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12.22.21
A primer: IP enforcement before the International Trade...
The volume of new intellectual property complaints and ancillary proceedings before the International Trade Commission (ITC or Commission) has doubled in the past 15 years.
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11.16.21
Up in smoke: ITC institutes investigation of cartridges used to...
The ITC remains a popular venue for intellectual property infringement disputes, and the vaping industry has taken note. The ITC’s investigation is based on a complaint filed by Shenzhen Smoore Technology Limited of China (Smoore) alleging a violation of Section 337 in the unlawful importation and/or sale in the U.S. of certain oil-vaping cartridges, components thereof, and products containing the same by reason of patent and trademark infringement.
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11.01.21
U.S. Supreme Court to consider fabric design copyright case
The U.S. Supreme Court will hear arguments in a five-year-long copyright dispute between fashion retailer H&M and textile manufacturer Unicolors. The outcome will determine what consequences a registrant faces when it fails to provide accurate information on its copyright application.
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09.15.21
Pathways to cannabis brand protection in New York State
Despite recreational adult-use cannabis being legalized in New York, only cannabidiol, or CBD from hemp, is legal at the federal level. Moreover, the updates to the 2018 Farm Bill left an opening for the FDA to continue to regulate CBD products that are ingestible or medicinal. Therefore, cannabis brand owners remain precluded from seeking federal trademark protection, even if their products are legal at the state level.
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08.10.21
South Africa and Australia break from U.S. and U.K. to give...
The questions of whether artificial intelligence machines (AI) should be afforded intellectual property rights and whether AI machines can qualify as an inventor continue to be explored. Recently South Africa became the first country to grant a patent for an invention conceived by AI, and Australia became the first country to have a federal judge rule that inventions developed by AI can quality for patent protection.
Category Artificial Intelligence
08.05.21
Protecting artificial intelligence in the age of DeFi
The fast-growing field of decentralized finance (DeFi) employs many artificial intelligence (AI) technologies. However, certain traditional techniques for protecting intellectual property (IP) around AI are unsuitable for some decentralized, blockchain-based technologies. Nevertheless, clever solutions can be employed to protect the IP of such technologies. Thus, it is important for a business to consider and identify its sources of competitive advantage as early as possible.
Category Artificial Intelligence
03.02.21
The Nixon Peabody 2021 partner class tells us about their lives inside and out of the firm.
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12.02.20
Game On: Legal issues in the esports industry
Highlights from Nixon Peabody's 2020 Esports & Gaming Symposium
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