There are many reasons to rebrand a company. Sometimes a rebrand is undertaken because the company has added – either through a merger or outright acquisition – additional products or services that aren’t reflected in the old brand. Other times, a company may go...
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...
This time of year, many husbands are scrambling for a last-minute gift for their wives and jewelry is often seen as a perfect solution. But beware: all that glitters isn’t gold and if a deal is to good to be true it’s likely counterfeit jewelry. Jewelry is an...
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 $1 billion in fake goods were recovered during a counterfeit goods seizure in a raid of a storage facility in Manhattan by Homeland Security and the New York Police Department (NYPD) this past week. In a statement to the media, the Homeland Security special...
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...
Anyone thinking about securing a copyright for Artificial Intelligence (AI) generated work should pay attention to last month’s ruling in a Federal court in Washington D.C. In a ruling upholding the U.S. Copyright Office’s decision to not grant copyright protection to...
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...
In its ongoing efforts to modernize operations, the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) implemented eGrants for patents beginning in April of 2023. In switching to eGrants, patent grants will no longer be issued on paper, but in a PDF format. It should...
