Other Barks & Bites for Friday, December 5: Tillis Blasts Lutnick Proposal on Government Share in Profits from Federally Funded Inventions; The Times Sues Perplexity AI; and USPTO Updates MPEP to Reflect Desjardins Decision

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This week in Other Barks & Bites: The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office announced it has updated the Manual of Patent Examining Procedure to reflect recent eligibility guidance; The New York Times has sued Perplexity AI for copyright and trademark infringement; AGs from seven U.S. states sent a letter to the College Sports Commission calling out its “cartoonishly villainous” university participation agreement; Senator Thom Tillis (R-NC) made negative remarks about the Commerce Department’s proposals on government equity in federally-funded inventions; the Federal Circuit vacated a dismissal by Western Texas for failure to address the plaintiff’s claim construction arguments; the EU’s highest court ruled that EU member states have jurisdiction over transactions in app stores designed for their countries regardless of the physical location of the transaction; Bobcat kickstarted a patent enforcement campaign against Caterpillar’s infringing skid-steer loaders; Korean…