Copyright Office Report on AI Training and Fair Use
Can AI systems use copyrighted materials under the fair use doctrine?The fair use doctrine is a provision of copyright law that allows for limited usage of copyrighted material in certain…
Can AI systems use copyrighted materials under the fair use doctrine?The fair use doctrine is a provision of copyright law that allows for limited usage of copyrighted material in certain…
There are two types of patent protection in China: Invention patents, which are similar to utility patents in the US; and utility model patents (similar to petty or minor patents),…
This is a very weird case interpreting “consisting of”. The Federal Circuit recently affirmed a ruling of non-infringement in Azurity Pharmaceuticals v. Alkem Laboratories. Azurity had sued Alkem for allegedly…
In a recent ruling, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit upheld a decision by the Trademark Trial and Appeal Board (TTAB) to deny registration of the trademark…
The USPTO recently announced it had now removed over 50,000 goods and services from the trademark register. Using ex parte expungement and reexamination proceedings, the majority of the cancellations were…
Preliminary stuffMeans-plus-function claiming is a way of writing a patent that describes what something does, not how it does it. For example, describing a machine that opens a jar, rather…
For centuries, governments have tried to encourage innovation by offering inventors something valuable in return: ownership. The earliest forms of state-recognized intellectual property—like patents—were meant to reward people for coming…
A Patent’s Value Means Little Without the Means to Defend ItValuing a patent isn’t simple—methods like the cost, market, and income approaches are commonly used—but even a high-value patent may…
In the ever-evolving world of pharmaceutical patent law, a recent Federal Circuit decision offers some clarity on when a generic drug label might be considered to induce patent infringement. The…
In a closely watched decision, the Federal Circuit just made it clear: simply applying machine learning to a new domain—without improving the ML itself—won’t get you a patent.In Recentive Analytics,…