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Within the same week, two judges in the Northern District of California issued groundbreaking summary judgment rulings regarding whether an artificial intelligence company’s scraping and ingestion of copyrighted works to...more
Welcome to WilmerHale’s bulletin on recent trade secret case law and relevant news items. We’ve affectionately nicknamed it “Readily Ascertainable” because, unlike a trade secret, it should be easy to figure out....more
The Tenth Circuit recently upheld an Oklahoma District Court’s summary judgment ruling in favor of a trade secret defendant based on insufficient specificity as to the trade secrets at issue, as well as a lack of proper...more
The US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit affirmed a district court’s finding of noninfringement, concluding that the patent owner had improperly raised a claim construction issue for the first time on appeal – an...more
Until two weeks ago, no U.S. court had ruled on whether training generative AI models on copyrighted works could constitute a fair use, or if the simple act of training such models without a license would constitute copyright...more
In two recent Northern District of California decisions, AI companies prevailed on a fair use defense after being accused of infringing copyrights in works used to train AI models. The decisions, on their face, seem to...more
Two Northern District of California courts handed down decisions last week in two key copyright lawsuits that challenged the use of copyrighted print and digital books in training the large language models (LLMs) that are at...more
Kadrey v. Meta! On the merits! A doozy of a summary judgment opinion in form and substance. "The devil is in the details," but even for non-lawyers, at least the first five pages are a must-read - there are almost no legal...more
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
In a significant development for the field of artificial intelligence and copyright law, the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California has issued a ruling in a case brought by a group of authors against AI...more
In the second landmark decision this week relating to whether use of copyrighted content for training generative AI qualifies as a fair use, Judge Chhabria, in the federal court for the Northern District of California,...more
Just two days after Judge Alsup issued his fair use decision in Bartz v. Anthropic, Judge Chhabria of the Northern District of California granted summary judgment for Meta Platforms in an AI copyright infringement suit. Judge...more
On June 23, 2025, Judge Alsup issued a much-anticipated summary judgment ruling in a copyright case brought by a group of authors seeking to challenge Anthropic’s alleged copying of millions of books in connection with...more
The Copyright Act does not expressly address the protection of individual characters in expressive works, but courts have long recognized that certain characters, particularly those with strong visual or narrative identities,...more
Mitek Systems Inc. v. United Services Automobile Association, Appeal No. 2023-1687 (Fed. Cir. June 12, 2025) In our Case of the Week, the Federal Circuit examined the limits of declaratory judgment jurisdiction for a...more
Your Package Could Not Be Delivered – District of Delaware Strikes Electronic Storage Room Claims as Patent Ineligible - Judge Choe-Groves of the United States Court of International Trade granted Defendant’s Motion to...more
Mr. Storms, an individual with significant experience with Bitcoin mining, is the founder and sole employee of BearBox LLC. Mr. McNamara and Dr. Cline co-founded Lancium in November 2017 with the intention of co-locating...more
On April 22, 2025, the Tenth Circuit affirmed summary judgment in favor of a sales manager and his new employer on claims under the Defend Trade Secrets Act (“DTSA”), the Oklahoma Uniform Trade Secrets Act (“OUTSA”), and...more
The Tenth Circuit’s recent decision in Double Eagle Alloys, Inc. v. Hooper, __F.4th __ (10th Cir. Apr. 22, 2025), provides a cautionary tale regarding the necessity of identifying trade secrets with particularity and...more
The US Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit affirmed a district court’s grant of summary judgment in favor of the defendants for the plaintiff’s failure to identify the trade secrets at issue with sufficient particularity....more
The US Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit upheld a district court’s grant of summary judgment in favor of the defendants, finding that the plaintiff failed to identify a trade secret and presented no evidence of its use...more
In its recent decision in Pets Gifts USA v. Imagine This Company, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit emphasized that while parties may wish to file an appeal, their desires are always subject to the strict...more
On March 31, 2025, Judge Oetken granted summary judgment for Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. and certain of its subsidiaries (“Samsung”) in an infringement suit brought against it by Dynamics Inc. (“Dynamics”). Dynamics Inc v....more