AI Daily Briefing
- Legal Ethics: $3M Sanction, DOJ Misconduct, and a Court’s Jaundiced Eye: The American justice system is showing cracks, from a staggering $3 million sanction to admitted prosecutorial misconduct and jury rooms fractured by toxic divides. Here’s what you need to know.
- Pictometry Patents Crushed: Federal Circuit Upholds PTAB Obviousness Rulings: Pictometry’s ambitious aerial roof-measuring patents have been shot down. The Federal Circuit has sided with the PTAB, affirming rulings that found the core claims obvious.
- SCOTUS Drugs & Guns: A Troubling Pattern: The Supreme Court is poised to rule on drug users’ gun rights in United States v. Hemani. This case could expose a troubling pattern of judicial bias.
- USPTO Data Glitch Rewrites Patent Eligibility History: What looked like a steady decline in patent eligibility rejections has been dramatically reshaped by a data correction. The USPTO’s own administrative policy is now more clearly implicated in examiner behavior than the Supreme Court’s pronouncements.
- License Plate Readers Go Rogue: Automated license plate readers (ALPRs) are no longer just for chasing criminals. New analysis shows police are using them for everything from checking school residency to investigating noise complaints. It’s a colossal privacy fail.
- Anthropic Enters Legal AI Arena: A New Game or Same Old Players?: Anthropic wants to be the legal industry’s AI front door. So, how does the rest of the tech world plan to respond? We break down the implications beyond the PR spin.
- Oral Arguments Stretch: Supreme Court’s Time Warp: The Supreme Court’s oral arguments are clocking in at nearly 90 minutes, a notable jump that’s raising eyebrows and sparking a debate about efficiency and accessibility.
- Federal Circuit’s ‘Theme Song’: A Civic Disaster: The Federal Circuit tried to teach a civic lesson. It utterly failed. The result? An embarrassing, damning theme song.
