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Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · last wk.

patent law catching strays

Trump's delivery is 😬

Joe Dunman@joedunman.bsky.social · last wk.

Is a quote looks too on-the-nose, especially if its from the most respected journal in your field, don't even look it up. Just ask "are you sure this is a direct quote?" because it isn't. You have to verify everything like it's 1990, when human error was the only problem. Every word.

We are like newborn babes, each discovering the world anew every day.

Helen Barrett
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Lots of writers now only quote from original interviews, archives or physical books -- anything else is too dangerous. It takes forever and I'm not sure there's another way.

Quote from a news report:

“Earlier this year, author Steven Rosenbaum took a phone call that turned his world upside down. The book he had spent three years researching and writing, he was informed, contained quotations fabricated by Al tools.
"When I learnt there were factual inaccuracies in The Future of Truth, my first reaction was: that's impossible," Rosenbaum tells the FT two months after the discovery. "It had gone through a traditional publishing process with multiple rounds of editing and review."
Rosenbaum had been clear about the use of AI tools in his nonfiction book - ironically, a study of the future of truth and technology - but had used them only to research and organise material, including summarising source documents and interviews.
"What I failed to recognise was that, in some cases, it transformed those summaries into what appeared to be direct quotations," he says. "The danger isn't that AI writes bad prose. The danger is that it writes persuasive prose attached to facts that never existed."”
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Thoughts about word limits and exams in an age of AI by @matthewsag.bsky.social matthewsag.com/ai-accommoda...

AI, Accommodations, and Assessment Integrity – Matthew Sag

matthewsag.com

Probably should be teaching journalists to ask some version of this question at appropriate times

Overview of the debate over regulation of China’a open source AI, open source history, and competitive analysis open.substack.com/pub/p3instit...

From Open Source Software to Open Source Strategy

How the Smartest Executives Are Using Open Source Techniques to Optimize Corporate Strategy

open.substack.com

Reuters Legal@legal.reuters.com · 2w ago

Settled

A Florida teen whose lawsuit claimed Meta’s platforms were to blame for his depression and anxiety dropped his case against the company just days before the trial in Los Angeles was set to start, his attorneys said on Wednesday.

The New York Times @nytimes.com · 2w ago

France passed a landmark law on Tuesday restricting access to social media for anyone under 15, the first European country to do so, and the latest in a wave of nations acting against what they view as malign effects of such services on minors. nyti.ms/4fKPJoq

It's another Coke rebrand

Amy Landers @amylanders.bsky.social · 3w ago

EU ban on the destruction of unsold goods took effect yesterday www.bakermckenzie.com/en/insight/p...

European Union: European Commission Adopts New ESPR Measures | Insight | Baker McKenzie

EU adopts new ESPR measures outlining disclosure requirements and derogations for destroying unsold consumer goods.

bakermckenzie.com

Fender sues guitar maker for copyright infringement. Stratocaster is on the left, the accused Harley-Benton (German) guitar on the right www.reuters.com/legal/legali...

Amy Landers @amylanders.bsky.social · 3w ago

Patently O has an excellent update on yesterday's senate committee hearing "From Genes to Machines: the Patent Eligibility Debate" patentlyo.com/patent/2026/... (paywall). See also AOC's very clear demonstration of evergreening

From Genes to Machines: PERA's First Full-Committee Hearing

At PERA's first full-committee hearing, the fight narrowed to whether the bill's 'unmodified human gene' carve-out codifies Myriad or reopens gene patents.

patentlyo.com

Acyn@acyn.bsky.social · 3w ago

AOC: This is an inhaler pump. Can you guess what the great innovation was that made it worth preventing this from going generic? It’s this little plastic piece right here. That was a major part of the new patent they filed to extend exclusivity and prevent this life-saving drug from going generic.

Amy Landers @amylanders.bsky.social · 3w ago

Cultural appropriation comes full circle

Univ of Chicago law's AI policy: "Across all 1L sections, we will prohibit the use of electronic devices such as laptops, tablets, and phones in the classroom." Hey, I heard that gasp. www.law.uchicago.edu/news/ai-stra...

Rethinking Legal Education in the AI Era | University of Chicago Law School

OverviewArtificial Intelligence is already impacting higher education and the legal profession, and the pace of change appears only to be accelerating. It is thus critical for us to use this moment to...

law.uchicago.edu

I'll accept this as a transformative use of the day

Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 4w ago

Brown's AI study has some excellent analysis and data about AI use in its university, some suggestions that are worth mulling over. provost.brown.edu/sites/defaul...

BREAKING: Eleventh Circuit, on a 2-1 vote, upholds injunction blocking Florida from enforcing its 2022 Stop WOKE Act in the university context. The majority opinion is from Judge Britt Grant, a Trump appointee: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Before GRANT, LAGOA, and WILSON, Circuit Judges.
GRANT, Circuit Judge:
"Congress shall make no law ... abridging the freedom of speech." U.S. Const. amend I. The First Amendment, incorporated against the States in 1868, is this country's written commitment to the idea that freedom of speech is essential to freedom of thought, and that both are essential to maintaining our liberty. The Supreme Court has long been clear that teaching and scholarship are due some measure of protection under the Amendment. But how much? And in what contexts? That Court has not had to say, but this one is now put to the test. The State of Florida legislated a broad set of speech restrictions banning certain viewpoints relating to race, color, sex, and national origin in various settings. The provision at issue here bars Florida's educators from promoting or endorsing those distavored ideas when instructing students. Its prohibition applies not only in primary and secondary education, where states traditionally exercise a great deal of control, but also in public colleges and universities, where the state government's role has been far more limited.
When several groups of professors challenged Florida's new restrictions, the State cast about for an existing case or doctrine that could support its speech ban in the university setting. Finding none, it tried to marry public-employee speech cases with government speech doctrine, resulting in a new rule: if the

