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Mark Lemley

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William H. Neukom Professor, Stanford Law School. Partner, Lex Lumina LLP. I teach and write in IP, antitrust, internet, and video game law

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Mark A. Lemley is an American legal scholar known for his studies of American intellectual property law. He is currently the William H. Neukom Professor of Law at Stanford Law School and the Director of the Stanford Law School Program in Law, Science & Technology. Lemley is a founding partner of the law firm of Durie Tangri LLP, which he has been practicing with since 2009. .. more

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Mark Lemley @marklemley.bsky.social · 9h

The US envoy for Ukraine advising his Russian counterpart on how to pitch Trump to get him to endorse Russia's proposal for Ukranian surrender

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Witkoff Discusses Ukraine Plans With Key Putin Aide: Transcript

The following is a transcript of an Oct. 14 phone call lasting just over 5 minutes between Steve Witkoff, Donald Trump’s special envoy for peace missions, and Yuri Ushakov, Vladimir Putin’s most senio...

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Rebecca Tushnet @rtushnet.bsky.social · 9h

over dissent, court of appeals refuses to create right of publicity for houses

court of appeals refuses to create right of publicity for houses, over dissent

Dihno v. Netflix, Inc., 2025 WL 3280834, B335652 (Cal. Ct. App. Nov. 25, 2025) Over a partial dissent, the court of appeals affirms the re...

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Heidi Kitrosser @heidikitrosser.bsky.social · 9h

Don't cave, Northwestern, fight!

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Opinion | NU AAUP Dispatches: It’s time to take the Trump Administration to court

Opinion Contributor Prof. Heidi Kitrosser discusses how Northwestern should respond to funding freezes by the Trump Administration.

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Mark Lemley @marklemley.bsky.social · 10h

I agree that's a general problem, but the "don't ask, don't tell" approach to AI creates a big new incentive to lie about inventorship

Mark Lemley @marklemley.bsky.social · 10h

"None of us can imagine pulling out these tired jokes as a party trick, but it is comforting to know that money still can’t buy some things, including being a cool and funny human being."

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Elon Musk Said Grok’s Roasts Would Be ‘Epic’ at Parties—So I Tried It on My Coworkers

It went about as well as you’d expect.

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Mark Lemley @marklemley.bsky.social · 11h

In practice, I suspect this means applicants will lie about who made AI-generated inventions, the PTO will let them, and those patents will be in trouble if and when they are enforced in court.

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Mark Lemley @marklemley.bsky.social · 11h

What to do about AI inventorship is a hard problem. The prior PTO guidelines, now withdrawn, at least tried to grapple with it. The current approach is simply to say that people can be inventors, AI can't, and assume that ignoring AI conception somehow takes care of the problem. It doesn't.

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Mark Lemley @marklemley.bsky.social · 11h

The PTO has updated its AI inventorship guidance to declare that it is going to pretend there is no issue.

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Mark Lemley @marklemley.bsky.social · 14h

Ah yes, the famous secret patents. Maybe they were issued by Director Squires using the same process he uses to "decide" IPRs

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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 14h

Rep Don Bacon (R-NE) asks the correct questions.

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Julie DiCaro @juliedicaro.bsky.social · 1d

NEW:

The DOJ tells Judge James Boasberg that Kristi Noem made the decision that flights that had departed should continue on to El Salvador, in contravention of the court’s orders.

Julie DiCaro @juliedicaro.bsky.social · 1d

BREAKING:

“After receiving that legal advice, Secretary Noem directed that the AEA detainees who had been removed from the United States before the Court’s order could be transferred to the custody of El Salvador. “

Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche and Principal Associate Deputy Attorney

General Emil Bove provided DHS with legal advice regarding the Court’s order as to flights that

had left the United States before the order issued, through DHS Acting General Counsel Joseph

Mazzara. Mr. Mazzara then conveyed that legal advice, as well as his own legal advice, to

Secretary of Homeland Security, Kristi Noem. See 6 U.S.C. § 113(a)(1)(J). After receiving that

legal advice, Secretary Noem directed that the AEA detainees who had been removed from the

United States before the Court’s order could be transferred to the custody of El Salvador. As

explained below, that decision was lawful and was consistent with a reasonable interpretation of

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Gerrit De Vynck @gerritd.bsky.social · 1d

Additionally, OpenAI argues its not liable because Raine, by using ChatGPT for self-harm, broke its terms of service

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Edward Swaine @edswaine.bsky.social · 1d

may find it a little rocky

Mark Lemley @marklemley.bsky.social · 1d

Unfortunately I think this case, like so much other trademark bullying, will never go to court because the defendant can't afford to fight

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Jon Lee @jonleelawprof.bsky.social · 1d

Not surprising! scholarship.law.duke.edu/faculty_scho...

