The Latest Breaking News from Intellectual Property

I was very sad to hear yesterday of the untimely death of Prof. Dan Burk (UC Irvine), a leading scholar of intellectual property and of Internet law. I often ran into him and his work, and always much appreciated his contributions. Eric Goldman (Santa Clara) has an excellent remembrance, which…

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Large companies are claiming intellectual property over new seed varieties, inhibiting small-scale growers and diversity

The Pokémon Company plans to "investigate" what it referred to as "another company's game released in January 2024."

The statement comes amid Palworld's surge in sales

About a week after Palworld's release, The Pokémon Company has issued a statement about the game.

Pikachu has spoken.

Pocketpair CEO Takuro Mizobe has reiterated that the Palworld team has "absolutely no intention" of infringing on others' IP.

Pocketpair’s CEO dismisses concerns of a potential lawsuit over the survival game's Pokemon-like creatures

In this GenAI era, the lawsuit by The New York Times may redefine legal contours around intellectual property rights in the U.S. and establish global precedents

Synopsys on Tuesday announced that it had reached a definitive agreement to acquire Ansys in a deal valued at $35 billion. Synopsys specializes primarily on electronic design automation (EDA) tools and hardware intellectual property (IP) development, whereas Ansys develops electronics design analysis, and simulation tools, so the deal will create…