The OpenAI logo on a laptop computer arranged in the Brooklyn borough of New York, US, on Thursday, Jan. 12, 2023. Microsoft Corp. is in discussions to invest as much as $10 billion in OpenAI, the creator of viral artificial intelligence bot ChatGPT, according to people familiar with its plans. Photographer: Gabby Jones/Bloomberg

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The US Chamber of Commerce urged the Federal Circuit to narrow where owners of patents covering multi-step inventions can bring infringement suits.

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Michigan congressional candidate Shelby Campbell asked a federal judge to throw out claims that she and her campaign are infringing The Campbell’s Co.‘s trade dress to promote her election.

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A former director at a US military contractor that sells computer vulnerabilities pleaded guilty on Wednesday to stealing and reselling $35 million in trade secrets to a Russian cyber-tools broker whose clients include the Russian government.

Trump Patent Chief Requires Party Disclosures for Validity Cases

US Patent and Trademark Office Director John Squires issued a memo Tuesday that now requires petitioners challenging the validity of patents to identify all financially interested parties before the challenges are instituted.

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Character.AI Age Limit Sparks Doubt It Will Solve Chatbot Issues

Character.AI’s announcement that it will ban users under 18 from conversing with chatbots is generating questions about the company’s planned age verification process and potentially broader chatbot harms, even as child safety advocates praised the move.

Boies Schiller, Cooper & Kirk Team Up With Republican Florida AG

Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier (R) is pushing to be one of the nation’s most aggressive GOP top cops. And he’s leaning on outside counsel, including a firm founded by a Democratic megadonor, to launch suits against tech giants and corporate titans.

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Case: Copyrights/Pleadings (S.D.N.Y.)

The court denied Open AI Inc.'s motion to dismiss this consolidated copyright infringement class action by authors and copyright holders of fiction and non-fiction books, because the allegations satisfy the elements of a prima facie claim of infringement. In re OpenAI Inc. Copyright Infringement Litig., 2025 BL 384824, S.D.N.Y., 25-md-3143 (SHS) (OTW), 10/27/25

Case: Copyrights/Summary Judgment (N.D. Ohio)

The court denied Flowers Inc. and Springhill Floral & Gift Supply Co.'s cross-motions for summary judgment on this action for copyright infringement of Flowers Inc.'s visual designs, because neither party established the absence of a genuine dispute of material fact. Flowers Inc. v. Springhill Floral & Gift Supply Co., 2025 BL 384233, N.D. Ohio, 5:24-cv-590, 10/27/25

Case: Patents/Venue (Fed. Cir.)

The court denied Miller Mendel Inc.'s petition for a writ of mandamus directing a federal district court in California to transfer Guardian Alliance Technologies Inc.'s action seeking a declaratory judgment of patent unenforceability and invalidity to Oklahoma. In re Miller Mendel Inc., 2025 BL 385788, Fed. Cir., 2025-147, nonprecedential, 10/28/25

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