Walgreens Co. v. Charles R. Walgreen is a case from the Northern District of Illinois that featured the behemoth retailer Walgreens (Walgreens Co.) suing Charles Walgreen, the great-grandson of its founder, for trademark infringement. After losing a motion to dismiss, Walgreen Co. filed an amended complaint saying that Charles Walgreen was not only infringing on…

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Raw Story Media v. Open AI, Inc. was a case filed in the Southern District of New York involving the generative artificial intelligence app ChatGPT.  The court dismissed the case before the parties even started discovery. A group of news media companies sued the collection of companies that make up ChatGPT. The organizations suing Open…

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Crocs v. Effervescent was a case appealed from the District of Colorado to the Federal Circuit. The appellants were Double Diamond and Mojave Desert Holdings, who make “Dawgs” shoes.  After suing a number of other companies for patent infringement, Crocs had turned its sights on Dawgs — but Dawgs filed a counterclaim that Crocs was…

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