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The White House recently requested public input to develop its 2016-2019 Joint Strategic Plan on Intellectual Property Enforcement. In demonstrating…

A federal Court of Appeals recently held that a copyright holder must first consider whether a posting based on its…

Decades after a fast food restaurant worker created a popular chicken sandwich for Church’s Chicken, the employee filed a $10…

Marks consisting of a single letter are difficult to protect. The Washington Nationals and the Chicago Cubs (each of which…

A federal appellate court recently ruled a man held no expectation of privacy in a recorded conversation captured by his…

A division of Warner Music Group Corp. is still collecting copyright royalties on public uses of the Happy Birthday song.…

Football fans commonly associate the 12th MAN mark with the Seattle Seahawks, but Texas A&M University owns several federal registrations…

Many college football teams have registered their team names and logos with the USPTO and regularly challenge the use of…

A federal judge recently ordered the USPTO to schedule the cancellation of six Washington Redskins’ marks, on the ground that…

On June 22, 2015, the U.S. Supreme Court, in a ruling on a dispute relating to a Spider-Man toy, reaffirmed…

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