by Kelly Malloy | Sep 24, 2025 | Blog, Copyright
On September 22, 2025, the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (“USPTO”) welcomed its new Director, John A. Squires. As the nation’s chief intellectual property executive, Mr. Squires will be responsible for overseeing the USPTO as well as advising the President of...
by John Malloy, III | Sep 18, 2025 | Blog, Copyright
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit has temporarily reinstated Shira Perlmutter, the Register of Copyrights and Director of the U.S. Copyright Office, pending further legal proceedings. Ms. Perlmutter was terminated by President Trump on May...
by John Malloy, III | May 12, 2025 | Blog, Copyright
President Trump terminated Shira Perlmutter, the Register of Copyrights and Director of the U.S. Copyright Office, on Saturday, May 10th. Ms. Perlmutter had served in the position since October 26, 2020. The U.S. Copyright Office is a division of the Library of...
by Katelyn Malloy | May 2, 2025 | Blog, Copyright
The U.S. Copyright Office (“USCO”) released “Copyright and Artificial Intelligence, Part 2: Copyrightability” after receiving thousands of comments to its Notice of Inquiry, which largely considered whether material generated with the assistance of artificial...
by Kelly Malloy | Feb 24, 2025 | Blog, Copyright, Trademark
The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (“USPTO”) recently reported that during fiscal year 2024, U.S. Customs and Border Protection (“CBP”) seized 32.3 million counterfeit items with a total value of approximately $5.4 billion (if authentic). These 2024 statistics...
by Max Matiauda | Dec 23, 2024 | Blog, Copyright
A copyright dispute brought by four publishers against the Internet Archive came to a close earlier this month, following the Internet Archive’s unsuccessful appeal to U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit. The Internet Archive (“the Archive”) is a non-profit...
