intellectual-property

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit (CAFC) issued a decision today in Viavi Solutions Inc. v. Platinum Optics Technology Inc., affirming a Northern District of California ruling that awarded attorney’s fees to Platinum Optics Technology Inc. (PTOT) after finding Viavi Solutions Inc. litigated its patent infringement claims in a manner that met the standard for an "exceptional" case …

The dispute before the Delhi High Court concerns the alleged imitation of HAVELLS by the Defendants through their use of HAVAI on identical electrical goods. The Plaintiffs, Havells India Limited and Ors., allege that the Defendants, Havai Home Products Pvt. Ltd. and Ors., deliberately adopted a similar stylisation, device marks, colour scheme and overall trade...

In a previous article, the authors showed that Chinese courts ask a different question than U.S. courts — not whether the inventor possessed what is recited in the claim, but whether the scope of the claim matches the Technical Solution that the invention actually contributed to the advance of the art. This difference in underlying premise leads to one conclusion: a U.S.-style specification needs…

Aunshuman Pramanik ABSTRACT Intellectual Property rights are exclusive in nature. So, all the authors have right to exclude others, enjoy monopoly and claim copyright in their work. Similarly, each co-author can claim copyright over the joint work. Based upon the contributions and other factors co-authors can claim copyright over the joint works. This paper deals how to apportion or identify the …

The DOJ supports OpenAI in the NYT lawsuit, arguing AI training is fair use. Learn about the implications for copyright, media, and AI innovation. The post US Government Backs OpenAI in Landmark AI Copyright Battle appeared first on SourceTrail .

# Identity Physics™, Applied Identity Physics™, and the SNSFT™ Corpus: Statement of Common Law Trademark Rights, Copyright Ownership, and Notice of Enforcement Authority **Rights Holder:** HIGHTISTIC™ (Russell Vernon Trent III), Sole Inventor, Author, and Rights Holder of Record **Institutional Owner and Enforcement Authority:** SNSFT Foundation, EIN 42-2038440, a nonprofit institutional entity r…

This week in Other Barks & Bites: a House IP Subcommittee hearing on restoring the USPTO’s fee-setting authority turns heated over the original intention behind the America Invents Act; the Eleventh Circuit affirms a permanent injunction and trademark cancellation in an infringement case brought by the maker of “Wolf”-brand electric scooters; the United States scores high marks across 33 economic…

Kanta Krishna, B.A. LL.B., NMIMS Kiri P. Mehta School of Law Tanvi Mehta, B.A LL.B., NMIMS Kiri P. Mehta School of Law ABSTRACT Antitrust laws and intellectual property rights have often been perceived as conflicting, due to their opposing objectives. On one hand, antitrust laws aim to limit concentration of economic power and foster fair competition. Whereas, IPR laws grant exclusivity to furthe…

Asst. Prof. K. Panneerselvam, Government Law College, Vellore ABSTRACT The emergence of generative artificial intelligence (AI) systems capable of producing text, images, music, and code has destabilized the foundational assumptions of copyright law, which has historically presumed a human author as the source of original expression. This paper critically examines the authorship and ownership pro…

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit (CAFC) issued a decision today in Biofer S.p.A. v. Vifor (International) AG affirming a judgment of non-infringement by the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York in favor of Swiss Pharmaceutical company, Vifor (International) AG. The dispute centered on the construction of a claimed pH range recited in a patent covering a proces…

Yesterday, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit issued a ruling in Vieth v. MOM Enterprises, LLC affirming the Patent Trial and Appeal Board’s (PTAB) invalidation of Elaine and Dr. Reinhold Veith’s patent claims to methods of administering vitamin D to human beings. The Federal Circuit agreed that most of the claim construction and prior art arguments raised by the Vieths on appeal w…

JAKA is now taking legal action against Teradyne Robotics to end public dissemination of statements it considers "false, misleading and damaging." The post JAKA hits Teradyne Robotics back over patent dispute appeared first on The Robot Report .

Canadian Lawyer released its 2026 list of the Top 25 Most Influential Lawyers in Canada yesterday and I am grateful to be included. This is the fourth time I have appeared on the list, but the first since 2013, when the issues of the day were copyright reform and usage-based billing rather than artificial intelligence and online harms. It is a particular pleasure to be joined by my colleague Amy …

_International Review of Intellectual Property and Competition Law (IIC)_. forthcomingCopyright law's treatment of artificial intelligence is usually read as a narrow technical puzzle: may a machine-generated work be registered, and if so, in whose name? This article argues that the puzzle is more consequential than that framing suggests. Across the Berne Convention, United States, European Union…

Court will decide broader issues concerning publicity rights, particularly “over-broad” prayers involving defamation or satire.