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Legal Ads Surge as Plaintiff Lawyers Pursue Mass Litigation Cases

Legal Expert Connections

For instance, during the height of lawsuits targeting Monsanto’s Roundup weedkiller in 2019, the industry spent nearly $300 million on television spots. X Ante, a firm specializing in mass tort advertising research, tracked this surge in ad spending. Notably, spending peaks coincide with specific cases gaining momentum.

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Small Tech Company Takes On Major Law Firm Over Ownership of Bill-Drafting Software

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A 25-person legal technology company in California is fighting back against one of the world’s largest law firms in a lawsuit over ownership rights to legislation-drafting software that each side says was its idea. To the contrary, the company says that Agnello stole its idea after it gave him a demonstration of the software in 2019.

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Patents over Patients: How Pharmaceutical Companies use the Patent System to Keep Drug Costs High

Richmond Journal of Law and Technology

16] Companies accomplish this by first suing generic-manufacturing companies for patent infringement, and then settling the lawsuit by paying them to stay out of the market in what is known as a reverse-payment settlement. [17] 19] The lawsuit ended in a settlement with Gilead agreeing to pay Teva, the supposed infringer, $1.5

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A brief look at the copyright issues raised by generative AI

Ikigai Law

This brings up a myriad of intellectual property concerns. In 2019, the Delhi High Court rejected a copyright claim over a list compiled by a computer, on the grounds of, inter alia, lack of human intervention. [8] In fact, we have created the image for this blog post using Bing’s AI based image creator.

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From Pain to Creativity: How AI Helped Kristina Kashtanova Illustrate Her “Zarya of the Dawn” Story – featuring Richmond Law’s Ashley Dobbs and Roger Skalbeck (TGIR Ep. 196)

3 Geeks and a Law Blog

Professor Dobbs runs the IP and Transactional Law Clinic at Richmond and explains that the clinic provides an opportunity for law students to work directly with clients on intellectual property matters, such as copyright and trademark protection, under her supervision. I teach copyright, which I’ve done since 2019.

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Should Copyright Preemption Moot Anti-Scraping TOS Terms? (Guest Blog Post)

Eric Goldman

2019 WL 3555509 (D. The Internet is awash in lawsuits related to this collection of data. If content or data is not kept beneath a log-in (and thus entitled to protection via the CFAA and most state computer-trespass laws), it should be protectible only insofar as it is subject to existing intellectual property laws. (To

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From Pain to Creativity: How AI Helped Kristina Kashtanova Illustrate Her “Zarya of the Dawn” Story – featuring Richmond Law’s Ashley Dobbs and Roger Skalbeck (TGIR Ep. 196)

Legal Tech Monitor

Professor Dobbs runs the IP and Transactional Law Clinic at Richmond and explains that the clinic provides an opportunity for law students to work directly with clients on intellectual property matters, such as copyright and trademark protection, under her supervision. I teach copyright, which I’ve done since 2019.