Takeaway: The USPTO’s adoption of AI could accelerate patent examination and improve efficiency, but human expertise will remain critical to ensuring accurate and consistent patentability decisions.

Takeaway: Foreign-domiciled patent applicants and owners must be represented by a USPTO-registered patent practitioner for all patent matters.

Takeaway: California’s proposed AI rules make attorneys responsible for protecting client confidentiality, verifying AI generated work, and maintaining independent professional judgment.

Takeaway: Expanding an entertainment brand into new commercial markets can increase the risk of conflict with existing third party trademark rights.

Takeaway: The lawsuit highlights the growing legal debate over whether companies can use creator-generated content to train AI models without consent or compensation.

Takeaway: Companies should avoid broad “Made in USA” or “Manufactured in USA” claims unless they can substantiate that every covered product meets the FTC’s “all or virtually all” standard.

Takeaway: Beginning August 13, 2026, patent applicants and owners facing delays of more than one year will encounter heightened USPTO scrutiny and additional petition requirements before relief will be granted.

Takeaway: The Supreme Court’s refusal to hear these appeals leaves the Federal Circuit’s recent rulings on prosecution laches, patent eligibility, jury verdicts, and patent marking as the governing law for patent disputes.

Takeaway: Even after patents expire, patent owners may pursue damages for alleged infringement that occurred while the patents were still in force, exposing companies that use widely adopted payment-processing technologies to significant retrospective liability.

Takeaway: The executive order positions frontier AI as a matter of national security, using voluntary participation, procurement influence, and classified evaluations to encourage alignment between leading AI developers and U.S. strategic interests without imposing direct regulation.