Intellectual Property

Do You Own Your Car? John Deere, GM Say No

The proliferation of proprietary software that is included in newer vehicles has led some companies to claim that consumers should […]

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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