Melissa Ritti

New Jersey

Chief IP Correspondent at MLex Market Insight

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Limits of Federal Circuit’s AI patent eligibility ruling put to test in US courts

1 week ago | mlex.com | Melissa Ritti

By Melissa Ritti ( May 29, 2025, 19:13 GMT | Comment) -- Just over one month after the US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit declared “do it on AI” insufficient to transform an abstract idea into a patent-eligible application, their decision is being cited as dispositive by infringement defendants throughout the US. Citations to Recentive Analytics v. Fox Corp.
Ex-Copyright Office chief Perlmutter draws a line between firing and AI report

2 weeks ago | mlex.com | Melissa Ritti

By Melissa Ritti ( May 23, 2025, 14:30 GMT | Insight) -- A complaint and motion for a temporary restraining order by Shira Perlmutter makes several references to the release of the US Copyright Office’s long-awaited third position paper on artificial intelligence and copyright just one day before she was abruptly fired from her position as Register of Copyrights and Director of the US Copyright Office.
In US patent row between Google, EcoFactor, gatekeepers get a bigger yard

2 weeks ago | mlex.com | Melissa Ritti

By Melissa Ritti ( May 22, 2025, 17:10 GMT | Comment) -- Google secured a new patent damages trial yesterday from a divided, en banc US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, which drilled down on the gatekeeping function of US judges. Because what is “reasonable” is in the eye of the beholder, any dispute involving reasonable royalty damages will necessarily involve some degree of approximation, the majority conceded.
As inventive steps become smaller, trade secret protections grow in importance

2 weeks ago | mlex.com | Melissa Ritti

By Melissa Ritti ( May 20, 2025, 23:07 GMT | Insight) -- The widely held belief that patenting confers protection superior to trade secrets still holds true in many situations, especially when an idea can be reverse engineered with ease. But nine years after Congress passed the Defend Trade Secrets Act, federal causes of action for misappropriation are on the rise — showing that the choice, for many, is murky at best.
USPTO Acting Director Stewart issues call to action on counterfeits

2 weeks ago | mlex.com | Melissa Ritti

By Melissa Ritti ( May 19, 2025, 19:51 GMT | Insight) -- In a keynote address this morning at the International Trademark Association’s annual meeting in San Diego, US Patent and Trademark Office Acting Director Coke Morgan Stewart took a break from patents to shine a light on the damage done by counterfeiters.
IP reforms, despite ‘growing pains,’ show promise, Middle East practitioners say

2 weeks ago | mlex.com | Melissa Ritti

By Melissa Ritti ( May 19, 2025, 15:01 GMT | Insight) -- In 2024, the Middle East made meaningful progress in a collective effort to establish the region as a reliable hub for innovation and investment. Those strides haven’t gone unnoticed in the US — Saudi Arabia was recently lauded by both the US Chamber of Commerce and US Trade Representative in their annual global assessments of IP protections, and a big tech-heavy $600 billion strategic economic partnership with the US is in the works.
Post-Brexit ‘UK+’ IP exhaustion regime reigns supreme, will be made permanent

3 weeks ago | mlex.com | Melissa Ritti

By Melissa Ritti ( May 15, 2025, 15:12 GMT | Comment) -- A “bespoke” intellectual property rights’ exhaustion regime adopted in the UK in the wake of its exit from the European Union will stay in place, the UK government announced today. The news flows from a consultation launched by the prior government that offered stakeholders four options to choose from.
Disney faces no shortage of hurdles in US antisuit injunction request

3 weeks ago | mlex.com | Melissa Ritti

By Melissa Ritti ( May 13, 2025, 23:24 GMT | Comment) -- Longstanding US Fifth Circuit precedent counsels against granting Walt Disney Co.’s request that a California federal judge bar enforcement of an injunction that could flow from patent infringement proceedings abroad, InterDigital argued last week.
Telebrands defends use of APEX, critiques Chinese supplier’s standing in US case

3 weeks ago | mlex.com | Melissa Ritti

By Melissa Ritti ( May 13, 2025, 15:30 GMT | Insight) -- A request by a China-based consumer products supplier for a temporary restraining order barring Telebrands Corp. from removing allegedly infringing products from Amazon.com should be denied, Telebrands told a Delaware federal judge yesterday. Telebrands argues that because Yangjiang Xinhe Houseware Co., Ltd.
Affinity Physician Network’s password-as-trade secret theory fails in US

3 weeks ago | mlex.com | Melissa Ritti

By Melissa Ritti ( May 12, 2025, 13:36 GMT | Insight) -- A gender and sex discrimination plaintiff facing trade secret misappropriation counterclaims by Affinity Physician Network and others prevailed Friday when a federal judge in Ohio agreed that her post-termination change of passwords to online services and websites like HubSpot and Instagram is non-actionable.