Intellectual Property

‘Happy Birthday’ In Public Domain, Judge Rules

In a ruling that reverses decades of copyright claims, a federal judge this week ruled that none of the companies […]

In today’s digital world, e-discovery not only impacts legal risk but increasingly influences a company’s bottom line. Despite these high […]

Rapper Rick Ross cannot copyright, “Everyday I’m hustlin’,” lyrics from his debut 2006 hit, a judge has ruled. Ross sought […]

Doing business in Cuba and Iran is no longer a far-fetched notion, and with that in mind Holland & Knight […]

In a case that has major ramifications for generators and distributors of online content, the Ninth Circuit has ruled in […]

The USPTO rejected one man’s efforts to trademark the slang phrase “no fucks given” for clothing items, ruling: “The fact […]

A bakery near the University of Alabama campus that features Crimson Tide-themed cookies and cakes was hit with a demand […]

Patent reform will get a floor vote in the House soon, Judiciary Chairman Bob Goodlatte (R-Va.) said this week, but […]

The dispute followed suspension of the Cincinnati branch of the NAACP by the national, after the local had postponed an […]

The Supreme Court’s 2014 decision in Alice Corporation v. CLS Bank International may call into question hundreds of thousands of […]