Artist Talk: Working, Drawings, and Other Visible Things Not Necessarily...
Image: Frederick Dennstedt, L.A. Dodgers Stadium, Chavez Ravine (2006). Image is used via Creative Commons License, BY-SA 2.0. I’ll be giving an artist talk at SVA next Tuesday, Oct. 6th, from...
View ArticleU.S. Patent No. 7,637,806: Method for dynamic content generation in a...
U.S. Patent No. 7,637,806: Method for dynamic content generation in a role-playing gameIssued Dec. 29, 2009, to Rampart Studios, LLCSummary:The ‘806 patent provides a system where NPC (non-playing...
View ArticleContinuation Application Strategies
Kate S. Gaudry, Ph.D and Thomas D. Franklin, of Kilpatrick Townsend & Stockton LLP, wrote a few days ago an article on Patently-O regarding continuing application practice. I have written...
View ArticleSilicon Valley darling uses negative option offers, attracts criticism
This Buzzfeed story suggests that JustFab, which received a billion-dollar valuation, has the same problems as previous FTC-targeted companies started by its...
View ArticleMongolia commits to Marrakesh
The World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) has now released Marrakesh Notification No. 10: Marrakesh Treaty to Facilitate Access to Published Works for Persons Who Are Blind, Visually Impaired...
View ArticleRussian man sentenced to 4.5 years in prison for using Citadel malware
(credit: Barn Images) A Russian man was sentenced to 4.5 years in prison on Tuesday by an Atlanta-based federal judge in Atlanta for using the financial malware known as Citadel. According to federal...
View ArticleA decade of JIPLP: an IP event -- and a chance to celebrate
OUP could not be pushedthis far ...It's no secret that the association between the IPKat weblog and the Journal of Intellectual Property Law & Practice (JIPLP) has been a long and fruitful one, no...
View ArticleDoes the Public Have a Right to Culture?
Does the public have a right to culture? After months of conversations and debates regarding the question of culture and law, a good friend of mine, Gabriel Pérez-Barreiro, the director and...
View ArticleIndustry Favorite Fig & Olive Hit With Lawsuit Claiming Salmonella...
The West Hollywood restaurant is under investigation by the L.A County Department of Public Health.read more
View ArticleOnce Again, Why Artistic Intent Matters
When is a weed a weed, and when is a weed artwork? The remarkably intelligent Judge Posner, of the 7th Circuit Court of Appeals, explains, ”But the plaintiff’s claim that the free-speech clause...
View ArticleTrade and Tradeoffs: The Case of International Patent Exhaustion
When I read all the briefs for Lexmark v. Impression Products—the en banc Federal Circuit case on patent exhaustion that will be argued Friday—it seemed like there were pieces missing, including...
View ArticleYelp hands over user info in jewelry store defamation case
(credit: Pageo Jewelers) Yelp has handed over account information for a previously anonymous account, named "Linda G," to a Massachusetts jeweler seeking to sue the user. The company was ordered by a...
View ArticleLionsgate Busts a Move in 'Dirty Dancing' Lawsuit Against Bank
A judge rules that TD Ameritrade's "early arrival at the courthouse steps will not be rewarded."read more
View ArticleLibrarian of Congress who made phone unlocking illegal retires today
Librarian of Congress James Billington. (credit: Library of Congress) The Librarian of Congress wields a surprising amount of power over the mobile devices we use every day. Once every three years, the...
View ArticleLaw & Order: Divorce Court — Inside the 12-Year Battle Over Dick...
Christine Wolf, ex-wife of the TV producer, is claiming she was robbed in their 2003 divorce settlement when her husband allegedly withheld details of 'Law & Order's' alleged value of $1.6 billion....
View ArticleFTC Fines Can Add Salt to a Cybersecurity Wound
Cyberattacks are on the rise—so much that we seem to hear about a high-profile hack more often than it probably rains in most parts of California. Although reputational damage from a cyberattack can be...
View ArticlePETA Sues to Give Monkey Copyright to his Selfie
IPNews® - A lawsuit filed by PETA seeks to give a monkey copyright ownership to photos it took in 2011. PETA claims the definition of authorship under the U.S. Copyright Act is broad enough to...
View ArticleIndiana Copyright Litigation: Copyright Infringement Lawsuit Removed to...
Evansville, Indiana - Responding to a complaint filed in Indiana state court by Indiana copyright attorneys, a defense lawyer filed a motion to remove the lawsuit to a federal court in the Southern...
View ArticleNice-ly done: CIPO now accepting voluntary classification of goods and services
Following our post from July 2015, the Canadian Intellectual Property Office (“CIPO”) is now accepting trade-mark applications filed with goods and services classified using the Nice Classification...
View ArticleSenator Coons introduces Crowdsourcing and Citizen Science Act of 2015
Earlier today U.S. Senator Chris Coons (D-DE) introduced legislation to encourage and increase the use of crowdsourcing and citizen science within the federal government. The purpose of the legislation...
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