R&B artists Drake and The Weeknd are in the WORST mood. A song featuring the singers’ voices, entitled “heart on my sleeve [sic],” hit the Apple Music store, Deezer, and TIDAL at roughly the same time, as well as popular music outlets like YouTube, SoundCloud, TikTok, and Spotify. In only a matter of days, the […]
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Laypeople and lawyers alike are watching closely to see what’s going to happen next with characters lately controlled by Disney as they pass into the public domain. With the recent media storm over the latest and most bizarre entree into the world of Winnie the Pooh, the low-budget slasher movie Blood and Honey, interest in
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Recently, I talked about graphic novelist Kristina Kashtanova. Their signature work, Zarya of the Dawn, features a nonbinary character (that is to say, someone who rejects conventional gender pronouns in favor of the gender-neutral “they/them” pronoun scheme), making their way through a postapocalyptic Manhattan. The work’s copyright was partially rejected by the US Copyright Office
Join us live for PART 2 of our “Ask The Patent Professor®” event series! This month we will be talking about the Patent Search Process and will be joined by one of our in-house patent examiners, David Suazo, and one of our attorneys in our Search Department, Nancy Varghese. David Suazo is a former USPTO
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The Patent Professor®, in partnership with Prototype House®, is hosting a breakfast to provide inventors with insight on their journey. Learn from our experts, John Rizvi, CEO of The Patent Professor®, and Matthew Bordy, CEO of Prototype House®, about all the steps you should take to protect your idea and bring it to life. We
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A newly published patent application from Ford takes a novel approach to dealing with dead car batteries. The patent proposes using drones to help jumpstart stranded vehicles and get them back on the road. But the technology comes with roadblocks of its own that have skeptics questioning whether it’s worth the effort, expense, and hassle.
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A class-action lawsuit against Buffalo Wild Wings alleges that the famous wing chain engaged in deceptive practices and false advertising because the company’s “boneless” wings are actually made with breast meat. But does this “fowl” case have wings, or is it really just a turkey? Let’s take a look at the meat of the matter
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Can we agree at the outset of this article that attorneys as a class tend to be awful at branding? This statement shouldn’t be controversial, and yet I’m already wincing as I imagine my inbox filling up with comments that start off on the lines of “But whuddabout…?” Yes, there are exceptions to every rule.
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Like many other large companies with international reputations, distiller Jack Daniel’s is well aware of the power of branding—and the importance of protecting the elements of that brand. Now, the whiskey giant is embroiled in a tug of war with dog toy manufacturer VIP Products, LLC, over a squeaking chew toy called “Bad Spaniels” that
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In the past few weeks, I’ve discussed at some length my skepticism about AI-generated content and what legal protections might be available to tech-savvy users who rely on AI to create text, images, and even music. The debate has raged for as long as AI has been on the public’s radar, with opinions split about
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