Watch Out for these IP Ownership Problems
Many startups don’t start with a formal business agreement. Instead, it’s just a small group of people with an idea. Perhaps it’s just one person with an idea and several…
Intellectual Property Blog
IP Theft Ring Members Plead Guilty in Tech IP Case
Intellectual property theft is a major worry among technology companies. Companies stand to lose massive amounts of money if their information gets out where others can use it. Naturally, the…
Is your Startup Performing Due Diligence on your IP?
An interview on Med City News has some good information for healthcare startups seeking to protect their intellectual property. Startups are vulnerable to IP theft from many different directions. If…
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…
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The Artists’ Rights and Theft Prevention Act of 2005 permits preregistration of certain types of unpublished works if it determines that such works have a history of infringement prior to…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…