Intellectual Property

Super Bowl Shark Sparks Copyright Case

Katy Perry served an artist with a cease-and-desist after he began selling figurines of Left Shark, an unnamed dancer in […]

More Scammers Offering “Trademark Services”

Trademark holders and applicants are increasingly being targeted by sophisticated and official looking scams in the form of an invoice […]

Loophole For Chinese Prisoners: Patents

A Chinese rule that reduces prisoner sentences for “important technical innovations” has led to a black market of prisoners paying […]

SCOTUS: Trademark “Tacking” A Question For Juries

In what Baker Donselson called the Supreme Court’s “first substantive trademark opinion in a decade,” it ruled that a jury […]

Warner Bros. Prevails In ‘Gravity’ Suit

A bestselling author failed to convince a court that the film ‘Gravity’ was based on her book of the same […]

Taylor Swift Owns 1989

When she’s not one-upping massive music streaming service Spotify, singer-songwriter Taylor Swift is snatching up copyrights to her hit songs. […]

Shrinking Territory: Patent Eligibility Of Biotechnological Inventions

Two landmark Supreme Court decisions have expanded the scope of patent ineligibility, created uncertainty, and are having a marked effect […]

The 12th Man Copyright Saga

Long before the Seattle Seahawks’ “12th Man” fan-base buoyed the team to this weekend’s Super Bowl, Texas A&M held trademarks […]

Protecting Trade Secrets When You Have Telecommuting Employees

One  road to the exposure of trade secrets leads right through the home office. Addressing that problem is a challenge, […]

Elegant Formula For Determining Fair Use Rejected By 11th Circuit

The concept of “fair use” is hard to define, but Georgia State University made it somewhat easier with a four-part […]

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