Nintendo sues Palworld maker Pocketpair for patent infringement

Nintendo sues Palworld maker Pocketpair for patent infringement

NINTENDO filed a patent infringement lawsuit against Tokyo-based Pocketpair, the maker of hit game Palworld, seeking an injunction and compensation for damages. The case, brought together with affiliate Pokemon, was submitted to the Tokyo District Court on Wednesday (Sep 18), Nintendo said the following day. Nintendo did not detail which patents it believed were infringed…

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Major Music Labels Sue AI Startups Over Copyright Infringement

Major Music Labels Sue AI Startups Over Copyright Infringement

Some of the world’s major music labels are suing music generation services Suno and Udio, accusing the startups of violating the copyrights of top artists to train their generative AI engines without permission. Sony Music Entertainment, Warner Records, Capitol Records and others — who filed the copyright infringement suits on Monday in federal courts in…

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HP sued by Wex for trademark infringement over ‘Wex’ software

HP sued by Wex for trademark infringement over ‘Wex’ software

SOFTWARE company Wex sued HP for trademark infringement in Maine federal court on Thursday (Apr 11), accusing it of misusing the “Wex” name to brand competing HP software. Wex, which specialises in payment-processing and information-management applications, said that HP’s recently announced “HP Wex” workforce-management platform will confuse customers. Confusion is likely given “the similarities between…

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Gwyneth Paltrow’s Goop products face trademark infringement suit

Gwyneth Paltrow’s Goop products face trademark infringement suit

GOOD Clean Love (GCL) is suing Gwyneth Paltrow’s company that specialises in female and health hygiene products for allegedly selling products using a confusingly similar trademark and creating a likelihood of reverse confusion. GCL says it filed suit “to prevent the calamitous situation where a junior trademark user, with substantial economic power, saturates the marketplace…

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Australia’s corporate regulator fines ASX, issues infringement notice

Australia’s corporate regulator fines ASX, issues infringement notice

AUSTRALIA’S corporate regulator said on Thursday (Mar 7) that ASX has paid a A$1.1 million (S$966,988) fine following a compliance investigation, marking the first such infringement notice issued to an exchange operator in the country. The Australian Securities and Investments Commission (Asic) said it had reasonable grounds to believe ASX breached the rule requiring pre-trade…

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Authors sue Microsoft, OpenAI for copyright infringement in new lawsuit

Authors sue Microsoft, OpenAI for copyright infringement in new lawsuit

OpenAIIANS San Altman-run OpenAI and Microsoft have been hit by another class-action lawsuit by book authors, who alleged that the company “simply stole” their copyrighted works to help “build a billion-dollar artificial intelligence system”. The lawsuit was filed in the Manhattan federal court late on Friday by non-fiction authors Nicholas Basbanes and Nicholas Gage, reports…

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New York Times Files Lawsuit Against Microsoft, OpenAI For Chatbot Copyright Infringement

New York Times Files Lawsuit Against Microsoft, OpenAI For Chatbot Copyright Infringement

In what could be the first major legal salvo fired between traditional journalism and the emerging technology of artificial intelligence, The New York Times filed a lawsuit against Microsoft and OpenAI on Wednesday. Alleging that the tech companies are using and misusing the newspaper’s copyrighted material without its permission, NYT claims that Microsoft and OpenAI,…

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Moderna Sues Pfizer, BioNTech For Covid-19 Vaccine Patent Infringement

Moderna Sues Pfizer, BioNTech For Covid-19 Vaccine Patent Infringement

Moderna has launched a lawsuit against Pfizer over coronavirus vaccine technology Moderna said Friday it is suing rival vaccine makers Pfizer and BioNTech, alleging the partners infringed on its patents in developing their Covid-19 shot administered to hundreds of millions around the world. The lawsuits set up a high-stakes showdown between the leading manufacturers of…

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