Mar 22, 2018 | Intellectual Property law, News
After a massive dispute, streaming services will now be required to pay more for the music they play. The Copyright Royalty Board ruled to increase royalty payments to songwriters and music publishers from music streaming companies by 43.8 percent (they go into effect...
Mar 13, 2018 | Intellectual Property law, News
The bargain envisioned in the United States Constitution is that inventors disclose how to practice an invention, making the knowledge available to the world, in exchange for a time-limited monopoly. Such a disclosure would be useless if it were not made available to...
Mar 7, 2018 | Intellectual Property law, News
There are generally two ways to exploit the value of intellectual property rights: use the property yourself or transfer the rights to someone else to use. A transfer of rights – whether in the form of an assignment or license – is often an attractive option for IP...
Mar 1, 2018 | Intellectual Property law, News
This is a Second Circuit opinion, so it does not directly cover California. However, it will be persuasive when the Ninth Circuit, which covers California, addresses similar issues. In short, the case is titled Fox News v. TVEyes, Inc., and holds that while it is...
Feb 27, 2018 | Intellectual Property law, News
Patent owners have long complained that the Post-Grant Review Proceedings (“PGR”) created in the America Invents Act tilt strongly in favor of invalidating patents. The PGR procedures are so effective at destroying patent rights that the former Chief...
Dec 20, 2017 | Announcements, Intellectual Property law
Download a PDF of the article here By Darryl J. Horowitt If you run a company that uses computers that are accessible to the Internet, cyber security should be important to you because of the importance of preserving the confidential information in your computer...
