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What's in a Name? Frequently Asked Questions About Trademarks
When it comes to your company's identity, nothing is more vital to your company than your name and logo. By developing a catchy name and snazzy logo for your business, you can quickly get your company recognized, remembered, and respected.
Once you have come up with a winning name and logo, you ...
Waymo v. Uber: Patrolling the Line Between Patents and Trade Secrets
The Fuzzy Line Between Patents & Trade Secrets:
Patents and trade secrets provide different but complementary scopes of protection for valuable business information. While patents protect new and non-obvious inventions that become disclosed to the public at some point during patent prosecutio...
Trade Secrets and Zoom Calls: Be Aware of the Pitfalls
With the shift to remote work likely here to stay for many, companies and their employees are regularly relying on remote conferencing tools such as Zoom, Microsoft Teams, WebEx and other platforms to conduct business. Companies should be aware of a recent decision from the Chancery Court in Dela...
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“It’s how our decision along that path affect the whole that matters” – How a decision during production of Bandersnatch led Netflix to a Trademark Lawsuit
Netflix started out 2019 with a fresh Trademark lawsuit filed over their “Black Mirror: Bandersnatch” film. The film has been a big hit as Netflix took advantage of the strong following their original series, Black Mirror, already had. Bandersnatch allows viewers to dictate the story line and ult...
The Trademark Licensing Protection Act of 2018 Removing Impediments to the Franchisee – Franchisor Relationship
When you go to a Sonic in Portland, you have a certain expectation that the tater tots and frozen drinks are going to taste the same as they do in Atlanta. And you expect the Sonic employees' uniforms to be the same in Dallas as they are in Orlando. These expectations for Sonic and all Sonic fran...
Collective Membership Marks: Trademark Protection for Clubs and Organizations
This graphic is representational only. The actual Devil's Desciples MC logo includes a swastika on its design, which we chose to omit from this blog post. Motorcycle courtesy of Vecteezy.
Collective membership marks are a lesser known species of protectable marks, but can be especially valuable...
Waymo v. Uber: Patrolling the Line Between Patents and Trade Secrets
The Fuzzy Line Between Patents & Trade Secrets:
Patents and trade secrets provide different but complementary scopes of protection for valuable business information. While patents protect new and non-obvious inventions that become disclosed to the public at some point during patent prosecutio...
Proper Venue in Patent Infringement Suits After 'TC Heartland'
TC Heartland Decision:
Last year, the Supreme Court's unanimous decision in TC Heartland LLC v. Kraft Foods Group Brands LLC("TC Heartland") changed the patent litigation landscape by putting an end to forum shopping in patent infringement suits. Plaintiffs can no longer pick and choose whiche...
Collaboration, Co-Authors, and Joint Authorship: Who Owns the Copyright?
If you've ever collaborated with partners, contractors, or art directors to produce a creative work, you may already know that issues of copyright ownership can get murky very quickly, unless all the collaborators have a clear understanding of (a) how U.S. copyright law works and (b) what the p...