IPWatchdog's weekly legal roundup reports that the Ninth Circuit sided with GitHub in a dispute over its AI-powered coding platform. A group of Doe plaintiffs had argued that the platform's outputs ran afoul of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act. The appeals court did not accept that output-based theory.
Elsewhere, the Third Circuit heard oral arguments in a case involving vintage merchandise, and the Federal Circuit affirmed an award of attorneys' fees in a lab-grown diamond case. The article treats these as distinct developments rather than parts of a single legal trend.
Because the source is a single aggregate post, there are no conflicting accounts to compare; it collects recent intellectual property and technology law updates in one briefing.