Apr 28, 2018 | Intellectual Property law, News
A Crested Macaque named Naruto was just doing his thing on the island of Sulawesi, Indonesia in 2011 when he came across an unattended camera. Though he was only six or seven years old at the time, he decided to do his best Millenial impression and takes some...
Apr 24, 2018 | Intellectual Property law, News
Today the Supreme Court handed down its decision in Oil States Energy Services, Inc. v. Greene’s Energy Group, LLC. The Court determined that patents are “public rights” subject to evisceration by political appointees. The importance of the decision...
Apr 20, 2018 | Environmental law, News
The Fifth Appellate District affirmed a judgment from a trial court holding that Prop 65’s definition of hazardous chemicals as including substances identified as such by IARC, an agency of the United Nations does not constitute an improper delegation of...
Apr 20, 2018 | Intellectual Property law, News
There are plenty of “gotchas” that inventors face. We will list some of these in a future post, but this alone should be enough: Simply leaving out a line in the patent application wiped out a patent that E*Trade was allegedly infringing. There will...
Apr 17, 2018 | Intellectual Property law, News
A federal district court judge has struck down California’s AB 1687, a law which forbade a popular film industry website from publishing certain truthful age-related information about actors, finding it in violation of the First Amendment. In 2016, IMDb.com, Inc. sued...
