This week in Other Barks & Bites: the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office signed its first new collective bargaining agreement with the union representing its patent employees in nearly 40 years; the Second Circuit denied a petition for rehearing of an earlier panel decision affirming the dismissal of copyright infringement claims against Ed Sheeran’s “Thinking Out Loud”; Public Citizen published a report claiming that patent evergreening will cost Medicare up to $5.4 billion in lost savings from generic competition; shares of Adobe stock dropped 13% following poor guidance in first quarter generative AI sales; the Supreme Court heard oral arguments on the application of Section 1117(a)’s just sum provision to disgorged profits award calculated from non-party affiliate revenues; and the European Patent Office began the implementation of sanctions against patent applications filed by Russian applicants.

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