by Stephen Kennedy | Oct 3, 2016 | Blog
The United States Supreme Court has denied the Washington Redskins certiorari Petition. We have previously covered the trademark disparagement cases extensively here on the blog. The Washington Redskins are currently appealing a district judge’s order cancelling six...
by Stephen Kennedy | Sep 29, 2016 | Blog
As we predicted here on the blog last year, the Supreme Court has accepted certiorari this morning in Lee v. Tam. The Court will be reviewing whether the disparagement provision of the Lanham Act is facially invalid under the Free Speech Clause of the First Amendment....
by Stephen Kennedy | Sep 29, 2016 | Blog
Imagine this scenario: You’re opening a coffee shop in your local town. You’ve spent countless hours and have invested a lot of money into the opening of your new shop. You’ve chosen a brand name and you’ve had that brand name plastered all over your brand new coffee...
by Stephen Kennedy | Sep 15, 2016 | Blog
In McRO, Inc., DBA Planet Blue v. Namco Games, et. al, the Federal Circuit Court of Appeals has reversed a trial court’s finding that a software patent claims an abstract idea and is invalid under the Supreme Court’s landmark decision in the Alice case. McRo involved...
by Stephen Kennedy | Sep 6, 2016 | Blog
Recently, Warner Bros. (“WB”) filed a DMCA Takedown Notice with Google. The takedown notice included numerous websites that WB sought to remove infringing content from. Normally, a Digital Millennium Copyright Act (“DMCA”) takedown Notice is used by a copyright owner...
by Stephen Kennedy | Aug 11, 2016 | Blog
On August 9, 2016, the Federal Circuit Court of Appeals issued its opinion in Arendi S.A.R.L. v. Apple Inc., Appeal No. 15-2073 (Fed. Cir. 2016). In the case, the Federal Circuit holds: “Because the Board’s presumption that adding a search for phone numbers to Pandit...
