Latest "Intellectual Property & Technology" Category Blog Posts

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  Date: November 25, 2025 Title: Cox Communications, Inc. v. Sony Music Entertainment: When the Music Stops, Who Pays?
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  Date: August 25, 2025 Title: Venue Implications for Cloud-Based Businesses in Patent Litigation
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  Date: March 04, 2025 Title: U.S. Copyright Office Releases Report on Legal & Policy Implications of AI
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  Blog: Digital Assets Task Force
  Date: February 10, 2023 Title: Historic Hermès Jury Verdict Paves Way for Digital Trademark Rights
  Summary: On February 8, 2023, a Manhattan federal jury found an NFT artist liable for having infringed upon Hermès' popular Birkin brand, awarding Hermès $133,000 in total damages. This was one of the first trials involving trademark rights in the digital space of NFTs....
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  Date: August 31, 2022 Title: Should NFTs Be Considered a Security?
  Summary: If you had asked the author of this post 10 years ago whether he would believe that people would pay thousands upon thousands of dollars for what is essentially a PDF, he would have said you were speaking utter nonsense. However, here we stand, in an era where you cannot go a day without hearing about the latest NFT (non-fungible token) project or the next surefire “To The Moon” cryptocurrency.  And, as is tradition, the more notoriety something gets, the more scrutiny it comes under....
• Blog: Intellectual Property & Technology
  Blog: Intellectual Property Team
  Blog: Entertainment, Media & Sports
  Blog: Digital Assets Task Force
  Date: June 07, 2022 Title: NFT-Related IP Litigation On The Rise
  Summary: Not since the Y2K days has there been more buzz over a subject, i.e., NFTs and the Metaverse. Only time will tell if this trend is an exaggeration, or if we are on a “Don’t Stop Believin’” euphoric Journey that is here to stay. ...
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  Blog: Intellectual Property Team
  Date: March 29, 2021 Title: Complaint Itself Cannot Meet Knowledge Requirement For Indirect & Willfulness Claims, Says Delaware District Court
  Summary: Judge Connolly of the Delaware District Court, which handled about 20% of all patent cases in 2020, recently ruled that a complaint for indirect infringement or enhanced damages fails to state a claim when the “defendant's alleged knowledge of the asserted patents is based solely on the content of that complaint or a prior version of the complaint filed in the same lawsuit.”...
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  Blog: Trade Secrets & Non-Compete Disputes
  Blog: Intellectual Property Team
  Date: February 03, 2021 Title: Trade Secrets Litigation Just Got More Complicated
  Summary: In January, federal courts around the country issued new security procedures intended to protect highly sensitive documents (HSDs), following a cybersecurity breach at an electronic filing system vendor. Now, HSDs must be filed in person or via mail and, once received by the court, will be stored in a secure stand-alone computer system. While the concept it straightforward, its implementation is far from simple, as the court orders vary widely and leave a lot of open questions....
• Blog: Intellectual Property & Technology
  Date: May 29, 2020 Title: Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals Recent Decision in Molson-Coors v. Anheuser-Busch Affirms Lesson: Choose Words Wisely
  Summary: In Molson-Coors Beverage Company v. Anheuser-Busch Companies, LLC, the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit upheld the age old lesson of choosing your words wisely. The entire litigation arose out of Molson-Coors themselves listing ‘corn syrup’ as an ingredient in both their Miller Light and Coors light beers. ...
• Blog: Intellectual Property & Technology
  Date: May 11, 2020 Title: Supreme Court Holds PTAB Decisions Concerning One-Year Time Bar to File IPR Are Not Judicially Reviewable
  Summary: In Thryv, Inc. v. Click-to-Call Technologies, LP, the Supreme Court of the United States overturned the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, holding that 35 U.S.C. §314(d) precludes judicial review of Patent Trial and Appeals Board (PTAB) application of the one-year time bar in a decision to institute an inter partes review (IPR). ...