Via @mwshapiro.bsky.social: "The chief judge provided an answer for how to make the court accessible to young people by playing a Schoolhouse Rock-style video. Moore said the court used several artificial intelligence models, which resulted in a video that featured singing judges ..."

Science publishing giant Elsevier has joined the dozens of firms and individuals suing artificial intelligence companies over their alleged use of copyrighted works in training AI models go.nature.com/4eFGLZK

Is there an audience on BSky for patent law stories? My latest on Netflix's motion to hold patent litigation funder AiPi in contempt for its alleged foot dragging in the face of a subpoena. The case spotlights NoVa-based AiPi & about 140 cases it bankrolled: news.bloomberglaw.com/ip-law/netfl...

A patent law bombshell just dropped. Great reporting from my colleagues Jacqueline Thomsen and Ryan Autullo.

right of publicity question of the day, lookalikes back in vogue edition

Reposting this IP profs starter pack for newcomers. Let me know if you’d like to be added go.bsky.app/EUN2DAN

I’m MC Escher and I’m here to say that I go up stairs in an unusual way! ::confusing beatbox noises::

*showing up to court in a black robe Well, one of us is going to have to change, your honor

I was ranting about a variation of this recently where her opponent would be Rivers or maybe it’d be a three-person primary between Rivers, Lake, and Alsobrooks

“no flex, zone” Wing Stop ad has replaced cars-4-kids jingle in my nightmares

This study is so good, you have to read it: www.404media.co/writing-your...

1L property professors, feast your eyes www.sfgate.com/hawaii/artic...

I wrote about why Hermès drives rich people so buck wild that two recently filed a federal antitrust suit over not being able to get their hands on a Birkin. (Gift link, free to read!) www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...

The Fed Circuit shot down a design patent application covering a waffle with a waffle-y side and a smooth ("planar") side. The court agreed with a PTO examiner who found that the claimed design was anticipated/predated by the "Belgian Waffle Sandwich Video" posted to YouTube in 2016.

Tyreece Bauer. Karan Emery. Landon Morton. These are 3 "people" scraped from the internet and given bylines on my work at a long-dead website. As journalism collapses financially, welcome to a vision of its future – or a robotic facsimile thereof – built by desecrating its past.

I see your Who’s Who and raise you a Wikipedia page

Go home bins, you’re drunk!

For people interested in patent litigation, transparency, or (dare I even suggest) both, this order from Judge Wolson, sitting by designation in D. Del. is the order for you: "Motions to seal judicial records are a big deal." www.ded.uscourts.gov/sites/ded/fi...

D232,115 - issued in 1974 for a design for a "humpty dumpty sheriff toy." #DesignPatents

I always say that copyright infringement lawsuits aren't for the thin-skinned. Even when you win you have to be braced for headlines saying that you won because you were just singing cliches lol

I’ll allow it

To DC metro people. Anyone stayed on an out-of-service yellow line train north from Mt Vernon Sq Sta? What happens to the people who ignore the instructions to de-train?

Voicemail to client: Hello client, I am supposed to talk with your financial advisor this morning before your teleconference with them and I wanted to touch base with you first... and I can't figure out how to end a sentence today and wasn't expecting it to go to voicemail. Uhh.. bye. Nailed it.

This is a rare example of the #judiciary holding a judge #accountable for misconduct. Yet I've been appalled by Judge Newman's behavior, I told @bloomberglp.bsky.social ‘s @mwshapiro.bsky.social 👇 news.bloomberglaw.com/ip-law/judge...

Guest appearance by Judge Bencivengo (S.D. Cal.) on a Ct. of App. for the Fed. Circuit panel this morning w/ Moore and Stoll

After reading an article about the rise of “scammy AI generated book rewrites” in Wired, I looked up whether there was one of my book. There was. And it is SO much worse than I could have imagined.

False reports of shootings or bomb threats at two judges presiding over cases involving former President Donald Trump highlight the security challenges for the judiciary as the 2024 White House contender faces trials in multiple courthouses, Suzanne Monyak reports.

Has anyone else been subjected to the Teams messenger “praise” button? A deeply creepy feature

It's not that the brief includes fake cases, it's how lazy the lawyer had to be not to catch the fake cases.

A Delaware judge's investigation into litigation funding in a handful of cases reveals details of a prolific patent monetization company's business model (w/ Emily Siegel): news.bloomberglaw.com/ip-law/judge...

Interesting note: The Fourth Circuit seat to which Nicole Berner has been nominated was vacant for quite a while (nearly 2 years), and it was reported that Senator Cardin was holding things up. He said something in his statement supporting the Berner nomination that might shed some light 1/x

D260,108 - issued in 1981 for a design for a "playground climber." #DesignPatents

My latest on Judge Pauline Newman and her efforts challenging her suspension from the bench: news.bloomberglaw.com/ip-law/natio...

Justice Amy Coney Barrett was interrupted by abortion rights protesters while speaking today at the University of Minnesota Law School.