After three years of litigation, Marvel is finally off the hook in a copyright suit involving the Iron Man franchise.
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Occasionally we get questions about whether a patent owner may add an inventor to their patent who did not actually contribute to the invention.
In a case that’s certain to harsh some mellows, Mondelez Canada Inc. (“MCI”), maker of Sour Patch Kids, has filed a trademark-infringement suit in California against the maker of “Stoney Patch” gummies, a cannabis-infused version of the popular sweet-and-sour candy.
The answer, as with most legal questions, is: it depends. There is no rule that smells, as a category, cannot serve as a trademark.
T-Swift’s newest kitty, Benjamin Button, is on his way to trademark protection.
Beginning August 3rd, foreign entities who want to file a U.S. trademark application will need a U.S.-licensed attorney to do it. The USPTO decided to implement this policy in response to a surge in applications from unrepresented foreign applicants, particularly those in China...
Over Memorial Day weekend, the USPTO made some serious upgrades to its server platform.
Shiver me timbers! The Supreme Court has agreed to hear a copyright dispute arising, quite literally, from the depths of Davey Jones’ Locker.
A new bill in Congress is proposing to alter the way drug patents are administered. The Terminating the Extension of Rights Misappropriated (TERM) Act, H.R. 3199, would require that any patents on a drug which were issued after the drug’s first patent would be presumed invalid..
The humble taco. Simple, satisfying, and recently implicated in a federal lawsuit.