I ♡ Trademarks NewsletterIssue #460
Alt Legal Team | December 09, 2025
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LitigAItion
Ethereum is suing Elon Musk’s X. AI, alleging infringement of their XAI trademark.
The Ninth Circuit has affirmed that OpenAI’s IO is too similar to the existing IYO and would cause confusion.
After settling a lawsuit against Anthropic for $1.5 billion, the attorneys for the authors and publishers who brought suit are asking for $300 million in legal fees.
Fastcase is suing AI-powered research platform Alexi for trademark infringement and trade secret misappropriation, among other things.
It Taste Two
This taco truck owner who has to change his company name because of a cease and desist is a good example for potential clients about the importance of clearing a trademark before using it.
An author was accused of trademark infringement for titling her book Sabzi, a Persian/Hindi word that translates to Vegetables. That was the start of all the drama.
Sometimes litigation is the wrong move or can cause bigger problems. This overview of examples (including Spud Brothers and Supermacs) might make you and clients think twice.
Dupes are becoming more commonplace in the food and beverage industry, making enforcement harder and more important.
Copyrights
This explanation of copyright management information (CMI) is a great example of content to inform clients or to attract new ones.
The Supreme Court heard oral arguments last week in record labels’ lawsuit against Cox, alleging the ISP contributed to the copyright infringement committed by its customers.
Perplexity is the latest AI company to face a copyright infringement suit from the New York Times.
Might your conversations with ChatGPT be used as evidence in OpenAI’s copyright battle?
Professional Concerns
This IP counsel position in the UK is like Nothing else.
Take adVantage of this opening for IP counsel.
I had a Notion that you’d be interested in this commercial counsel gig.
Sign up for this USPTO webinar and watch it closely if you’re interested in being a trademark examining attorney.
Have an open role on your team? Email us at [email protected], and we’ll try to get it in our next newsletter!
Odds and Ends
In case you’ve missed any of them, here are our top five blog articles this year.
Without evidence of harm, a Schedule A case may be severely limited, as evidenced by this recent award of $1000 per instance (down from $100,000). For more about courts’ limiting of Schedule A claims, join us for this webinar on Thursday recapping this year’s top headlines.
If X has abandoned Twitter’s trademarks, does that mean they’re fair game for another social media company to use?
As a non-patent person, I find this explanation of open patent families fascinating and super enlightening.