A video of someone licking a tub of Blue Bell ice cream and returning it to a store shelf soon went viral. Beware the legal consequences of intentionally tampering with a consumer product, knowing that the consumer product will be offered for sale to the public or as a gift to another.
Read MoreTech companies and leaders in audio monitoring systems have created aggression detector surveillance technology systems as an alternative to typical video monitoring, to monitor auditory interactions between people and perceive when a conversation is escalating to potential violence, triggering an alert.
Read MoreThe decision over whether Kim Kardashian will be able to successfully register “KIMONO” is left ultimately up to the U.S. Trademark Office alone, and the federal agency is banned from making subjective decisions on the registrability of the mark based on public sentiment.
Read MoreThe Supreme Court ruled that the long-standing precedent and prohibition of seemingly scandalous trademarks violated the First Amendment.
Read MorePrenda Law was found by the court to have acted as copyright trolls, knowingly creating or exacerbating the situation by uploading the very torrents of pornographic content to websites such as Pirate Bay that were at the center of their lawsuits.
Read MoreIntellectual property attorneys should focus on whether Return Mail v. USPS decision will be used to prohibit the government from raising challenges as a “person” in other avenues of intellectual property law.
Read MoreA recent innovation has used the Internet of Things to study bees in an attempt to figure out why there has been such worldwide colony collapse.
Read MoreOne of Amazon’s latest patent applications covers a method for Amazon’s AI-assistant, “Alexa,” to start recording before the trigger or use of the device’s wake word. And reignites debate about consumer privacy and AI.
Read MoreThe estate of famous composer Harold Arlen, composer of the classic “Over the Rainbow”, has sued multiple technology giants over alleged unauthorized recordings of Arlen’s compositions.
Read MoreIn gathering consumer data and “learning” from consumers, without consumer ability to completely shut them off, virtual assistant privacy concerns are valid. Retailers like Amazon, Google, and Microsoft argue that the virtual assistant data collection practices, which often allow for no deletion, or even require any sort of disclosure in some cases, are integral to improving the consumer’s experience.
Read MoreEU Copyright Directive Article 17 is an amendment that shifts the burden of copyright infringement policing from copyright owners to the streaming platforms on which the works are uploaded.
Read MoreInvestigators are utilizing social media as evidence of hiding of assets, and for tracking down hackers. Intellectual property attorneys also often use social media to identify, track down, and or prove IP infringement.
Read MoreAmazon developed a host of anti-counterfeiting tools, to identify counterfeit items currently being sold on amazon.com and remove them, and to prevent counterfeit goods from being listed for sale.
Read MorePhotographer claims her work of cats on glass for Fresh Step taken outside of scope of copyright agreement.
Read MoreRecently the European Union Intellectual Property Office ruled in favor of the nation of Iceland against a food retailer, effectively cancelling the ICELAND trademark registration granted to Iceland Foods in 2014.
Read MoreArticle 13, the most highly debated portion of the new European Union comprehensive intellectual property directive, may have big impact on copyright law across the globe.
Read MoreThe U.S. Trademark Office recently made headlines when it decided to deny Warner Brothers Entertainment (“Warner Brothers”) the trademark registration for “I solemnly swear that I am up to no good.”
Read MoreProducers of the movie Unplanned are disappointed with the MPAA’s controversial “R” rating. What can movie producers and fans do when they don’t agree with the MPAA’s ratings? Read for the legalities of MPAA rulings and how the Unplanned filmmakers addressed the MPAA rating.
Read MoreAnheuser-Busch had filed a SLAPP lawsuit against former employee for allegedly releasing trade secret information that was eventually used against Anheuser-Busch in a class action lawsuit.
Read MoreTips on refreshing MSA contracts, also referred to as Master Services Agreement or MSAs. Changes in a business or the law are two good reasons to revise an MSA contract.
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