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In a decision that establishes the economic nexus principle as the basis for the imposition of tax in North Carolina, the North Carolina Court of Appeals affirmed income and franchise tax assessments against several Delaware trademark holding companies for royalty and interest payments they received from retail companies operating in North Carolina.

Oracle claims that all servers running the VMware software require an Oracle license even when there is no Oracle software installed on them.

Episode 22 provides a decisive and satisfying showdown between Jack's Box plan and Richard's consumer platform option.

The Bankruptcy Code definition of "intellectual property" does not explicitly include "trademarks.

Most trademark licensing relationships are defined and evaluated based upon the terms in a license agreement contract. In the case of a brand extension license, there can be a lot at stake, including the health and well being of the licensor’s brand. Surprisingly, many license agreements do not include specific terms or requirements that reflect key marketing objectives.

As we have helped businesses launch their exciting, new Facebook Pages, we’ve learned that there are some common concerns with Facebook’s rules.

The Federal Circuit’s recent holding in "Breckenridge Pharm., Inc. v. Metabolite Labs., Inc.", Nos. 05-1221, 05-1428, 2006 WL 895208 (Fed. Cir. Apr. 7, 2006), has made life easier for forum shoppers by establishing that a defendant in a patent declaratory judgment action may have the necessary "minimum contacts" with a forum state to confer personal jurisdiction simply by virtue of the defendant’s relationship with an exclusive licensee headquartered or otherwise doing business in the forum stat

A discussion on the topic of acquisitions and IP licences.

Most trademark licensing relationships are defined and evaluated based upon the terms in a license agreement contract. In the case of a brand extension license, there can be a lot at stake, including the health and well being of the licensor’s brand. Surprisingly, many license agreements do not include specific terms or requirements that reflect key marketing objectives.

When it came to market in July 2008, Apple, Inc.'s ("Apple") App Store created the first centralized market for applications for mobile devices.

Recent TTAB decisions illustrate how composite marks combining words and design elements can avoid likelihood of confusion with competing marks when the textual and visual components work together...

In a precedential decision, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit addressed the standard for filing documents with a court under seal.

Uniloc 2017 LLC was a notably prolific litigant around three years ago, but the NPE has since ceased the active filing of litigation as it fights appellate battles on multiple fronts.

In reaching its decision, the Supreme Court continued its current trend in emphasizing the limits on patent rights and the public's interest in corresponding discoveries.

The licensor's (software vendor) objective is to protect itself from any claims resulting from the licensee (business) from breaching the license grant.

In a reversal that came as no surprise to many observers, on Tuesday, August 11, 2020, a unanimous panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals...

Those that excel at innovation should be entitled to focus on doing so without diverting their attention.

If your company is involved in research, design and development of new technology, chances are a standards setting organization (SSO) is discussing the potential standardization of such technology. There are clear benefits to participation in an SSO – keeping abreast of industry developments, targeting product development toward standard compliant products, steering research and intellectual property protection into potential areas of future standardization and directing the standardization effo