A number of individual consumers have filed suit against Apple, Inc. in California and New Jersey courts, piggybacking on the U.S. Department of Justice’s (DOJ’s) March 21 complaint accusing ...
https://ipwatchdog.com/2024/03/27/consumers-target-apple-doj-antitrust/id=174690/
After a year-long process involving 38 state organizations and dozens of individual representatives, IP rights has been selected as the topic for the 2024-2025 debate competition by The National ...
https://ipwatchdog.com/2024/03/25/ip-rights-national-high-school-debate-topic-2024-2025/id=174545/
The U.S. Chamber of Commerce today announced it is partnering with entrepreneurs and other business advocates to counter threats to innovation due to “excessive government overreach,” includi...
https://ipwatchdog.com/2024/03/20/coalition-aims-combat-biden-march-proposal-ip-threats/id=174507/
On March 13, the European Parliament approved the Artificial Intelligence (AI) Act, a major piece of legislation that lays the legal foundation of the European Union’s (EU) regulation of AI pla...
The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) today issued a Request for Comments (RFC) that will be published in the Federal Register tomorrow seeking input from the public on how to better incen...
Artificial Intelligence (AI) stands at the forefront of innovation, transforming industries and shaping the future of global economies. Although AI innovators understand the value of intellectual...
In an opposition brief filed Monday, The New York Times Company (The Times) told a New York district court that OpenAI’s late February claim that The Times “paid someone to hack OpenAI’s pr...
https://ipwatchdog.com/2024/03/12/new-york-times-hits-back-openais-hacking-claims/id=174263/
The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) announced Monday that it has created an Office of Public Engagement (OPE) “to advance the agency’s mission of increasing participation in the inn...
https://ipwatchdog.com/2024/03/12/uspto-launches-office-public-engagement/id=174232/
As of today, the world’s major platforms—Apple, Alphabet, Meta, Amazon, Microsoft and ByteDance—must be in full compliance with the European Union’s Digital Markets Act (DMA), an EU regul...
https://ipwatchdog.com/2024/03/07/dma-impact-unclear-deadline-gatekeeper-compliance/id=174083/
Panelists on day one of IPWatchdog’s Artificial Intelligence Masters 2024 program painted a sometimes-grim picture of the current state of generative AI (GAI) tools and the ways in which they a...
As an update to my previous posts from 2017, 2019, 2020, March 2021, August 2021, 2022, and 2023, it has now been almost a decade since the U.S. Supreme Court’s 2014 Alice Corp. v. CLS Bank de...
On February 20, 2024, a Brazilian congress member, Antônio Luiz Rodrigues Mano Júnior (known as Júnior Mano), introduced a bill to amend the national IP Statute (Law #9,279/96) and regulate th...
https://ipwatchdog.com/2024/02/29/brazilian-lawmaker-introduces-bill-allow-ai-inventor/id=173809/
ChatGPT and similar generative artificial intelligence (AI) tools rely on large language models (LLMs). LLMs are fed massive amounts of content, such as text, music, photographs and film, which t...
On February 22, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce’s Global Innovation Policy Center (GIPC) released the 2024 International IP Index, which provides an annual snapshot of the impact of legal developm...
A bipartisan group of 28 members of congress, including Senate IP Subcommittee Chair Chris Coons (D-DE), Ranking Member Thom Tillis (R-NC) and House IP Subcommittee Chair Darrell Issa (R-CA), sen...