The first federal appeals court to weigh fair use in AI training sided with Thomson Reuters over ROSS. Why it did so, for now, is under seal.

Nine experts advocated for Indigenous communities to maintain control of data about their land and culture at a Tuesday night event in Vanderbilt Hall.   The event, titled “Living Data, Living Lands,”...

I’m very sorry to have to report the sudden death yesterday of my esteemed colleague Randy Picker, who was well-known for his work on antitrust and intellectual property, among other topics. …

Trademark law maintains a remarkably primitive, incoherent, and unexamined approach to images, even as the number and importance of image marks has grown dramat

Authored by Profs. Jeanne C. Fromer and Christopher Jon Sprigman (both of NYU School of Law).

Regulations that force developers to disclose trade secrets to the public could violate the Constitution. How can regulators respond?

Opinion: Imposing a uniform "hold open" date for job offers to law students would likely put much-needed brakes on accelerated recruiting.

Not only are AIs far more agreeable than humans when advising on interpersonal matters, but users also prefer the sycophantic models.

Design patent §102 anticipation rejections have risen sevenfold since 2008, driven almost entirely by Amazon and e-commerce listings replacing patents as the dominant source of prior art.

Dean Troy McKenzie ’00 announced today that he will step down from his post at the helm of NYU Law in 2027.

Alumni titles from "Declaring Independence" to "Fashion and Intellectual Property."

We live in a world obsessed with firsts, in terms of accomplishments, creations, races, and milestones. At the same time, societal understandings of “first” can obscure others who in fact came beforehand. This Article is about understanding the hold that the idea of “first” has over intellectual property laws and how this hold can make the allocation of intellectual property rights less effective. It locates the roots of “first” as a basis to allocate rights in traditional property law. It then sets out four values that a rule of first possession can be seen to promote when it is transplanted to intellectual property: fairness, order, societal benefits, and rhetorical power.

Gif showing most common US patent inventor names 1910-2026. We know that in the US women have a lower rate of patenting. In addition though, parents are much more conservative in terms of male names.

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Trade secret law is premised on secrecy, though it has not yet contended with the individual and social effects of keeping and leaking secrets in the psychologi