Seyfarth had the honor of participating in and sponsoring the Hispanic National Bar Association (HNBA) VIA Intellectual Property Law Institute (IPLI), a weeklong program held in Washington, DC.

The annual IPLI program offers law students the opportunity to participate in an engaging week of programming with practitioners across the field. Students met with lawyers, judges

By now, we’re all familiar with the travails of lawyers who use gen AI to draft court papers, but fail to check them and file briefs including fake cases, as well as other significant maladies, resulting from AI hallucinations and being sanctioned for their carelessness. Out of Brazil, however, comes a new twist: according to media

1970: The Birth Of A Symbol

On April 22, 1970, the very first Earth Day was celebrated.  In its honor, the Container Corporation of America — then one of the nation’s largest producers of recycled paperboard — sponsored a design contest to symbolize recycling.  Gary Anderson, a 23-year-old architecture student at the University of Southern

A day after announcing that “fair use” would not shield AI training models against potential copyright infringement, President Donald Trump fired Shira Perlmutter, Register of Copyrights, and her superior, Librarian of Congress, Carla Hayden. These layoffs may shape the future of copyright law in the age of AI.

Legal and Constitutional Concerns

Perlmutter’s dismissal on May

Attention, inventors, in-house counsel, and anyone with a vested interest in the world of intellectual property: the USPTO just issued its final rule for patent fees. This is a follow-up to the 2023 proposal—but with a slightly softer landing.

Starting January 19, 2025, the cost of securing those all-important patent rights is going up

Thursday, September 26, 2024
1:00 p.m. to 1:30 p.m. Eastern
12:00 p.m. to 12:30 p.m. Central
11:00 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. Mountain
10:00 a.m. to 10:30 a.m. Pacific

For more information and to register, click here.

Please join us for the first session of Seyfarth’s inaugural Winning Combinations: Exploring Synergies with Government Contracts Law