Part of the policy: "The use of AI is prohibited for aid in conceptualizing, outlining, drafting, revising, translating, or editing. AI use is prohibited for any exam situation. Students may not upload course materials into generative AI systems."

The system working as intended. They want to push trans youth to either leave the state or take their own lives. Idaho got both outcomes here and now the lawsuit against them has to be dismissed.

Saw three piece of media this week that were anti-AI (Devil Wears Prada 2, Comeback, Hacks). Inexplicably, two featured Justin Theroux. HBO's The Comeback was the best of those. And now this...

Novelty, nonobviousness, enablement, written description, statutory subject matter, utility

Nancy Meyer's Oppenheimer

Sephora: "clean" beauty can include synthetic and harmful chemicals. Brand wins false advertising suit, claiming its advertising accurately identified ingredients that were excluded to earn the "clean" designation. www.klgates.com/Sephora-Prev...

White House Considers Vetting A.I. Models Before They Are Released www.nytimes.com/2026/05/04/t...

My interest in 1L property was defeasible.

Sotomayor, our IP specialist, also weighs in...

"The Fourth Circuit’s holding thuswent beyond the two forms of liability recognized in Grokster and Sony. It also conflicted with this Court’s repeatedadmonition that contributory liability cannot rest only on a provider’s knowledge of infringement and insufficient action to prevent it."

From one of the most prominent AI legal scholars…🧵🪡

Lacoste’s new alligator, first time made of flowers. Does it function as a mark or as ornament?

Link to decision that a person does not include a sovereign: www.uspto.gov/sites/defaul...

Vogue sues "a one-woman editorial operation that sells fewer than 100 copies per issue" Gift link www.nytimes.com/2026/03/17/s...

“Using price to guide scientific and cultural production—which is to say, using IP—may have costs not only for efficiency, but also for distributive justice and informational privacy”

Must read-- Domestic manufacturing and small business status now favorably viewed for IPR review....

The modernization plans involve testing initial software components at six courts this year, with the goal ​of implementing parts of it in district courts nationwide next year

Those who invest in technology assume a free market, or at least grounded on learnable patterns and regs. This decision could have ripple effects on ROI decisions for decades.

An informative read as always.

“This appears to be yet another step by the current USPTO administration to strengthen the hand of NPE patentees in their battles against accused infringers”

That’s an ideal plaintiff actually. They should have very precise records.

Looks like a must-read. Woodrow Herzog & Jessica Silbey's How AI Destroys Institutions scholarship.law.bu.edu/cgi/viewcont...

Fed Cir- Apple v. Squires -Congress provided no legal right to institution of an IPR. The challenged pronouncements are simply instructions for how the Board should exercise in the first instance the Director’s statutory discretionary authority. fingfx.thomsonreuters.com/gfx/legaldoc...

Issuing preliminary injunction requiring re-installation of diplays removed from President Washington’s home in Philadelphia

Google, Meta & Reddit have complied w/some admin. subpoenas www.nytimes.com/2026/02/13/t...

Taylor's "company's filing on Wednesday said she owns federal trademarks covering the use of her name on bed linens, clothing and other products, and that Cathay's proposed trademark would cause consumer confusion."

Sanction order in patent case for citing cases that did not exist or did not contain any discussion of the issue for which they were cited. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Teen social media addiction trial starts today www.cnn.com/2026/01/26/t...

New paper- LLMs allow verbatim extraction of copyrighted works. "For Claude 3.7 Sonnet, we were able to extract four whole books near-verbatim, including two books under copyright in the U.S.: Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone and 1984" arxiv.org/pdf/2601.02671

Some images from Patagonia's complaint against drag queen Pattie Gonia after TM application was filed. Complaint alleges the parties had an agreement that Pattie would not use the name in commercial products. #trademark

Philly's complaint against the Nat'l Park Service for removing references to slavery from the President's House www.courtlistener.com/docket/72178...

matthewsag.com/legal-schola... Legal Scholars Roundtable on Artificial Intelligence 2026 Call for Papers (details on the website, submit via the google form). Deadline for submission is February 15, 2026

Ark. withdrew offer to new dean after board "became aware that the newly hired Dean had signed onto a friend of the court brief in a lawsuit challenging laws regarding transgender athletes in sports. arktimes.com/arkansas-blo...

I'm not bemused, I'm fascinated...

Foggy on the Mississippi

IP Section pedagogy panel #AALS2026

Dickson addresses dismissal of the TM Public Advisory Committee without typical quick replacement, most still can WFH

AALS IP Section Panel on IP in Turbulent Times begins….

Patent suit for damages only

Waiting to get off flight of this year’s AALS. The IP Section has the best panels. But this flight is full

Why would these AI-training sites need to be public, with somewhat confusing names/logo's and layout, and also include an input for credit card numbers? real-staynb.vercel.app/stay/2 Seems like such a terrible idea.

Lynn Conway, who co-authored the book on VLSI, a system which democratized chip design. She made the first superscalar computer possible. In 1968, she was fired from IBM when she announced that she intended to undergo surgery to affirm her gender. IBM apologized 50 years later.

The Prime Directive

Make a Bond movie academic: The Man with the Golden Gun and Color Marks after Qualitex

Real Housewives SLC trademark dispute ❄️

On productivity hacks--I think about this video about once a week since I saw it. @hbr.org

Happy snow day ❄️

“Mere ‘token use’ won’t be enough to reserve the mark,” Lemley wrote. “Consumers obviously still know the brand name. It seems weird to think someone else could grab the name when consumers still associate it with the ex-social media site of that name. But that’s what the law says.”

We are never getting rid of inventor notes, are we? "One way for applicants to mitigate such risk is to document their specific vision before using an AI tool. Further, applicants should also retain records of any changes they made after being generated by AI."