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A US federal judge has approved a settlement in a landmark copyright case involving pirated books used to train Anthropic's Claude AI chatbot. The decision represents the largest known copyright recovery in history, with over 91% of affected authors and publishers claiming their share.
The University of Tennessee Research Foundation has filed what appears to be the first patent infringement case against AI firm Anthropic, alleging violations of patents covering neuroscience-inspired machine-learning technology.
A San Francisco federal judge has granted final approval to Anthropic's $1.5 billion settlement resolving a copyright lawsuit brought by authors who claimed the AI company misused their books to train Claude without permission.
Magnet Forensics has filed a federal lawsuit against a former contractor and rival firm Paradigm Shift Technology, alleging theft of trade secrets involving an iPhone hacking vulnerability affecting Apple's A12 and A13 chips.
A Texas federal jury has ordered Japanese chipmaker Kioxia to pay satellite communications firm Viasat $229 million for patent infringement related to flash-memory technology, marking a significant victory in intellectual property litigation.
Apple has sued OpenAI, alleging the AI company systematically stole trade secrets and recruited heavily from its engineering teams. The legal action threatens to disrupt OpenAI's hardware ambitions before any court ruling is reached, with immediate impacts on recruitment and product development.
Japan will establish a dedicated organization by August to protect plant variety rights and combat the unauthorized overseas cultivation of premium Japanese crops, addressing losses estimated at billions of yen annually.
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Apple has launched a major lawsuit against OpenAI, alleging systematic theft of proprietary technology and confidential business information. The legal action represents a significant rupture between two of Silicon Valley's most influential technology companies.
Apple has filed a major lawsuit against OpenAI, alleging the AI company orchestrated a campaign to steal trade secrets through former employees to fuel its hardware ambitions, escalating tensions between the two tech giants.
A consortium of American newspapers, spearheaded by the New York Times, has petitioned a Manhattan federal court to impose sanctions on OpenAI, alleging the company made false statements regarding its capacity to search internal systems for evidence of copyright infringement in AI model training.
A federal judge in New York has dismissed a plagiarism lawsuit brought against Taylor Swift by a Florida poet who claimed the pop star borrowed phrases from her poems for over a dozen songs.
A Suzhou court has ordered Molly Tea, a Chinese milk tea chain, to pay Louis Vuitton US$1.5 million for infringing the luxury brand's four-petal flower trademark. The case highlights tensions between IP protection and use of traditional cultural symbols.
Malaysia's Artistes Association has urged the government to assume control of the music royalty collection and distribution system, proposing a centralized digital platform modelled after Indonesia's approach to address long-standing transparency and accountability issues.
Malaysia's Ministry of Domestic Trade has dismantled a major counterfeit operation in Johor Bahru, confiscating RM600,000 worth of fake branded goods after a month-long investigation.
Tata Consultancy Services will record a $70 million exceptional charge after the US Supreme Court rejected its appeal in a trade secrets dispute with DXC Technology, bringing total exposure to $220 million.
The US Supreme Court has declined to hear an appeal by India-based Tata Consultancy Services challenging a $168 million award to DXC Technology over alleged theft of life-insurance software trade secrets.