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29Feb 2012

Is Facebook Your Friend?

February 29, 2012 Internet Law
Copyright

Do you have a Facebook Account?  Do you realize that every time you click the “Like” button for a product, service or website,  Facebook may distribute a paid advertisement (“a sponsored story”) using your name to all of your “Friends” suggesting that you are recommending the product or service?  While Facebook is described in the […]

29Feb 2012

IPad Trademark Disputes Continue to Haunt Apple

February 29, 2012 Trademark
TM is for Trademarks

Trademark lawyers often enjoy following trademark disputes involving  famous trademarks. If you haven’t heard about Apple Computer’s court battle over ownership rights for the “iPad” trademark in China, read on. The Chinese owner of the “iPad” trademark is not Apple but  a beleaguered video display manufacturer known as Proview.  In 2001, Proview obtained rights to the […]

31Jan 2012

Stopping a Patent

January 31, 2012 Patent
deposit boxes

Consider the following situation:  you learn that your competitor has a pending U.S. patent application for a product that you make.  Any resulting patent could be disastrous for your company.  What can you do to stop or limit your competitor’s application? The PTO has proposed a new rule that would allow you to notify your […]

31Jan 2012

Cameras and Bicycles — Say Cheez!

January 31, 2012 Trademark
Internet and Intellectual Property

You’ve probably heard about the bankruptcy of Eastman Kodak Company.  Yes, everyone sees the irony in a once successful company famous for its technical innovations failing to keep pace with the rapid speed of digital technology.  Should we write off Kodak and leave it to the dry and dusty bins of history — as one […]

31Jan 2012

A Tale of (More Than) Two Brothers

January 31, 2012 Copyright
Copyright concepts

History, though sometimes a dry and dusty exercise, may occasionally teach important lessons in trademark law, and in common sense (a quality often found lacking in trademark attorneys).  Case in point: the dispute between Warner Bros. movie studio and the Marx Brothers, over the film “A Night in Casablanca”. Our story opens in 1947.  Groucho […]

31Jan 2012

Walmart Sponsors New Product Competition

January 31, 2012 Patent
combo lock

Walmart currently is sponsoring a ‘get on the  shelf‘ competition to identify new products for sale through Walmart.com and its brick-and-mortar stores.  The contest rules require that applicants submit an entry form and a link to a YouTube video of the product.  After the entries are vetted by Walmart, links to the YouTube videos will be placed on the ‘get on […]

31Dec 2011

Quick Patent Application Review for Green Technologies

December 31, 2011 Patent
gavel of justice

Most inventors wait two to three years for a decision on a utility patent application by the PTO, and some wait much longer.  Applicants with ample resources can pay an extra PTO fee ($2,400.00 for a small entity) for quick review.  If your invention will result in a cleaner environment or reduced use of fossil […]

31Dec 2011

French Fries Sue Crabs…What Next?

December 31, 2011 Trademark
Internet and Intellectual Property

The owner of the popular Chickie and Pete’s (CP) restaurant chain, Pete Ciarrocchi, is on a tear trying to maintain his monopoly over the use of “crab fries,” a seasoned french fry product, which Philadelphia Magazine claims Ciarrocchi invented.  Not so says a handful of restaurants in the Maryland eastern shore who have orchestrated a […]

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