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27Nov 2013

Ask Dr. Copyright …

November 27, 2013 Ask Dr. Copyright, Copyright
R is for Registered

Dear Doc: While searching online, I came across thousands of books – not on Amazon.com, but on Google! I could actually read the pages of those books because the words matched what I had searched, and most of the books were scanned right from the library. That’s cool – and really useful, but I thought […]

27Nov 2013

Branding Rules While Candy Bars Wage Battle ….

November 27, 2013 Trademark
Copyright

If you ever doubted the economic importance of branding, take a look at the 2013 World Intellectual Property Report authored by the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO).  For the  period from 1987 to 2011, United States investments in branding accounted for close to a quarter of all intangible asset investments!  Brand ranking organizations value the […]

30Sep 2013

Six Strikes and You’re Out (of Internet Access) …

September 30, 2013 Copyright
Internet and Intellectual Property

In February of this year, the Center For Copyright Information (CCI) — a group representing rights holders in the media industries — began a so-called “six-strikes” educational campaign to combat Internet piracy.  Leading Internet Service Providers  (ISP) — Verizon, Time Warner, Cablevision, Comcast and AT&T — are taking part. Here’s how it works.  When it […]

30Sep 2013

Abusive Patent Enforcement – The States Step Up

September 30, 2013 Patent
uploading photos

In general, only the Federal government and Federal courts have jurisdiction over patent matters.   However, the Federal government does not have effective tools for protecting individuals and small businesses from abusive and unjustified bullying by patent owners.   A small business often cannot afford to defend against a threat of patent litigation and agrees to pay […]

30Aug 2013

Beware of the On-Sale Bar

August 30, 2013 Patent
The-Top-Computer-Companies-In

If you are a regular reader of this newsletter, then you know that a sale or offer for sale of your invention will terminate your patent rights unless you first file a patent application.   Did you know that the on-sale bar also applies to commercial sales of the invention to you, as from a contract […]

31Jul 2013

The DMCA to the Rescue (Maybe) …

July 31, 2013 Copyright
courtroom

In a recent embarrassing broadcast by KTVU television of San Francisco, the morning anchor, Tori Campbell, identified the pilots of the recent San Francisco Asiana airline crash as “Captain Sum Ting Wong,” “Wi Tu Lo,” “Ho Lee Fuk,” and “Bang Ding Ow.”   As she read the names, Campbell didn’t flinch and, even more perplexing, […]

31Jul 2013

New Rules, New Strategies for Innovators

July 31, 2013 Patent
Designs for patents

The past 15 years have seen an unprecedented attack on patents and patent-owners in the United States. Orchestrated by foreign nations, multinational corporations, and a variety of other groups, largely funded by similar vested interests, this attack has reduced much of the value formerly associated with patented innovations. In past issues of our newsletter we […]

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