By Victoria Webb and Kirk Sigmon On September 5, 2025, artificial intelligence (“AI”) company Anthropic publicly agreed to pay at least $1.5 billion for the infringing use of around 500,000 copyrighted works as part of training its Claude Large Language Model (“LLM”) products. The case, Bartz et al. v. Anthropic PBC, No. 24-cv-05417 (N.D. Cal.),…
Shareholder Kirk Sigmon joins three panel discussions during the IIPLA USA 2023/WLF 2023 LegalTech Summit USA at the Crowne Plaza in Palo Alto, CA, October 2-3. On October 3, Kirk joins distinguished panelists on the topics: Monetization and Commercialization of IP Assets, Digitalization of Legal Processes and Documents, and Patent Law and its Impact on…
Banner Witcoff’s Darrell Mottley was quoted in Law360’s article “AI Not Yet Ready To Take Patent Drafting Jobs, Attys Say” discussing how AI could be used in creating patent applications. Attorneys agree current AI might be able to produce something that looks like an entire patent application from scratch, but wouldn’t be effective at protecting…
Banner Witcoff attorney Kirk Sigmon taught an artificial intelligence IP masterclass at Chulalongkorn University Technology Center’s MedVentures Incubation Program.
Banner Witcoff's Liz Brodzinski will moderate a panel hosted by the Intellectual Property Law Association of Chicago that will examine intellectual property laws as they relate to political campaigns.
Our attorney Apurv Gaurav and summer associate Simon Lasker analyze the Federal Circuit’s recent decision in American Axle & Manufacturing, Inc. v. Neapco Holdings LLC.
Banner Witcoff attorney Scott M. Kelly discussed a scientist’s challenge against the USPTO’s rejection of patent applications for inventions created by one of his AI systems.
