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1 week ago | news.bloombergtax.com | Aruni Soni |Adam Taylor |Kartikay Mehrotra

Publishing groups and law professors defended authors suing Meta Platforms Inc. over its generative AI training process, in a number of friend-of-the-court briefs. In separate amicus curiae briefs filed April 11, copyright law professors; the International Association of Scientific, Technical and Medical Publishers; Copyright Alliance; and Association of American Publishers said Meta’s use of thousands of pirated books can’t qualify as fair use under copyright law.

1 week ago | news.bloombergtax.com | Lauren Castle |Adam Taylor

T-Mobile US Inc. defeated General Access Solutions Ltd.’s patent-infringement lawsuit over 4G and 5G network technology. T-Mobile didn’t infringe US Patent Nos. 6,947,477 and 7,099,383, according to a jury verdict filed Friday in the US District Court for the Eastern District of Texas. The jury also determined, though, that T-Mobile didn’t prove the patents are invalid. A T-Mobile spokesperson said in an email the company is pleased with the jury’s verdict.

2 weeks ago | news.bloombergtax.com | Kyle Jahner |Adam Taylor |James Arkin

Months after a law governing Cuba-confiscated trademarks was enacted to address a dispute over an iconic rum brand, a fight over a beer trademark exposed uncertainty a federal judge is being pressed to clarify. The No Stolen Trademarks Honored in America Act, enacted in December, bars enforcement of any trademarks of companies taken over by the communist government after the 1959 revolution unless the original owner or a successor approves.

1 month ago | news.bloombergtax.com | Michael W. Shapiro |Adam Taylor

Houston-based patent attorney Bill Ramey was sanctioned Monday by a federal judge for his conduct in an unsuccessful infringement suit against Google LLC. Magistrate Judge Valerie Figueredo of the US District Court for the Southern District of New York chastised Ramey and found him responsible for filing an exceptionally weak patent suit and then failing to dismiss it after being alerted to its deficiencies by lawyers for the tech titan.

1 month ago | news.bloombergtax.com | Kyle Jahner |Adam Taylor

A former employee of rapper Eminem was charged in an FBI complaint with criminal copyright infringement Wednesday after unreleased music began circulating online. Individuals who bought the unauthorized music identified 46-year-old Joseph Strange, of Holly, Mich., as the seller to the FBI the criminal complaint said. Strange worked for Eminem, whose legal name is Marshall Mathers, at his Ferndale, Mich., studio from roughly 2007 to 2021, when he was let go, the government said.