There have been some major Supreme Court Decisions this year and a few more to come. 1. School Prayer – Kennedy v. Bremerton School District The court ruled that the football coach at the high school has a constitutional right to pray at the 50-yard line after...
Top Gun:Maverick Tom Cruise’s “Top Gun: Maverick” has once again had another blockbuster weekend. Yet, there are troubles on the horizon for Paramount Pictures because of potential Copyright infringement. Shosh and Yuval Monday, the heirs of Ehud Yonay who authored an...
Trademark v Trade name what is the difference? So you have a brand that you want to protect and are not sure where to start or how to protect it or do not know the difference between a Trademark v Trade name. There are two different main ways that you can protect your...
Future of the Internet The internet has been one of the most revolutionary inventions of our time. It allows us to communicate with each other, buy the items we want and much, much more. At the same time, millions of people are still being defrauded by other people...
Trademark Registration Certificates The United States Patent and Trademark Office is not issuing electronic Trademark Registration Certificates for all trademarks being issued after May 24th. This transition is to allow certificates more readily accessible rather than...
When Mickey Mouse first captained a steamboat into the public consciousness in Steamboat Willie in 1928, the copyright term was 28 years with an option to renew for another 28 years. Under the law when Mickey was introduced, Steamboat Willie was set to enter the...
Potential clients frequently ask us about the cost of getting a patent. The proportion of the costs attributed to legal fees often surprises them. Patent Office filing fees are as low as $75 for a provisional application and $455 for a nonprovisional application, so...
There are many board games on the market today. These board games are unique works created by an author that copyright automatically attaches too. When registering your board game with the United States Copyright Office, you would file your board game under a literary...
This was written back in 2017, but I wanted to resurrect the article to see what has become of patent trolls and where are they now going? Back in 2017 I wrote “A unanimous Supreme Court ruling delivered Monday, May 23, 2017 closed a loophole against patent trolls...
I’m recycling an article I wrote back in 2017 about In-N-Out, one of my favorite burger joints, suing Smashburger for trademark infringement. The complaint that In-N-Out filed on August 28 in California claims that Smashburger’s “Triple Double” burger is too similar...
