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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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The Particularities of Trade Secret Identification
It is not uncommon for employers to discover that a departing employee has downloaded information before walking out the door. But the mere fact that an employee downloaded information does not necessarily mean the employee—or his or her new employer...
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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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Washington State Seeks to Ban Noncompetes Altogether
With the Federal Trade Commission’s proposed nationwide ban on noncompetes seemingly dead, states continue to march forward with their own regulation of such agreements. Washington’s current law bans noncompetes for employees making less than a...
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Disney Prevails in ‘Moana’ Copyright Case: Lessons for Creators
On March 10, 2025, a federal jury delivered a verdict in favor of Disney in a closely watched copyright infringement lawsuit. In Buck G. Woodall v. The Walt Disney Co., et al., screenwriter and animator Buck Woodall claimed that Disney's 2016 blockbu...
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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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