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When a Car Shape Becomes a Trademark: Ferrari, Porsche, and Jeep’s Design IP Strategies

When a car’s shape becomes recognizable without its logo, that form may deserve legal protection. Ferrari’s distinctive ...
2026.04.03 パテント探偵社 編集部
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How Meta’s Llama Strategy Rewrote the Rules: Open Source AI as an IP Strategy

Meta’s decision to release the Llama series in “open” form has introduced structural changes to the competitive dynamics...
2026.04.03 パテント探偵社 編集部
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Gibson’s 15-Year Quest to Trademark a Guitar Body Shape — The Limits of 3D Trade Dress Protection

For over 15 years, Gibson Brands has pursued trademark and trade dress protection for the iconic body shapes of its Les ...
2026.04.03 パテント探偵社 編集部
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The LLM Architecture Patent Race: From Transformer to RLHF and Inference Optimization

Large language model (LLM) core technologies—Transformer architectures, reinforcement learning from human feedback (RLHF...
2026.04.03 パテント探偵社 編集部
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The AI Patent War of 2026: How OpenAI, Google, Anthropic, and Meta Are Drawing the Battle Lines

In 2026, the intellectual property (IP) competition surrounding artificial intelligence has entered a new phase. Patent ...
2026.04.03 パテント探偵社 編集部
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Google Dethrones IBM in AI Patents — And Why OpenAI, Creator of ChatGPT, Barely Has Any

In the 2025 generative AI patent rankings, Google has toppled IBM — which held the title for over two decades — to claim...
2026.04.03 パテント探偵社 編集部
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How Louis Vuitton and Hermès Built Moats of IP: The Fashion Industry’s Layered Protection Strategy

Louis Vuitton and Hermès protect billion-dollar brands through sophisticated multi-layered IP strategies combining trademarks, trade dress, design rights and copyright. A deep investigation into fashion IP architecture.
2026.03.30 パテント探偵社 編集部
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Tesla’s Patent Pledge Decoded: How One Company Weaponized Open Innovation in the Self-Driving Era

The Shot Heard Around IP: June 12, 2014On June 12, 2014, Elon Musk published a blog post titled "All Our Patent Are Belo...
2026.03.23 パテント探偵社 編集部
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