Insights
Patent Claims and Climate Change
June 6th, 2022
IAM reports that: Toyota continues to dominate US patent filings for green technologies, while other companies with strong portfolios include General Electric, Panasonic, Hyundai and LG, according to a recent patent analysis. According to Anaqua, the…
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Categories: Patents
Supreme Court Holds that Ignorance Can Excuse Inaccuracy in Copyright Registration
May 19th, 2022
The US Supreme Court has held that lack of either legal or factual knowledge can excuse inaccuracy in copyright registration. In Unicolors, Inc. v. H&M Hennes & Mauritz, L.P., Unicolors owned copyrights in fabric designs. It sued H&M for…
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Categories: Copyright
Does America’s Patent System Need to Be Saved?
May 10th, 2022
The New York Times recently ran an editorial with the headline “Save America’s Patent System.” But why does the Times think that the patent system needs to be “saved”? The editorial board initially focuses on the use (and arguably the abuse…
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Categories: Patents
Supreme Court Takes on Warhol Copyright Case
May 5th, 2022
The US Supreme Court has agreed to hear an appeal in one of the most important copyright cases in recent years. On March 25, the Court agreed to consider whether Andy Warhol’s “Prince Series” of prints, based on a 1981 photograph of the late mu…
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Categories: Copyright
Coordinating Patent Filings in the US, Japan, and Korea
April 26th, 2022
The US Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) has extended the Expanded Collaborative Search Pilot (CSP) program, originally running from November 2017 through October 2020, for an additional two years. As of March 29, the USPTO, the Japan Patent Office…
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Categories: Patents
Dua Lipa Sued for Alleged Copyright Infringement
April 20th, 2022
Musical artist Dua Lipa has been sued twice in one week for alleged copyright infringement related to her 2020 single Levitating. The song was a hit, reaching number two on Billboards’ Hot 100. It was also reportedly the longest-running top-10 song…
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Categories: Copyright
NFT Piracy and the Digital Millennium Copyright Act
April 15th, 2022
As we’ve explained in previous blogs, An NFT is a type of cryptocurrency asset wherein each item, or token, is unique. It is not easily exchangeable for another value or item. An NFT is also a digital certificate of ownership for any designated dig…
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Categories: Patents
IP Issues in Your Contractor Agreements
April 11th, 2022
Too many businesses make a potentially risky – and expensive – mistake when they fail to secure intellectual property (IP) rights via their contractor agreements. A contractor can be anyone from a high-priced management consultant to someone writ…
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Categories: Patents
Intellectual Property in Wartime
April 4th, 2022
Russia’s brutal invasion of Ukraine continues as of this writing, with more than 600 – perhaps more than 2,000 — Ukrainian civilians dead and Ukrainian cities bombarded into rubble. You might wonder what that has to do with intellectual pro…
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Categories: Patents
IP, Web 3.0, and the Metaverse
March 28th, 2022
What are Web 3.0 and the Metaverse, and what do these things mean for intellectual property (IP)? According to Investopedia, Web 1.0 was ushered in by web browsers such as Netscape Navigator in the mid-1990s. Early website pages were primarily static…
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