Originally posted by Reuters

Pfizer and BioNTech have submitted petitions to the U.S. Patent Office's Patent Trial and Appeal Board to invalidate two Moderna patents related to COVID-19 vaccine technology, asserting that these patents are excessively broad and cover ideas that were known well before their 2015 invention date. This challenge is part of an ongoing legal battle between the pharmaceutical giants, with Moderna having previously accused Pfizer and BioNTech of violating its messenger-RNA vaccine technology patents.

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Dish Network has expanded its legal battle with iFit, accusing iFit's fitness machines, including stationary bikes and treadmills with video-streaming capabilities, of infringing on Dish's newly issued streaming-video patents in Delaware federal court. Dish Network adds a new dimension to its legal dispute with iFit, alleging that iFit's fitness equipment infringes on recently granted streaming-video patents related to adaptive bitrate streaming, while seeking damages and an injunction in Delaware federal court.

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Originally posted by Billboard

Cardi B and Megan Thee Stallion have won a lawsuit in which they were accused of plagiarizing lyrics from an earlier track for two of their songs; a Manhattan federal judge ruled that the contested lyrics were too unoriginal to be protected by copyright law, as they were common phrases frequently used in popular culture and other hip-hop songs. Cardi B and Megan Thee Stallion emerge victorious in a copyright lawsuit, as a judge deems the contested lyrics too unoriginal to warrant copyright protection.

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OpenAI and Microsoft are facing a second class-action lawsuit in San Francisco federal court, alleging violations of privacy laws in developing ChatGPT and other generative AI systems, with claims that the technology was trained using stolen personal information from millions of internet users; the lawsuit, filed by Morgan & Morgan, closely resembles an earlier case filed by Clarkson Law Firm in June, focusing on privacy, property, and consumer rights violations. OpenAI and Microsoft are hit with a second class-action lawsuit, accused of training their AI systems using unlawfully acquired personal data, raising concerns about the misuse of private information.

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Google faces a copyright lawsuit from Danish online job-search rival Jobindex, alleging that Google copied job advertisements to its own service without permission, citing copyright violations and seeking compensation under new EU copyright rules. Jobindex's lawsuit, the first of its kind in Danish courts under the new rules, comes after the company had previously complained to EU antitrust regulators about Google's alleged unfair favoritism toward its own job-search service.

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