How to Pick a Trademark that Won’t be Rejected by the USPTO At Lipton, Weinberger & Husick, we spend a lot of time reviewing office actions issued to clients who filed trademarks on their own or with a trademark service like LegalZoom or Trademarkia. Registration services provide only the bare essentials when it comes to […]
Blog – Adam Garson Law
The Washington Redskins NFL team has been fighting for years to maintain its registered trademarks containing the term REDSKINS. Its on and off again fight has been hotly debated in public, press and the courts. Finally, the United States Supreme Court has weighed in. Funny enough, the case before them was not that of the Redskins but […]
Don’t Mess with Texas
July 14, 2017
Litigation, Patent
The Eastern District of Texas is a large rural Federal judicial district. The biggest city is about the size of Allentown, Pennsylvania. Not what you would expect of a hotbed of patent litigation. Nonetheless, the Eastern District of Texas has dominated patent infringement litigation for years. In the first quarter of 2017, patent plaintiffs filed […]
Dear Doc: I know that there’s a court case over whether a monkey that took a selfie can own the copyright in the photo (or whether there even is a copyright on it.) I just read that computers are learning how to write music, paint pictures, and do lots of things that we humans think are creative. Can […]
Dear Doc: I know this is not a copyright question, but I hope you can shed light on something that’s been bothering me for some time. Why, in this great and broad country of ours, has it seemed like every other patent case is being decided in an obscure town in East Texas called […]
Is Google Guilty of “Genericide”?
June 9, 2017
Intellectual Property, Trademark
Is Google Guilty of “Genericide”? Mr. Chris Gillespie must have thought he had a brilliant idea when he registered multiple domain names that included the term “Google,” such as “googledisney.com,” “googleBarackObama.net,” “Googlenewtvs.com” and others. Did he truly believe that Google would not sue him? Or was this part of a grander scheme? Think about the […]
Before the America Invents Act (‘AIA’), an invention owner had a one-year ‘grace period’ to file a patent application after commercially selling an invention or using the invention in public. If the patent owner failed to file a patent application within the grace period, the patent rights in the invention evaporated, leaving the owner with […]
Trading Places – China and the U.S. – Patents
May 19, 2017
Patent
China’s Patent System is Developing at a Faster Rate China conquered the low-cost, low-margin manufacturing sector of the world economy. Now it’s after the high-cost, high-margin, creative side of the economy. How will it get there? Through patents, of course. Thirty years ago, China had no patent system to speak of. Now the Chinese patent law […]
Can State Governments Own Rights in Copyright?
May 12, 2017
Copyright
I was browsing through my copy of the “Copyright Law of the United States,” which I purchased from the Government Printing Office some years ago. I noticed that inside the opening pages where you would normally find a copyright notice, the page contained a quote from the United States Constitution: The Congress shall have Power… […]
Dear Doc: I saw that the Charging Bull sculpture near Wall Street has a new “companion” sculpture called “Fearless Girl”, and that the artist who created the bull is none-too-happy about it. He says that the new sculpture changes the meaning of his sculpture from what he intended: “the strength and power of the American […]