Intellectual Property

Supreme Court to Tackle Plenty of IP Issues in 2014

January 22, 2014

The Supreme Court’s significant IP docket for the year could bring important changes, impacting companies of all sizes and across a variety of industries.

The New gTLD Program: Latest Updates on Brand Protection and the Trademark Clearinghouse

January 22, 2014

How to use the Trademark Clearinghouse to protect trademark in a time of expanding Internet domain names.

Trade Secret Protection Plans: Guarding Against IP Theft

January 22, 2014

The IP threat is coming from inside the company: Perry Viscounty, partner at Latham & Watkins, offers advice on how companies can preemptively protect themselves.

IP Protection in Emerging Markets

January 22, 2014

Sourcing and production overseas has increased certain kinds of risks to intellectual property, among them the risk of counterfeit components […]

District Judge: IP Address Not Enough To Prove Infringement

January 22, 2014

A Washington district judge has held that merely identifying an IP address does not provide enough evidence for copyright holders, […]

Three Ways to Challenge a Patent: Pros and Cons

January 22, 2014

When a party challenging a patent decides to litigate, it enters a process that allows extensive discovery, for better or […]

Employer Held Liable For Accessing Data In The Cloud

January 20, 2014

An employer who copied an employee’s personal client list, stored in the cloud, and then fired the employee and used […]

Slick Legal Move Keeps Beatles Bootlegs Secret

January 20, 2014

A bootleg recording containing 59 unheard outtakes from The Beatles’ 1963 recording session was set to have copyright expire this […]

Supreme Court to Consider Legal Standard for Patent Indefiniteness

January 16, 2014

The Supreme Court will review the legal standard for holding a patent claim invalid as indefinite.

The High Price of Challenging a Trademark Trial and Appeal Board Decision in District Court

January 16, 2014

The U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia held, for the first time, that any applicant who appeals a USPTO decision must pay all of the PTO’s expenses for the proceeding.

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