Intellectual Property
The Supreme Court will not weigh in on a case that involves superheroes and asks whether freelancers can retain copyrights […]
An assessment of the USPTO’s recently released “litigation toolkit,” which Courtenay C. Brinckerhoff with Foley & Lardner LLP suggests may lead some inexperienced persons to act without the help of an attorney.
A Court found that artist William Roger Dean did not create a convincing argument that director James Cameron stole imagery […]
Care should be taken in foreign patent prosecution, as it is likely to be monitored and considered by opponents in U.S. litigation, and there may be an effort to introduce into evidence some aspect of the foreign proceedings.
The Seventh Circuit issued the first Circuit-level critique of Cariou v. Prince, creating a noteworthy Circuit split on the correct application and significance of a work’s “transformative use” on the fair use inquiry.
When Monster energy drink sent Victory Energize a cease-and-desist letter, Victory went on the offensive, painting Monster as a “trademark bully” and asking a Court to dismiss, and award legal fees. Steve Baird of Winthrop & Weinstine, P.A. outlines the case, and examines whether “bully” is an appropriate claim.
A high-ranking U.S. Patent and Trademark Office official was in Geneva this week for a meeting of the World Intellectual […]
Street artists whose outdoor murals have been used as background for retail ads or re-created on film sets have lawyered […]
An appeals court recently threw out rulings that would have awarded Patent licensing firm VirnetX Holding Corp. millions in damages […]
The Copyright Office’s Copyright Compendium, effective Dec. 2014, includes helpful guidance regarding website and website content, including authorship of a site, though Mark Sableman with Thompson Coburn LLP says other notable areas – fair use and implied license – are nearly ignored.
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