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11Sep 2025

Rebranding Missteps – Avoid Them or Pay Dearly

September 11, 2025 Trademark
Cracker Barrel logo

Over the years, we’ve written several articles on rebranding. If we’ve learned anything, it’s that rebranding can be risky business. Consumers invest a lot of emotion in brands (including logos and trademarks), and should a brand physically change, it can light a firestorm of discontent, opprobrium and just downright nastiness. That brings us to the latest rebranding fiasco. In May 2024, Cracker […]

21Aug 2025

Ask Dr. Copyright® About AI

August 21, 2025 Copyright
AI copyright training fair use legal debate

Dear Doc: I hear that using copyrighted materials to train artificial intelligence systems is legal. Can that be true? Signed,Every Artist, Ever Is Using Copyrighted Materials to Train AI Legal? Dear EAE: Training artificial intelligence (AI) systems, particularly large language models (LLMs), is a process that relies on vast amounts of information that is broken […]

14Aug 2025

Is There Hope for Patents?

August 14, 2025 Patent
Patent Eligibility Restoration Act

Let’s say you’re the leader of a very big company.  You know with the serene confidence of entitlement that you and your company are very, very important – much more important than the little, insignificant, unimportant people out there – the ones who own patents.1 You’re annoyed that the unimportant people, the ones who own patents, get […]

07Aug 2025

Can You Sue a Trademark Co-Owner?

August 7, 2025 Trademark
sue for trademark infringement

Under U.S. copyright law, as interpreted by the courts, each co-owner of a work owns an undivided interest in the work and is free to exercise those rights, including the right to license the work, without the permission of the other co-owners. As you can imagine, absent an agreement between co-owners, co-ownership of a copyright can potentially […]

10Jul 2025

The USPTO is Hiring Patent Examiners

July 10, 2025 Patent
patent examiners

Did you feel it? Something just shifted in the cosmos.  Perhaps Jupiter aligned with Mars, and it’s the dawning of the Age of Aquarius.    Umm, no.   But something has changed.  The Administration has recognized that some Federal employees are important: namely, patent examiners.  After six months of relentless pressure on patent examiners to quit or retire, the USPTO […]

03Jul 2025

Is a Car a Character?

July 3, 2025 Copyright
Eleanor

Do you enjoy car chases? Then you probably remember Eleanor—the sleek Mustang from the Gone in 60 Seconds franchise. She’s arguably the star of the film’s most thrilling scenes. But is Eleanor more than just a car? Is she a copyrightable character, like Mickey Mouse, Batman, James Bond, or even Godzilla? If you’re looking to monetize a character—especially […]

12Jun 2025

Yes, Disclosing Prior Art to the Patent Examiner IS Important

June 12, 2025 Patent
inter partes review

When you file your patent application with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, your application (eventually) is reviewed by a patent examiner.  Among other things, the patent examiner will compare your invention to the ‘prior art’ to determine whether your invention is new and is different enough to qualify for patenting.    But what is […]

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