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7 November 2025 The decision didn’t resolve the big copyright questions, but a narrow trademark win for Getty offers important guidance for future AI-related disputes—and warns model developers to clean up their act.
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Trademarks
The court’s rejection of the sportswear company’s appeal underlines the importance of clarity in appeals, write John Linneker and Robyn Trigg of Osborne Clarke.
Trademarks
China’s e-commerce company is taking on AI counterfeits with a mix of human and advanced AI tech of its own—and getting results.
Patents
Quantum computing is entering mainstream R&D—and establishing an IP strategy from a position of understanding the technology is key, says Gregory Aroutiunian of Bird & Bird.
Patents
From determining who will own newly developed IP, to confidentiality and regulatory issues, Ana Neves of Inventa discusses what to consider when establishing partnerships.
Patents
Parties impacted by exclusion orders need to carefully weigh their options for seeking clarity or rulings on redesigns, explain Daniel Muino and Charles Provine from Morrison Foerster.
Trademarks
More than 1,500 brands are now partnering directly with the online marketplace to reinforce intellectual property safeguards.
Trademarks
Brands now have a better idea of what will pass the test after the EU General Court set a new threshold for distinctiveness, explains João Pereira Cabral of Inventa.
Diversity
A spike in agency investigations and more female lead counsel still leave a notable gender gap at the venue, find Troutman Pepper Locke’s Emma Mann, Gwendolyn Tawresey, Brittany Reeves, and Gillian Schutt.
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Patents
5 November 2025 Lawyers from Meta, Adobe and Recursion Pharmaceuticals offer advice for external counsel on working with their in-house partners to maximise the benefits of AI. Sarah Speight reports.
Trademarks
5 November 2025 Marques chair and head of the trademark team at the German engineering giant, explores the realities of in-house work, nurturing future talent, and her expectations of external counsel.
AI
4 November 2025 In a landmark yet narrow ruling, the High Court dismisses Getty Images’ key copyright theories against Stability AI—leaving UK training-data liability unresolved but opening the door to future TM fights over AI outputs.
Copyright
4 November 2025 Owen Wolfe of Seyfarth explores how generative AI is reshaping copyright and authorship rules, offering practical guidance for IP professionals navigating this emerging creative landscape.
Trademarks
3 November 2025 With AI reshaping IP enforcement, the pharma giant’s IP head warns that only active guidance will stop the industry from lagging behind, reports Muireann Bolger.
Patents
1 November 2025 In his first public remarks since becoming the USPTO director, a bombastic John Squires promises an agency “in overdrive” that's doubling down on AI, reports Sarah Speight.
Patents
31 October 2025 Jacqui Kappler, chief democratic counsel at the US Judiciary Committee, reveals that AI is top of the IP subcommittee’s priorities at a speech in Washington, DC. Sarah Speight reports.
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