AI Evidence Fails to Sway Judge in Trademark Injunction Dispute

A California federal judge rejected a software company’s bid to revise a trademark injunction, finding evidence including a response generated by its opponent’s chatbot was insufficient to justify the change.

Comet ML Inc.'s evidence, including messages, a social media post, and a response from Perplexity Inc.’s chatbot, falls short of meeting the standards required to revise an injunction that allowed Perplexity to launch its AI-powered browser under the “Comet” name, according to an order filed Tuesday in the US District Court for the Northern District of California. Comet ML argued on July 24 that evidence showed increased consumer confusion since ...