Ip news and trends

Adobe’s New AI Video Creator Tackles Copyright Concerns
artificial intelligence // October 20, 2024

Adobe is rolling out a new artificial intelligence (AI)-powered video creation tool designed to help businesses generate custom content while sidestepping potential legal issues surrounding copyright infringement.  As companies adopt AI in their content strategies, Adobe’s latest offering stands out for its use of licensed...

Nvidia and Microsoft Face Lawsuit Alleging AI Chip-Related Patent Infringement
Legal // September 05, 2024

Nvidia, Microsoft and patent risk management company RPX are facing a lawsuit accusing them of “rampant” patent infringement and antitrust law violations. The suit was filed Thursday (Sept. 5) in a Waco, Texas, federal court by Xockets, Reuters reported Thursday. In the lawsuit, Xockets alleged that the companies...

AI Can’t Patent Inventions, UK Supreme Court Rules
Artificial Intelligence // December 20, 2023

The British court has ruled that a scientist cannot patent inventions created by an AI. The ruling by the U.K. Supreme Court is a “landmark” decision in the U.K. about whether artificial intelligence (AI) can own patent rights, Reuters reported Wednesday (Dec. 20). According to the report,...

This Week in AI: Regulatory Ramp Up and Industry Innovations 
artificial intelligence // November 03, 2023

Another week, another explosion of news generated by generative artificial intelligence (AI). Technological innovations form the core of cultural transformations that have immediate and startling implications and impacts across nearly every facet of daily life, from politics to education to business and media. And we...

Interviews & Exclusives
An IP Expert Deconstructs Artificial Intelligence’s Right to Create

July 21, 2023
Generative artificial intelligence (AI) capabilities are transforming the world. But will their ability to generate fabricated video, audio and text-based content based on copyrighted material in real time run up against a brick wall of preexisting laws? Or does something have to give? After all, individuals and organizations with questionable intent have been spoofing and […]

iOffer Putting A Dent In The $1.5T Counterfeit Goods Business

March 22, 2019
In the U.S. and worldwide, counterfeiting is a large, lucrative business worth between $1.2 trillion and $1.5 trillion annually, according to the International AntiCounterfeiting Coalition (IACC). Fake fashion items and...

The Payments Ide(a)s Of March

March 16, 2017
Mid-March has typically heralded change in the world. Just ask the Romans or the blizzard watchers of 2017, beset by snow where green shoots should have budded. And change is a blowin’...

Innovation Project Has Arrived

March 15, 2017
The big day has finally arrived — no thanks to Mother Nature, who decided to throw a disruption of her own at the year’s biggest celebration of innovation in the shape...

Quick Reads
Perplexity Aims to Form Revenue-Sharing Partnerships With News Publishers

October 23, 2024
Perplexity CEO Aravind Srinivas reportedly said Wednesday (Oct. 23) that he was surprised by a lawsuit filed Monday (Oct. 21) by two News Corp-owned publishers and that he was interested in a “proper commercial discussion.” Speaking at WSJ Tech Live two days after Perplexity was sued by The Wall Street Journal (WSJ) parent company Dow […]

Nvidia and Microsoft Face Lawsuit Alleging AI Chip-Related Patent Infringement

September 05, 2024
Nvidia, Microsoft and patent risk management company RPX are facing a lawsuit accusing them of “rampant” patent infringement and antitrust law violations. The suit was filed Thursday (Sept. 5) in a Waco,...

AI Can’t Patent Inventions, UK Supreme Court Rules

December 20, 2023
The British court has ruled that a scientist cannot patent inventions created by an AI. The ruling by the U.K. Supreme Court is a “landmark” decision in the U.K. about whether artificial...

Ruling: AI-Created Artwork Can’t Be Copyrighted

August 20, 2023
A federal judge has ruled that artwork created by artificial intelligence (AI) can’t be copyrighted. As The Verge reported Friday (Aug. 18), the ruling from U.S. District Court Judge Beryl A....