Fame is a mystery. Sometimes it attaches to people understandably, at others awkwardly.

Launched in 2010 by Cold Brew Labs Inc., online scrapbooking site Pinterest has become one of the fastest-growing social media websites of all time.

Tacking is a principle in trademark law that permits owners of a mark to make changes to it while retaining the priority date of the original.

The Court's decision turned on what it deemed as the failure of the purported author of the lyrics to assign her rights to the lyrics to Warner/Chappell's successor in interest.

In its ruling, the TTAB seemed rather harshly to dismiss AAA's laches and estoppel defenses.

This article recommends strategies for avoiding or delaying abandonment of a trademark after a name change, as well as for keeping third parties from adopting the mark if abandonment cannot be avoided.

On May 9, 2016, the Patent Trial and Appeal Board ("the Board" or "PTAB") provided additional guidance to patent owners and potential petitioners by designating 5 opinions as precedential, increasing the number of precedential opinions from 3 to 8.

On May 9, 2016, the Patent Trial and Appeal Board ("the Board" or "PTAB") provided additional guidance to patent owners and potential petitioners by designating 5 opinions as precedential, increasing the number of precedential opinions from 3 to 8.

Vacates TTAB decision on pretzel crisps, remands under Marvin Ginn

Congratulations. Your big contingency fee case is set for trial within weeks. It’s taken you three years to get to this point – dozens of depositions, discovery battles, summary judgment motions, and multiple Daubert challenges.

On May 19, 2016, Robert Bahr, Deputy Commissioner for Patent Examination Policy of the U.S. PTO sent a memorandum to the Patent Examining Corps that discusses the recent decisions issued by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit.

Internet memes—those attention-getting images, videos, and catchy phrases that whip across the Internet via email and social media—have long been a part of online culture.

One option for professional corporations is to pay a "reasonable" dividend of some amount to its shareholders.

While the majority opinion may seem to provide a sweeping pronouncement regarding the jurisdiction of the ITC, the decision is limited by the facts of the case and its practical effect may be quite limited.

Launched in 2010 by Cold Brew Labs Inc., Pinterest is one of the fastest-growing social media websites of all time.

Launched in 2010 by Cold Brew Labs Inc., Pinterest is one of the fastest-growing social media websites of all time.

The conversion from the longstanding first-to-invent system to a first-inventor-to-file system for granting patent rights may be the most significant change in legal practice to be imposed by the Leahy-Smith America Invents Act (AIA).

The U.S. International Trade Commission is the federal agency tasked with investigating violations of Section 337 of the Tariff Act of 1930.

Applications for new gTLDs were filed in 2012 in the following categories...

In fact, the Corning Federal Circuit decision appears to be the first time the court reversed the PTAB for its treatment of the preamble.