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USPTO Director Designates Precedential Decision on Conclusory Expert Declarations

Director of the US Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) Kathi Vidal recently designated as precedential a decision by the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) rejecting the petitioner’s invalidity ...
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Using a Company Witness as a Subject Matter Expert on a Company’s Products

It is common in commercial litigation for a company to offer an employee as a witness to testify about the design, capabilities and features of the company’s products or services. Usually, such a ...
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Attorneys May Have to Ask Expert Witnesses "Whether They Have Used AI in Drafting Their Declarations and What They Have Done to Verify Any AI-Generated Content"

From Kohls v. Ellison, which I quoted more extensively in an earlier post: To be sure, Attorney General Ellison maintains that his office had no idea that Professor Hancock's declaration included fake ...
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Misinformation Expert's "Citation to Fake, AI-Generated Sources in His Declaration … Shatters His Credibility with This Court"

"[A] credentialed expert on the dangers of AI and misinformation, has fallen victim to the siren call of relying too heavily on AI—in a case that revolves around the dangers of AI, no less." From ...