Getty Images opened its landmark copyright infringement case against Stability AI Monday by accusing the technology company of building its generative AI model on millions of images with "complete indifference" for underlying intellectual property protections.
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Getty's 'Day Of Reckoning' Begins As Stability AI Trial Opens

By Alex Baldwin

Getty Images opened its landmark copyright infringement case against Stability AI Monday by accusing the technology company of building its generative AI model on millions of images with "complete indifference" for underlying intellectual property protections.

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Orange Loses TM Protections For Physical Products

By Tabitha Burbidge

French telecoms giant Orange has lost some of the rights covered by its "Orange" trademarks after U.K. officials agreed with a Romanian businessman that the signs for physical goods could literally describe the products as having an orange color.

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Researcher Can't Get UK Patent For Colon Cancer Treatment

By Jamie Lennox

U.K. intellectual property officials have rejected a researcher's application for a patent covering a colon cancer treatment, ruling that it isn't sufficiently new over one of her own earlier publications.

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Australian Beauty Biz Can't Register 'XTendlash' Mascara TM

By Tabitha Burbidge

A cosmetics company based in Sydney, Australia, has lost its attempt to register the trademark "Xtendlash" for mascara, after European trademark officials found that "extend" and "lash" was a direct description of the purpose of the eye makeup product.

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Music Co. Fails To Secure Piano Key TM In EU

By Jamie Lennox

A musical instrument retailer has lost its quest for a trademark over a logo that depicts five piano keys, failing to convince European Union officials that the mark is distinctive enough to identify its goods.

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