Intellectual Property

Supreme Court Finds Aereo Violates Copyright

The Supreme Court today ruled that television start-up Aereo violates copyright when it captures free broadcasts from major networks and […]

New Web Domains Raise Risk Of Cyber-Squatting

Many new top-level domains (TLDs), including .London, .guru and .sexy, have appeared on-line, and hundreds more have been applied for. […]

Hollywood Guilds Call For Supreme Court To Take Up High-Stakes Comic Book Copyright Case

Hollywood guilds representing actors, directors and writers have filed amicus briefs, asking the Supreme Court to take up a copyright […]

Supreme Court Alice Decision Casts Doubt On USPTO Eligibility Guidance

The Supreme Court’s decision in Alice Corp. v. CLS Bank International, which denied patent eligibility to an abstract idea, revealed […]

SCOTUS Finds Software Based On Abstract Idea Not Patentable

The Supreme Court ruled unanimously today, in Alice Corporation v. CLS Bank International, that software based on an abstract idea […]

Why Tesla’s Patent Move May Standardize Electric Cars, Not Patent Strategies

Tesla’s announcement that it would not exclude others from using its electric car patents in most cases means that there may be more value in the future for the Tesla design and the Tesla brand, rather than the underlying technology.

USPTO Cancels ‘Redskins’ Trademark As Disparaging

The U.S. Patent Office has waded into the politics of the National Football League, declaring the Washington Redskins trademark “disparaging […]

Appeals Court Oks Limited Digital Book Scanning

The Second Circuit Court of Appeals upheld most of a district court’s determination that an academic consortium’s digital archiving project […]

Canada’s ‘Notice and Notice’ Copyright Rule Set For January 2015

The final step in Canada’s efforts to modernize its copyright law was announced this week: Implementation of the “Notice and […]

Judge Posner Declares Sherlock Holmes In Public Domain

Sherlock Holmes is in the public domain, the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals has ruled, dealing a loss to the […]

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