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Warner Defeated in a Trademark Opposition over Tweety Bird, Japan Patent Office (JPO) Dismisses the Action
Until 1997, Japan followed the examples of major industrialized countries regarding trademark law. They offered a pre-registration trademark opposition system, which allowed for filing ...
CNN Sued by FreePlay Music Over Alleged Copyright Infringement Facing a $17.4 Million Lawsuit
Just last week, CNN made headlines by being in the center of them instead of being behind them as usual. The Rolling Stone magazine broke the news that the Cable News Network...
Fresh From the Bench: Latest Federal Circuit Court Case
CASE OF THE WEEK Treehouse Avatar LLC v. Valve Corp., Appeal No. 2022-1171 (Fed. Cir. Nov. 30, 2022) In the only precedential patent opinion issued by the Federal Circuit this week...
Female Entrepreneurs are Building Lifechanging Businesses. They Need Intellectual Property Protections to Do it.
As a woman who has spent her career as a serial entrepreneur and fighter for women entrepreneurs, I was appalled to read a recent letter from 100 members of Congress calling on Health...
Caldwell Intellectual Property Law's pro bono work enables incarcerated entrepreneurs to pursue their startup dreams while serving time.
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Until 1997, Japan followed the examples of major industrialized countries regarding trademark law. They offered a pre-registration... Read More »
Just last week, CNN made headlines by being in the center of them instead of being behind them as usual. The... Read More »
CASE OF THE WEEK
Treehouse Avatar LLC v. Valve Corp., Appeal No. 2022-1171 (Fed. Cir. Nov. 30, 2022)
In the only precedential... Read More »
As a woman who has spent her career as a serial entrepreneur and fighter for women entrepreneurs, I was appalled to read a recent letter from 100... Read More »
Written by: Brianne M. Kingery & Jeremy Anapol
TREEHOUSE AVATAR LLC v. VALVE CORPORATION
Before Lourie, Reyna, and Stoll... Read More »
“The authors of the November 30 letter argue that the October 17 letter ‘perpetuates long-standing misunderstandings by some academics, ... Read More »
In late October, we released our second annual CAFC Intelligence Report. The report provided high-level statistics and insights and evaluated the... Read More »
“Attention All Shoplifters…” Another guerrilla marketing strategy or unintentional (intentional)... Read More »
The Recorder honored the women lawyers handling game-changing, law-shaping, market moving work in and around the tech sector as part of the... Read More »
The Court has said in the past that "winning summary judgment in a patent case is like hitting a hole in one." Well, yesterday DePuy... Read More »
Copyright intends to protect the rights of creators, but here is an interesting use that you probably haven't thought... Read More »
WTO Issues Precedential Decision Sending Shock Waves Throughout the IP World
In March 2020, the world was upended and faced with... Read More »
Who would have thought that centuries after the Pilgrims first feasted on their harvest, this national holiday would... Read More »
"Michael Specht, co-chair of the patent litigation practice at Sterne Kessler in Washington DC, says his firm tries to anticipate upcoming... Read More »
The country’s largest whiskey maker will finally get its day before the US Supreme Court in a dog-toy trademark case that could shape the... Read More »
The country’s largest whiskey maker will finally get its day before the US Supreme Court in a dog-toy trademark case that could shape the... Read More »
In early September, we published our IPR Intelligence Report, the sixth in an annual series covering the IPR proceedings landscape that took place... Read More »
During this month, Twitter has been the center of attention due to cutting its workforce by nearly half. Up... Read More »
CASE OF THE WEEK
American National Manufacturing Inc. v. Sleep Number Corporation, Appeal Nos. 2021-1321, -1323, -1379, -1382 (Fed. Cir... Read More »
