Royalty Challenge over Famous Diary
A challenge to the foundation that allocates the royalties from the book, “The Diary of Anne Frank” has been made by both a French lawmaker and a French scholar when…
Intellectual Property Blog
Segway Files Lawsuits over Hoverboards
Segway and its parent company Ninebot have recently filed suit against two companies manufacturing versions of their self-balancing scooters, commonly called hoverboards. This comes in an effort to counteract negative…
SLAMMING THE DOOR ON DOMAIN NAME HIJACKING
During the 1980s after the breakup of “Ma Bell” (AT&T Corp.) when US regulators broke up the AT&T Corp. monopoly by a consent decree in the anti-trust lawsuit, United States…
COPYRIGHT PREREGISTRATION: WHEN AND WHY
The Artists’ Rights and Theft Prevention Act of 2005 permits preregistration of certain types of unpublished works if it determines that such works have a history of infringement prior to…
JURY STILL OUT ON THE PATENT TRIAL AND APPEAL BOARD
The Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) was created by Congress as part of patent reform legislation under the Leahy-Smith America Invents Act (AIA) signed into law in September 2011.…
PROTECTED TRADEMARKS AND DOMAIN NAME DISPUTES
What are your rights when the trademark you properly protected ends up — just slightly altered — as the domain name of a totally unrelated party? That was the question…
TRADEMARKS: “USE IN INTERSTATE COMMERCE”
Although there is no requirement that a trademark actually be used by the applicant prior to filing a trademark application, there is a requirement that the person or enterprise seeking…
PROS AND CONS OF PROVISIONAL PATENTS
On September 16, 2011 the America Invents Act (AIA) was signed into law, thus heralding a radical shift in U.S. patent procedure away from the historic—and globally practiced—”first to invent”…
COPYRIGHT FAIR USE DEFENSE
Copyright laws were designed to recognize the creative rights — and their resultant profits — that artists and authors possess in the creative works they contribute to society. Accordingly, such…
Second Life TOS: A Partial Analysis and How to Protect your Digital Content
In November 2003, Linden announced that it would recognize participants’ full intellectual property protection for the digital content they created or otherwise owned in Second Life. As a result, Second…