Intellectual Property Law and Copyright Laws

Companies have built business models around identifying and pursuing copyright infringement claims at scale.

The tech world is abuzz with Bartz v. Anthropic—the largest reported settlement in a copyright infringement lawsuit to date.

Plaintiff Vincent Ambrosetti sued defendants Bernadette Farrell and Oregon Catholic Press, alleging that Farrell copied his liturgical work...

Per a Federal Register Notice the Trademark Trial and Appeal Board's (TTAB) institution orders now set a 60-day response time to file an answer or acceptable response to a complaint, which is an increase from the 40 days that was previously allotted

This week's BL Business Branding Newsletter takes a sip of the latest trademark drama in the food-and-beverage world.

The Federal Circuit reversed the Trademark Trial and Appeal Board's ("TTAB") dismissal of an opposition because the TTAB's conclusion that the marks were dissimilar was not based on substantial evidence and because lack of actual consumer confusion was insufficient to outweigh other factors suggesting that confusion was likely.

After years of preparation and a decidedly rocky start to ICANN’s New gTLD Program due to a glitch in the gTLD application system, the applications are in, and ICANN will soon begin evaluating the TLD candidates.

Over the past decade, pundits have predicted that new companies harnessing the internet and related electronic devices would bring about the end of the record industry, print newspapers, and brick-and-mortar bookstores.

The Internet is about to become a much bigger and more complex place for trademark owners.

Anthropic, a leading developer of artificial intelligence large language models (LLMs), has reached a settlement in a closely watched dispute with a class of authors and publishers who alleged...

The life sciences industry continues to evolve rapidly, driven by technological advancements, shifting economic conditions, and global market dynamics.

On July 9, 2025, the European Parliament's Committee on Legal Affairs ("JURI") published a study examining how generative artificial intelligence ("AI") interacts with European Union copyright law.