Intellectual Property Law and Copyright Laws

Intellectual property (IP) enforcement at the border is a critical aspect of global trade, helping prevent the import and export of infringing goods. As one of the world's largest trading nations, China has developed a comprehensive customs enforcement system.

The United States Patent and Trademark Office ("USPTO") has begun implementing changes to inter partes review ("IPR") proceedings which would decrease both the availability of such proceedings...

Artificial intelligence (AI) is rapidly changing the way people create and invent. The applicable intellectual property laws and procedures are working to keep up with this advancing technology. Intellectual property laws and rules focus on human creativity. Generative AI produces results that are not directly programmed, but trained.

Gray-market goods, also known as parallel imports, are genuine products imported into the United States without the consent of the US trademark owner...

The U.S. Department of Commerce's Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS) recently released a new final rule effectively rescinding almost all of a Biden-era interim...

Golden Eye Technologies LLC, a Harfang IP Investment Corp plaintiff, has sued Cisco (2:25-cv-00898) over the provision of a wide array of networking products and related "components, software, services, and processes"...

The Delaware Superior Court, applying Delaware law, has held that an insured adequately stated a claim for breach of contract because a trade secret constitutes "non-public information,"...

On August 26, 2025, in NRA Group, LLC v. Durenleau et al., the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit addressed two legal questions: (1) whether workplace policy infractions can turn into federal crimes, and (2) whether passwords protecting propriety business information qualify as trade secrets under federal or Pennsylvania law.

Last week, the Eastern District of New York ("Court") refused to dismiss PleasrDAO's trade secret claims against Martin Shkreli, finding that Wu-Tang Clan's exclusive, unreleased album...

Artificial intelligence (AI) is rapidly changing the way people create and invent. The applicable intellectual property laws and procedures are working to keep up with this advancing technology. Intellectual property laws and rules focus on human creativity. Generative AI produces results that are not directly programmed, but trained.

Artificial Intelligence & Intellectual Property—a Practising Law Institute (PLI) treatise authored and edited by Ballard Spahr attorneys—provides "insights that can guide future legal reasoning, policymaking, and practical decision-making" at the intersection of AI and the various branches of IP.

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