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Amy Landers

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Intellectual property, law specialist, and professor of law Fourth edition of Understanding Patent Law (revised and updated) cap-press.com/books/isbn/9781531029…

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Amy Landers @amylanders.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
"The Federal ​Trade Commission is opening a sweeping probe into Anthropic, ‌OpenAI and other AI labs to uncover the potential dangers their ​technology poses to consumers" www.reuters.com/business/ftc...
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FTC opens probe into AI giants including Anthropic and OpenAI, source says
The Federal ​Trade Commission ​plans to issue formal demands for ​information and compel testimony from executives at top AI developers.
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Amy Landers @amylanders.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
J Crew has been using the TM designation on ROLLNECK and BARN JACKET to signal iconic status. Unless I'm missing something, they have no registrations for either. Nice hypo if you're doing Booking.com anytime soon.
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Amy Landers @amylanders.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Patent drafting using AI: "Foundational expertise may be a prerequisite for extracting durable skill from AI-assisted practice." www.nber.org/papers/w35720
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Does AI Assistance Enhance or Erode Expertise? Evidence from a Three-Month Field Experiment in Patent Drafting
Founded in 1920, the NBER is a private, non-profit, non-partisan organization dedicated to conducting economic research and to disseminating research findings among academics, public policy makers, an...
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Amy Landers @amylanders.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
At the conclusion of the rescue, the men told a Sheriff’s Deputy they had relied heavily on Google’s Gemini AI about the route and what to pack for their trip. This was a critical misstep. www.cbsnews.com/sacramento/n...
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Hikers rescued from California's Mount Shasta after ascent planned with incorrect AI information
Three novice hikers became stranded after their AI-planned ascent to the summit turned into a multi-day ordeal requiring a rescue operation.
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Amy Landers @amylanders.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
“The truth will set you free, but first it will piss you off.”
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Amy Landers @amylanders.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
In a Big Win, Google Avoids a Breakup of Its Ad Tech Business www.nytimes.com/2026/09/02/t...
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In a Big Win, Google Won’t Have to Break Up Its Ad Tech Business, Court Rules (Gift Article)
In a long-awaited decision, a federal judge said Google must change its ad tech business to address antitrust issues, but did not disclose the measures.
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Amy Landers @amylanders.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Does anyone know the VARA situation? www.notus.org/metro/kenned...
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Kennedy Center Removes ‘Beloved’ Sculpture From Its Grounds
The center did not announce the move ahead of time.
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Patent Buddy @patentbuddy.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
www.ptablitigationblog.com/design-paten...
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Design Patents at the PTAB: Over a Decade of Data Reveals the Real Odds - PTAB Litigation Blog
By John Evans and Tyler Fertel* – It’s been a decade since we first reported early statistics on design patent IPR/PGR outcomes.  Time for an update—and the numbers tell an interesting story.  Design ...
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Amy Landers @amylanders.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Operation Bluebird to launch using Twitter TM at twitter.now, claiming the marks have been abandoned. Musk sues and seeks preliminary injunction. Court ruling due soon. arstechnica.com/tech-policy/...
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New Twitter launches, says Musk's X gave up the name
Judge hasn't ruled on X Corp’s preliminary injunction, but Operation Bluebird plows ahead...
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Brett Frischmann @brettfrischmann.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
Excellent piece. @mblawrence.bsky.social @ormerod.bsky.social this resonates strongly with the decomposing AI systems work
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Amy Landers @amylanders.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
On using song lyrics phrasing as a mark, here for the classes coffee and teas.
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Amy Landers @amylanders.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Rebel Ice Cream Files for Bankruptcy After Van Leeuwen Wins Packaging Suit www.nytimes.com/2026/08/19/b...
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Rebel Ice Cream Files for Bankruptcy After Van Leeuwen Wins Packaging Suit (Gift Article)
The announcement comes less than a month after a federal judge ordered Rebel to pay nearly $24 million to Van Leeuwen for copying the design of its containers.
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Patent Buddy @patentbuddy.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
www.engadget.com/2237547/meta...
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Meta faces a $1.4 trillion reckoning in latest trial over social media addiction - Engadget
Dozens of states accuse the company of violating the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act.
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Amy Landers @amylanders.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
New Instagram logo dropped
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Reuters Legal @legal.reuters.com · 06/08/2026
Law graduates who were unable to take Washington state’s July bar exam due to technological problems will have the option to be licensed to practice without ever taking the test, the Supreme Court of Washington said Thursday.
