How to Move a Business from California to Arizona
Arizona – The Grand Canyon State Welcomes You by Peter Zillmann from Flickr (Creative Commons License) California is so weird. (I grew up there. I can say that from experience.) It’s a weird state with...
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Department of Commerce Recommends Changes To the Copyright ActThe Department of Commerce's Internet Task Force on Copyright Policy, Creativity and Innovation in the Digital Economy has issued a White...
View ArticleComputer and Internet Updates for 2016-01-31
Google crosses borders. The tax collectors should too | Jonathan Freedland https://t.co/bqlOn020x5 -> FCA reverses decision on recovery of T24 royalties Rogers v. SOCAN https://t.co/N5LEjxbqZN ->...
View ArticleTalking Trademarks: An Exclusive Interview with INTA’s Debbie Cohn
What follows is our wide ranging discussion, which start out with what Cohn is doing with INTA and then moves into an in depth discussion of issues surrounding counterfeiting, the newly formed...
View ArticleTalking Trademarks: An Exclusive Interview with INTA’s Debbie Cohn
What follows is our wide ranging discussion, which start out with what Cohn is doing with INTA and then moves into an in depth discussion of issues surrounding counterfeiting, the newly formed...
View ArticleSpeech about a concluded, one-off auction isn't advertising or promotion
Reese v. Pook & Pook, LLC., 2016 WL 337022, No. 14-5715 (E.D. Pa. Jan. 27, 2016) The Reeses collected antique toys, and filed for bankruptcy, at which point they were required to sell some of their...
View ArticleRight of publicity question of the day
Put someone's image on a playing card. Violation of the right of publicity? Newsworthy? Transformative? What if the image is on the cards in order to solve a cold case? Please...
View ArticleUS and European Union fail to strike deal on new Safe Harbor pact
(credit: Telegeography) Efforts to secure a new data transfer pact between the US and the European Union failed to meet a January 31 deadline set by national privacy regulators in the 28-member-state...
View ArticleCan I Use Feminist Phrase on T-Shirt?
Bella AbzugDear Rich: I want to use the phrase "Women belong in the House, the Senate, and the Oval Office" on a t-shirt. My group will be selling these shirts as a fundraiser. The quote doesn't seem...
View ArticleChanges Ahead in U.S. Copyright Statutory Damages Law
The U.S. Department of Commerce’s Internet Policy Task Force (the Task Force), which is led by both the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) and the National Telecommunications and Information...
View ArticleThe Internet of Names: CES Round-Up
– Laurel Sutton, Senior Strategist & Linguist at Catchword Brand Name Development CES 2016 (January 6-9, 2016) has come and gone, and, as always, offered up a rich selection of new product and...
View ArticleNew and Changing Tax Laws for 2015-16
TAX LAWS FOR 2015-2016 Every year, taxes are added, removed, amended, extended, or expired. As experienced tax law attorneys, we know that one of the things that is more challenging to keep track...
View ArticleInteractive Television Patent Invalid Under 35 U.S.C. § 101
The court granted defendant's motion to dismiss because the asserted claims of plaintiff’s interactive television application patent encompassed unpatentable subject matter and found that the claims...
View ArticlePush for online sales tax continues at state and federal levels
Some states have decided that they can’t wait for a federal response on the collection of online sales tax, prompting them to enact their own measures. In Utah, where less than one percent of taxpayers...
View ArticleNCAA Settlement Could Promote Concussion Prevention and Treatment, but Leaves...
Image courtesy of arkorn / FreeDigitalPhotos.net On January 26, U.S. District Judge John Lee of the United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois granted preliminary approval of a...
View ArticleU.S. Senators attempt to pass the Defend Trade Secrets Act
Recently, the Defend Trade Secrets Act was passed by the U.S. Senate Committee on the Judiciary. The Defend Trade Secrets Act is headed by U.S. Senators Orrin Hatch and Chris Coons, who issued a press...
View ArticlePhD Student Seminar at CIPA
This moggy was thrilled to be able to attend last Thursday the inaugural running of an event at the Chartered Institute of Patent Attorneys - a seminar for PhD students. CIPA had contacted everyone...
View ArticleOne year ago today: LEFT SHARK was born, along with trademark and copyright...
Last year, one of the big stories the day after the Super Bowl® was about the “Left Shark.” Left Shark was a dancer in Katie Perry’s halftime show that was (intentionally?) off beat. Who was Left...
View ArticleOn Appeal, Abuse-Deterrent OxyContin Patents are Invalid
By Dennis Crouch Purdue Pharma v. Epic Pharma (Fed. Cir. 2016)[1] In an important Hatch-Waxman related decision, the Federal Circuit has affirmed the lower court’s holding that Purdue Pharma’s abuse...
View ArticleIntellectual Property meets Antimonopoly law in Japan
The IPKat is always delighted to receive IP-related news from outside Europe and the US, which tends to be the main focus of the blog. This time, we have received news from Japan from Katfriend Kaori...
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