government pays a professor's salary, it has total control over her classroom speech.
That is not a blessed union. Florida's salary-for-speech rule is a breathtaking assertion of power to ban unpopular ideas from public discourse in the very places the State's own statutes recognize as centers of inquiry-classrooms where students are trusted to puzzle through ideas that are good and bad, easy and hard, ideally getting ever closer to the truth. This new rule also runs headlong into the Supreme Court's repeated, if imprecise, endorsements of academic freedom. If the First Amendment offers any boundary of protection at all for public university classrooms, this statute crosses it.
Nor does this Court's leading academic speech precedent,
Bishop v. Aronov, demand the outcome Florida seeks. 926 F.2d 1066 (11th Cir. 1991). In fact, it counsels the opposite. The restriction in that case was imposed by one university, against one professor, relating to speech about one thing— personal religious views that got in the way of the course's well-understood parameters.

That precedent makes clear that universities and even other government entities have crucial authority to shape curricular content, discipline teachers, and take other steps to guide and govern postsecondary education. But the speech ban Florida's political leaders seek to impose here is different in both nature and degree from these ordinary concerns. The rule Florida developed for this case does not withstand scrutiny.
11 Case: 22-13992
Document: 156-1 Date Filed: 07/07/2026 Page:
22-13992
Opinion of the Court
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The ideas Florida targets may well be noxious. Or maybe
not.
Either way, in this context the First Amendment trusts students to figure it out for themselves. We affirm the district court's preliminary injunction.

Amy Landers @amylanders.bsky.social · last mo.

I'm at my writ's end.

I believe the question presented is: Whether trademark strength is a question of fact in a likelihood-of-confusion analysis under 15 U.S.C. § 1114. www.supremecourt.gov/DocketPDF/24...

supremecourt.gov

Mark Lemley@marklemley.bsky.social · last mo.

The Supreme Court just took a trademark case, the first time they have ever considered the multifactor likelihood of confusion analysis (though this one is likely going to be more about judge vs. jury on the question of mark strength) RiseandShine Co v PepsiCo

Amy Landers @amylanders.bsky.social · last mo.

UT Law dean on AI: "renewed emphasis on the Socratic mode of teaching. It also suggests that faculty should take steps to ensure ... student is not distracted by whatever might be taking place on their screen at that time" .... so no 🛜? drive.google.com/file/d/1gLqI...

AI and Legal Education (UT Austin).pdf

drive.google.com

Amy Landers @amylanders.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Helpful comments on the CC-BY points

Ann M. Lipton@annmlipton.bsky.social · 2mo ago

not sure if everyone can access this, but I just learned about some dramatic changes to SSRN from Steve Bainbridge's Substack. This is really bad; SSRN has been how I keep up with scholarship in my field from a variety of researchers www.stephenbainbridge.com/p/the-social...

Forbes@forbes.com · 3mo ago

Part of the policy: "The use of AI is prohibited for aid in conceptualizing, outlining, drafting, revising, translating, or editing. AI use is prohibited for any exam situation. Students may not upload course materials into generative AI systems."

UC Berkeley Law School Adopts New, Strict Ban On AI Use By Students

Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 3mo ago

The system working as intended. They want to push trans youth to either leave the state or take their own lives. Idaho got both outcomes here and now the lawsuit against them has to be dismissed.

Kelcie Moseley-Morris@kelciemmorris.bsky.social · 3mo ago

"The move came after a transgender student who was part of Boise High School’s Sexuality and Gender Alliance died by suicide, and another stopped attending the school, the group’s lawyers wrote in a legal agreement reached Wednesday requesting the case be dismissed."

404 Media@404media.co · 3mo ago

Saw three piece of media this week that were anti-AI (Devil Wears Prada 2, Comeback, Hacks). Inexplicably, two featured Justin Theroux. HBO's The Comeback was the best of those. And now this...

Former Google CEO Eric Schmidt was booed throughout this commencement speech at the University of Arizona for his praise of AI. This comes just a week after another commencement speaker who mentioned AI was booed at a school in Florida. Read more: www.404media.co/ucf-ai-comme...

madeline odent@oldenoughtosay.com · 3mo ago

Novelty, nonobviousness, enablement, written description, statutory subject matter, utility

what are the Six Genders? wrong answers only

Kevin M. Kruse@kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Nancy Meyer's Oppenheimer

Wes Anderson's Oppenheimer

Sephora: "clean" beauty can include synthetic and harmful chemicals. Brand wins false advertising suit, claiming its advertising accurately identified ingredients that were excluded to earn the "clean" designation. www.klgates.com/Sephora-Prev...

Sephora Prevails in Consumer Challenge of "Clean at Sephora" Claims

Last week, a New York federal court rendered a big win, not just for Sephora, but for personal care brands and retailers that want to make "clean" claims.

klgates.com