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.
Trademark opportunities for hemp companies are opening up. Based on a clarification from the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO), hemp businesses are able to apply for trademark registration as long as their business falls outside the Food and Drug Administration’s..
Video-game streaming platform, Twitch Interactive Inc., filed suit this week in response to a flood of illegal and improper content that started at the end of May. Using third-party sites, the users, which call themselves “Artifact Streams” coordinated their attack in attempts..
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..
Last month the Supreme Court ruled on what the International Trademark Association (INTA) has referred to as “the most significant unresolved legal issue in trademark licensing.” Prior to its decision, federal courts were split on what happens to the rights granted to a licensee..
The humble taco. Simple, satisfying, and recently implicated in a federal lawsuit.
Back in November of 2017, AM General filed a trademark suit against video game publisher Activision Blizzard for their use of Humvees in “Call of Duty” video games. Activision is now asking the court to throw the suit out because it is an “attack on the First Amendment.”
In a ruling that is spooking film producers, Victor Miller, the screenwriter behind the 1980 horror classic “Friday the 13th,” successfully convinced a federal judge in Connecticut that he was an independent contractor at the time he wrote the screenplay, and may be able to..
The Supreme Court held Monday that a federal agency may not challenge an issued patent. The case, Return Mail, Inc. v. U.S. Postal Service, involved a patent on a method of processing undeliverable mail, which the U.S. Postal Service challenged as merely an abstract idea under ..