Intellectual Property

Supreme Court nears cert decision in Lynk Labs v. Samsung. Here are ten Patently-O posts covering the secret springing prior art dispute in IPR. Continue reading this post on Patently-O.

California privacy law has entered a new phase. In Part Two of this two-part episode of The Briefing, Weintraub Tobin Partners Scott Hervey and Richard Buckley break down the CCPA’s new […]

Federal Circuit holds NHK-Fintiv is a general statement of policy exempt from APA notice-and-comment, confirming the Director’s unchecked IPR power. Continue reading this post on Patently-O.

Federal Circuit affirms $84.9M antitrust judgment in Ingevity v. BASF, reviving patent tying doctrine. Court finds carbon honeycombs are “staple goods” under § 271(c), outside the safe harbor for […]

Three Federal Circuit Section 101 decisions in one week show why pre-Alice software patents face persistent eligibility problems — and why prosecution history often can’t save them. Continue […]

A Property Law supplement connecting Pierson v. Post to patent, copyright, and trademark law—showing 1Ls how first possession frames all of IP. Continue reading this post on Patently-O.

Zirvi v. Akin Gump cert petition reveals how claim preclusion can bind inventors to judgments while courts deny any duty was owed to them. Continue reading this post on Patently-O.

Bell titled his 1876 patent “Improvement in Telegraphy” to avoid scrutiny. Today’s patent attorneys call it targeted drafting. The tools are better — the ethical problem is the same. Continue […]

California privacy law has entered a new phase. In Part One of this two-part episode of The Briefing, Weintraub Tobin Partners Scott Hervey and Richard Buckley breaks down California’s new CCPA […]

Federal Circuit holds § 1498 shields AeroVironment from patent suit over NASA’s Mars helicopter, rejecting SBIR inventors’ infringement claims. Continue reading this post on Patently-O.

Samsung and the SG want cert denied in Lynk Labs. Their ‘limited impact’ argument ignores how IPR actually works in high-tech patent disputes. Continue reading this post on Patently-O.

A new working paper proposes capping prior art combinations. I argue existing doctrine already has the tools, if applied with more discipline. Continue reading this post on Patently-O.

The Most Overlooked Mistake That Can Kill Your Company Before It Starts Most founders assume their company owns what it builds. It doesn’t, at least not automatically. Under U.S. law, the person […]

We previously covered the trademark lawsuit filed by Lost International against Lady Gaga over her use of “Mayhem” in connection with her album, tour, and related merchandise. Now the court has […]

Han van Meegeren, The Supper at Emmaus (1937) By Lauren Stein In 2014, the Swiss Fine Art Expert Institute (FAEI) estimated that up to 50% of all artwork circulating the market were either […]

It’s been a while since we had a proper digital property and virtual gold story here at Llama Towers, I have to admit that it’s been mostly AI for the last few years. But a recent decision in the […]

The Ninth Circuit kicked off 2026 with a major copyright decision in the long-running Top Gun dispute, affirming summary judgment for Paramount in the lawsuit over Top Gun: Maverick. In this episode […]

Text from my editorial in IIC. In courtrooms across the globe, a quiet crisis is brewing. As the number of artificial intelligence copyright litigations increases, judges are being asked to decide […]

Presidential Portraits Unveiled Feb. 12, 2018 and a Past Exhibition that Never Was. By Rebecca Bennett Nearly seven years in the making, mid-career retrospective of Amy Sherald’s works at the […]

Credit: Bayeux Museum By Josie Goettel A Rare Journey In a historic decision, the President of France, Emmanuel Macron, has authorized a loan of the Bayeux Tapestry from its place in the Bayeux […]

The year 2025 left the media and entertainment industry with a series of significant, unresolved legal questions. As we move into 2026, several high-profile cases are poised to redefine the […]

As 2025 fades into the rearview mirror, many of the entertainment and media industry’s biggest legal questions remain unresolved. In this episode of The Briefing, Weintraub Tobin partners Scott […]

By Shaila Gray In September of 2025, auction house Christie’s announced that they would be closing their digital art department after 3 years of operation. This move, said by the company to be “a […]

Amedeo Modigliani, Portrait of Leopold Zborowski (1917) By Vivianne Diaz On November 19, 2025, collector Charles C. Cahn Jr. sued Sotheby’s in the Supreme Court of New York, alleging breach of a […]

Your intellectual property is one of your company’s most valuable assets. Are you keeping track of it? In this episode of The Briefing, Weintraub Tobin Partners Scott Hervey and Tara […]

In this episode of The Briefing, Weintraub Tobin partners Scott Hervey and Matt Sugarman break down The New York Times v. Perplexity AI, a lawsuit that goes beyond copyright and into largely untested […]

Get into the holiday spirit with a look at some of the most unique Christmas patents ever filed. From Santa detectors to upside-down Christmas trees, Scott Hervey and Jamie Lincenberg explore […]

By Kamée Payton Charitable donations are integral to sustaining and expanding nonprofits, arts organizations, and cultural heritage institutions. With government funding decreasing and operational […]

By Afroditi Karatagli Museums and cultural institutions increasingly use the language of digital repatriation[1] – the idea that returning digital surrogates of cultural heritage objects to source […]

By Lauren Stein Amy Werbel’s Lust on Trial: Censorship and the Rise of American Obscenity in the Age of Anthony Comstock offers a compelling portrait of Anthony Comstock, America’s first […]

Following the recent decision in GEMA v OpenAI, and last year’s Kneschke v LAION, we now have two German courts grappling with the applicability of the text and data mining exceptions to AI […]

By Lauren Stein With reduction of government funding to the arts being an perennial issue, museums and other institutions rely on subscriptions for building up operating budgets. In the United […]

By Vivianne Diaz The art market’s existence rests on authentication.[1] “[T]he market for artworks and artifacts only functions if these objects have a proper attribution to a specific creator or […]

We’ve now had two recent decisions in the UK and Germany very close together that have dealt with AI and copyright. I won’t go in detail again on the rulings, you can read the previous posts […]

The Munich Regional Court has handed down its much-awaited decision in GEMA v OpenAI, and it is… a lot, and right on the back of the Getty Images High Court ruling. On the surface, this looks like […]

The much-awaited decision in the lawsuit between stock photography giant Getty Images and AI developer Stability AI has now been released, see: Getty Images v Stability AI [2025] EWHC 2863 (Ch) (HTML […]

It would be fair to say that we’re going through a period of realisation that social media may not have been such a good thing after all. The list of serious complaints continues to grow. Social […]

Recently, I had a marathon of old “sword and sorcery” movies; over a few days I watched films such as ‘Conan the Barbarian’, ‘The Neverending Story’, ‘Excalibur’, ‘Labyrinth’, […]