The Internet would look very different today without the DMCA – a law passed by Congress in 1998, when the Internet was only 7 years old. Without the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA), YouTube, Facebook and Instagram and other similar sites would have most likely been sued out of existence….
We are often asked by our startup clients when is the right time to trademark a business name. The short answer is that you should file for trademark protection as soon as possible. The only caveat is that your trademark should be filed only after your business entity has been…
Dropbox scored an early win in a trademark suit that opposed the cloud storage giant to Thru. Now, Dropbox asked for an award of $1.95M in attorneys’ fees.
Patrón sued its former ad agency for false advertising, trademark infringement and Anticybersquatting Consumer Protection Act (ACPA) violation.
Tiffany & Co. was awarded a total of $13.75M by a New York Jury on counts of trademark infringement and trademark counterfeiting.
A suggestive trademark is a salutary compromise between marketing and legal considerations and has the makings of a very good trademark.
If a copyright license does not specifically grant you an exclusive copyright right, you would not be able to sue infringers
Keeping adequate record of your software creation efforts can be very helpful to stave off copyright infringement claims
Despite Oracle’s efforts to utilize copyright law to asphyxiate Rimini’s business model, Rimini’s support services appear to have bright days ahead
The surest way to preempt litigation and licensing fee losses is to limit licensees’ potential claims of joint copyright ownership contractually
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