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EasyJetwash owner agrees to pay out in trademark row

Patio cleaner in Staffordshire will pay ‘significant damages and legal costs’ to group behind easyJet brand.

Story Protocol Developer Raises $80M Series B, Led by A16z, for Intellectual Property Chain

“We’re focused on solving a real problem that impacts the creative industry, not just creating another technical tweak,” PIP Labs CEO SY Lee says.

IPH acquires Bereskin & Parr in fourth Canadian acquisition for intellectual property behemoth

Bereskin & Parr will be folded into Smart & Biggar to form a single firm, according to an announcement by IPH on Thursday. Bereskin & Parr is headquartered in Toronto with offices in Mississauga, Waterloo, and Montreal.

Authors sue Anthropic for copyright infringement over AI training

Artificial intelligence company Anthropic has been hit with a class-action lawsuit in California federal court by three authors who say it misused their books and hundreds of thousands of others to train its AI-powered chatbot Claude.

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