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Each of the major software publishers has one or two tricks up its sleeve – tricks that often are missed by licensees – affecting how its server products may be used in virtualized environments.

BSA| The Software Alliance (the "BSA") is an organization that acts on behalf of software publishers to enforce copyrights.

Online retail businesses making sales in California, and having certain physical ties – even if only indirect – to the state, should be aware of potential state use tax liability, as discussed in the recent California state appellate case, Borders Online, LLC v. State Bd. of Equalization.

The Copyright Office released a "Pre-publication" version of Part 3 of its Report on Copyright and AI. Coincidentally (?) Shira Perlmuter, the Register of Copyrights...

The U. S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit, equating a covenant not to sue under a patent with a license, has concluded that a trustee in bankruptcy cannot unilaterally reject the covenant as an executory contract.

A software publisher conducted a license audit on our client, a technology company, which resulted in the software publisher claiming that they were owed...

When drafting or negotiating software agreements, it is important to understand the definition of "Software."

Trademark practitioners are well familiar with the requirement under U.S. law that trademark licenses must contain quality control provisions.

In Helferich Patent Licensing v New York Times the Federal Circuit reversed the holding of the Northern District of Illinois on a summary judgment that earlier licences to handset makers...

The winter holiday season poses high sales potential for most retail companies.

The Really Simple Licensing Collective ("RSL Collective"), a nonprofit dedicated to creating collective licensing solutions for content creators and publishers, has announced Really Simple Licensing ("RSL"), a new standard designed to stop crawlers from scraping websites for content without permission or compensation. If adopted, RSL could have major implications for both online platforms and the AI technologies that source content for training data from them.

John Grisham’s The Firm in a real-life legal drama.

ARS Tecnica ran an article recently about a new rooftop material that radiates heat into outer space. Scientists at Stanford published a paper in Nature last week describing how they used a silcon wafer layered with thin alternating layers of silicon dioxide and hafnium dioxide to radiate heat through the atmosphere into space.

However, for many companies, those have been relatively easy requirements to satisfy.

When is a trademark not a trademark? When it no longer performs the source identification function for which it was adopted.

The Department of the Treasury's Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) has issued general licenses authorizing a limited set of free internet-based communications with persons in Cuba, Iran and Sudan.

in Rentmeester v. Nike, Inc., the District of Oregon dismissed a lawsuit that accused Nike of copying the plaintiff's 1984 photograph of Michael Jordan to create Nike's now iconic "Jumpman" logo.

Attacking an expert’s methodology may be appropriate in motions to exclude, but disagreements with an expert’s opinion are better left for cross-examination at trial.