Previously, courts have required trade secret plaintiffs to identify their trade secrets with particularity before the defendants were required to respond to any discovery requests. In practice, no matter how…
Text and data mining (TDM) is basically grabbing lots of data from the internet. From that data, large language models and AI extract patterns and can generate text.Accessing large amounts…
The Doctrine of Equivalents is a legal principle in U.S. patent law that allows a court to find infringement even when the accused product or process does not literally fall within the…
The PTO had suspended expedited examinations of design applications back on April 17, 2025, but has issued a final rule to eliminate them altogether, as part of effort “to combat…
The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) just rolled out a new “late-filing penalty” for continuation applications that come in six or nine years after the earliest priority date in…
In a twist that sounds like science fiction, researchers in Xi’an, China have taken artificial intelligence designed to find tumors in brain scans and taught it to forecast the weather—fast.…
If you’ve ever wondered whether the law treats an NFT like a Beanie Baby, a baseball card, or just a bunch of ones and zeros, the Ninth Circuit just gave…
The USPTO issued a memorandum on Aug 2, 2025 to help examiners assess subject matter eligibility in software-related inventions, especially those involving AI and machine learning. The memo does not…
For years, China’s business environment has been a bit like the Wild West—only with more knockoffs, keyword hijacking, and fake online reviews than a shady eBay seller convention. If you…
Patent law has its own version of “close enough,” called the Doctrine of Equivalents (DOE). It says that even if a product or method doesn’t match the exact words of…