Intellectual Property

News and Commentary For the past couple months, the USPTO has been debating how to treat the "inventions" of AI programs.  That problem suddenly became less theoretical. Pete Buttigieg has [...]

Rent Check Daniel Takash authored a blog post rebutting a recent article by Robert VerBruggen in National Review about the implications for the future of copyright litigation under the CASE Act.   News [...]

The Copyright Alternatives in Small-Claims Enforcement Act (CASE Act) has cleared both the House and Senate Judiciary Committees, and it now heads to the floor of both chambers for a [...]

News and Commentary A district judge has approved the National Music Publisher's Association's (NMPA) request to file a copyright complaint against exercise start up company Peloton, which claims $300 million [...]

News and Commentary  Intellectual Asset Management published an article detailing how counting the number of patents to measure the quality of a patent portfolio is a misleading procedure for valuing [...]

News and Commentary Last week the Senate Judiciary Committee’s Subcommittee on Intellectual Property convened a hearing titled Innovation in America: How Congress Can Make Our Patent System STRONGER, focusing on the STRONGER patents [...]

News and Commentary The CASE Act risks dragging people to court for small-time or inadvertent copyright infringement.  This policy could not affect the real problems of corporate or foreign piracy [...]

  Rent Check A new blog post examines the recent copyright disputes involving Katy Perry and Led Zeppelin.  If successful, these suits threaten to tie up the entire industry in expensive [...]

The $2.8 million in damages that Katy Perry and those involved in the production of the song “Dark Horse” must pay to the Christian rapper Marcus Gray (AKA Flame) for [...]

Rent Check Senators Rick Scott (R-FL) and Chris Van Hollen's (D-MD) We PAID Act, which would prevent patented drugs financed in part by government research from exceeding the price needed [...]