Blog: Protecting Businesses and Their Owners
Monkey Makes Monkeys out of PETA at Ninth Circuit
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...
Patents Aren’t Private Property Anymore
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 to innovators is...
Prop 65 Use of IARC Findings for Listing by State is not an Improper Delegation of Authority
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 authority. On...
Very Quick Look: Another Reason You Need to Use a Patent Lawyer
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 never be a...
California Law That Forbade Posting of Actors’ Ages Struck Down by Federal Court
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...