Intellectual Property Litigation

  • Copyright Law Meets Artificial Intelligence: The New York Times Sues OpenAI and Microsoft

    by Hovey Williams January 19, 2024

    OpenAI and Microsoft employ advanced AI to assist rapidly growing user bases across diverse tasks. However, the New York Times recently took legal action to challenge OpenAI and Microsoft’s sources of training data based on the NYT’s protections under copyright law.

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  • U.S. Supreme Court Grants Certiorari to Resolve Circuit Split Regarding Copyright Damages

    by Hovey Williams November 8, 2023

    Two appeals courts, a California-based Ninth Circuit and New York-based Second Circuit, have been split over a key time frame established by the Copyright Act, leading to one essential question—Can a copyright holder recover for infringements that occurred more than three years before the filing of a lawsuit? After a Florida-based Eleventh Circuit recently ruled

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  • Patent Owners/Licensors: Avoid This Pitfall When Enforcing Your Rights on Amazon

    by Hovey Williams October 28, 2023

    Patent owners should carefully consider retracting complaints against ASINS with infringing products.

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  • Hovey Williams Recognized in The Best Lawyers in America® 2023 Edition

    by Hovey Williams January 18, 2023

    Congratulations to our honorees, you make us look good.

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  • Four Hovey Williams Partners Honored as Super Lawyers®

    by Hovey Williams November 22, 2022

    We are pleased to announce that four of our Partners, Scott Brown, Cheryl Burbach, Crissa Cook, and Michael Hurd have been selected to the 2022 Missouri & Kansas Super Lawyers list. Selection for the Super Lawyers list means these Partners rate among the top 5% of attorneys within their practice areas for the year. Scott

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  • Intellectual Property Rights in Russia – An Update

    by Hovey Williams April 5, 2022

    In response to the economic sanctions imposed by Western countries, the Russian government has legalized intellectual property piracy against rights holders in so called “enemy countries.” The list of countries includes all members of the European Union and the United States, as well several other countries generally aligned with the EU and US. In particular,

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  • USPTO Seeks Trademark Registrations to Combat Scammers

    by Hovey Williams September 2, 2021

    The Department of Commerce recently filed several applications to register the United States Patent and Trademark Office’s (USPTO) trademarks in an ongoing effort to counter scam solicitations of Trademark owners. As anyone who has ever filed a federal Trademark application knows, companies masking as government agencies with names like “Patent and Trademark Bureau” and “Patent

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  • Hovey Prevails in Copyright Infringement Case at the 8th Circuit

    by Hovey Williams August 20, 2021

    Hovey Williams LLP successfully defended its client Thomson Sailors Homes and its principals in a copyright infringement action in the Western District of Missouri. In 2019, Judge Steven R. Bough granted summary judgment of no copyright infringement in a case claiming that certain model homes built in the Kansas City area by Thomson Sailors and

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  • Assignor Estoppel: Minerva Surgical v. Hologic

    by Hovey Williams July 9, 2021

    Assignor Estoppel is a patent law doctrine dating back to the 1870 Patent Act and first recognized by the Supreme Court in in the 1924 decision of Westinghouse Elec. & Mfg. Co. v. Formica Insulation. This doctrine prevents an inventor from assigning a patent to another party, presumably for some value in return, and subsequently

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