A recent appeals court decision, Thaler v. Perlmutter, reaffirmed that under current U.S. copyright law, only human-created works can receive copyright protection. The court upheld the Copyright Office’s longstanding position that human authorship is a fundamental requirement for copyright eligibility.…
AI Is Hitting a Compute Wall – Can the Human Brain Show the Way Forward?
For years, the race in artificial intelligence has been defined by one word: scale. Bigger models, more parameters, larger datasets. Every major leap—whether it was OpenAI’s GPT-4, Google’s Gemini, or DeepMind’s latest advancements—has relied on throwing more computational power at…
AI and Patent Law: Navigating the New Frontier
On September 23, 2024, I had the opportunity to give a talk titled “Patent Law’s AI Dilemma: Innovation at the Crossroads” at the Louisiana State Bar Association’s “IP Trinity” CLE. The intersection of AI and patent law is a hot…
Federal Trade Commission Crackdown on Non-Compete Agreements
The Federal Trade Commission has fired a major shot across the bow of employers that rely on non-compete agreements. Back in January of 2023, the FTC proposed a new regulation limiting the majority of non-compete agreements in the United States.…
Is ChatGPT Fair Use?
Matt Miller, Registered Patent Attorney
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On December 27, 2023, the New York Times filed a lawsuit against OpenAI and Microsoft alleging that ChatGPT’s “large language model” neural network algorithms infringe the Times’ copyrights. What’s really at issue here is that, in order for OpenAI to…
Copyright Notice
“Copyright 2023 John Smith” – you may have seen something like this on the bottom of a website, at the front of a book, or elsewhere. But, what does it mean and why is it there? A copyright notice consists…
Overview of the Patent Process
Taking your invention from an idea to a United States patent can be a complicated process. But, in this blog post, I will break down the steps to help you understand the process. Step 1: Developing Your Idea Of course,…
Continued Software Security Threats
Back in 2016, I wrote about the U.S. Government losing control of high-level security software (AKA, “hacking tools”). Now, the New York Times is reporting that the City of Baltimore has been hacked. You see, years ago, the NSA (allegedly)…
Supreme Court Requires Copyright Registration Before Litigation
Sometimes, Supreme Court opinions make headlines. This is not one of those times. In a decision issued on March 4, 2019, the Supreme Court resolved an ongoing unresolved question that comes up often in copyright litigation – in order to…
Ain’t Dere No More
New Orleans is full of old companies and brand names that simply ain’t dere no more. Can someone besides the original company make the old brand come back? Sometimes, the answer is yes, other times, the answer is no. It’s…
