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First Machine Learning Patent Ruling: Invalid or Just Obvious?
On April 18, 2025, the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit (CAFC) ruled in Recentive Analytics Inc. v. Fox Corp. et al. that new uses for established machine learning do not make the claims patent-eligible.
Recentive Alleges Fox’s Infringement...
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When Man Beats Machine: The Latest in Artificial Intelligence and Copyright
Summer must be coming, because the courts are starting to heat up with copyright decisions in artificial intelligence (AI) cases.
We’ve previously written here, here, and here
about Dr. Stephen Thaler’s attempts to register copyright in “A Recent Ent...
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That’s Not Fair! Fair Use Defense Denied for AI Training Materials
“A smart man knows when he is right; a wise man knows when he is wrong. Wisdom does not always find me, so I try to embrace it when it does—even if it comes late, as it did here.”
It’s not common for a federal judge to make such an admission, but tha...
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Navigating the Legal Risks of AI: Intellectual Property and Privacy Considerations
This article was originally published in the February 7 issue of the Portland Business Journal.
While Artificial Intelligence (AI) is a current hot topic, it is far from new. Most current focus on AI has been on generative AI or “gen AI,” which power...
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What’s It All About, AI?
AI is everywhere. And, no, I do not mean in a “Skynet is coming,” or “Big Brother is here,” kind of way. I mean everywhere you look. Stories abound about the oddities that result from using generative AI. In one story, a car dealership’s chatbot offe...
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Client Alert: Watch Out for Deepfakes
Technology is awesome when it works. We depend on it for so many things that, when it doesn’t work as expected, it can cause major problems for businesses. The latest technology that can be used for both good and evil is artificial intelligence (AI)....
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