
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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ipwatchdog.com | Steve Brachmann |Eileen McDermott
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ipwatchdog.com | Steve Brachmann
“[T]he U.S. Chamber’s key findings note that weakened IP incentives under the law as proposed would ‘exacerbat[e] the existing trend of investment leaving Europe.’”Yesterday, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce’s Global Innovation Policy Center (GIPC) published the 2025 International IP Index, the Chamber’s annual assessment of legal frameworks for intellectual property (IP) protections in countries across the globe.
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ipwatchdog.com | Gene Quinn |Raymond Van Dyke |Steve Brachmann |Eileen McDermott
“IP has been a collaborative effort, and the business is global. Global business is good for IP and good for business. Global IP is good for business and vice versa.” ~ Sonja LondonThis week on IPWatchdog Unleashed, we speak with Sonja London. Sonia has been general counsel at TactoTek and before that spent 14 years working for Nokia, where she oversaw Nokia’s consumer electronics licensing, global licensing program for connectivity and video codecs, and was responsible for standardization.
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ipwatchdog.com | Raymond Van Dyke |Steve Brachmann
“American inventors and our innovations run the world. The engine of our patent system requires refurbishment and fine tuning, not a bid to relegate it to the junk yard.”Jack Dorsey, a tech billionaire, grew exasperated this past weekend by various lawsuits regarding his OpenAI program. It seems that various content owners, such as the New York Times and the Daily News, were upset that their countless articles and writings were scoured by Dorsey’s OpenAI to train Dorsey’s OpenAI, without consent.
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ipwatchdog.com | Steve Brachmann
“Judge Bibas’ summary judgment rulings are doctrinally flawed… ROSS contends, because neither opinion answered the central question of factor one.”Yesterday, artificial intelligence (AI) developer ROSS Intelligence filed a petition for the certification of an interlocutory appeal under 28 U.S.C. § 1292(b) to challenge originality and fair use findings entered in the District of Delaware in a copyright infringement case filed by global legal information company Thomson Reuters.
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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