Blog: Protecting Businesses and Their Owners
“Poor man’s patent” and “Poor man’s copyright”: The Tooth Fairies of the IP World
To download the PDF of “POOR MAN’S PATENT” AND “POOR MAN’S COPYRIGHT”: THE TOOTH FAIRIES OF THE IP WORLD, Click here There is a common misconception that an inventor or author can protect their intellectual property by mailing a copy of it to themselves. These are...
Multi Time Machine, Inc. v. Amazon.com
To download this article, click here In the recent case of Multi Time Machine, Inc. v. Amazon.com, the 9th Circuit Court of Appeal reversed the District Court’s summary judgment in favor of online retailer Amazon.com (“Amazon”) in a trademark infringement action...
Trademark Terminology – What Trademark Owners Need to Understand to Talk With a Trademark Attorney
By Sherrie M. Flynn To download this article, click here Since my astute colleague, Gary Shuster, posted helpful terminology related to patent “speak,” I thought it might be helpful to have asimilar glossary of terms for trademark terminology. Although...
DMCA Immunity Reminder: Keep Your Agent Designation Current
Professor Eric Goldman posts a timely reminder that online service providers (which for this purpose includes a person or entity that operates a web site where any third party content might be incorporated) need to make sure they have a current designated agent form...
A Supreme Court term without a patent case?
The Supreme Court has had quite a patent law run over the first half of the decade, with major patent cases in 2011 (Microsoft Corp. v. i4i Ltd. Partnership), 2012 (Mayo v. Prometheus; Bowman v. Monsanto), 2013 (Assn. for Molecular Pathology v. Myriad), 2014 (Alice...