The latest The Intellectual Property Daily! https://paper.li/ballard_ip/intellectual-property?edition_id=a1be05c0-3f9a-11ea-9ec3-0cc47a0d164b #iplaw #counterfeit
“Mommas, don’t let you babies grow up to be patent attorneys.” WSJ op ed by former Federal Circuit Chief Judge highlights just how bad the US patent system has become. Only Congress can fix it, and I doubt they can or will in this divisive era. http://tinyurl.com/sp6q6ro
Atari branded hotels to be built in eight cities including Denver
https://www.bizjournals.com/denver/news/2020/01/24/atari-denver-hotel.html?ana=e_ae_set1&j=90454311&t=Afternoon&mkt_tok=eyJpIjoiTXpVelkyTTVZVEk0WWpsbCIsInQiOiJrbUJ2MmNjaDR2ZlwvR0QwSFBNaWF4dXNzeVdWS2lrUGQyOUkxc0g5U0JINDdxSzNLYkhCSTRleEhQeEQwbVF6UnFZSmt1SGJnRVlocHZ6MGlPMEsyOVA0M095NkxCTng1KzFiSTM5OFhRWFhYM3pkZHlcL0pRRTlHNnkzQ2orcVUzNEJzeUwzUkN3bUN6c1JRWm1lK1dVdz09In0%3D
The latest The Intellectual Property Daily! https://paper.li/ballard_ip/intellectual-property?edition_id=90d61e60-3ed1-11ea-9ec3-0cc47a0d164b #iplaw #trademarks
The oral argument can be heard here: http://bit.ly/2RKAIHe
NEW: The Second Circuit seems miiiighty skeptical of that big #trademark damages award won by Tiffany against Costco.
Our coverage of today's arguments, via @PeteBrush: https://www.law360.com/articles/1237093
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Check out a recording of our recent webinar, Top IP Cases in 2019 In-House Counsel Need to Know, featuring @FoleyHoag lawyers @PeteSully7, @NicoleKinsleyK, Urszula Nowak, and Mital Patel: https://www.trademarkandcopyrightlawblog.com/2020/01/watch-top-ip-cases-in-2019-in-house-counsel-need-to-know/.
State agencies and attorneys general will likely continue to become more active in the digital asset space - here's what could happen next. https://lnkd.in/e9KcXzD
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If parents don’t live in the same country, and the child routinely resides with both, It’s difficult to determine which country has jurisdiction. International child custody cases are a complicated dispute.
http://bit.ly/2NUl7n9 #ChildCustody #Divorce #FamilyLaw #California
Estonian Startup Awards 2019 https://www.lift99.co/blog/estonian-startup-awards-2019
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Are you looking for investors? Did you know that a strong patent portfolio makes the valuation of your startup higher. Let's meet at @startupdayfest https://next.brella.io/events/startupdayfest and discuss how to support the valuation of your startup!
Very proud that Nixon Peabody has earned a 100% rating on the Human Rights Campaign Corporate Equality Index for the fourteenth consecutive year https://lnkd.in/eVe29BY
Just another reminder to producers that you almost never need a "life rights" agreement if you are making a movie about a dead person. More info on the subject here http://bit.ly/2NN5Hkq
Oprah WInfrey has just beat this lawsuit I wrote about a few years ago. Decision: https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/6667822-Debaters.html Background: https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/thr-esq/oprah-winfreys-harpo-sued-by-family-man-depicted-great-debaters-988534
My latest column: A New California Law Attempts to Regulate Consumer Privacy Nationwide. Better Get Ready.
http://brandbodyguards.com/a-new-california-law-attempts-to-regulate-consumer-privacy-nationwide-better-get-ready/
The morals clause should be reciprocal. So the artist can cancel the contract if the studio does something morally reprehensible (which they all do).
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Next week at #startupdayfest. Have you secured your innovations? Let's meet and discuss how to #GetItPatented! https://next.brella.io/events/startupdayfest
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“It’s creepy what they’re doing, but there will be many more of these companies. There is no monopoly on math,” said Al Gidari, a privacy professor at Stanford Law School. “Absent a very strong federal privacy law, we’re all screwed.” https://apple.news/AqZ68HYjYR7SLZbErPVGi8Q
“There is no simple one-liner answer to this.” https://apple.news/A0Zc9zaiHRXqIyH2c_aHCtQ
CBD regulatory uncertainty has opened the door for class action litigation https://lnkd.in/eabYNSK
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Seriously @Hertz? I'm a gold member and usually have no problems but I am lugging 2 kids and heavy bags and there is no car in the assigned spot?? #frustrated
Join Kevin Hanson (@Kevin_IPlaw) at @HaleyGuiliano (London) to learn how #IntellectualProperty can be used as a strategic and valuable tool. https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/working-lunch-intellectual-property-rights-with-haley-guiliano-law-tickets-90131003257
#Trademark owner's opposition to trademark registration application terminated w/prejudice. Files infringement suit. 9th Cir. holds dismissal under claim preclusion improper b/c TTAB can’t adjudicate infringement claim. Issue preclusion, though, may apply: http://bit.ly/2TtPYL1
SCOTUS oral arg’t transcript in #trademark case addressing whether “willful” infringement is a prerequisite to be awarded the infringer’s profits http://bit.ly/2QZFjGo (pdf). Justices appear open to defining “willful” (knowing, reckless, callous disregard, etc.?)
9th Circuit joins other circuits holding that it's not #copyright infringement for a 3rd party to make copies of a work on behalf of a licensee w/the right to make copies: http://bit.ly/2u6iEii #creativecommons
Courthouse Square #Tampa
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Deciding to register a trademark is like deciding to build a commercial office building. If you build it but don't maintain it, what's the point? It will crumble and eventually collapse.