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Trust, but Verify: The Power of Audits to Protect Your Competitive Edge as Non-Compete Ban Looms

Corporate leaders concerned about protecting the recipe for their company's success have been following the fitful path of the FTC's rule banning non-competes. Lawsuits seeking to enjoin the rule were filed in multiple...more

Artificial Intelligence: Intellectual Property Considerations for Your Business Operations

INTRODUCTION - Over the past couple of decades, artificial intelligence-enabled (AI) technologies have crept into the marketplace, providing businesses with internal- and external-facing services, such as customer...more

Generative Artificial Intelligence Asks Questions of Innovation in Patent Law

Introduction - Generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) has dominated headlines for nearly all of 2023 and demonstrated that it has the potential to disrupt the economic landscape by displacing jobs and creating remarkable...more

The Arts: A Critical Part of Coping

How did Ruth Bader-Ginsburg do it? How did she maintain such a wonderful, positive presence and remain so gracious and generous among the immense pressures of serving as a U.S. Supreme Court Justice while also battling...more

Supreme Court Addresses Impact of AIA on "On-Sale Bar"

The U.S. Supreme Court has issued a unanimous decision in Helsinn Healthcare S.A. v. Teva Pharmaceuticals USA, Inc. regarding the impact of new language in the America Invents Act (AIA), 35 U.S.C. § 102, on the "on-sale bar."...more

Game, Set, Match – Federer v. Nike and the RF Logo

Roger Federer is one of the most famous athletes of all time. He currently has won more majors than any male tennis player in the “Open Era,” and he is admired all over the world, not only for his excellence on the court but...more

8/13/2018  /  Athletes , Logos , Nike , Trademarks

Varsity Brands Earns Hard-Fought Win in Supreme Court Ruling Designs on Cheerleading Uniforms Are Copyrightable

The United States Supreme Court, in the case Star Athletica, LLC v. Varsity Brands, Inc., et al., Case No. 15-866, ruled in a 6-2 opinion that two-dimensional designs incorporated onto three-dimensional useful articles (here,...more

Challenging the Denial of a Trademark Application in District Court Just Got More Expensive

In Shammas v. Focarino, the Eastern District of Virginia holds that an applicant must pay the government attorney's fees regardless of the applicant's success in a Section 1071(b) civil matter. ...more

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