Intellectual Property
A district court doubled civil fines against Fujitsu Entities’ for “continuing contemptuous recalcitrance” in a patent infringement case against Tellabs.
Genericide need not be the death knell of a trademark, after Google mounted a convincing argument in a recent case that when people say to “google” something, the word retains its principle significance.
The new technologies and the kinds of the intellectual property disputes that are likely to surface as they take hold.
Facebook, Twitter, online shopping site Etsy and photo service Flickr got high marks from the Electronic Frontier Foundation for not […]
Gene Quinn, attorney with Zies, Widerman & Malek and custodian of the blog IPWatchdog, citing a recent Atlantic Magazine poll […]
Patent cases and multidistrict litigation were two primary contributors to the federal district courts with the heaviest caseloads from June […]
The global organization that controls web domain names, ICANN, has reported that it received more than $26 million from “last […]
Giants of Silicon Valley have turned the corner in their battle with patent assertion firms – also known as trolls […]
In a recent case involving maternity belly band companies, the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California found that a website’s “look and feel” constitute protectable trade dress under the Lanham Act.
A recent Trademark Trial and Appeal Board decision underscores the sometimes mystifying nature of phantom marks, marks in which one element is variable, which were all but banned by the USPTO in the late 90s.
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