Topic: trademark law
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Deel loses bid to block witness in Rippling spy case
A federal judge rejected Deel’s motion to silence former employee O’Brien, ruling that the company failed to make genuine efforts to resolve the dispute and ignoring assurances that O’Brien would not invoke his Fifth Amendment rights. The court dismissed Deel’s claims regarding cybersquatting and...
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Britannica and Merriam-Webster Sue OpenAI Over AI Training
Encyclopedia Britannica and Merriam-Webster have sued OpenAI, alleging ChatGPT was trained on and reproduces their copyrighted content without permission, causing commercial and reputational harm. The lawsuit claims OpenAI used nearly 100,000 of Britannica's articles for training, leading ChatGPT...
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Operation Bluebird Aims to Revive Twitter's 'Abandoned' Trademarks
A startup named Operation Bluebird has petitioned to cancel X Corp.'s "Twitter" and "Tweet" trademarks, arguing the company abandoned them after rebranding to "X," and has applied to use the name for a new social platform. The legal challenge cites U.S. trademark abandonment rules, but experts no...
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