OpenAI has agreed to stop using alleged Apple trade secrets as both companies trade accusations of intellectual property theft during ongoing litigation.
OpenAI alleges a former employee stole over 100 proprietary files and shared them with Apple leadership to influence the company’s new AI-enabled hardware strategy.
Rospatent has revoked a Russian entrepreneur's trademark rights for an AI-generated character following a successful challenge by an Italian firm.
Representative Ro Khanna has demanded that major US AI labs disclose any foreign attempts to steal their model weights or exploit their technology through distillation.
Design patents offer a 25-year protection for visual assets, while new regulations in Russia have doubled infringement compensation to 10 ₽ million as of 2026.
Epic Games has submitted a new application for the Megaverse trademark in Europe following a previous legal defeat against Megaverse Ltd.
Qr Switch LLC has launched legal action against Telegram, Walmart, and Toyota, alleging infringement of its recently acquired patents for QR code authentication technology.
Palantir CEO Alex Karp suggests that leading AI labs are pursuing nationalization to shield themselves from massive intellectual property litigation.
Lithuanian legaltech startup EnforceShield has raised €1.7 million in seed funding to scale its AI-driven platform for automated intellectual property enforcement.
AI has made content re-assembly cheaper than licensing, forcing creators and companies to rethink how they protect their intellectual property beyond traditional copyright.
Anthropic reports that unauthorized labs are using illicit distillation to replicate Claude models on an industrial scale, prompting potential U.S. government sanctions.
Spirit Airlines faces mounting legal opposition as vendors and unions challenge the bankruptcy sale of a massive dataset to Google, citing risks to intellectual property and employee privacy.
Huawei has formally denied US allegations of intellectual property theft and sanctions violations in a new trial that began this week in New York.
A former BelGaN researcher was arrested for allegedly transferring gallium nitride chip IP to a Chinese firm, GanKool, before the Belgian company's collapse.
The US government has accused Huawei Technologies of systematic industrial espionage and the rewarding of employees for stealing competitor secrets over 20 years.
