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14Oct 2021

If Artificial Intelligence is the Inventor, Who Gets the Patent?

October 14, 2021 Patent

Artificial intelligence (‘AI’) can be pretty smart – smart enough to create new, useful and non-obvious inventions. Take, for example, Dr. Stephen Thaler’s AI tool ‘Device for the Autonomous Bootstrapping of Unified Sentience’ (‘DABUS’).  DABUS created two inventions, a light beacon and a food container.  Dr. Thaler applied for patents for those inventions around the world, […]

07Oct 2021

How Do I Register My Trademark in a Foreign Country? Part I

October 7, 2021 Trademark

That’s a great question and one that we frequently receive from clients who are expanding their businesses internationally. Your company’s trademark, whether a word, logo, tagline, or the look and feel of your packaging, are valuable assets, which require protection whether you are expanding your business domestically in the United States or internationally in a […]

16Sep 2021

The Unabated Deluge of Chinese Trademark Applications

September 16, 2021 Trademark
China Trademark

In March 2019, we wrote with some concern, that as early as 2017 Chinese companies had filed more than 12 times the number of trademark applications with the USPTO than in previous years. At that time the director of the USPTO stated that “forecasts indicate that annual increases are expected to average 10% during the next 8 […]

09Sep 2021

Not So Happy Together: Ninth Circuit Says No Public Performance Rights in Turtles Pre-1972 Recordings

September 9, 2021 Copyright
The Turtles

What happens when Congress is unable – for almost 50 years – to figure out how to protect recorded music? Specifically, music recorded before 1972? Messy litigation involving the Turtles is what happens. First, some background. Almost 50 years ago, Congress passed the Sound Recording Amendment to the 1909 Copyright Act, which provided copyright protection […]

02Sep 2021

When is a Design Obvious?

September 2, 2021 Patent
Mousetrap Patent

When most inventors think of a patent, they think of a better-mousetrap type patent, known as a utility patent.  A utility patent protects what an invention is and how it works.  U.S. Patent 269,766 for a mousetrap that plugs a mouse with  a bullet from  a  .44 is an example of a utility patent.  Our […]

19Aug 2021

Click-Pop-Swish — No License Required!

August 19, 2021 Trademark

The sound of popping beer cans on a hot summer day may evoke memories: quenching a thirst on a hot day, backyard barbecues, days at the beach, or sunny afternoons at the ballgame. Beer can sounds are not going away. The beer can market is going gangbusters. According to one industry source, in 2020, approximately 90.2 […]

12Aug 2021

I’m as Mad as Hell and I’m Not Gonna Take it Anymore!*

August 12, 2021 Patent
Axle Patent

‘It’ being the nonsensical state of U.S. patent eligibility, that is.   Over the last decade or so the U.S. Supreme Court has restricted the patentability of numerous inventions as ‘abstract’ or ‘laws of nature,’ including business techniques (Bilski v Kappos), medical inventions (Mayo v Prometheus), biotech inventions (Myriad Genetics), and computer software (Alice v […]

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