Chief Judge Bashant’s amended summary-judgment order in The Upper Deck Co. v. Pixels.com draws a clean line through Section 230 for print-on-demand platforms: when Pixels acts as a website operator displaying and indexing user-uploaded images, Section 230 immunizes it; when Pixels acts as the
Chief Judge Bashant’s amended summary-judgment order in The Upper Deck Co. v. Pixels.com draws a clean line through Section 230 for print-on-demand platforms: when Pixels acts as a website operator displaying and indexing user-uploaded images, Section 230 immunizes it; when Pixels acts as the
Case: Amazon.com Services LLC v. Perplexity AI, Inc., No. 25-cv-09514-MMC (N.D. Cal. Mar. 9, 2026) Court: U.S. District Court for […]
Case: Amazon.com Services LLC v. Perplexity AI, Inc., No. 25-cv-09514-MMC (N.D. Cal. Mar. 9, 2026) Court: U.S. District Court for […]
A Northern District of California judge dismissed two of three trademark infringement claims against AI startup Glean Technologies, finding that the plaintiff’s own registrations showed later first-use dates than the defendant’s alleged first use, while preserving the oldest mark with 20
A Northern District of California judge dismissed two of three trademark infringement claims against AI startup Glean Technologies, finding that the plaintiff’s own registrations showed later first-use dates than the defendant’s alleged first use, while preserving the oldest mark with 20
A federal court denied Krisp Technologies’ motion for judgment on the pleadings, finding that Sanas.AI’s patents on real-time accent conversion using machine learning claim specific technical improvements rather than abstract ideas, distinguishing them from mere digital format conversion
A federal court denied Krisp Technologies’ motion for judgment on the pleadings, finding that Sanas.AI’s patents on real-time accent conversion using machine learning claim specific technical improvements rather than abstract ideas, distinguishing them from mere digital format conversion
A federal jury in Seattle returned a $152,093 verdict for Valve and against inventor Leigh Rothschild and his patent-licensing entities — finding violations of the Washington Patent Troll Prevention Act, the Washington Consumer Protection Act, and a 2016 patent licensing settlement. It is, according
A Seattle federal jury returned a verdict for Valve Corporation on every count, finding inventor Leigh Rothschild and his affiliated entities and counsel violated Washington’s Patent Troll Prevention Act, breached a 2016 settlement and license, and that the asserted patent claim was obvious —
A federal jury in Seattle returned a $152,093 verdict for Valve and against inventor Leigh Rothschild and his patent-licensing entities — finding violations of the Washington Patent Troll Prevention Act, the Washington Consumer Protection Act, and a 2016 patent licensing settlement. It is, according
A Seattle federal jury returned a verdict for Valve Corporation on every count, finding inventor Leigh Rothschild and his affiliated entities and counsel violated Washington’s Patent Troll Prevention Act, breached a 2016 settlement and license, and that the asserted patent claim was obvious —
Judge Stein dismissed Ziff Davis’s DMCA Section 1201 anti-circumvention claim against OpenAI, holding that a robots.txt file is not a technological measure that ‘effectively controls access’ to a copyrighted work and that ignoring it does not constitute circumvention.
Judge Stein dismissed Ziff Davis’s DMCA Section 1201 anti-circumvention claim against OpenAI, holding that a robots.txt file is not a technological measure that ‘effectively controls access’ to a copyrighted work and that ignoring it does not constitute circumvention.
An Eastern District of New York judge denied Bemmo’s motion to dismiss Ridge Wallet’s patent infringement and trade dress claims, holding that claim construction disputes are premature at the pleading stage and that Ridge Wallet adequately alleged secondary meaning and non-functionality
An Eastern District of New York judge denied Bemmo’s motion to dismiss Ridge Wallet’s patent infringement and trade dress claims, holding that claim construction disputes are premature at the pleading stage and that Ridge Wallet adequately alleged secondary meaning and non-functionality
Judge Vince Chhabria ruled that Meta’s use of copyrighted books to train its Llama large language model constitutes fair use, finding the purpose highly transformative and rejecting plaintiffs’ market-harm theory—though he flagged a “market dilution” theory that, if properly argued, might have succe
A Florida federal court denied most of Character.AI and Google’s motions to dismiss in a wrongful-death suit over a teenager’s interactions with an AI chatbot, allowing products-liability, negligence, FDUTPA, and aiding-and-abetting claims to proceed.
A Florida federal court denied most of Character.AI and Google’s motions to dismiss in a wrongful-death suit over a teenager’s interactions with an AI chatbot, allowing products-liability, negligence, FDUTPA, and aiding-and-abetting claims to proceed.
Judge Stein largely denied Microsoft and OpenAI’s motion to dismiss the New York Times’s landmark copyright suit over GPT training, allowing contributory infringement, federal trademark dilution, and certain DMCA Section 1202(b)(1) CMI-removal claims to proceed.
Judge Stein largely denied Microsoft and OpenAI’s motion to dismiss the New York Times’s landmark copyright suit over GPT training, allowing contributory infringement, federal trademark dilution, and certain DMCA Section 1202(b)(1) CMI-removal claims to proceed.
A Delaware federal court held that Ross Intelligence’s use of Westlaw headnotes to train its AI legal research tool was not fair use — the first major U.S. court decision to find that AI training on copyrighted material for a directly competing product is direct copyright infringement.