ABA Journal “A proposed class action lawsuit alleges that Taco Bell violated a state law preventing deceptive trade practices by selling food that doesn’t live up to the ingredient-filled menu items portrayed in its advertising. The July 31 federal suit is filed on behalf of Ridgewood, New York, resident Frank Read more…
ABA Journal “Large language models such as ChatGPT are all the rage these days. A lot of commentators, legal professionals, lawyers and media outlets, have spent a lot of time examining this game changing technology. This isn’t the first time that a promising piece of legal technology upended the legal Read more…
” Updated: In the fall of 2022, David Wakeling, head of law firm Allen & Overy’s Markets Innovation Group in London, got a glimpse of the future. Months before the release of ChatGPT, he demoed Harvey, a platform built on OpenAI’s GPT technology and tailored for major law firms. “As Read more…
“Twitter is threatening to sue Meta after the release and rapid popularity of its new app Threads. Alex Spiro, an attorney for Twitter owner Elon Musk, sent Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg a letter Wednesday accusing the company of engaging in “systematic, willful and unlawful misappropriation of Twitter’s trade secrets and Read more…
“The U.S. Supreme Court has agreed to decide whether some administrative trials by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission violate the Seventh Amendment’s right to a jury. The Supreme Court agreed to hear the case June 30, report Reuters, Bloomberg Law and a press release by the Institute for Justice, a nonprofit public-interest law firm. Read more…
“The U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday upheld a Pennsylvania law that requires companies to consent to personal jurisdiction in state courts if they do business there. The high court upheld the law in a 14th Amendment due process challenge by the the Norfolk Southern Railway Co. But a partial concurrence Read more…
“A federal judge in Miami has tossed an artist’s lawsuit contending that his copyrighted artwork consisting of a plastic orange and a banana duct taped to a green panel was infringed by a second banana display. U.S. District Judge Robert N. Scola Jr. of the Southern District of Florida ruled Read more…
“There is no “special First Amendment protection” for product parodies that use trademarks as their own trademarks, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled Thursday in a case involving Jack Daniel’s and the maker of a parody dog toy. The Supreme Court unanimously vacated a decision by the 9th U.S. Circuit Court Read more…
“Hi, ChatGPT. What can ChatGPT do for lawyers (in 100 words or less)? «As an AI language model, ChatGPT can provide assistance to lawyers in various ways. It can help with legal research by quickly searching and analyzing large volumes of legal documents and cases to extract relevant information. It Read more…
“Taco Bell filed two petitions to cancel trademark registrations for the phrase “Taco Tuesday” last week while touting its “liberation” campaign. The petitions seek to cancel trademarks registered by Gregory Hotel Inc. and Spicy Seasonings, which operates the Taco John’s restaurant franchise, according to Bloomberg Law and a May 16 Read more…