December 6 2017
On December 6, 2107, Judge Louis Stanton dismissed Randy Brown’s copyright law suit against Time Warner, Turner Broadcasting, Cartoon Network and…
November 9 2018
The Satanic Temple sued Netflix for using a computer-generated image of Baphomet in the Chilling Adventures of Sabrina that was apparently copied…
June 18 2020
Anyone with an internet connection and a printer can download and print any U.S. patent from the USPTO, Google Patents, or other sources. When it…
October 7 2019
Nike recently sued Skechers for infringement of twelve of Nike’s design patents. The Complaint convincingly establishes the similarity of the…
January 18 2019
For the fifty years between 1940 and 1990, The St. Louis Post Dispatch had a section in its comics pages titled “Our Own Oddities” that featured…
December 11 2020
Without a change in the law, a patent cannot be extended beyond the term for which it issued. The only way to extend protection is to invent and…
November 5 2020
Harness Dickey, one of the nation’s largest and most respected intellectual property law firms, has been named to the 2021 “Best Law Firms” list for…
November 4 2020
15 USC 1115(b)(4) provides that the use of a registered term is not trademark infringement if it is used “otherwise than as a mark” (meaning it is…
October 9 2020
In a crowded market like the pet food market, it is important for companies to distinguish themselves from the competition. The following topics…
September 25 2020
In Apple Inc. v. VOIP-PAL.com, Inc., [2018-1456, 2018-1457] (September 25, 2020), the Federal Circuit affirmed the PTAB’s determination that claims…