What You Need to Know About Trademark Searches When a company decides to change their logo or create a new product line that needs a name and logo, they will task their marketing department or a branding consultant to develop the new name and logo. As the new names...
Intellectual Property
Even Slot Machine Games Have Copyright Protection
As we have discussed in previous posts, protecting your intellectual property is important – but it is not worth pursuing at all costs. We can see this in the recent progression of a case brought by Aristocrat Technologies, a slot machine creator, whose complaint...
Careful What You Say About Copyright on the Internet: Elon Musk’s X Accused of Enabling Infringement
The Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) is meant to absolve internet hosts of the infringement sins of their users. Without it, they would face the virtually perpetual burden of policing any and all posts for copyrighted material. But is there any exception to...
World Intellectual Property Day 2024 Is May 1st – Want to Celebrate at the U.S. Capitol Building?
As an attorney who works in IP law, it probably comes as no surprise that I have a particular appreciation for intellectual property and the protections we have devised for those who create it. The legal protections our country – and the world – have developed around...
If Only Kim Kardashian Had Not Called “These Donald Judd Tables” Amazing
How does a brand determine when it needs to defend its creations? Often, it is not worth pursuing every possible instance of infringement. We have seen numerous fair use cases of copyright infringement that actually help promote the original creator. Still, there has...
Crystal Broughan: Video Series – How much does it cost to register my trademark? – Episode 1 | Are you using your trademark in commerce or not?
The first question many potential clients ask is, “How much will it cost to register my trademark?” Since there are many variables that come into play when registering a trademark, there is no set answer to this question. Here are a few issues that need to be...
Wordle Clones Succumb to DMCA Takedown Notices from NYT
As we have covered on this blog previously, one rule of thumb in intellectual property law is: “Just because you can does not mean you should.” This applies to copyright infringement in the commercial space, where the onus is on the copyright owner to decide whether...
If You Post a Concert Phone Video Online, Will You Get Sued?
A quick internet search of "concert phone video" proves not only that a significant number of people do, in fact, post these types of videos – but also that the act of recording of music concerts is a sort of cottage industry. Lots of people post tips on how to do it,...