United States: Intellectual Property

As announced on the USPTO website, as of June 30, 2012, there will be a daily limit of $49,999.99 for credit card accounts, but no daily limit for debit card accounts.

Modern history can be broken into several periods of technological revolutions that developed in different regions throughout the world.

In April 2007, the Supreme Court’s decision in KSR Int’l v. Teleflex Inc. heralded an important potential shift in the law of obviousness.

On June 11, 2025, The Walt Disney Company and Universal Studios jointly filed a landmark federal lawsuit against Midjourney, an artificial intelligence...

The opening brief in a first-of-its-kind appeal of an AI copyright infringement case was recently filed, framing the issues that could result in legal precedent reshaping the AI industry.

In a recent issue of IP Litigator, Marshall Gerstein Partner and patent attorney Ryan Phelan explores two recent rulings that offer the first merit-based guidance on how "fair use" applies to large AI training...

The Really Simple Licensing Collective ("RSL Collective"), a nonprofit dedicated to creating collective licensing solutions for content creators and publishers, has announced Really Simple Licensing ("RSL"), a new standard designed to stop crawlers from scraping websites for content without permission or compensation. If adopted, RSL could have major implications for both online platforms and the AI technologies that source content for training data from them.

On September 23, the Massachusetts Division of Banks finalized amendments to the Small Loans Law, the Truth in Lending Act, and the Mortgage Lender and Broker Licensing Law.

The health care community made an unexpected appearance at the 2025 Emmys! This week's BL Business Branding newsletter takes a pulse...

On September 26, 2025 The Appeals Review Panel ("ARP") of the Patent Trial and Appeal Board ("Board") issued a decision in Ex parte Desjardins et al., related to U.S. Patent Application No. 16/319,040...

I'm pleasantly surprised by the decision in Ex parte Desjardins, Appeal 2024-000567, Application No. 16/319,040 (U.S. PTO Appeals Review Panel Sept. 26, 2025). I'll be watching closely to see how this decision is integrated into the USPTO's existing §101 guidance.

The Federal Circuit recently issued a nonprecedential order denying IOENGINE, LLC's petition for panel rehearing and rehearing en banc in in Ingenico Inc. v. IOENGINE, LLC (No. 2023-1367).