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Washington allows some law grads to skip bar exam after botched test
Law graduates who were unable to take Washington state’s July bar exam due to technological problems will have the option to be licensed to practice without ever taking the test, the ​Supreme Court of Washington said Thursday.
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Amy Landers @amylanders.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
Nice to be back at IPSC to hear thoughtful papers about IP and reconnect with scholars (and meet others)
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Amy Landers @amylanders.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
Hank Greene's statement on the reasons he won't use AI to assist in content creation any more.
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Amy Landers @amylanders.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
“At least six of Ms. Rashid’s clients were barred from attending their own separation board hearings because they refused to cut their hair and appear in the uniform of their sex assigned at birth”. GIFT LINK Inside the Secretive Boards Deciding Trans Troops’ Fate www.nytimes.com/2026/08/03/u...
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Inside the Secretive Boards Deciding Trans Troops’ Fate (Gift Article)
The Pentagon is relying on closed-door hearings to kick out transgender service members. An Army Reserve lawyer is one of the few who have seen how they really work.
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Amy Landers @amylanders.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
600-plus people in one room trying to get onto the same network at the same time to take an exam that runs entirely through the NCBE’s software. Options: possible re-take in Sept. 2026 or Feb. 2027, alternatively a refund/withdraw. abovethelaw.com/2026/07/wash...
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Washington Just Called Off Its Entire Bar Exam - Above the Law
Six hours of tech troubles, no questions answered, and a class of grads told to put their lives on hold until September.
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Amy Landers @amylanders.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
patent law catching strays
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Amy Landers @amylanders.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
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.
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Amy Landers @amylanders.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
Thoughts about word limits and exams in an age of AI by @matthewsag.bsky.social matthewsag.com/ai-accommoda...
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AI, Accommodations, and Assessment Integrity – Matthew Sag
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Amy Landers @amylanders.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
Probably should be teaching journalists to ask some version of this question at appropriate times
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Amy Landers @amylanders.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
Overview of the debate over regulation of China’a open source AI, open source history, and competitive analysis open.substack.com/pub/p3instit...
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From Open Source Software to Open Source Strategy
How the Smartest Executives Are Using Open Source Techniques to Optimize Corporate Strategy
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Amy Landers @amylanders.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
Settled
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 21/07/2026
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
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Amy Landers @amylanders.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
It's another Coke rebrand
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Amy Landers @amylanders.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
EU ban on the destruction of unsold goods took effect yesterday www.bakermckenzie.com/en/insight/p...
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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.
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Amy Landers @amylanders.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
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...
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Amy Landers @amylanders.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
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
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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.
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Amy Landers @amylanders.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
Cultural appropriation comes full circle
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Amy Landers @amylanders.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
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...
law.uchicago.edu
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...
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Amy Landers @amylanders.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
I'll accept this as a transformative use of the day
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Amy Landers @amylanders.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
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...
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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
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 thegovernment 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.
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Document: 156-1 Date Filed: 07/07/2026 Page:
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The ideas Florida targets may well be noxious. Or maybe
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Either way, in this context the First Amendment trusts students to figure it out for themselves. We affirm the district court's preliminary injunction.
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Amy Landers @amylanders.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
I'm at my writ's end.
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Amy Landers @amylanders.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
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...
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Amy Landers @amylanders.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
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...
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AI and Legal Education (UT Austin).pdf
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Amy Landers @amylanders.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
Helpful comments on the CC-BY points
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Amy Landers @amylanders.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
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."
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 22/05/2026
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.
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Amy Landers @amylanders.bsky.social · 17/05/2026
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...
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Amy Landers @amylanders.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
Novelty, nonobviousness, enablement, written description, statutory subject matter, utility
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Amy Landers @amylanders.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
Nancy Meyer's Oppenheimer
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Amy Landers @amylanders.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
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...
klgates.com
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.
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Amy Landers @amylanders.bsky.social · 04/05/2026
White House Considers Vetting A.I. Models Before They Are Released www.nytimes.com/2026/05/04/t...
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White House Considers Vetting A.I. Models Before They Are Released
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Amy Landers @amylanders.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
My interest in 1L property was defeasible.
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Amy Landers @amylanders.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
Sotomayor, our IP specialist, also weighs in...
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Amy Landers @amylanders.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
"The Fourth Circuit’s holding thuswent beyond the two forms of liability recognized in Grokster and Sony. It also conflicted with this Court’s repeatedadmonition that contributory liability cannot rest only on a provider’s knowledge of infringement and insufficient action to prevent it."
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Amy Landers @amylanders.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
From one of the most prominent AI legal scholars…🧵🪡
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