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States are beginning to test whether they can fill a gap left by federal copyright and patent law for works created with artificial intelligence, with Arkansas adopting a first-of-its-kind ownership rule for generative content and lawmakers elsewhere weighing their own proposals.
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May 15, 2026
A healthcare services company and the former senior executive it accused of disclosing confidential information and trade secrets reached a settlement, dismissing the case less than two months after the company filed its complaint, according to a joint stipulation for dismissal filed Friday in Colorado federal court.
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May 15, 2026
A California federal judge said Friday she's inclined to deny Meta Platforms Inc.'s summary judgment bid on an Illinois resident's claims Meta violated the Prairie State's Biometric Information Privacy Act by obtaining her voice recordings from Facebook and Messenger platforms, saying there's enough evidence to establish a material factual dispute.
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May 15, 2026
A New York federal judge said he would not grant a favorable judgment or a new trial to the owner of a location tracking patent who accused Google of infringement, saying the owner had not raised any arguments that would merit disturbing the finding that he acted with intent to deceive the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office.
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May 15, 2026
The operator of Infowars says bankrupt broadcaster Alex Jones has a legal right to "freely compete" with his former outlet, telling a Texas appeals court the website shut down because a court-appointed receiver failed to pay a third-party streaming service, not because Jones absconded with its property.
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May 15, 2026
A Texas federal jury said that a decorative hardware company owes more than $9.4 million for infringing a series of patents relating to electrical outlet cover plates that include other functions like LED lights and USB chargers.
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May 15, 2026
Elon Musk's company, X.AI LLC, has asked the Ninth Circuit to overturn a California court's refusal to block a state law that requires artificial intelligence developers to publicly disclose details about their training data, saying the judge's decision was "flawed from top to bottom."
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May 15, 2026
The past week in London has seen singer Rita Ora be sued by her management company, the billionaire Gertner brothers file a part 8 claim and Stephenson Harwood lodge a debt claim against a member of the Bulgari jewelry dynasty. Here, Law360 looks at these and other new claims in the U.K.
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May 15, 2026
A California federal judge has freed camera giant GoPro from owing $8.2 million for infringing a claim in a video technology patent owned by Contour IP Holding LLC, finding that the claim was invalid.
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May 15, 2026
Kilpatrick Townsend & Stockton LLP has expanded its patent litigation team in San Francisco with the addition of two partners from Reed Smith LLP.
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May 15, 2026
Two workout equipment companies have settled a case over a patent covering dumbbells after a Federal Circuit panel undid a lower court's decision finding the patent to be invalid for being directed at an abstract idea.
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May 14, 2026
Asked to justify a massive $187.5 million attorney fee request in litigation accusing Anthropic of copyright infringement, counsel for the plaintiff class of authors told a California federal judge Thursday that the resulting $1.5 billion settlement was "the creation of class counsel."
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May 14, 2026
U.S. Patent and Trademark Office Director John A. Squires issued a precedential decision Thursday outlining the principles underlying his discretion in instituting America Invents Act reviews, emphasizing that Congress intended such reviews to be an alternative to costly and lengthy litigation.
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May 14, 2026
A California state jury has hit the CEO of a sobriety app with a $4.5 million verdict over claims he made a false child abuse report against the mother of his child, a Los Angeles intellectual property attorney, in a bid to secure child support and full custody, according to the counsel for the mother.
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May 14, 2026
U.S. Patent and Trademark Office Director John Squires has reversed earlier decisions granting five petitions for patent review, citing what he called the challengers' inconsistent positions in parallel proceedings and explaining that four petitions he denied in previous bulk orders were also rejected for the same reasons.
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May 14, 2026
U.S. Patent and Trademark Office Director John Squires has de-instituted a Patent Trial and Appeal Board review after National Steel Car Ltd. disclaimed the only parts of its patent the board thought could be invalid, saying they should "be treated as though they never existed."
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May 14, 2026
A Delaware federal judge on Thursday found that GoDaddy had not willfully infringed two website patents held by Express Mobile Inc., thus sparing the company a verdict greater than the $170 million a jury found but still assessing prejudgment and postjudgment interest.
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May 14, 2026
Apple Inc. has abandoned its request to transfer Fintiv Inc.'s trade secret theft and racketeering lawsuit from Georgia to Texas, citing U.S. District Judge Alan Albright's decision to leave the bench in the Western District of Texas.
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May 14, 2026
A U.S. House committee Thursday unanimously advanced a bill that would change how the Copyright Office chief is selected, requiring congressional leaders to recommend candidates while allowing the president to make the final selection — a shift that would give both branches of government a more direct role in choosing the agency's leadership.
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May 14, 2026
The Federal Circuit said Thursday it won't take up Columbia University's request for it to reconsider a portion of a panel decision by the appellate court that discarded a nine-figure patent judgment against the maker of Norton antivirus software.
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May 14, 2026
The Federal Circuit on Thursday rejected an Israeli inventor's attempts to revive claims in a trio of patents covering adaptive headlights, handing wins to German automakers Mercedes-Benz, Volkswagen and Porsche.
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May 14, 2026
OpenAI is urging a California federal judge to overturn a preliminary injunction barring the company from using "IO" as a trademark for AI hardware, arguing it has abandoned all federal applications for the mark and has no plans to use it.
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May 14, 2026
United Rentals Inc. on Thursday asked a Connecticut federal judge to approve a permanent injunction blocking a former North Carolina salesperson from working for a competitor within 100 miles of United's Raleigh branch office through mid-January 2027, ending a 4-month-old noncompete suit.
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May 14, 2026
Drug buyers urged a Massachusetts federal jury on Thursday to find that Takeda Pharmaceuticals conspired with another drugmaker to keep a generic version of anticonstipation drug Amitiza off the market in order to boost its own profits.
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May 14, 2026
U.S. Patent and Trademark Office Director John Squires has terminated reviews of three data processing patents challenged by Advanced Micro Devices Inc. after finding AMD violated a stipulation to limit its invalidity arguments in court.
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May 14, 2026
An Illinois federal judge has denied oncological research company BeiGene's request to escape claims from AbbVie Inc. that it poached a retired scientist to obtain trade secrets related to a certain chemical compound, saying BeiGene failed to back up its arguments.