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Firm receives ‘Tier 1’ national and regional rankings for litigation, patent and trademark work IRVINE, Calif., November 6, 2025 – Knobbe Martens has once again been recognized as a top-tier...

IRVINE, Calif., October 28, 2025 – Knobbe Martens is proud to share that the firm and numerous partners in its Litigation practice have been recognized in the 2026 edition of...

Netflix recently announced new guidance for using generative AI in content produced for its platform, requiring production partners to disclose any intended use of AI, prohibiting training models on uncleared...

IRVINE, Calif., September 8, 2025 – Knobbe Martens is pleased to share that 17 of the firm’s partners have been recognized in the 2026 edition of the Lawdragon 500 Leading...

Knobbe Martens partners Irfan Lateef and Ted Cannon co-authored “Recent Developments in Intellectual Property Law 2025,” a chapter in the ABA Business and Corporate Law Section’s “Recent Developments in Business...

IRVINE, Calif., August 21, 2025 – Knobbe Martens is pleased to share that dozens of the firm’s lawyers, representing a range of practice areas and offices across the country, have...

In the Daily Journal article “9th Circuit Weighs Tattoo Copyright Dispute between Kat Von D and Photographer,” Knobbe Martens partner Mark Lezama offered insight into the latest developments in an...

With the release of ChatGPT in late 2022, generative AI entered the cultural zeitgeist. Not surprisingly, within a few months, the first generative AI lawsuits were filed in the U.S....

In this episode of Knobbe IP+, Knobbe Martens partner Mark Lezama is joined by attorney and emerging technology advisor Liz Rothman to discuss the complex topic of artificial intelligence and...

In recent Law360 and TechCrunch articles, partner Mark Lezama offered insight into the potential impact of a recent district court ruling on future litigation related to copyright, fair use, and...

IRVINE, Calif., November 7, 2024 – Knobbe Martens is pleased to announce that the firm has again received multiple top tier recognitions across several offices and practices in the Best...

IRVINE, Calif., October 10, 2024 – Knobbe Martens is proud to announce that the firm and over a dozen of its partners have been ranked among the best in IP...

Partner Daniel Hughes was quoted in the Daily Journal story, “9th Circuit’s Reply to AI Identicality Question Might Alter Copyright Playing Field”. The article discusses an appeal by a federal...

IRVINE, Calif., September 11, 2024 – Knobbe Martens is pleased to share that ten of the firm’s partners have been recognized in the 2025 edition of Lawdragon’s 500 Leading Litigators...

Knobbe Martens litigation partner Mark Lezama was quoted in the Bloomberg Law story, “OpenAI Pushes Prompt-Hacking Defense to Deflect Copyright Claims”. The article examines how, in defending against copyright lawsuits...

In the Decrypt article “Judge Allows Copyright Case Against AI Image Generators to Move Forward,” litigation partner Mark Lezama offered his perspective on the latest developments in the ongoing lawsuit...

In the article “US Copyright Office Issues Urgent Call for Federal Anti-Deepfake Legislation and New Digital Replica Right,” partner Jonathan Hyman, co-chair of the firm’s advertising, media and entertainment practice...

IRVINE, Calif., August 7, 2024 – Knobbe Martens is pleased to share that 22 of the firm’s partners have been recognized as 2024 “WIPR Leaders” by World Intellectual Property Review...

Almost half of the teams in the National Basketball Association (NBA) were recently sued for copyright infringement. In the complaint filed against the Atlanta Hawks, one of the plaintiffs—publisher Kobalt Music Publishing America (Kobalt), the exclusive agent for the licensing of all other plaintiffs’ copyrights at issue—alleged that the NBA teams have been exploiting the rights conferred to the copyright holders by syncing videos posted on various websites and social media platforms (e.g., Instagram, Facebook, and TikTok) with music owned by third parties without obtaining the necessary consent to do so. Knobbe Martens Partner Jonathan Hyman and Associate Nickolas Taylor recently authored an article discussing concerns surrounding intellectual property infringement by social media content creators. The lawsuits filed against the various NBA teams similarly highlights the intellectual property infringement concerns that can (and often do) arise in the modern world of social media and the internet.

Litigation partner Mark Lezama spoke with Law360 for a story on the one-year anniversary of the Supreme Court’s decision in the Warhol case, and the impact the decision has had...

Jeff Van Hoosear, co-chair of the firm’s trademark and brand protection group, was quoted in Bloomberg Law, World Intellectual Property Review, IP Watchdog and The Hollywood Reporter on the significance...