Intellectual Property

by Dennis Crouch The Federal Circuit is now confronting a second major mandamus petition challenging the USPTO’s major changes with regard to its approach to discretionary denials in inter partes […]

Today the Federal Circuit is hearing oral arguments in Google v. Sonos on the doctrine of prosecution laches. The panel is interesting and has the potential of resulting in a pro-Google decision.  […]

by Dennis Crouch The Federal Circuit’s decision in Janssen v. Teva narrows the scope of the overlapping-range presumption of obviousness, holding that when a patent claim involves an integrated, […]

by Dennis Crouch The upcoming Supreme Court petition in Lynk Labs, Inc. v. Samsung Electronics Co., 125 F.4th 1120 (Fed. Cir. 2025), presents more than just another dispute about inter partes review […]

It’s been a busy few weeks in the AI and copyright beat, and while I’ve been following all of the developments closely, I haven’t had the time to react to everything in the blog. However, with […]

Guest post by Paul R. Gugliuzza & Jacob S. Sherkow An important recent development in pharmaceutical patent law is the Federal Circuit’s embrace of a theory we call, in a forthcoming article, […]

by Dennis Crouch Egenera, Inc. v. Cisco Sys., Inc., No. 2023-1428, slip op. (Fed. Cir. July 7, 2025) During claim construction proceedings, The patentee Egenera and defendant Cisco disputed several […]

by Dennis Crouch The pending Radian Memory case could fundamentally reshape patent litigation.  This is a follow-on article about the preliminary injunction motion in Radian Memory v. Samsung […]

by Dennis Crouch Acting Director Coke Morgan Stewart has been incredibly active in reshaping the PTAB’s approach to IPR discretionary denials.  This post focuses on her newly implemented “settled […]

by Dennis Crouch This post digs into the pending mandamus action In re SAP.  In the case, SAP raises a constitutional challenge to Director Stewart’s aggressive discretionary denial approach — as a […]

by Dennis Crouch This week the Supreme Court granted certiorari in Cox Communications, Inc. v. Sony Music Entertainment, No. 24-171, while denying the competing petition in Sony Music Entertainment […]

In a spectacular development in the AI wars, Disney and several studios have sued the AI image-generating company Midjourney for copyright infringement (complaint here). To say that this has […]

Most people who have been paying attention to the copyright and AI debate in Europe have been expecting that at some point the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) would be tasked with […]

Something curious has been occurring in the world of digital rights. Openness, once one of the cornerstones of Internet culture, has lost its shine. There used to be a time in which everything was […]

I was recently trying to buy a train ticket using a Web platform which shall remain nameless for obvious reasons. I have been using the site for years to buy train tickets in advance, and while it […]

A common theme here at Llama Towers is to talk about our changing relationship with the Internet as a whole, and with social media specifically. I was both an early adopter of the Web and discussion […]

I’m currently on sabbatical finishing a couple of papers, and I wanted to find a figure for a footnote. How many daily users are there for generative AI apps? Simple question, but it turns out that […]

If you were online between March 25 and March 26, your timeline may have been flooded with a barrage of AI-generated images, a large number of which would have been existing photographs recreated […]