Artificial intelligence or “AI” is becoming increasingly common and is being utilized in devices and computations from personalizing displayed advertisements to robots that provide personalized care for patients. Artificial intelligence allows a system to be trained...
The fierce competition between athletic shoe companies now extends beyond the playing fields to the courtroom. Nike has sued two rival shoe companies, New Balance and Skechers, in Federal Court, for patent infringement over Nike’s Flyknit technology. In its papers,...
More than 150 years since the Battle of Gettysburg, a new battle may be brewing over ownership of the Gettysburg Area School District’s (GASD) logo.The current iteration of the logo – an upper case “G” inside of an arrowhead to represent the district’s Warriors...
In an effort to crack down on fraudulent trademark filings, the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) will be collecting and verifying domicile addresses for all applicants. This comes as a result of the USPTO’s trademark enforcement team finding thousands...
Depending on whom you ask, Internet Archives’ Great 78 Project” is either an attempt to digitize and preserve old vinyl records from the early to mid-20th century’s iconic artists or it is “blatant copyright infringement” and the “wholesale theft of generations of...
Andy Warhol, Pittsburgh native, died in 1987 and the rock musician Prince died in 2016, but they were at the center of a recent U.S. Supreme Court case, where the court upheld, by a 7-2 vote, the copyright claim of photographer Lynn Goldsmith. The events that...
