Oct 9, 2026
Published The ruling highlights the evidentiary burden on businesses seeking to invalidate an EU trademark based on earlier copyright or alleged dishonest intent by the applicant. The General Court of the European Union has dismissed a challenge by Polish optical...
Oct 9, 2026
Published The publishers allege that OpenAI used hundreds of thousands of articles without permission to train its AI models, adding a further challenge to the legal basis for commercial AI development. USA TODAY Co. and affiliated newspaper publishers have sued...
Oct 9, 2026
Published Italy’s prime minister has applied to register a four-second recording of her voice as an EU sound mark. The filing raises a broader question for brand owners: can trademark law provide an additional layer of protection as AI makes convincing voice...
Oct 7, 2026
Published The identities of applicants behind 1,616 new generic top-level domain (gTLD) applications are set to be revealed today, opening what could become one of the most significant new trademark battlegrounds of the year. The Internet Corporation for Assigned...
Oct 6, 2026
Published A California federal judge has refused to dismiss a lawsuit accusing ByteDance Inc. of circumventing YouTube’s technological protections to obtain videos allegedly used to train its generative AI systems. Judge Jacqueline Scott Corley of the US District...
Oct 5, 2026
Published The UK Supreme Court has refused permission to appeal in a trademark dispute between Shorts International Ltd and Google LLC over Google’s use of “Shorts” for its YouTube Shorts service. The Supreme Court refused permission on September 28,...
