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Yankees block trademark registration mocking steroid allegations
USA - June 2 2015 The New York Yankees won a ruling preventing the registration of a slogan and logo that mocked alleged steroid use by the team’s players. The…
Court finds “wood” floor design original enough for copyright protection
USA - May 29 2015 The Eleventh Circuit reversed a grant of summary judgment for the defendant and found that a design for laminate flooring was sufficiently creative…
Function of software is not a trade secret
USA - May 29 2015 The Eleventh Circuit ruled that the functions of a software program for tracking packages were not trade secrets. Plaintiff Warehouse Solutions Inc…
Supreme Court remands Azure patent case based on Teva
USA - May 27 2015 The Supreme Court vacated a patent owner's stipulation of non-infringement and returned the case to the Federal Circuit for reconsideration. Azure…
China publishes guidelines for applying anti-monopoly laws to IP
China - May 26 2015 China recently published its "Regulation on the Prohibition of Conduct Eliminating or Restricting Competition by Abusing Intellectual Property Rights…
May 31, 2015 deadline for trademark holders to acquire potentially damaging website domain suffix (“.SUCKS”)
Global - May 23 2015 The sunrise period for trademark owners to acquire the .SUCKS domain suffix will expire on May 31, 2015. On June 1, 2015 the Generic Top-Level Domain…
Canadian hacker sentenced for intellectual property theft
Canada - May 23 2015 A 22-year-old Canadian man was sentenced to 18 months in US federal prison after pleading guilty to stealing more than $100 million worth of…
Are restrictions on disparaging trademarks unconstitutional?
USA - May 22 2015 The US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit upheld the Trademark Trial and Appeal Board's decision affirming an examining attorney's decision to…
Patent Office now offers email alerts when applications published
USA - May 20 2015 The US Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) announced the launch of the Patent Application Alert Service, a system for providing email alerts when…
Programmer’s lawyer says violating NDA should not be a crime
USA - May 19 2015 An attorney representing a former Goldman Sachs programmer accused of stealing the firm's computer code told a jury in New York that although his…
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