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30Apr 2014

Provisional Patent Applications – File Early and Often

April 30, 2014 Patent
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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
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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 […]

28Feb 2014

How Sweet it is…The Candy Crush Saga

February 28, 2014 Trademark
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Have you ever played the mobile app game, “Candy Crush Saga” by King.com, Ltd. (“King”)?  Are you addicted to it?  Not me, you say.  More power to you because by some reports King earns a million dollars a day from users who actually pay for the chance to continue using this “free” game.  The way […]

28Feb 2014

The Supreme Court Weighs In…

February 28, 2014 Intellectual Property
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When the Supreme Court decides a case, the result is binding on all of us.  The Court will be busy with patent, copyright and trademark cases over the next few months.  The following are a few highlights: 1.  Are computer-implemented inventions patentable?  Particularly, is a general purpose computer programmed to perform a specific function patentable?  […]

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