An artist and clothing designer who wants to register the F-bomb as a trademark told the Federal Circuit on Monday that the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office is retaliating against him for his role in overturning a ban on immoral or scandalous marks, saying the USPTO is inventing reasons to deny his application.
OpenAI slammed The New York Times Co. for not meeting "its famously rigorous journalistic standards" with its complaint accusing the artificial intelligence company and Microsoft Corp. of ripping off Times content to train ChatGPT, with OpenAI alleging the newspaper hired a hacker to generate various examples of ChatGPT reproducing near-verbatim copies of articles.
The long-running dispute between Jack Daniel's and a company that made a poop-themed dog toy that parodied the whiskey maker's iconic bottles is back where it began 10 years ago in Arizona federal court, with each side asking for favorable judgments after the U.S. Supreme Court ruled the First Amendment does not shield VIP Products LLC from trademark claims.
The rapid spread of AI-generated duplicates of individuals' likeness and voice was the subject of a congressional hearing Friday in Los Angeles ahead of this year's Grammy Awards, with country music superstar Lainey Wilson pleading with lawmakers to act to protect celebrities and their fans from deepfakes.
A group of music publishers has asked a Tennessee federal judge to reject an artificial intelligence company's bid to dismiss a copyright complaint for lack of jurisdiction in the state, saying Anthropic's "claims that it is subject to jurisdiction only in its Silicon Valley backyard" are wrong.