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Intellectual Property

Jan. 24, 2024

Some claims over Microsoft’s AI development are dismissed

Joseph Saveri Law Firm LLP and Los Angeles attorney Matthew Butterick wrote in the amended complaint that Copilot, an artificial intelligence chatbot developed by GitHub and OpenAI, reproduces code that can be traced back to open-source licensees, which it is not authorized to do.

A federal judge in Oakland handed Microsoft Corp., its subsidiary GitHub Inc., and OpenAI Inc. a partial win in an artificial intelligence fair use lawsuit brought by anonymous coders and dismissed some claims against the technology companies.

“Turning to Does 3 and 4, the court agrees with the defendants that they have ‘yet again failed to plead specific instances in which their code was output by Copilot,’” U.S. District Judge Jon S. Ti...

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