Intellectual Property

Nintendo Threatens To Shut Down Real-Life Mario Kart

MariCar has offered customers the chance to ride the streets of Tokyo dressed up as Mario, Luigi, or other Nintendo […]

What Google Is Trying To Prove In The Uber Lawsuit

There may be even more at stake than intellectual property, in one of the biggest legal battles since the war between Apple and Samsung oversmartphones.

Patent Legislation In The 115th Congress

A look ahead at a subject that’s been largely drowned out by more headline-conducive controversies, from a former Director of the PTO… ..

Landmark Victory For Western Company In Chinese IP Court

A six-year long IP dispute that had reached the Supreme People’s Court in China resulted in a victory for a […]

Man Claiming He Invented Email Is No Troll

He holds four degrees from MIT, runs a startup in the high-tech hotbed of Cambridge, Mass., and says he invented […]

African Americans, Denied Patents, Have Always Innovated

Though the U.S. patent system has consistently excluded them, black Americans have been prolific innovators. The first American patent was […]

Chinese Firms Battle For ‘Ivanka’ Trademarks

At least 65 Chinese companies and individuals have submitted applications to use the name “Ivanka” as a trademark, according to […]

Supplier Agreements Should Include Patent Litigation Protection

Anyone who uses patented technology can in theory be an infringer, and a considerable number of patent infringement cases are […]

MIT Big Winner In Billion-Dollar Patent Dispute

The U.S. Patent Trial and Appeal Board handed the team of scientists based at the Broad Institute and MIT a […]

A Rush To Trademark “Fake News”

The day after Donald Trump called CNN “fake news,” three U.S. companies applied to trademark the term. One of those […]

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