Intellectual Property

Crowd-Funding Tech Can’t Be Patented

A New York judge has invalidated a 2011 patent for a website that enables fans to crowd-fund creators’ work, saying […]

9th Circuit: Actress’s Work May Have Been Hijacked, But It Wasn’t Infringed

An actress whose small part in an amateur film was “re-purposed” without her knowledge into a vicious anti-Muslim film – […]

Inter Partes Review Is Fast-Paced

The America Invents Act created new administrative trials for litigating patent invalidity issues before the USPTO’s Patent Trial and Appeal […]

The Mounting Threat From Counterfeits

Counterfeiting may become a problem for virtually any company with a successful product. Counterfeiters have no interest in ensuring the […]

Supreme Court Declines to Hear Google’s Appeal

Google will have to defend claims that its Street View mapping software violates patents held by Vederi LLC after the […]

Mickey and Dead Mou5 Make a Deal

The famously litigious House of Disney has come to an agreement with EDM star Joel Zimmerman about his use of […]

What The Free Trade Battle Is Really About

Passage of the Pacific free trade agreement now appears likely, with many wondering what all the discord was about. The […]

SCOTUS Hands Marvel Patent Royalty Victory

In a case centered on a toy that lets kids shoot “webs” from their hands like Marvel’s Spider Man, the […]

Does USPTO’s Orphan Works Report Double Down On Problem?

The USPTO is taken to task by TechDirt editor Mike Masnick for its recent report on so-called orphan works – […]

Is Global Patent Leadership Shifting To Europe?

Joff Wild, writing on the IAM (Intellectual Asset Management) blog makes the case that the center of gravity for intellectual […]

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