"Mark of the Devil: The University as Brand Bully" by James Boyle and Jennifer Jenkins

In recent years, universities have been accused in news stories of becoming “trademark bullies,” entities that use their trademarks to harass and intimidate beyond what the law can reasonably be inter...

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Tara Stelluto @tarastelluto.bsky.social · 1d

I fought with them over a sports beverage that was blue.

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Tara Stelluto @tarastelluto.bsky.social · 1d

Buc-ees is going to be very surprised to learn it's not famous.

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Matt Marcotte @mattmarcotte.bsky.social · 1d

Buc-ee's trademark watch service.

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Jon Lee @jonleelawprof.bsky.social · 1d

Buc-ee’s is a notorious trademark bully. I am cataloguing some of their overclaiming in an article I’m working on this spring. It is fascinating to see how their arguments have continued to shift (and become more general) as of late. Apparently they have the market cornered on smiling cartoons!

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DEFUND ICE - REJECT CRUELTY (Now 87% Good Human) @allthe2d.bsky.social · 1d

If Nut Huggers has a glorious selection of delicious hot coffees to choose from when I cross the country, I'd visit them. Something tells me that's not the forté of an underwear company though.

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Mark Lemley @marklemley.bsky.social · 1d

There are a lot of dumb trademark suits in the world. But this is just . . . nuts. Buc-ees thinks the image on the left infringes the one on the right

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Buc-ees suing ‘Nut Huggers’ underwear company over cartoon squirrel trademark infringement - Dexerto

Buc-ees is suing Oklahoma brand Nut Huggers over a cartoon squirrel logo the chain claims is trademark infringement.

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Nick Bednar @nicholasbednar.bsky.social · 1d

New Paper: Presidential Control of the Civil Service.

Conventional wisdom holds that the civil service sits safely beyond the president's reach. Does it? (1) Not nearly as much as legal scholars think. (2) That's a problem for the execution of the law. 1/12

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Presidential Control of the Civil Service

<p>Conventional wisdom treats the federal civil service as largely beyond the president’s reach. This Article challenges that assumption. Legal scholars too oft

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Mark Lemley @marklemley.bsky.social · 2d

It's concentrated in government now

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AAUP @aaup.org · 2d

Billionaires, who quite often do not see education as a common good, should not be guiding higher education policy.

“I kind of yearn,” Mr. Nassirian said, “for the gilded age when billionaires satisfied their extracurricular interests by collecting Fabergé eggs and prized ponies.”

#DefendHigherEd

Wealthy People Have Always Shaped Universities. This Time Is Different.

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Kristi Yamaguccimane @wapplehouse.bsky.social · 2d

Everything about this might be the saddest thing I’ve ever seen

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Mondoweiss @mondoweiss.net · 2d

Israel has violated the U.S.-brokered Gaza ceasefire nearly 500 times in 44 days—killing 342 civilians, including children, women, and the elderly.

That's more than 11 violations every single day.

The genocide never stopped. Palestinians are still being killed.

Mark Lemley @marklemley.bsky.social · 3d

I'm not on X so this is second-hand, but I think they removed auto-location but still allow you to manually set one (which of course is easily faked). With the caveat that this is AI, explanation attached

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Mark Lemley @marklemley.bsky.social · 3d

Twitter's new feature showing the location of accounts is being rolled back after just 24 hours because a bunch of MAGA accounts Musk retweeted were exposed as being foreign actors

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donmarie940.bsky.social @donmarie940.bsky.social · 3d

#Trump #seditionists

Benjamin Strick @bendobrown.bsky.social · 3d

X rolled out a new feature overnight showing where accounts are based. This network of “Trump-supporting independent women” that claimed to be “real Americans” are based in Thailand.

The photos were stolen from European models & posts pushed pro-Trump lines while targeting Islam and LGBTQ people.

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