Intellectual Property Protection, Constitutional Challenges, Copyright

Copyright Office Firings Spark Constitutional Concerns Amid AI Policy Tensions

Seyfarth Shaw LLP on 6/27/2025

A day after announcing that “fair use” would not shield AI training models against potential copyright infringement, President Donald Trump fired Shira Perlmutter, Register of Copyrights, and her superior, Librarian of...more

A Cautionary Tale of One Independent Press’s Claim of Federal Copyright Protection

Dorsey & Whitney LLP on 10/26/2021

Earlier this summer, U.S. District Judge Amy Berman Jackson refused to buy plaintiff, Valancourt Books, LLC’s, claims that the Copyright Office of the United States unconstitutionally demanded books for free, when Judge...more

Cease and Desist Letters Need to Balance Effectiveness While Considering Consequences

Ladas & Parry LLP on 7/14/2021

Letters demanding that a company “cease and desist” what the sender of the letter deems an infringement of the sender’s intellectual property rights – whether patent, trademark or copyright – are communications primarily to...more

EU Copyright Directive: Further clarity on Art. 17 at EU level but also national concerns

Hogan Lovells on 4/16/2021

While further clarity on the Copyright in the Digital Single Market Directive (“DSM Directive”) can be expected at the European level in the next two weeks with the guidelines of the EU Commission on Art. 17 of the DSM...more

Intellectual Property Outlook: Cases and Trends to Follow in 2020 – Part 1

Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP on 1/20/2020

PART 1: IP ISSUES CURRENTLY PENDING BEFORE THE SUPREME COURT - In the first part of our series, we briefly summarize the intellectual property issues that the Supreme Court has already agreed to address in 2020. In...more

Congress Considers Creation of a “Copyright Claims Board” as an Alternative to Handle Small Copyright Claims

Mintz - Intellectual Property Viewpoints on 1/9/2020

On Tuesday, October 22, 2019, the US House of Representative approved, by 410-to-6, the Copyright Alternative in Small-Claims Enforcement (CASE) Act of 2019, introduced under H.R.2426 by Representative Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY)....more

Patent Law Update for Medical Device Companies 2018 (Presentation)

Knobbe Martens on 12/5/2018

Knobbe Martens Partners Paul Conover, Irfan Lateef, and Curtis Huffmire presented "Patent Law Update for Medical Device Companies 2018" at the MedTech Innovation Summit in San Francisco, CA on November 28, 2018. This session...more

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