Introduction On May 5, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit issued a precedential decision in Great Bowery Inc. v. Consequence Sound LLC, a copyright case that involved a district court’s summary judgment ruling against the plaintiff on the ground of lack of standing. Concluding that “the district court’s understanding of copyright law […]
Inventors have a limited amount of time to file a patent application, after which they will be forever barred from pursuing patent protection. On April 14, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit issued its decision in Definitive Holdings v. Powerteq, which affirmed the district court’s grant of summary judgment of patent invalidity. […]
On November 28, the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) issued a notice titled Revised Inventorship Guidance for AI-Assisted Inventions (“the Revised Guidance”), expressly rescinding its original guidance on that subject published in February of 2024 (“the Original Guidance”). As previously discussed, the Original Guidance followed case law holding that artificial intelligence (AI) cannot […]
The IP Legacy of “Roundball Rock” and the Enduring Power of Creative Ownership With the regular NBA season beginning on October 21, and an announcement by NBCUniversal earlier this year that, beginning in October 2025, it would once again play John Tesh’s “Roundball Rock” in conjunction with its broadcasts of NBA games, the time could not […]