Intellectual Property

The Oracle-Google copyright dispute is headed to SCOTUS.

The bipartisan Inventors Rights Act was introduced in the House, which would give new rights to inventors who own their patents.

SCOTUS held that the Patent & Trademark Office can’t demand attorneys fees from litigants.

The Patent and Trademark Office issued new guidance to its patent examiners, including guidance on the patentability of abstract ideas.

The Senate Subcommittee on IP held a hearing on the STRONGER Patents Act. Reviews were mixed.

Tesla claims that an employee who stole manufacturing trade secrets caused $167M in damages.

U.S. Patent & Trademark Office wants your thoughts on how AI inventions will impact IP rights.

More patent stuff: An analysis of Section 101 eligibility cases in the five years since Alice.

Ariana Grande sued Forever 21. One of her claims is that, after she rejected an endorsement offer from Forever 21, the company hired a lookalike model that mimicked Grande’s hairstyle, clothing, hair accessories, and poses.

The Eleventh Circuit did its part to curb the flood of TCPA claims when it held that, while “annoying, perhaps,” receiving one unsolicited text does not give you standing to sue.