Aruni Soni
IP Reporter at Bloomberg Law
intellectual property law reporter @BLaw | previously @BusinessInsider, @BostonGlobe, @DJNF, @DMRegister, @ColumbiaSpec tips: [email protected]
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5 days ago |
news.bloombergtax.com | Aruni Soni
The president of the union representing more than 9,000 patent examiners and other employees at the US Patent and Trademark Office is stepping aside. Kathleen Duda, who’s led the Patent Office Professional Association since 2019, will retire at the end of May, she confirmed to Bloomberg Law. Duda has worked at the PTO for 34 years. She said she hasn’t accepted any buyout offers from the agency and is retiring at her own accord.
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5 days ago |
news.bloomberglaw.com | Aruni Soni
The president of the union representing more than 9,000 patent examiners and other employees at the US Patent and Trademark Office is stepping aside. Kathleen Duda, who’s led the Patent Office Professional Association since 2019, will retire at the end of May, she confirmed to Bloomberg Law. Duda has worked at the PTO for 34 years. She said she hasn’t accepted any buyout offers from the agency and is retiring at her own accord.
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1 week ago |
news.bloombergtax.com | Aruni Soni
The US Patent and Trademark Office incentivizes examiners to put a stronger emphasis on the volume of patents they review than the quality, according to a new report from the Government Accountability Office.
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1 week ago |
news.bloomberglaw.com | Aruni Soni
Microsoft Corp. and its subsidiary Nuance Communications Inc. broke the terms of a licensing agreement for a text-to-speech software owned by Cerence Inc., a federal lawsuit said. Cerence was spun off from Nuance in 2019 and acquired intellectual property rights to the text-to-speech technology, then inked a five-year licensing deal with Nuance, according to a complaint filed Tuesday in the US District Court for the District of Delaware.
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1 week ago |
news.bloomberglaw.com | Aruni Soni
The acting director of the US Patent and Trademark Office ordered Verizon Connect Inc. to explain why its challenge to Omega Patents LLC’s vehicle-control technology shouldn’t be terminated. Coke Stewart wrote May 2 that patent judges “failed to explain adequately” their decision that Omega wasn’t entitled to a presumption connecting its successful commercial products and the patented invention.
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Trump has to face a copyright lawsuit from Isaac Hayes' heirs over his campaign's use of the song "Hold On, I'm Coming" at his rallies. A judge ruled Hayes' heirs did in fact claim ownership over the song, unlike what Trump's lawyers argued. https://t.co/AMiazdNgjZ
Generative AI’s need for content created a new demand in the media market—a gap that several startups are trying to quickly fill. I wrote a story about the new industry creating a licensing ecosystem to bridge the divide between creators and tech firms: https://t.co/nQkpqThQIV
Breaking: OpenAI couldn't get rid of copyright infringement claims in the case brought by NYT and other publications over its AI model training. The opinion detailing the reasoning will be issued "expeditiously," Judge Sidney H. Stein wrote. https://t.co/ym1hNmptbL