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OpenAI Abandons “Cameo” Trademark Appeal as Sora Shutdown Renders Injunction Moot

OpenAI Inc. withdrew its Ninth Circuit appeal of a preliminary injunction barring the company from using the name "Cameo...

2026.04.21

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Disney Could Have Sued. Instead, It Chose a $1 Billion Handshake with OpenAI

In December 2025, The Walt Disney Company struck a three-year licensing agreement granting OpenAI’s video-generation pla...

2026.04.19

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Inside OpenAI’s Patent Portfolio Ahead of Its First Consumer AI Device

From Software to Hardware: OpenAI's Strategic Device PivotOpenAI's march into consumer hardware represents a fundamental...

2026.04.15

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Full Analysis of OpenAI’s 110-Patent Portfolio: A Filing Strategy That Points to Hardware

OpenAI, best known as the company behind ChatGPT, has sharply accelerated its patent activity since 2023. As of April 20…

2026.04.12

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The ‘io’ Trademark Dispute That Derailed OpenAI’s AI Hardware Launch — What It Reveals About IP Strategy for Tech Giants Entering Hardware

OpenAI and Jony Ive's 'io' AI device was delayed to 2027 and the brand name abandoned following a Ninth Circuit trademark ruling. An analysis of the iyO v. IO Products dispute and the IP preemption strategy considerations for AI companies entering the hardware market.

2026.04.09

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Sharing Data with Public AI Platforms Can Extinguish Trade Secret Protection: Two Federal Courts Weigh In

Two recent federal district court decisions have established that sharing confidential business information with public ...

2026.04.06

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How IP Law Will Evolve in the AGI Era: AI Inventions, AI Authorship, and the Regulatory Crossroads

As artificial general intelligence (AGI) comes into view, intellectual property law confronts foundational questions it ...

2026.04.03

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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

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Where the Training Data Lawsuits Stand Now: NYT v. OpenAI, Getty v. Stability AI, and the Legal Questions Ahead

Copyright litigation over generative AI training data has accelerated sharply since 2023, concentrated primarily in the ...

2026.04.03

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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

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