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Huawei patented a new technology called "ternary logic" that can develop energy-efficient AI chips. The new patent confirms the company's effo

A federal judge is allowing an AI-related copyright lawsuit against Meta to move forward, although he dismissed part of the suit. In Kadrey vs. Meta,

Eric teaches and publishes in the areas of Internet Law, Intellectual Property and Advertising & Marketing Law.

Shutterstock launches innovative "research license" model with Lightricks, making ethical AI training data more accessible for startups while ensuring fair compensation for creators.

Professor Eric Goldman continues to be the best at tracking any and all developments regarding internet regulations. He recently covered a series of cases in which the contours of Section 230’…

When the Supreme Court decided against Grokster in 2004, it changed the internet forever.

Know the value of your intellectual property and don’t be afraid to file

you are in a maze of twisty licences, all alike

An anonymous reader quotes a report from the Financial Post: You may find yourself smelling crayons in the aisles of stores soon -- if Crayola's chief executive Pete Ruggiero has his way. In July, the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office issued a trademark to the arts and crafts giant for the smell of i...

Elisa Shupe was initially rebuffed when she tried to copyright a book she wrote with help from ChatGPT. Now the US Copyright Office has changed course—but there’s a catch.

Behind the bubbly cashiers in Hawaiian shirts, craveable snacks, and bargain-basement prices are questionable business practices that have many food brands crying foul at the company’s blatant and aggressive copycat culture.

Comparisons with other historical incentives for innovation

The pop singer’s trial for copyright infringement of Marvin Gaye and Ed Townsend’s “Let’s Get It On” highlights how hard it is to draw the property lines of pop.

Lawsuit: Patent trolls created “harmful illusion” of unstable TV-chip market.

SB Loses Shootout to Manhattan On Nov. 24 Stony Brook’s Women’s Basketball team faced the Manhattan Jasper’s. In a high scoring affair, Stony Brook lost by a final score of 74-68. The Jasper’s held the lead most of the game, including a game high 12 point lead at half (44-32).

Being a creator, duplication or stealing of work is...

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“A recipe is like a phone book in the eyes of the law—you can’t own something so factual.”…

Venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz (a16z) is trying to clean up the messy state of crypto copyright. From a report: Last week, the company introduced what it dubs "Can't Be Evil" licenses: a series of agreements that let creators grant non-fungible token owners partial or near-complete rights ...

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Trademarkia provides a free, fast, user friendly search of USPTO registered trademarks. Also, with trademark registration you can protect your brand in 180+ countries. Fast and easy. Starts at $99.

My name is Molson Hart. I’m the CEO of a consumer products company I founded 10 years ago, called Viahart. We design and distribute toys…

A handful of companies have pushed the boundaries of intellectual property law by laying claim to individual colors.

It’s a crisis that has left, by some estimations, billions on the table unpaid to musicians

Trying to crush other companies' use of color is not only petty; it completely misses the point of branding.

Editor's note: Brad Woodcox is a technical specialist focusing on startup development for Novak Druce + Quigg, an intellectual property super boutique law firm. Patents. A single word that incites a fervor in the online tech blogging realm, perhaps only behind the emotional responses with the iPhone vs. Android battle or TechCrunch using expletives in an article title.

There are four primary ways that businesses can protect their intellectual property (IP) assets: patents, trademarks, copyrights, and trade secrets.

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Open-source software is one of the most influential initiatives ever made in the history of computer science and programming. The phrase “open source” means something that’s open for people to use…

Licensing issues have gutted the soundtracks of many beloved series on streaming services, resulting in bewildering music cues and missing theme songs.

After more than 12.000 Github stars, two successful open-source projects, a failed open-core company, and a successful prop-tech one*, I feel more than ever that giving your product away for free is just as bad a business strategy as it sounds.

In an industry already powered by the repackaging of past hits, music funds like Hipgnosis want every tomorrow to sound more and more like yesterday.

The most of us have come across a situation where we had to pay for not getting something down in writing. This platform solves just that.

My name is Molson Hart. I’m the CEO of a consumer products company I founded 10 years ago, called Viahart. We design and distribute toys…

Learn about three tips on how small tech companies and startups can fight off the patent trolls.

Mexico has just adopted a terrible new copyright law, thanks to pressure from the United States (and specifically from the copyright maximalists that hold outsized influence on US foreign

Yes, you can patent a shape.

Don't store legal names, at least not as the default. Here's why, and why it matters.

When trademark infringement cases go to trial, the judge tries to determine the likelihood confusion taking place among consumers. Judges do not actually converse with consumers or take a poll among consumers, but they do use a set of criteria established by the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals in the AMF, Inc v Sleekcraft Boats […]

Trying to crush other companies' use of color is not only petty; it completely misses the point of branding.

Art has always had a strange relationship with copying.

Have you invented something so cool, useful and original that the rest of the world just shouldn’t be forced to live without it any longer…