As one of my attorney mentors once said, mistakes can happen – it’s what you do upon learning of the mistake that counts. In Barbera v. Grailed, LLC, plaintiff photographer was sanctioned for failing to comply with discovery in the Southern District of New York. The picture in question was of Jonah Hill that was…

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Teradyne v. Ace Test Systems Inc. was a case that began in the Central District of California, but made its way up to the Ninth Circuit for a fair use analysis. With an eye toward the Supreme Court case of Google v. Oracle, the Ninth Circuit affirmed the district court’s dismissal of the plaintiff’s claim…

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OpenAI v. Open Artificial Intelligence Inc. is a case currently in the Northern District of California that pits an AI David versus an AI Goliath — but in a classic reverse trademark confusion case.  OpenAI is the owner of the popular ChatGPT service, and Open Artificial Intelligence, Inc. (OAI) is a company that sprung up…

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