PMAC Director interview; OpenAI, Adobe winning against ChatGPT; other Apple, Google U.S. litigation

1) Freemium mix: PMAC is the UPC’s ‘multi-door’ dispute resolution partner, Director Aleš Zalar says

In an exclusive interview, PMAC Director Aleš Zalar tells ip fray about the center’s first cases, its expanding FRAND work, coordination with the UPC and national courts, and plans to make arbitration faster and more cost-effective.

2) Free: OpenAI, Adobe, others are on winning track against world’s first serious patent infringement lawsuit over ChatGPT: patent likely invalid

OpenAI and its codefendants, notably including Adobe, appear very likely to fend off the world’s first serious patent infringement lawsuit over ChatGPT.

3) Premium: BASF spin-off also suing Apple over face ID patent infringement in UPC, ITC 

The United States International Trade Commission has instituted an investigation into BASF subsidiary TrinamiX’s infringement complaint against Apple over six of its facial recognition-related patents, a month after the plaintiff also sued Apple in both the UPC and the United States District Court for the Western District of Texas.

4) Premium: Google succeeds in getting Federal Circuit to move online maps case out of Western District of Texas

Now-retired District Judge Alan D. Albright was “patently erroneous” in denying Google’s motion to transfer the University of Southern California’s complaint.