Intellectual Property

Protecting Trade Secrets With A Solid Nondisclosure Agreement

A company must take reasonable steps to protect a trade secret in order to qualify for protection under the Uniform […]

Can Taglines Be Protected?

In the past, the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office and the courts were reluctant to provide trademark protection to taglines […]

Microsoft, Samsung Settle Android Patent Royalty Suit

A seven-year Microsoft-Samsung cross-licensing patent deal, by which Samsung would pay Microsoft $1 billion a year, went awry when Microsoft […]

Reconsidering The Cease-And-Desist

“In the world of despised legal correspondence, few things beat cease-and-desist letters,” writes Winston & Strawn attorney Peter Perkowski, and […]

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. […]

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