers, & Technology
To help you stay on top of the latest news, our AI practice group has compiled a roundup of the developments we are following…
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/ Administrative Law, Intellectual Property, Privacy, Science, Computers, & Technology
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…
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/ International Law & Trade, Science, Computers, & Technology
Generative AI tools are poised to transform legal practice and offer unique challenges and opportunities, particularly in patent law. Modern large language model (LLM)-based tools enable faster, more efficient document drafting,…
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/ Intellectual Property, Law Practice Products & Services, Science, Computers, & Technology
The doctrine of equivalents (DOE), a creation of the Supreme Court in Graver Tank & Mfg. v. Linde Air Products (1950), is balanced by the concept of prosecution history estoppel (PHE), the contours of which were delineated over…
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/ Intellectual Property, Science, Computers, & Technology
In previous Snippets articles and AI News Roundups, we introduced the current lawsuits between the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) and two of the largest generative AI music companies, Suno and Udio. To recap,…
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/ Art, Entertainment, & Sports Law, Intellectual Property, Science, Computers, & Technology
As AI applications rapidly expand within our society, a debate has intensified over how to best regulate AI development and use. Recently, regulations relating to AI have been mainly introduced at the state and local level, with…
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/ Administrative Law, Constitutional Law, Science, Computers, & Technology
To help you stay on top of the latest news, our AI practice group has compiled a roundup of the developments we are following…
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/ International Law & Trade, Privacy, Science, Computers, & Technology
Received wisdom is that inter partes review proceedings are limited to prior art as defined by patents and printed publications. But in recently decided Shockwave Medical, Inc. v. Cardiovascular Systems, Inc., another prior art…
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/ Health, Intellectual Property
To help you stay on top of the latest news, our AI practice group has compiled a roundup of the developments we are following…
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/ Privacy, International Law & Trade, Science, Computers, & Technology
In 2018, Congress enacted the “National Quantum Initiative Act.” This act set out goals and priorities for the next 10 years, and more importantly, funding for the next five years to accelerate quantum technology in the United…
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/ Energy & Utilities, International Law & Trade, Science, Computers, & Technology
The landscape of patent law for artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) innovations has become fraught with uncertainty. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit's precedential opinion in Recentive…
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/ Intellectual Property, Science, Computers, & Technology
To help you stay on top of the latest news, our AI practice group has compiled a roundup of the developments we are following…
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/ Communications & Media Law, Intellectual Property, Science, Computers, & Technology
