Carstens, Allen & Gourley is an award-winning technology and IP law firm with offices in Dallas & Denver. We help companies with patent, trademark, copyright, trade secrets, and intellectual property (IP) strategies. We now offer a broad range of fractional general counsel services to companies without in-house counsel.
Our litigation services include business and complex commercial litigation such as patent litigation, trademark litigation, trade secret litigation, and breach of contract. We have substantial experience advising on legal and compliance issues related to artificial intelligence and GenAI solutions in particular.
Trade Dress Disputes in the Influencer Space: A Legal First
In a “first of its kind” lawsuit pending in the Western District of Texas, two social media influencers—Sydney Nicole Gifford and Alyssa Sheil—are engaged in a heated dispute over alleged copying of aesthetic branding and content. While the case primarily hinges on copyright infringement claims, its inclusion of a trade ...
REMOVAL OF COPYRIGHT MANAGEMENT INFORMATION NOT ACTIONABLE FOR TRAINING OPEN AI LLM MODEL
Raw Story Media and AlterNet sued OpenAI in the Southern District of New York, alleging violation of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) by OpenAI. Raw Story Media argued that using copyrighted content to train Open AI’s LLM model resulted in a risk of reproducing their works with the copyright ...