In 1975, Pepsi-Cola launched an advertising program in which patrons at shopping malls all over the United States engaged in a blind taste test of Coke and Pepsi. The results
In order to “promote the progress of science and useful arts,” the U.S. Constitution (Art. 1; Sec. 8) gives Congress the authority to secure the exclusive rights to their creations
(No actual communications are presented in this blog; they are fictionalized) I was working on a trademark filing the other day, and I shot an email to my client:
Arthur Chaykin, head of the Intellectual Law Group at Kennyhertz Perry, recently finalized the successful settlement of a case involving the inventorship rights of a university professor. Professors and students
The above comparison of two trademarks was presented on Page 22 of Apple Inc.’s trademark Opposition to the registration of the pear logo owned by Super Healthy Kids, Inc. (“SHK”).
The question of the extent to which software innovations were patentable has long confused attorneys and their clients. Section 101 Patent Act welcomes “any new and useful process, machine, manufacture,
It happens rarely, but there are some areas in which lawyers provide legal advice that is systematically ignored by a large segment of clients. For many decades, trademark lawyers have
Kansas City is giddy about the success of its football team. Many artisans, designers, entrepreneurs, and other creative people are presenting a wide range of team, player, and “Big Game”
Garnish and Gather, LLC (“G&G”), a relatively small Georgia company selling meal kits and fresh and prepared foods, has filed a trademark lawsuit in the Southern District of New York
Two recent cases in the news demonstrate the dangers of failing to consider judicious management of intellectual property rights with regard to products that include expressive content or identifiers. The
The founder of Wired Magazine, Kevin Kelly, observed that “The internet is the world’s largest copy machine.” This giant copy machine is easy to operate and explosively expands copying. In
