If you have ever driven down I-95 toward Daytona Beach or St. Augustine (or in much of the southeast or practically anywhere in Texas), chances are good that you have seen signs advertising Buc-ee’s gas station/country store. If you have seen those signs or visited a...
Thomson Reuters has won a legal battle against Ross Intelligence for the latter using material from Reuters’ Westlaw platform to train their AI model. On February 11, the 3rd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals overturned a 2023 decision, issuing a summary judgment decision...
If you are in the IP world or have been following this blog for any length of time, you have probably heard me talk about INTA, the International Trademark Association. I typically attend their annual meeting, and like to write about my experiences and what I learn...
At the end of January, the Copyright Office released part two of its long-awaited report offering guidance on the copyrightability of AI-created works. For those who have been paying close attention over the past year, the Copyright Office’s AI report is essentially...
If you have a business, it is almost guaranteed these days that you also have a website. The name people type into their browser to find your website? That is your domain name. Broadly speaking, most businesses in the US are at businessname.com. You likely know that....
Have you ever heard of The Wayback Machine? The website, an initiative of the nonprofit Internet Archive, is a vast repository of old web pages (916 billion and counting!), texts, video, audio, software, and images. Essentially, it acts like a digital library,...
Like many other famous and successful people, Tiger Woods is no stranger to lawsuits. The current slate of IP lawsuits he is facing, however, are not about Woods the man, but rather his businesses. His clothing line Sun Day Red (SDR), which launched in February 2024,...
On the list of things that can potentially prevent your trademark infringement lawsuit from going forward, a “trade embargo” probably is not very high. But that is precisely why Cuban company Cubaexport was prevented from suing Bacardi in the U.S. From the outside,...