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The Federal Circuit on Wednesday refused to revive claims in four mapping patents that Google sought to have reexamined after being hit with federal infringement litigation over a decade ago, backing the Patent Trial and Appeal Board's obviousness findings that were made on remand from the appellate court.
Sullivan & Cromwell LLP has deepened the strength of its intellectual property bench with the addition of a former director of the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office and a former Federal Circuit judge, adding a wealth of experience to teams on both the East and West coasts.
Stand-up comedian Sarah Silverman and a duo of authors have slapped artificial intelligence makers OpenAI and Meta Platforms with copyright suits in California federal court over their AI products ChatGPT and LLaMA, respectively, adding to a flurry of recent infringement litigation over AI's use of protected works.
A California federal judge has rebuffed a bid by Costco and other big-box retailers to toss a fabric company's copyright suit over a purportedly poached floral print, finding that the fabric designer had adequately pled infringement at this stage of litigation.
In a precedential opinion, the Federal Circuit has upheld the Patent Trial and Appeal Board's decision to invalidate part of a Medytox patent on a treatment for smoothing out wrinkles, supporting claim construction determinations and disagreeing that the board violated Medytox's due process rights under an amendment-related pilot program.