We live in a stupidly polarizing world where nuance is apparently not allowed. Everyone wants you to be for or against something—and nowhere is this more exhausting than with AI. There are those who insist that it’s all bad and there is nothing of value in it. And there are those who think it’s all powerful, the greatest thing ever, and will replace basically every job with AI bots who can work better and faster.

In Smart Study Co., Ltd v. Shenzhenshixindajixieyouxiangongsi, — F.4th —, No. 24-313 (2d Cir. Dec. 18, 2025), the United States Court of Appeals for…

Join CLIC to celebrate the release of Professor Lisa Ramsey’s much-anticipated new book on trademark law and the First Amendment.

University of San Diego Law Professor Lisa Ramsey is just out with Trademarks and Free Speech from Cambridge University Press. Her case is that current trademark law is insufficiently sensitive to Fir...

Postar v. Hyland, 2026 WL 145934, No. 5:24-CV-019-H (N.D. Tex. Jan. 20, 2026) This case allows a non-TM owner to bring a false advertising...

Florida Virtual School v. K12, Inc., 2026 WL 127063, No. 24-10449 (11 th Cir. Jan. 15, 2026) A pretty good example of why granting regist...

Washington, D.C.-based bagel shop and deli Call Your Mother Corp. has agreed to drop a federal trademark lawsuit against a New Jersey deli after the parties reached a deal to end the case.

Artificial intelligence startup OpenAI has asked a California federal judge to dismiss part of a trademark infringement suit brought by celebrity video service Cameo, saying Cameo hasn't shown its mar...

My query: "Please produce a poster with the images of all the U.S. presidents, in chronological order, with their names and years in office." The result: I wrote the particular prompt and ran it myself, but I got the idea from this Redit post. The post ChatGPT-Generated Poster of U.S. Presidents appeared first on Reason.com.

My prompt: "Please create a poster showing all the Supreme Court Justices who have served since 1900, in chronological order, with the name and term of service for each one underneath the Justice's picture." The result: The post ChatGPT-Generated Poster of Supreme Court Justices Since 1900 appeared first on Reason.com.

From novel legal theories to repeated mistakes, 2025 delivered no shortage of questionable copyright rulings. These five cases led the way.

By Sarah Fackrell, Professor of Law at Chicago-Kent College of Law It’s been a busy year on the Schedule A beat. In reflecting on the year, I’ve put together this quick round-up of ten of the top deve...

MINUTES (IN CHAMBERS) ORDER GRANTING THE MOTION FOR JUDGMENT ON THE PLEADINGS [Dkt. No. 30]; GRANTING THE RESPECTIVE REQUESTS FOR JUDICIAL NOTICE [Dkt. Nos. 31, 36]; AND GRANTING THE MOTION TO STRIKE ...

Dueling federal lawsuits over the slang term for young rookie surfers are being waged in San Diego and in Washington state.

A fitness company with a cycling app called Bike+ has urged the U.S. Supreme Court to review a Ninth Circuit decision dismissing its trademark infringement claims against Peloton, saying the appeals c...

Now that the Bartz settlement has passed some initial judicial hurdles and is moving along, with important deadlines approaching (opt-out and objections are due January 15), we thought it was worth…

Elon Musk's X Corp sued a startup on Tuesday after it sought to cancel X's Twitter trademarks so it can "bring Twitter back" as a new social media platform.