Monday, October 31, 2011

Ghouls, Goblins and Beer

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On this frightful day of ghouls and goblins of all shapes and sizes, let us pause to toast a singularly important individual. Joseph Bramah ...

More on the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act

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My post of May 5, 2011 discussed the recent Ninth Circuit criminal case of US v. Nosal  applying the Criminal Fraud and Abuse Act to action...
Tuesday, October 18, 2011

To Obtain A Trademark Registration, There Must First Be A Trademark

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It sounds axiomatic that the registration of a trademark requires the existence of a trademark. Similar to giving birth, a trademark can reg...

PTO To Critique China's Patent Enforcement

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Encouraging public insight to pour forth, the PTO has requested comments from inventors regarding personal experiences in enforcing patent r...
Friday, October 14, 2011

Creation and Protection of an Actor's Audiovisual Performance Right

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As discussed in my August 4 blog post, WIPO has shown a recent and enlivened interest in developing international copyright-based protection...
Thursday, October 13, 2011

Is 100,000 Year Old Art Copyrightable?

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The October 11th edition of Science magazine features an article concerning the discovery of an early-human "art factory" in the ...

Wyden to Obama: Declare ACTA Invalid

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In his October 12th letter to President Obama , Sen. Ron Wyden (Dem., Oregon) asked President Obama to declare that the United States is not...
Thursday, September 29, 2011

Rosh Hashanah

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Happy Rosh Hashanah, the Hebrew New Year. The new year begins for people, animals and legal contracts.
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Tuesday, September 27, 2011

Xenophobic Customer Support

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New York Senator Charles Schumer may be experiencing a bit of xenophobic tendencies in his newly submitted bill, S. 1536 . This proposed leg...

Is it scandalous? Look in the dictionary!

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Is the design of a bottle, shaped to resemble a hand flipping the bird (a hand with the middle finger extended), scandalous and therefore no...

Petition to Eliminate Software Patents

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The White House's website contains a We The People section, allowing common folks to petition the government via the web. The White Hou...
Saturday, September 24, 2011

Happy Birthday, Scott -- Beat On!

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F. Scott Fitzgerald was born in St. Paul, Minnesota on this date in 1896. A distant counsel of Francis Scott Key, for whom he was named, Fit...
Wednesday, September 21, 2011

Change to Blog Address

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Notice: My blog address is migrating from us-ip-law.blogspot.com to us-ip-law.com. Same great blog, just at a different site.

Now You See It -- Now You Still See It!

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One prerequisite to copyright protection is fixation. A work must be fixed in a tangible medium so that the embodiment is sufficiently perma...

Copyright Protection for Sound Recordings – Now

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The Sound Recording Simplification Act (H.R. 2933) was introduced in the U.S. House last week, seeking to extend U.S. copyright protection...
Saturday, August 6, 2011

Denton True Young

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There, on this day in 1890, well before the so-called Modern Era of baseball, stood Denton True (Cy) Young, pitching for the Cleveland Stin...
Thursday, August 4, 2011

New Protection For Film And Video Actors?

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WIPO appears to be moving toward the revival of talks to develop a treaty to protect the performance rights of actors in audiovisual works....

The Big 5 - 0 For The Big 4 - 4

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Happy Birthday, Mr. President.

More On India's Missing Trademark Files

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My post of last May 5th commented on the large number of trademark files that the government of India ... lost. It is now confirmed by India...
Tuesday, August 2, 2011

Bad Faith Patent Litigation is Sanctioned

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The Federal Circuit provides an important review of the expected legal and professional standards for non-practicing patent plaintiffs in th...