Lombard & Geliebter LLP

08/12/2024

Third-parties are talking about Friday's decision...

Findings of fraud by the TTAB are rarer than a White Sox fan in Boston. The last fraud ruling was tossed out by the CAFC (Chutter) because Section 14 of the Lanham Act, which lists the bases for cancellation of a registration, does not include fraud committed in connection with a Section 15 incontes...

08/09/2024

Lombard & Geliebter’s Mathew Lombard & Eric Huang just won a precedential TTAB decision on all three grounds for cancellation: likelihood of confusion, non-use, and fraud. Currently, a fraud claim is a rare win at the TTAB. Congratulations to Matt and Eric!

05/02/2024

05/02/2024

03/08/2024

AI is global, and copyright laws are national. Thus, some countries will have strict laws on making copies of copyrighted content to “train” an AI system while others will be more relaxed.... AI companies will use these jurisdictional differences as leverage to lobby for the relaxation of legal ...

01/12/2024

The .gov means it’s official. Federal government websites often end in .gov or .mil. Before sharing sensitive information, make sure you’re on a federal government site.

12/29/2023

Steamboat Willie, created by Walt Disney, to enter public domain after 95 years – taking earliest Minnie with him

08/30/2023

USPTO issues further guidance on domicile addresses in trademark applications United States Patent and Trademark Office sent this bulletin at 08/30/2023 09:14 AM EDT Having trouble viewing this email? View it as a Web page. Trademark Alert USPTO issues further guidance on domicile addresses in trade...

08/21/2023

A federal judge has agreed with US government officials that a piece of artificial intelligence-generated art isn't eligible for copyright protection in the country since there was no human authorship involved. “Copyright has never stretched so far [...] as to protect works generated by new forms of technology operating absent any guiding human hand, as plaintiff urges here,” Judge Beryl Howell of the US District Court for the District of Columbia wrote in the ruling, which The Hollywood Reporter obtained. “Human authorship is a bedrock requirement of copyright.”

A federal judge has agreed with US government officials that a piece of artificial intelligence-generated art isn't eligible for copyright protection in the country since there was no human authorship involved..

04/18/2023

"Jack Daniel’s loves dogs and appreciates a good joke as much as anyone," its lawyer says, but this is not only uncalled for, it's illegal.