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Seyfarth’s Lauren Leipold and Ken Wilton co-authored “Courts and TTAB weigh in on First Amendment defence and scope of rights protection under the Lanham Act,” the exclusive United States chapter for WTR’s Trademark Litigation Review 2025. The Seyfarth attorneys discussed an overview of key developments in trademark litigation in the United States over the past

On October 7, Seyfarth partner Lauren Leipold co-presented a Strafford webinar on “International Trademark Protection After Abitron: Branding and Enforcement Considerations.” Lauren was joined by Thomas Brooke of Holland & Knight and Martin Schwimmer of Leason Ellis.

The Supreme Court’s ruling in Abitron v. Hetronic (U.S. 2023) limited the extraterritorial reach of the Lanham

In our recent webinar, “Trade Secrets Audits: Strengthening Your Company’s IP Protection,” Seyfarth’s Intellectual Property Partner, Lauren Leipold, along with Trade Secret Attorneys Eddy Salcedo and James Yu, shared essential strategies for enhancing IP protection in today’s complex landscape. As corporate espionage and data breaches become increasingly prevalent, the session provided valuable insights on effective

Gadgets, Gigabytes, & Goodwill Blog editors, Lauren Leipold and Owen Wolfe, co-authored an article, “Rules for use of AI-generated evidence in flux,” in Reuters and Reuters’ Westlaw Today. The Seyfarth attorneys discussed how generative AI prompts and outputs are discoverable in litigation, even those that were part of pre-suit investigation, and that parameters around

Tuesday, October 1, 2024
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In a world where corporate espionage and data breaches are increasingly common, protecting your company’s

Sarah Silverman and her fellow author plaintiffs are fighting a judge’s recent order requiring them to disclose the prompts and outputs they used in preparation for filing their class action lawsuit against ChatGPT owner OpenAI. The judge is giving OpenAI until July 24 to respond to the plaintiffs’ argument that the material should be shielded

The U.S. Supreme Court affirmed the Eleventh Circuit’s holding in Warner Chappell Music v. Nealy that copyright plaintiffs bringing timely claims of infringement may recover damages for acts occurring outside the three-year statute of limitations. The ruling addresses a longstanding circuit split over whether monetary relief is available even where infringement occurred more than three