Intellectual Property

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Latest News in Intellectual Property

  • April 03, 2026

    Squires Facing Congressional Rebuke? That Sounds Familiar.

    U.S. Patent and Trademark Office Director John Squires ​may look like he's running the agency quite differently from predecessor Kathi Vidal​, with near opposite policies on patent reviews, but a bipartisan group of lawmakers last month gave Squires the same chastising about exceeding the director's authority that it had given Vidal years before.

  • April 03, 2026

    YouTube Creators Say Amazon Scrapes Videos To Train AI

    A group of YouTube creators say Amazon.com Inc. has been scraping millions of copyrighted videos to feed, train and commercialize its text-to-video generative product by unlawfully circumventing the video platform's technological protection measures, in a proposed class action filed Friday in Seattle federal court.

  • April 03, 2026

    Club Foxy Lady Loses 9th Circ. TM Appeal Against Coffee Biz

    A Ninth Circuit panel rejected a Rhode Island strip club's bid for a default win in a suit accusing a Washington state bikini barista business of stealing its "Foxy Lady" trademark, ruling on Friday that the district court properly disposed of the case based on differences in the trademarks and distance between the customer markets.

  • April 03, 2026

    Prosecution Laches Case At High Court Gets Groups' Backing

    Inventor groups and practitioner associations got behind a man's U.S. Supreme Court case challenging a doctrine that can nullify a patent if an owner delayed prosecution, with one brief saying Friday the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office "created its own misery" when reviewing the man's claims.

  • April 03, 2026

    Social Justice Group Settles Domain Fight With Co-Founder

    A New York federal judge has agreed to dismiss a lawsuit from a social justice organization targeting police violence claiming that its co-founder seized internet domain names and used them to steal donations, after the parties again said they've settled their dispute.

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Intellectual Property

Areas of Coverage

  • LITIGATION
  • Infringement suits over patents, copyrights, and trademarks
  • Patent Trial and Appeal Board disputes
  • Abbreviated New Drug Application (ANDA) litigation
  • Section 301 cases
  • Trade secrets disputes
  • Licensing and royalty fights
  • Right-of-publicity suits
  • Antitrust disputes involving IP issues
  • AGENCIES
  • U.S. Patent and Trademark Office
  • U.S. Copyright Office
  • U.S. International Trade Commission
  • World Intellectual Property Organization
  • POLICY & REGULATION
  • Patent reform legislation and related bills in Congress
  • Efforts to streamline international intellectual property law
  • ENFORCEMENT
  • Piracy and counterfeiting actions
  • International trade disputes involving IP issues
  • PROFILES
  • Personnel moves
  • Profiles of IP practices

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  • Intellectual property lawyers at top law firms
  • Corporate counsel and compliance officers at Fortune 1000 companies
  • Executives and attorneys in the life sciences, technology, and other IP-focused industries
  • Information experts at law firms, agencies, and companies
  • Policymakers at federal and state agencies
  • Judges and court staff across the U.S.
  • Professors, students, and library staff at every accredited law school in the U.S.
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