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28Jun 2014

Be Afraid. Be Very Afraid.1

June 28, 2014 Internet Law
Courtroom

A cyber security firm called Norse maintains what it claims to be a dynamic, real-time map of cyber attacks as they happen, showing cities of origin and targets.  The first thing you’ll do after viewing this constantly-changing map is update your security software.  The second is to clean the cobwebs out of your filing cabinet. […]

30May 2014

Ask Dr. Copyright …

May 30, 2014 Ask Dr. Copyright, Copyright
Internet and Intellectual Property

Dear Doc: I have heard that the music and movie industries want Congress to add a new part to the Copyright Law, one that would say that it is a violation of a copyright owner’s rights to “make available” a copy of a work, even if the copy is never accessed by anyone. What gives? […]

30May 2014

“Raging Bull” and “Stairway to Heaven” — Old But Not Forgotten

May 30, 2014 Copyright
Copyright concepts

This week, the United States Supreme Court issued an opinion of great importance to those wishing to enforce their copyrights. In Petrella v. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, Inc., the Supreme Court clarified confusion among lower courts about whether the doctrine of laches (also known as unreasonable delay) could bar a lawsuit for copyright infringement.  While the court’s opinion […]

30Apr 2014

Ask Dr. Copyright …

April 30, 2014 Ask Dr. Copyright, Copyright
uploading photos

Ask Dr. Copyright … Dear Doc: I write the songs that make the whole world sing. Unfortunately, with all that songwriting, I really don’t have the time to listen to every radio station that plays my songs, every online store that sells them, and every band, chorus, glee club, and lounge act that covers them […]

30Apr 2014

Provisional Patent Applications – File Early and Often

April 30, 2014 Patent
deposit boxes

A provisional patent application is a temporary application that provides patent-pending status for one year.  The provisional application can be a relatively low-cost way to preserve your patent rights while you develop your invention.  The protection offered by a provisional patent application is only as good as the information contained in the application and only […]

30Apr 2014

Google Street View Revisited…

April 30, 2014 Litigation
TM is for Trademarks

Last month, we reported that Google lost patent infringement litigation relating to the Google Street View technology and that Street View was off the air.  While Google did lose the infringement litigation, if Street View was ever down it was back on line by the time our newsletter published. — Robert Yarbrough, Esq.

30Mar 2014

Ask Dr. Copyright …

March 30, 2014 Ask Dr. Copyright, Copyright
Designs for patents

Dear Doc: A magazine editor has told me that if a magazine releases an issue before its copyright date, the magazine will lose its rights. I can’t believe that this is the law. Please tell me who’s right. Signed, Confused Author Dear Confused: You’re less confused than your editor! Under international copyright law, known as […]

30Mar 2014

New gTLD’s … New Burdens

March 30, 2014 Internet Law
TM is for trademarks

You may recall that we reported about “one of the biggest changes in the Domain Name System” was about to be implemented by ICANN, which was introducing hundreds of new top level domains that could “end with almost any word in any language.”  So, instead of such dependable and familiar domains like “nike.com” and “nikon.com”, […]

30Mar 2014

What Happened to Google Street View?

March 30, 2014 Patent
TM is for Trademarks

Google Street View is the popular feature of Google Maps that allows you to see panoramic photographs of, well, pretty much anywhere with different orientations and magnifications.  The photographs are stitched together in software to allow the viewer to navigate through a virtual representation of the real world.  You may have seen the Google photography […]

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