
Steve Brachmann
Freelance Columnist at IP Watchdog
Freelance writer and IP law journalist for @ipwatchdog. I like crafting fact-based stories to produce news that's fit to print. Also, actor and hockey fan.
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2 days ago |
ipwatchdog.com | Steve Brachmann |Eileen McDermott
“In the Office’s view, training a generative AI foundation model on a large and diverse dataset will often be transformative.” – U.S. Copyright Office Late last week—one day after the Trump Administration fired Librarian of Congress Carla Hayden and the day before it fired Register of Copyrights Shira Perlmutter—the U.S. Copyright Office released a pre-publication edition of the third part in the agency’s series of reports exploring issues in copyright law in light of evolving artificial...
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3 days ago |
ipwatchdog.com | Eileen McDermott |John M. Rogitz |Gene Quinn |Steve Brachmann
“Referring to his solution as ‘equalization,’ Trump said, ‘starting today the United States will no longer subsidize the healthcare of foreign countries…. We will no longer tolerate price gouging from big pharma.'”On Sunday, May 11, President Donald Trump announced on Truth Social that he would sign an Executive Order today aimed at lowering prescription drug prices.
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4 days ago |
ipwatchdog.com | Gene Quinn |Steve Brachmann |Eileen McDermott
Howard Lutnick is the first Secretary of Commerce to ever be a patented inventor and is a named inventor on some 400 patents. He is also the only Secretary of Commerce to ever attend the annual Inventors Hall of Fame induction ceremony, which is one of the best nights of the year for the industry—akin to the Academy Awards for patented inventors.
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6 days ago |
ipwatchdog.com | Steve Brachmann |Eileen McDermott
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1 week ago |
ipwatchdog.com | Eileen McDermott |Steve Brachmann
“In this case, ‘the efficiency and integrity of the patent system is best served by denying institution,’ concluded Stewart.”The Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB), on Wednesday, May 7, designated a recent Director Review decision issued by Acting Director of the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO), Coke Morgan Stewart, as informative. The decision clarified that a district court’s final judgment of invalidity favors denial of inter partes review (IPR) under the Fintiv framework.
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Episode 1 of IP Innovators, sponsored by @DeepIP_AI - From Paper Trails to Patent AI: Paul Hunter on 27 Years of Patent Practice https://t.co/qQGlf3Hxjf

Senator @ChuckGrassley (R-IA), Senate Judiciary Chair, excoriating the Senate's short work week at today's SJC meeting: "We can't solve this country's problems if we don't get together more than 2 and a 1/2 days a week to get business done."

Hmm. Wow, it's almost as if spending billions over two decades to ruin the U.S. patent system is starting to come home to roost a bit, ya think? Memento mori, Google. Memento mori. https://t.co/7Ce6C0VU0u