intellectual property

Three authors have filed a lawsuit against graphics processing unit (GPU) giant Nvidia for illegally training its artificial intelligence (AI) platform NeMo on their copyrighted works. This is another development in the growing tensions globally involving intellectual property right holders and companies that make AI models, resulting in similar lawsuits that saw entities such as Microsoft and OpenAI cross swords.Here's an explainer of what the Nvidia lawsuit says and what these concerns are.Elevate Your Tech Prowess with…

The Indian startup ecosystem needs more founders with deep technical expertise, particularly in the fields of artificial intelligence (AI) and software development, according to Rajan Anandan, managing director, Peak XV Partners (formerly Sequoia Capital India).The next frontier for the country’s entrepreneurial landscape would be to foster industries built on intellectual property which can be addressed over the next two decades, Anandan said during a fireside chat with Deepak Dara of Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan at…

The talent agency WME announced a partnership with the technology firm Vermillio on Tuesday that it hopes will protect its clients from having their likenesses misused through artificial intelligence technology.Vermillio has created a platform, Trace ID, that could insulate WME clients from thefts of their likeness and intellectual property by using AI technology to track images. The partnership will also look for ways to use the technology to allow clients to monetize their likeness and image themselves.Elevate Your…

Take-Two Interactive has filed an opposition to Remedy Entertainment’s newest logo, claiming the symbol infringes on Rockstar Games’ logo despite the two having little in common besides the letter “R” representing a video game publisher. First reported by RemedyFirst, the trademark dispute was filed against two versions of the Remedy logo (one with the company’s name, one without) in September with the UK’s Intellectual Property Office.The UK’s IP rules mean Take-Two’s objection to the logo suggests Rockstar’s parent…

Goldman, in a paper published in March, calls this type of lawsuit a “Schedule A Defendants Scheme” (or “SAD Scheme”). When these cases are filed, the names of defendants are put into a document, Schedule A, that is often immediately made confidential at the request of the plaintiff. As a result, the cases can involve hundreds of sellers at the same time, yet the sellers don’t know who else is being sued, and they usually don’t know they are being sued themselves until the court orders Amazon to freeze their accounts.…

Image Source : APPLE SAKET iPhone makers are willing to have IP rights on Apple fruit in a unique battle Apple, the tech giant is reportedly seeking intellectual property (IP) rights over depictions of apples (fruit), causing concern for the Fruit Union, the oldest and largest fruit farmers' organization in Switzerland.  As per the Wired report, Apple is attempting to…

Over the past few years, Apple has pursued a meal-prepping app with a pear logo, a singer-songwriter named Frankie Pineapple, a German cycling route, a pair of stationery makers, and a school district, among others. The company fought a decades-long battle with the Beatles’ music label, Apple Corps, which was finally resolved in 2007.An investigation in 2022 by the Tech Transparency Project, a nonprofit that researches Big Tech, found that between 2019 and 2021, Apple filed more trademark oppositions—attempts to enforce…

ASML Holding NV, where Van den Brink is now the chief technology officer, practically owns the market for a critical piece of equipment needed to produce the brains of everything that makes modern life possible — from cars and smartphones to computers, microwaves and airplanes. With the company’s high-end machines churning out chips that can also go into state-of-the-art weapons and artificial intelligence devices, ASML is effectively being treated as critical infrastructure for US national security and has…

On April 26th of each year, the world commemorates World Intellectual…

cyber attackers have become much faster at infiltrating perimeters, with the average time to complete a ransomware attack dropping from two months to less than four daysIntellectual property services provider IPH Ltd said on Friday it has established new network infrastructure and restored key system functionality, a week after reporting a data breach that affected a portion of its IT systems. The company detected unauthorised access to document management systems last week, which included administrative documents as…