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The past few weeks have seen a flurry of activity in the legislature and the courts relating to Artificial Intelligence (“AI”). Since the founding of our nation, there has been ongoing debate about whether legal matters...more
Earlier this week, the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Texas joined a number of other federal district courts that have challenged, narrowed, or simply rejected the applicability of the “server test,”...more
Oklahoma has now joined many other states creating specialty business courts to handle complex business litigation. Senate Bill 632 creates two new specialized business courts, which will be located in Oklahoma County and...more
The Court of Justice of the European Union ("CJEU") issued a landmark decision on February 25, 2025, in the case of BSH Hausgeräte GmbH v. Electrolux AB. The ruling extends the jurisdiction of EU courts to adjudicate...more
In a copyright case, the US Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit determined that the district court had jurisdiction over two Chinese companies that consented to jurisdiction in any judicial district in which a third-party...more
Surinamese sprinter Issamade Asinga sued the Gatorade Company on Wednesday, alleging his recent doping ban was the result of eating contaminated “recovery gummies” that the brand manufactured and provided....more
The following is a review of notable cases and regulatory developments for nonprofit organizations at the federal and state levels during the last two years....more
Maintaining your anonymous status when you are a John Doe defendant in a strike 3 holding porn litigation just got a bit trickier, at least in the 3rd Circuit. In this jurisdiction, a defendant may have to prove to the...more
The U.S. District Court for the Western District of North Carolina rejected several claims brought by Design Gaps, Inc. a Charlotte custom cabinetry company against a former employee and a competitor. Design Gaps, Inc. v....more
In part one of this article, we discussed the challenges artists face as they seek to protect their intellectual property from generative AI using copyright law. In part two, we explore a legal approach that may be more...more
Welcome to the September edition of Akin Intelligence. As the U.S. Congress reconvenes after the August recess, we continue to see bipartisan interest in artificial intelligence (AI) regulation. In the executive branch,...more
On July 17, 2023, in Hunley v. Instagram, LLC, No. 22-15293, the Ninth Circuit reaffirmed the "server test," which protects websites from copyright liability for embedding images that are hosted on another website's server....more
If you are being sued (or pursued) for copyright infringement, you will likely get a demand letter from a copyright law firm informing you that you have "willfully infringed" their clients software. They might also point out...more
In a decision that continues a trend of courts recognizing expansive jurisdiction over persons and entities engaging in intellectual property infringement through the internet, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit...more
Copyright owners now have another venue for enforcing copyrights: the Copyright Claims Board (CCB). Established by the Copyright Alternative in Small-Claims Enforcement Act of 2020 (CASE Act), the CCB aims to provide...more
[co-author: Ivy Attenborough, Summer Associate] Thank you for reading the June 2022 issue of Sterne Kessler's MarkIt to Market® newsletter. This month, we discuss the differences between Copyright Claims Board and federal...more
Holders of IP rights, including patents, copyrights, trademarks, and trade secrets, have traditionally filed IP-related disputes in court, and there’s no question that court litigation will continue to be the most popular...more
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
The March 2021 issue of Sterne Kessler's MarkIt to Market® newsletter discusses fair use cases for photographs and three recent developments in the cannabis space. We also highlight recent accolades earned by Sterne Kessler's...more
Cloud computing has increasingly become a dominant model for computer and information technology service, with the majority of businesses worldwide using computing resources and storing data “in the cloud.” However, despite...more
In recent years, commentators have discussed patent venue ad nasuem in the run-up to and following the Supreme Court’s 2017 decision in TC Heartland. In a nutshell: after TC Heartland restricted the circumstances under which...more
In a decision dated 23 September 2020 (Case No. 2-06 O 335/19), the Frankfurt Regional Court ordered the former Italian Minister of the Interior, Matteo Salvini, at the request of Mission Lifeline crew member Friedhold...more
...Think your company and its employees are beyond the reach of U.S. authorities? Maybe you don’t have U.S. operations there, or your company isn’t publicly traded on a U.S. stock exchange. Perhaps you don’t directly sell or...more
The US Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit dismissed claims against a recording artist and music publishing company for, finding that the court lacked personal jurisdiction over one of the accused artists, a UK resident,...more
The Southern District of New York declined to decide arbitrability questions after the arbitration agreement at issue incorporated the rules of the American Arbitration Association, which include a rule that arbitrators...more