In-house counsel’s role continues to evolve within many corporations. Increasingly, counsel is regarded not only as an advisor, but also as a partner that’s integral in the growth of a business. What actions
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You may remember when Harley-Davidson famously tried for years to trademark the sound of their V-twin motorcycle engine. The process was held up in legal limbo for so long that they ended up
[Read More]A court fight that has been waged since 2012 between two tech giants Oracle and Google has come to an end, with Oracle the winner. While damages have yet to be determined, in
[Read More]This post’s headline, “The Year of the Monkey, “monkey business,” a “macaquery” of the courts — over the last few years, the monkey selfie case has elicited countless primate puns (we went bananas!)
[Read More]If you don’t own a T-shirt with a clever design incorporating past or present pop culture, you probably at least appreciate seeing one in passing. So, how do these popular Internet T-shirt companies
[Read More]While there’s no such thing as a stupid question, there is, apparently, such a thing as a stupid patent: Louisiana Tech University’s patent for the “method and apparatus for automatic organization for computer
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In November 2016, we highlighted a patent troll case over Web autoplay technology. That same month, Netflix released its offline-download feature, which is now the subject of a patent infringement case. A known
[Read More]Around the same time that Amazon was enjoying its “best ever” holiday season in 2016, it was reported that the global giant has plans to go sky-high — literally — with a patent
[Read More]The U.S. Supreme Court will begin its day today by hearing opening arguments in the “century’s single most heated dispute over competing technology”: the long-running patent battle of Apple v. Samsung. Samsung is
[Read More]Japan has a great deal invested in the United Kingdom and the European Union, which is why it recently sent a strong message to both on behalf of its businesses located in the
[Read More]If you’re an Instagram user, then you probably noticed the recent rollout of a new feature called “stories,” which is quite similar to Snapchat’s own feature. So, did Instagram infringe on Snapchat’s intellectual
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