United States: Intellectual Property

The Albanese Government has rejected a proposal to amend Australia's copyright laws to allow artificial intelligence (AI) systems to freely train on copyright works, according to an official statement released on Sunday.

Online educational platforms may want to revisit how they handle user-submitted content in the wake of this decision in Post University v. Learneo.

Artificial intelligence (AI) is rapidly changing the way people create and invent. The applicable intellectual property laws and procedures are working to keep up with this advancing technology. Intellectual property laws and rules focus on human creativity. Generative AI produces results that are not directly programmed, but trained.

Gray-market goods, also known as parallel imports, are genuine products imported into the United States without the consent of the US trademark owner...

The U.S. Department of Commerce's Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS) recently released a new final rule effectively rescinding almost all of a Biden-era interim...

Golden Eye Technologies LLC, a Harfang IP Investment Corp plaintiff, has sued Cisco (2:25-cv-00898) over the provision of a wide array of networking products and related "components, software, services, and processes"...

Quantum technology is rapidly evolving from a primarily academic discipline into a competitive commercial sector, driven by accelerating innovation and the pursuit of market‑ready applications.

In Brita LP v. ITC, No. 2024-1098 (Fed. Cir. Oct. 15, 2025), the Federal Circuit affirmed the Commission's determinations that certain asserted claims of Brita's patent...

The United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) continues its rapid evolution of Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) practice with yet another major policy shift.

Welcome to WilmerHale's bulletin on recent trade secret case law and relevant news items. We've affectionately nicknamed it "Readily Ascertainable" because, unlike a trade secret, it should be easy to figure out.

The Delaware Superior Court, applying Delaware law, has held that an insured adequately stated a claim for breach of contract because a trade secret constitutes "non-public information,"...

On August 26, 2025, in NRA Group, LLC v. Durenleau et al., the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit addressed two legal questions: (1) whether workplace policy infractions can turn into federal crimes, and (2) whether passwords protecting propriety business information qualify as trade secrets under federal or Pennsylvania law.