French publishers and authors are suing Meta Platforms Inc. for copyright infringement, accusing the tech giant of using their books to train its generative artificial intelligence model without authorization. SNE, the trade association representing major French publishers including Hachette and …
A federal judge in Delaware on Tuesday said that a former competitor of Thomson Reuters was not permitted by U.S. copyright law to copy the information and technology company’s content to build a competing artificial intelligence-based legal platform. U.S. Circuit …
A computer scientist who falsely claims to be the inventor of Bitcoin was handed a suspended prison termafter being found in contemptof court by a London judge after a stinging lawsuit loss. The Cryptocurrency Open Patent Alliance, a nonprofit cryptocurrency …
Nuclear verdicts of at least $10 million reached a 15-year high in 2023, while 27 verdicts were “thermonuclear,” or more than $100 million, according to a new study by research firm Marathon Strategies. The report, “Corporate Verdicts Go Thermonuclear,” found …
The New York Times Co. sued Microsoft Corp. and OpenAI Inc. for the use of content to help develop artificial intelligence services, in a sign of the increasingly fraught relationship between the media and a technology that could upend the …
Eli Lilly & Co. is suing medical spas, wellness centers and compounding pharmacies in various US states that sell unapproved versions of its blockbuster diabetes drug Mounjaro, which is frequently used off-label for weight loss. In lawsuits Lilly said it …
Moderna’s suit against Pfizer and partner BioNtech over alleged COVID-vaccine-related patent infringement – and the targets’ countersuit – might suggest an abrupt return to business as usual after an unprecedented period of cooperation among life sciences companies during the height …
Tesla sued Australian company Cap-XX in Texas federal court on Friday, claiming its supercapacitors used for storing energy in electric-vehicle batteries infringe two U.S. patents owned by a Tesla subsidiary. Tesla CEO Elon Musk pledged in 2014 not to “initiate …
Palisade Partner Launches Specialty Managing General Underwriter Palisade Insurance Partners, a specialty managing general underwriter, has been launched with plans to provide a range of contingent legal risk insurance and other specialty insurance products across the U.S. and International markets. …
This edition of International People Moves covers appointments at three London-based brokers: Oneglobal, McGill and Partners, and Gallagher A summary of these new hires follows here. Oneglobal Broking, the London-based broker, announced the appointment of José Miguel González as chief …
