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If you’re a longtime reader of my articles, you follow my website, or you’ve read my books Escaping the Gray and Think and Grow Rich For Inventors, you likely have already noticed that Oprah Winfrey is one of my personal heroes. She started out being raised by a single teenage mother on welfare and used […]

In 2017, pop megastar Taylor Swift was sued by songwriting duo Sean Hall and Nathan Butler over copyright infringement, specifically stemming from alleged similarities between her 2014 hit “Shake It Off” and their 2001 track, “Playas Gon’ Play,” recorded by female R&B group 3LW. The case was initially tossed, but the dismissal was reversed on

AMC/Sony Pictures, the channel and studio responsible for original TV breakout smash dramas Breaking Bad and Better Call Saul, are in hot water with tax prep titan Liberty Tax Service over the content of an episode released in April of 2022 as part of Better Call Saul’s final season. Liberty Tax Service argues that in

In a move that has raised many an eyebrow in both Mexico and the United States, Vice reported that notorious drug lord Miguel Ángel Félix Gallardo, aka “the godfather of the modern Mexican drug trade” or “El Jefe de Jefes (The Boss of bosses)” has registered his name as a trademark in Mexico to be

It may be the most “meta” case in modern IP law history: A small AR/VR company called Meta.is (aka MetaX) is suing Meta (aka Facebook), alleging that Facebook’s change to the Meta name has diluted the original Meta.is brand and caused what is known as “reverse confusion” in IP circles by irrevocably giving the appearance

Chances are, you decided to protect your idea with a patent because you wanted to make money from your invention. A patent gives you the exclusive legal right to profit from your invention. If anyone else tries to manufacture or sell your patented invention without your permission (otherwise known as “infringement”), you can not only

On Friday, July 15th, I was invited by Brian Mudd of 610AM WIOD NewsRadio to discuss a pending copyright case that is—quite literally—bananas. The dispute involves two artists, bananas, duct tape, whether a banana duct-taped to a wall can legitimately be copyrighted, and if so, to what degree. I’ve been following this case with some

The hit TV show Shark Tank has done a lot to inspire people to do something with their product ideas. It’s also scared off some would-be inventors. It seems every episode includes at least one inventor with a harrowing tale of going through Hell to start a business. They get teary-eyed and their shoulders droop