Sonate Corporation d/b/a Vegedelphia Foods v. Beyond Meat is a tale of two trademarks separated by the same words. Vegedelphia registered the trademark WHERE GREAT TASTE IS PLANT-BASED in 2015. Its business is selling meat-substitute products to restaurants and distributors. The mark was used on its wholesale packaging, website, and promotional merchandise. After a supply…
In Re: OpenAI, Inc. Copyright Infringement Litigation is another proposed class action by authors involving alleged infringement by large language models (LLMs). Here, the class would represent authors and copyright holders of fiction and non-fiction books who assert claims on their own and on behalf of the proposed class. Plaintiffs alleged OpenAI infringed their copyrights…
Richardson v. Kharbouch was a case we wrote about in February of 2024 that hinged on the difference between copyright in a composition and copyright in a sound recording. The case involved an ambitious, teen hip-hop artist known as Hotwire the Producer (Eddie Richardson), who crafted a unique beat that he later identified in the…